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.
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
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
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
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
Earth Day with ZeMKI: Six Research Projects on Communication and Climate
On April 22, Earth Day unites the world to raise awareness for the protection of our planet. At ZeMKI, researchers are investigating the crucial role that media and communication play in shaping how we understand and engage with climate change.
21. April 2025
Nostalgia and nationalism: right-wing discourses on democracy in social media
The journal 'Publizistik' has published a new article by Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann on the topic “Nostalgia for a better democracy? How right-wing German social media commentators (mis)remember the past”.
10. April 2025
INDI project at the center of new ZDFheute report
The team of the research project “INDI - INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” was accompanied at work as part of a current ZDF report entitled “Influencer und der Klimawandel”.
2. April 2025