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.

ZeMKI members at the 8th Annual Conference of the DGPuK Media Sports and Sports Communication Expert Group
26. September 2025

Andreas Hepp discusses the role of sociology of knowledge at the DGS Congress
25. September 2025

Start of a very international semester with many guests at ZeMKI
23. September 2025

The OpenQDA team announces the release of version 1.0.3
23. September 2025

New article by Andreas Hepp in New Media & Society
9. September 2025

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