Lab Datafication and Mediatization
The Datafication and Mediatization Lab deals with how societies change when they are increasingly saturated by digital media and their infrastructures. The lab focuses on the role digital data play in these globalized processes of change. Current research is particularly concerned with the automation of communication, the role of pioneer communities and pioneer journalism in media-related transformation processes, as well as media and data practices in, for example, media use and appropriation, sports communication, mourning communication, community building, and science communication. In this regard, the Lab is also developing research software and a news platform for local journalism and information. Across these topics, a particular focus is paid to questions of the “good life” and the sustainable formation of our media environment.

Call for Papers: The Imaginative Landscape of AI – Visions, Positions, Conflicts
27. August 2025

Andreas Hepp on Visions of the Future at Expo 2025 in Osaka
5. July 2025

ZeMKI Summer Party 2025
- Datum: 2. July 2025
- Location: Bremen
3. July 2025

Eugenia Siapera as ZeMKI Fellow in Bremen
1. July 2025

Philip Sinner on the Project „CoKoMeV (Covid-19, Kommunikation, Medien und Vereine)”
30. June 2025

New Publication: Andreas Hepp on Figurations of Digital Futures in the Berliner Journal für Soziologie
18. June 2025

Two international talks by Andreas Hepp on communicative AI and digital futures
16. June 2025

ComAI at ICA 2025: Critical Perspectives on Communicative AI and Society
16. June 2025