Lab Digital Communication and Information Diversity

Prof. Cornelius Puschmann from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID) is invited as an expert on social media data to the event "Navigating the Social Media Data Terrain: Roundtable on the Current Landscape of Social Media Data Availability" hosted by the SAMF Data Lab at the University of Copenhagen on 23 May 2024.

As part of the class Data Journalism with R in the winter term 2023-24, students in the media BA and MA programs have created a set of interactive web-based apps to visualize and make accessible a range of datasets on different socioeconomic issues. These apps are based on R shiny and make it possible to interrogate quantitative information in a variety of ways.

Prof. Cornelius Puschmann from the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Research (DCID) will present the research project "Informed by Influencers?" (INDI) at the networking meeting of the funding projects of the Science Communication Research funding guideline on 7 May 2024 at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Berlin.

On May 7th, ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill will give a lecture at the University of Passau on the topic of how commentators of the far right express their views on liberal values through social platforms. The talk offers insights into the intricate dynamics of political communication, especially concerning the misrepresentation of liberal values by (…)

As part of the international symposium "Indicators of Social Cohesion in Social Media and Online Media", organised by the Social Media Observatory (SMO), Prof. Cornelius Puschmann from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID) gave a lecture entitled "Watching the Greens? Predictors and Contingencies of Partisan Online Information Seeking".

The Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), headed by Prof Cornelius Puschmann, is presenting three papers at the 10th European Communication Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in Ljubljana.

This year, the ZeMKI welcomes a total of four Visiting Research Fellows as part of its Visiting Researcher Program. From over 85 applications, the steering committee of the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen selected five researchers who will work together with two ZeMKI labs in interdisciplinary research for (…)

ZeMKI is represented with a contribution at the “ESA 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association” in Porto. This year’s ESA theme is “Tension, Trust and Transformation.” Luisa Runge (M2C Institute for Applied Media Research, Bremen University of Applied Sciences) and Miira Hill (DCID) have qualified for the Science and Technology Track of the conference (…)

The Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), headed by Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, is contributing to the EASST-4S 2024 conference in Amsterdam. The theme of this year’s conference is “Making and Doing Transformations”. Miira Hill, Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann are participating with the paper “Unraveling Patterns in Media Consumption: A Qualitative Microscopic Analysis (…)

In a guest article in the Tagesspiegel, Sami Nenno, member of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity, sheds light on the scientific perspective on the reach of disinformation on the Internet.

The new research project entitled "Informed by Influencers? (INDI)" at the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity has officially started. The project is led by Prof. Dr Cornelius Puschmann and will run from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2027.

Discover the forth episode of the ZeMKI-Podcast

Prof Dr Cornelius Puschmann from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab comments as an expert on online disinformation on the results of the Bertelsmann study "Verunsicherte Öffentlichkeit" in the Weser Kurier.

Come and work with us!  Our Fellowship Program invites international researchers to Bremen for four weeks to deepen and connect their research in the transformation of media, communication, and information. We are looking for established scholars who want to enjoy the thriving interdisciplinary research environment at ZeMKI.

Prof Dr Cornelius Puschmann, Head of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity, has co-authored an article with Prof Dr Mario Haim entitled "Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future" in the journal "Digital Journalism".

Prof Dr Cornelius Puschmann, Head of the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab, has published an article with Prof Dr Mario Haim entitled "Device-Dependent Biases in Mobile Online News" in the journal "Computational Communication Research".