ZeMKILab Digital Communication and Information DiversityOur 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. previous123next News INDI project represented at the “Wisscomm Connected” conference in Berlin The INDI - Informed by Influencers project will be presented at the “Wisscomm Connected” conference in Berlin on September 11 and 12, 2024. The event is organized by the “Transfer Unit Science Communication” and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The “Wisscomm Connected” conference aims to bring together practice and research in science communication in order to promote exchange and networking. 11. September 2024News ZeMKI steering committee meets for annual retreat For two days, the Bredbeck Estate in the district of Osterholz was dedicated to the further development of the research strategy of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. On September 3 and 4, 2024, a total of 14 members of the ZeMKI Steering Committee discussed medium-term goals (…) 4. September 2024News DCID Lab Participates in 'Qualitative Digital Methods' Conference at Ruhr University Bochum" The Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity at the University of Bremen is pleased to participate in the "Qualitative Digital Methods" conference (September 9-10) at Ruhr University Bochum. 4. September 2024News Dr. Miira Hill presents at the ESA 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association in Porto On August 29, 2024, Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Luisa Runge and Christian Katzenbach at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) in Porto. 1. September 2024News POLTRACK: Paper on attitudinal predictors of alternative news consumption published Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Patrick Zerrer from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID), together with Dr. Sebastian Stier and Helena Rauxloh from the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, have published an article entitled “Politicized and Paranoid? Assessing Attitudinal Predictors of Alternative News Consumption” in the ‘Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media’. 26. August 2024News Call for applications for 8 doctoral positions at ZeMKI in the DFG Research Unit “Communicative AI” (FOR 5656) The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period. 26. August 2024Events ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill presents at the EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam On July 19, 2024, Dr. Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann at the EASST-4S Conference in Amsterdam. 24. July 2024News Article on Mobile Tracking by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab A new paper by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab together with ZeMKI members Philipp Krieter and Stephanie Geise investigates mobile keyword tracking as a privacy-friendly data source in mobile media research. 5. July 2024News New DFG Research Unit on the automation of societal communication The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen, together with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in Hamburg and other research institutions in Graz and Vienna, has successfully acquired a Research Unit from the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the topic of "Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI)”. 3. July 2024News Invitation to the Conference: “Intertwining and Rethinking Digitalization, Society and Co-Worlds from a Queer Feminist Perspective” Luisa Runge (M2C Institute for Applied Media Research, Bremen University of Applied Sciences) and Miira Hill (DCID, ZeMKI) have qualified for the conference “Intertwining and Rethinking Digitalization, Society, and Co-Worlds from a Queer Feminist Perspective” at Leibniz University Hannover with their contribution “Queer Feminist Perspectives on TikTok: A Critical Analysis of Sexism and Platform Governance.” 21. June 2024News ICA starts in one week: DCID Lab represented with four contributions The Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID) Lab, headed by Prof Cornelius Puschmann, will be represented with four contributions at the 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Australia. 13. June 2024News ZeMKI goes ICA This year's annual conference of the International Communications Association (ICA) will take place in Goald Cost, Australia, from June 20 to 24. The ZeMKI will be represented with numerous contributions and ZeMKI members will present research at the institute. 7. June 2024News Article by Prof. Cornelius Puschmann on Right-wing Extremist Narratives and Influencers in BzKJAktuell Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, head of the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab, has co-authored an article with Sophia Rothut (LMU Munich) and Darian Harff (KU Leuven) in the current issue of BzKJAktuell (02/2024), the journal of the Federal Agency for Child and Youth Media Protection (BzKJ). The article, entitled “Right-wing extremist narratives and social media (…) 28. May 2024News Three new articles by Lab member Sami Nenno Sami Nenno, member of the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab, has recently published three new scientific articles in several publications. 27. May 2024News Prof Puschmann's contribution to the Digital Democracy and Citizenship Conference 2024 accepted The contribution by Prof Cornelius Puschmann, Head of the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab, for the upcoming Digital Democracy and Citizenship Conference in September 2024 has been accepted. 24. May 2024News Sami Nenno on AI and disinformation in the taz Sami Nenno from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab comments as an expert on AI and disinformation on the potential of synthetically generated voices for disinformation in the German newspaper taz. The background to this is the presentation of OpenAI’s voice engine model, which makes it possible to create artificial voices based on short (…) 24. May 2024News Prof Cornelius Puschmann invited as an expert to discuss the availability of data in social media at the University of Copenhagen 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. 13. May 2024News Students Develop R Shiny Apps for Interactive Data Visualizations 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. 9. May 2024News Prof Cornelius Puschmann presents the INDI research project at the BMBF in Berlin 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. 6. May 2024News Lecture by ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill at the University of Passau 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 (…) 6. May 2024News Talk by Prof Cornelius Puschmann at the Leibniz Institute on predictors and contingencies of party-political online information searches 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". 5. May 2024News Several contributions from the DCID Lab at ECREA 2024 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. 3. May 2024News ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellows 2024 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 (…) 12. April 2024News ZeMKI Alumna Luisa Runge and member Miira Hill invited to ESA 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 (…) 10. April 2024 previous123next
