ZeMKI 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. previous 123 next NewsZeMKI-News molo grows with a fresh update: new functions, new cities and a new look & feel The local information app "molo.news" now operates under the shortened name "molo" and has received a comprehensive update. 4. October 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Presentation about OpenQDA, the open research software initiative at DINI Conference On September 18th, the OpenQDA-Team gave a presentation "The OpenQDA project: a software architecture for a sustainable open research software for collaborative qualitative data analysis" at the 25th DINI conference in Potsdam. 29. September 2024 NewsZeMKI-News 7th Annual Conference of the DGPuK Division Media Sports and Sports Communication From September 18 to 20, the 7th annual conference of the DGPuK sdivision Media Sports and Sports Communication took place in Hamburg with strong participation from the ZeMKI. 21. September 2024 NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI at the European Communication Conference 2024 Numerous ZeMKI members will be presenting their research at the 10th conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). 20. September 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Lecture by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp at Esslingen University ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture on Friday, 20.09.2024, at the conference “Norbert Elias in Practice - From Human Science to Applied Science” at Esslingen University. 10. September 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Lecture by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp at Literarische Gesellschaft On Saturday, 21.09.2024, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the Literarische Gesellschaft in Karlsruhe. 10. September 2024 NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI steering committee meets for annual retreat For two days, the Bredbeck Estate in the district of Osterholz was dedicated to the further development of the research strategy of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. On September 3 and 4, 2024, a total of 14 members of the ZeMKI Steering Committee discussed medium-term goals (…) 4. September 2024 NewsZeMKI-News New ZeMKI Working Paper: "The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective" Recently, a new ZeMKI working paper entitled “The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective” was published. 29. August 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Call for applications for 8 doctoral positions at ZeMKI in the DFG Research Unit “Communicative AI” (FOR 5656) The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period. 26. August 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Special issue on "Agency in Datafied Societies" published The thematic issue on “Agency in Datafied Societies”, edited by Andreas Hepp and Stephan Görland, has been published as the latest issue of the journal Convergence. 13. August 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Lecture by Prof. Andreas Hepp: "Why communities cannot be digital - and yet digital media and their infrastructures are fundamentally changing processes of communitization" ZeMKI member Prof. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the conference "Digital Communities - Social proximity from a spatial distance" on Thursday, July 18, 2024. 15. July 2024 NewsPublicationZeMKI-News Two new publications by ZeMKI member Philip Sinner in the field of sports communication ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner has published two articles in the anthology "COVID-19 und die Sportkommunikation. Der Einfluss der Corona-Pandemie auf Sport, Medien und Journalismus". 11. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News New DFG Research Unit on the automation of societal communication The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen, together with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in Hamburg and other research institutions in Graz and Vienna, has successfully acquired a Research Unit from the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the topic of "Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI)”. 3. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Appointment as ICA Fellow: High honor for Andreas Hepp Special honor for the spokesperson of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen: At the meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Gold Coast, Australia, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp was appointed ICA Fellow on June 22, 2024. 24. June 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Philip Sinner visits the University of Luxembourg ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner was invited by Prof Dr Robin Samuel, Dr Anette Schumacher, Dr Hannes Käckmeister, Simone Charles (Digital Documentation and Research Centre (DDRC)) and the Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg | Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse (MENJE) to the University of Luxembourg. 20. June 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Research Software made at ZeMKI: Pre-release of OpenQDA is now live The pre-release version of the "OpenQDA" software currently being developed at ZeMKI is now available. 17. June 2024 NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI goes ICA This year's annual conference of the International Communications Association (ICA) will take place in Goald Cost, Australia, from June 20 to 24. The ZeMKI will be represented with numerous contributions and ZeMKI members will present research at the institute. 