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.
Cornelius Puschmann talks at @mediasres about news reporting on COP30
Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, head of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), was interviewed on DLF's @mediasres program about the reporting on the World Climate Summit in Belém.
28. November 2025
Cornelius Puschmann on ChatGPT and public communication
In the context of the third anniversary of chatGPT, ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann explains how AI-driven bots threaten public communication.
28. November 2025
Article on 3 years of ChatGPT in the University of Bremen's online magazine
In the article entitled “Three Years of ChatGPT: How Does AI Threaten Public Communication?”, which recently appeared in the University of Bremen's online magazine, ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann explains the risks of automated bots for democratic discourse.
25. November 2025
Lecture by Yuru Li at CeCoR @ ASCoR in Amsterdam
Yuru Li from the DCID Lab gave a presentation entitled "The Multi-Modal Frames of Politicians' Personalization Strategies and Their Impact on Social Media Engagement" at the CeCoR research meeting in Amsterdam on November 20, 2025.
21. November 2025
Lecture by Cornelius Puschmann as part of the Diginomics Brownbag Seminar Series
Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, head of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), gave a lecture as part of the Brownbag Seminar series organized by the Diginomics Research Group.
13. November 2025
Patrick Zerrer visits the CSS department at GESIS as a guest researcher
DCID member Dr. Patrick Zerrer spent two weeks as a visiting researcher in GESIS’s CSS department, exchanging insights with the app team on digital behavioral data and Computational Social Science methods.
27. October 2025
ZeMKI at AoIR 2025
The 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) will take place from October 15 to 18, 2025, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ZeMKI will also be represented with numerous contributions under this year's theme, “Ruptures.”
13. October 2025
ZeMKI at the annual protest research conference
This year's protest research conference, entitled “Protests and Social Movements between Innovation and Tradition,” will take place from October 1 to October 2, 2025, at the Forum am Domshof in Bremen. ZeMKI will be represented with numerous presentations.
1. October 2025