Lab Digital Communication and Information Diversity
Our digital information environment is complex: diverse, but also characterized by a lack of transparency, fake news and algorithms. The “Digital Communication and Information Diversity” (DCID) lab systematically examines how we use digital media and the quality of our diverse information. By combining social research and computer science, we create sound knowledge about the challenges of digital communication.
Call for Papers: The Imaginative Landscape of AI – Visions, Positions, Conflicts
The International Journal of Communication is launching a Special Section on The Imaginative Landscape of AI: Visions, Positions, Conflicts. Submissions that empirically explore emerging imaginaries, ideological positions, and conflicts surrounding AI are invited.
27. August 2025
Yuru Li presents project on AI parodies on TikTok at CVMR25 symposium
DCID member Yuru Li will present a project on AI-generated political parodies on TikTok together with Xin Zhou (University of Jena) at the Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR25) symposium from 5 to 7 August 2025 at the University of Zurich.
6. August 2025
Philipp Kessling Presents Two Projects at IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping
Philipp Kessling, advisory member of the DCID-Lab at ZeMKI, will present two posters at the 2025 International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) in Norrköping.
22. July 2025
ZeMKI Summer Party 2025
- Datum: 2. July 2025
- Location: Bremen
On July 2, 2025, ZeMKI celebrated its traditional summer party at the Linzer Straße location in bright sunshine and midsummer temperatures.
3. July 2025
Joyojeet Pal as ZeMKI Fellow in Bremen
The Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen welcomes media and technology expert Joyojeet Pal as a Visiting Research Fellow in June 2025.
2. July 2025
ICA Communication History Division Award for Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann
Dr. Miira Hill and Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab receive the Communication History Division Top Paper Award of the ICA for their paper “Nostalgic for a Better Democracy? How German Right-Wing Social Media Commentators (Mis)remember the Past”.
17. June 2025
Jan Rau at re:publica 2025: Digital platforms and democratic discourse
Jan Rau, ZeMKI member, will give a lecture on 27 May 2025 at 7:15 pm at re:publica 2025 in Berlin on the topic “Beyond the anger machine: How digital platforms can promote democratic discourse”
20. May 2025
Talk by Miira Hill in Milan on the construction of visibility
ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill from the DCID-Lab will give a lecture on the communicative construction of visibility and subjectivation under the socio-technical conditions of the digital at the University of Milan-Bicocca on May 8, 2025.
7. May 2025