7. June 2024 NewsPublicationZeMKI-News New article by ZeMKI member Prof Dr Andreas Hepp: Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneer communities ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp has published online first a new article at New Media & Society on the topic of ‘Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneering communities’. Link to the article Hepp, A. (2024). Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneer communities. New Media & Society, Online First. doi:10.1177/14614448241253766 21. May 2024 NewsPublicationZeMKI-News Publication of the PhD thesis of Katharina Heitmann-Werner The dissertation of ZeMKI member Katharina Heitmann-Werner has been published by Springer VS under the title 'Zivilgesellschaft und Stadtöffentlichkeit - Eine akteurszentrierte Analyse der kommunikativen Figuration der Stadt' (Civil society and the urban public sphere - an actor-centred analysis of the communicative figuration of the city). 21. May 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Research software made at ZeMKI: OpenQDA goes public ZeMKI is currently developing “OpenQDA”, an open-source software for the qualitative coding of research data (interviews, observation protocols, etc.). 18. May 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Lecture by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp at Fudan University: ‘Towards a Digital Society: On the Deep Mediatization of the Social World’ On 16/05/2024, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture online at 10:00 CET at the Institute for Global Communications & Integrated Media at Fudan University on the deep mediatization of the social world. 14. May 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Keynote speech by ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp at the “Mediatization Conference 5” On Friday, 10/05/2024 Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a keynote speech at the “Mediatization Conference 5 - Mediatization versus Datafication Dialogue or Competition?”. The lecture on “Datafication, automation and communicative AI: Toward a redefinition of mediatization research” will take place from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m. hybrid in Lublin or online. 8. May 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Call for Paper for conference: "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society" The Call for Paper for the 2nd ZeMKI Annual Conference from 30/09/2024 to 02/10/2024 at the University of Bremen is out now! Deadline for submissions: 15/06/2024. 4. May 2024 NewsZeMKI-News New ZeMKI Member in the Lab Datafication and Mediatization: Welcome Alex Krause! Alex Krause joined the lab ‘Datafication and Mediatization’ at ZeMKI in April 2024 as a research assistant for the project ‘molo.news: validation of a relational platform for urban publicity’. Prior to this, he completed his B.A. (2019) and M.A. (2023) in Cultural Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His focus was on cultural change through the (…) 30. April 2024 previous 123 next
NewsZeMKI-News molo grows with a fresh update: new functions, new cities and a new look & feel The local information app "molo.news" now operates under the shortened name "molo" and has received a comprehensive update. 4. October 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Presentation about OpenQDA, the open research software initiative at DINI Conference On September 18th, the OpenQDA-Team gave a presentation "The OpenQDA project: a software architecture for a sustainable open research software for collaborative qualitative data analysis" at the 25th DINI conference in Potsdam. 29. September 2024
NewsZeMKI-News 7th Annual Conference of the DGPuK Division Media Sports and Sports Communication From September 18 to 20, the 7th annual conference of the DGPuK sdivision Media Sports and Sports Communication took place in Hamburg with strong participation from the ZeMKI. 21. September 2024
NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI at the European Communication Conference 2024 Numerous ZeMKI members will be presenting their research at the 10th conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). 20. September 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Lecture by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp at Esslingen University ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture on Friday, 20.09.2024, at the conference “Norbert Elias in Practice - From Human Science to Applied Science” at Esslingen University. 10. September 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Lecture by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp at Literarische Gesellschaft On Saturday, 21.09.2024, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the Literarische Gesellschaft in Karlsruhe. 10. September 2024
NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI steering committee meets for annual retreat For two days, the Bredbeck Estate in the district of Osterholz was dedicated to the further development of the research strategy of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. On September 3 and 4, 2024, a total of 14 members of the ZeMKI Steering Committee discussed medium-term goals (…) 4. September 2024
NewsZeMKI-News New ZeMKI Working Paper: "The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective" Recently, a new ZeMKI working paper entitled “The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective” was published. 29. August 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Call for applications for 8 doctoral positions at ZeMKI in the DFG Research Unit “Communicative AI” (FOR 5656) The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period. 26. August 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Special issue on "Agency in Datafied Societies" published The thematic issue on “Agency in Datafied Societies”, edited by Andreas Hepp and Stephan Görland, has been published as the latest issue of the journal Convergence. 13. August 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Lecture by Prof. Andreas Hepp: "Why communities cannot be digital - and yet digital media and their infrastructures are fundamentally changing processes of communitization" ZeMKI member Prof. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the conference "Digital Communities - Social proximity from a spatial distance" on Thursday, July 18, 2024. 15. July 2024
