ZeMKI 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. previous 123…8 next Summer Semester 2025 ZeMKI Summer Party 2025 Datum: 2. July 2025Location: 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 News 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 News 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 News 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 News 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 News COMPTEXT 2025: Presentation by Yuru Li on AI videos on TikTok ZeMKI member Yuru Li presents her research “Delegitimizing through Pixels: A Computational Analysis of GenAl Political Videos and User Responses on TikTok” at the COMPTEXT 2025 conference at the University of Vienna on April 25, 2025. 25. April 2025 News Talk “Digital Turbulence” by Jan Rau at the Digital Media Theme Days ZeMKI member Jan Rau holds a lecture on April 24, 2025 with the title “Digitale Turbulenzen: Challenges of a democratic society in times of (digital) upheaval” at the Digital Media Theme Days in Hamburg. 24. April 2025 News Patrick Zerrer as a speaker at "Ortswechsel" in Braunschweig On April 28, ZeMKI member Patrick Zerrer will be part of the panel of “Ortswechsel”, a series of events that makes potential spaces in Braunschweig visible. 22. April 2025 previous 123…8 next
Summer Semester 2025 ZeMKI Summer Party 2025 Datum: 2. July 2025Location: 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
News 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
News 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
News 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
News 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
News COMPTEXT 2025: Presentation by Yuru Li on AI videos on TikTok ZeMKI member Yuru Li presents her research “Delegitimizing through Pixels: A Computational Analysis of GenAl Political Videos and User Responses on TikTok” at the COMPTEXT 2025 conference at the University of Vienna on April 25, 2025. 25. April 2025
News Talk “Digital Turbulence” by Jan Rau at the Digital Media Theme Days ZeMKI member Jan Rau holds a lecture on April 24, 2025 with the title “Digitale Turbulenzen: Challenges of a democratic society in times of (digital) upheaval” at the Digital Media Theme Days in Hamburg. 24. April 2025
News Patrick Zerrer as a speaker at "Ortswechsel" in Braunschweig On April 28, ZeMKI member Patrick Zerrer will be part of the panel of “Ortswechsel”, a series of events that makes potential spaces in Braunschweig visible. 22. April 2025