News INDI project represented at the “Wisscomm Connected” conference in Berlin The INDI - Informed by Influencers project will be presented at the “Wisscomm Connected” conference in Berlin on September 11 and 12, 2024. The event is organized by the “Transfer Unit Science Communication” and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The “Wisscomm Connected” conference aims to bring together practice and research in science communication in order to promote exchange and networking. 11. September 2024
News ZeMKI steering committee meets for annual retreat For two days, the Bredbeck Estate in the district of Osterholz was dedicated to the further development of the research strategy of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. On September 3 and 4, 2024, a total of 14 members of the ZeMKI Steering Committee discussed medium-term goals (…) 4. September 2024
News DCID Lab Participates in 'Qualitative Digital Methods' Conference at Ruhr University Bochum" The Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity at the University of Bremen is pleased to participate in the "Qualitative Digital Methods" conference (September 9-10) at Ruhr University Bochum. 4. September 2024
News Dr. Miira Hill presents at the ESA 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association in Porto On August 29, 2024, Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Luisa Runge and Christian Katzenbach at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) in Porto. 1. September 2024
News POLTRACK: Paper on attitudinal predictors of alternative news consumption published Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Patrick Zerrer from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID), together with Dr. Sebastian Stier and Helena Rauxloh from the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, have published an article entitled “Politicized and Paranoid? Assessing Attitudinal Predictors of Alternative News Consumption” in the ‘Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media’. 26. August 2024
News Call for applications for 8 doctoral positions at ZeMKI in the DFG Research Unit “Communicative AI” (FOR 5656) The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period. 26. August 2024
Events ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill presents at the EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam On July 19, 2024, Dr. Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann at the EASST-4S Conference in Amsterdam. 24. July 2024
News Article on Mobile Tracking by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab A new paper by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab together with ZeMKI members Philipp Krieter and Stephanie Geise investigates mobile keyword tracking as a privacy-friendly data source in mobile media research. 5. July 2024
News New DFG Research Unit on the automation of societal communication The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen, together with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in Hamburg and other research institutions in Graz and Vienna, has successfully acquired a Research Unit from the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the topic of "Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI)”. 3. July 2024
News Invitation to the Conference: “Intertwining and Rethinking Digitalization, Society and Co-Worlds from a Queer Feminist Perspective” Luisa Runge (M2C Institute for Applied Media Research, Bremen University of Applied Sciences) and Miira Hill (DCID, ZeMKI) have qualified for the conference “Intertwining and Rethinking Digitalization, Society, and Co-Worlds from a Queer Feminist Perspective” at Leibniz University Hannover with their contribution “Queer Feminist Perspectives on TikTok: A Critical Analysis of Sexism and Platform Governance.” 21. June 2024
News ICA starts in one week: DCID Lab represented with four contributions The Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID) Lab, headed by Prof Cornelius Puschmann, will be represented with four contributions at the 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Australia. 13. June 2024
News ZeMKI goes ICA This year's annual conference of the International Communications Association (ICA) will take place in Goald Cost, Australia, from June 20 to 24. The ZeMKI will be represented with numerous contributions and ZeMKI members will present research at the institute. 7. June 2024
News Article by Prof. Cornelius Puschmann on Right-wing Extremist Narratives and Influencers in BzKJAktuell Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, head of the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab, has co-authored an article with Sophia Rothut (LMU Munich) and Darian Harff (KU Leuven) in the current issue of BzKJAktuell (02/2024), the journal of the Federal Agency for Child and Youth Media Protection (BzKJ). The article, entitled “Right-wing extremist narratives and social media (…) 28. May 2024
News Three new articles by Lab member Sami Nenno Sami Nenno, member of the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab, has recently published three new scientific articles in several publications. 27. May 2024
News Prof Puschmann's contribution to the Digital Democracy and Citizenship Conference 2024 accepted The contribution by Prof Cornelius Puschmann, Head of the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab, for the upcoming Digital Democracy and Citizenship Conference in September 2024 has been accepted. 24. May 2024
News Sami Nenno on AI and disinformation in the taz Sami Nenno from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab comments as an expert on AI and disinformation on the potential of synthetically generated voices for disinformation in the German newspaper taz. The background to this is the presentation of OpenAI’s voice engine model, which makes it possible to create artificial voices based on short (…) 24. May 2024
News Prof Cornelius Puschmann invited as an expert to discuss the availability of data in social media at the University of Copenhagen 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. 13. May 2024
News Students Develop R Shiny Apps for Interactive Data Visualizations 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. 9. May 2024
News Prof Cornelius Puschmann presents the INDI research project at the BMBF in Berlin 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. 6. May 2024
News Lecture by ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill at the University of Passau 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 (…) 6. May 2024
News Talk by Prof Cornelius Puschmann at the Leibniz Institute on predictors and contingencies of party-political online information searches 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". 5. May 2024
News Several contributions from the DCID Lab at ECREA 2024 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. 3. May 2024
News ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellows 2024 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 (…) 12. April 2024
News ZeMKI Alumna Luisa Runge and member Miira Hill invited to ESA 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 (…) 10. April 2024
