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.

"Vermittelte Migrationserinnerungen: Medien, Generation und Familie" - book publication by Rieke Böhling
25. March 2025

Dissertation by Katharina Heitmann-Werner: Zivilgesellschaft und Stadtteilöffentlichkeit
10. March 2025

ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellows 2025
2. March 2025

OpenQDA 1.0 – A Major Update for a Better User Experience!
4. February 2025

Hepp and Radde-Antweiler elected to ZeMKI spokespersons for a further two years
At the ZeMKI General Assembly on January 24, 2025, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (right) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler (left) were confirmed in office as ZeMKI spokespersons for a further two years. In addition, Sandra Kero (center) was elected as a new representative of the doctoral students for the ZeMKI Steering Committee. Kero has been (…)
27. January 2025

Interview about molo in the Deutschlandfunk format @mediasres
22. January 2025

New article about the information and event app 'molo' developed at ZeMKI in the journal Horizont
20. January 2025

New publication by ZeMKI members Andreas Hepp and Philip Sinner in the Nomos "Handbuch Medienrezeption"
17. January 2025

Radio Eins Interview on ‘molo.news’ with Andreas Hepp
14. January 2025

9th ZeMKI Research Day
- Datum: 24. January 2025
- Location: ZeMKI
The ZeMKI Research Day will take place on January 24. At the internal event, current projects will be presented and discussed, overarching research perspectives will be developed at thematic tables and current questions from the ZeMKI doctoral program and from the group of postdocs will be discussed. The Research Day is taking place for the (…)
14. January 2025

Radio interview with Rieke Böhling: "Genealogy - who am I?"
8. January 2025

Call for applications: ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellowship 2025
7. January 2025

ZeMKI research software in focus
3. January 2025

ComAI research unit on communicative artificial intelligence kicks off
1. January 2025

20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?
- Datum: 23. October 2025 – 24. October 2025
- Location: Haus der Wissenschaft
20. December 2024

ZeMKI wishes a happy end of year!
19. December 2024

New book: “Resilience in the digital society” (in German)
4. December 2024

Open throughout Germany: Local Information Platform molo expands and is now available everywhere
2. December 2024

New Article: "Solving the Crisis with 'Do-It-Yourself Heroes'?"
29. November 2024

Talk by Andreas Hepp at the Online Colloquium "Living and Research in Times of Deep Mediatization"
25. November 2024

molo grows with a fresh update: new functions, new cities and a new look & feel
4. October 2024

Presentation about OpenQDA, the open research software initiative at DINI Conference
29. September 2024

7th Annual Conference of the DGPuK Division Media Sports and Sports Communication
21. September 2024

ZeMKI at the European Communication Conference 2024
20. September 2024