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.

Several contributions from the DCID Lab at ECREA 2024
3. May 2024

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

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

Contribution of DCID Lab to EASST-4S 2024
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 (…)
3. April 2024

Article by ZeMKI member Sami Nenno on the discourse about fake news in the Tagesspiegel
21. March 2024

Launch of the INDI research project: New ways of researching digital media use on the topic of climate change
15. March 2024

Episode 4: Juri Fidora in conversation with Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Head of the "Digital Communication and Information Diversity" Lab
7. March 2024

Prof Dr Cornelius Puschmann comments on the latest Bertelsmann study on online disinformation in the Weser-Kurier
4. March 2024