NewsPublicationZeMKI-News Two new publications by ZeMKI member Philip Sinner in the field of sports communication ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner has published two articles in the anthology "COVID-19 und die Sportkommunikation. Der Einfluss der Corona-Pandemie auf Sport, Medien und Journalismus". 11. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News New DFG Research Unit on the automation of societal communication The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen, together with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in Hamburg and other research institutions in Graz and Vienna, has successfully acquired a Research Unit from the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the topic of "Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI)”. 3. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Appointment as ICA Fellow: High honor for Andreas Hepp Special honor for the spokesperson of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen: At the meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Gold Coast, Australia, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp was appointed ICA Fellow on June 22, 2024. 24. June 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Philip Sinner visits the University of Luxembourg ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner was invited by Prof Dr Robin Samuel, Dr Anette Schumacher, Dr Hannes Käckmeister, Simone Charles (Digital Documentation and Research Centre (DDRC)) and the Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg | Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse (MENJE) to the University of Luxembourg. 20. June 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Research Software made at ZeMKI: Pre-release of OpenQDA is now live The pre-release version of the "OpenQDA" software currently being developed at ZeMKI is now available. 17. June 2024
NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI goes ICA This year's annual conference of the International Communications Association (ICA) will take place in Goald Cost, Australia, from June 20 to 24. The ZeMKI will be represented with numerous contributions and ZeMKI members will present research at the institute. 7. June 2024
NewsPublicationZeMKI-News New article by ZeMKI member Prof Dr Andreas Hepp: Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneer communities ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp has published online first a new article at New Media & Society on the topic of ‘Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneering communities’. Link to the article Hepp, A. (2024). Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneer communities. New Media & Society, Online First. doi:10.1177/14614448241253766 21. May 2024
NewsPublicationZeMKI-News Publication of the PhD thesis of Katharina Heitmann-Werner The dissertation of ZeMKI member Katharina Heitmann-Werner has been published by Springer VS under the title 'Zivilgesellschaft und Stadtöffentlichkeit - Eine akteurszentrierte Analyse der kommunikativen Figuration der Stadt' (Civil society and the urban public sphere - an actor-centred analysis of the communicative figuration of the city). 21. May 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Research software made at ZeMKI: OpenQDA goes public ZeMKI is currently developing “OpenQDA”, an open-source software for the qualitative coding of research data (interviews, observation protocols, etc.). 18. May 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Lecture by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp at Fudan University: ‘Towards a Digital Society: On the Deep Mediatization of the Social World’ On 16/05/2024, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture online at 10:00 CET at the Institute for Global Communications & Integrated Media at Fudan University on the deep mediatization of the social world. 14. May 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Keynote speech by ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp at the “Mediatization Conference 5” On Friday, 10/05/2024 Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a keynote speech at the “Mediatization Conference 5 - Mediatization versus Datafication Dialogue or Competition?”. The lecture on “Datafication, automation and communicative AI: Toward a redefinition of mediatization research” will take place from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m. hybrid in Lublin or online. 8. May 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Call for Paper for conference: "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society" The Call for Paper for the 2nd ZeMKI Annual Conference from 30/09/2024 to 02/10/2024 at the University of Bremen is out now! Deadline for submissions: 15/06/2024. 4. May 2024
NewsZeMKI-News New ZeMKI Member in the Lab Datafication and Mediatization: Welcome Alex Krause! Alex Krause joined the lab ‘Datafication and Mediatization’ at ZeMKI in April 2024 as a research assistant for the project ‘molo.news: validation of a relational platform for urban publicity’. Prior to this, he completed his B.A. (2019) and M.A. (2023) in Cultural Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His focus was on cultural change through the (…) 30. April 2024