ZeMKI Lab Media and Education Lab Media & Education The lab “Media and Education” researches educational processes in a deeply mediatised society. Research focuses on (a) Actor-centred analysis of audiovisual educational spaces such as YouTube and TikTok, (b) the didactic and filmic analysis of explanatory videos and tutorials, (c) the reconstruction of communicative figurations of informal learning, especially in the context of digital gaming, (d) educational and pedagogical aspects of Gamevironments, (e) the didactic design of digital learning and teaching environments with special consideration of active learning, (f) sustainable development of open source software for teaching-learning processes, (g) improving the learning and teaching experience of teaching-learning software (LX/TX), (h) AI-based, highly informative feedback generation, (i) critical educational software and code studies, (j) and digital cognitive diagnostic modeling. previous 1234 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 University:Future Festival 2025 – AI-Based Explainable Feedback in Higher Education Lisanne Heilmann and Karsten D. Wolf from the Lab ‘Media & Education’ gave a talk on ‘Rubric-Based Explainable Feedback with AI-Assistance’ at this year’s University:Future Festival 2025 at the AI-Stage in Graz, Austria. In the talk, they present a workflow-based approach to using different AI and ML models to analyse multimodal submissions by students. The (…) 18. June 2025 News Reminder: Call for Paper for special issue on "Beyond Play" The research focus “Digital Gaming” is collecting abstracts for our special issue on “Beyond Play” until May 31! 21. May 2025 News OpenQDA and MeTag at the 5th NQM Conference: Digital methods in qualitative social research: applications, challenges, reflections The 5th conference of the Qualitative Methods Network will take place in Cologne from May 7 to 9, 2025. The theme for 2025 is Digital Methods in Qualitative Social Research: Applications, Challenges, Reflections. 7. May 2025 News Call for Papers for the Journal gamevironments Special Issue 2026 ZeMKI members Prof Dr Kerstin-Radde Antweiler, Prof Dr Karsten D. Wolf and Prof Dr Christian Schwarzenegger are guest editors for the currently advertised special issue “Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Meditized Society” of the journal gamevironments. 19. March 2025 News ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellows 2025 From over 150 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 at least two ZeMKI labs in interdisciplinary research for four weeks each until the end of 2025. 2. March 2025 News OpenQDA 1.0 – A Major Update for a Better User Experience! We are excited to announce the release of OpenQDA 1.0! This major update brings numerous improvements that make working with OpenQDA even more intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable. 4. February 2025 previous 1234 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 University:Future Festival 2025 – AI-Based Explainable Feedback in Higher Education Lisanne Heilmann and Karsten D. Wolf from the Lab ‘Media & Education’ gave a talk on ‘Rubric-Based Explainable Feedback with AI-Assistance’ at this year’s University:Future Festival 2025 at the AI-Stage in Graz, Austria. In the talk, they present a workflow-based approach to using different AI and ML models to analyse multimodal submissions by students. The (…) 18. June 2025
News Reminder: Call for Paper for special issue on "Beyond Play" The research focus “Digital Gaming” is collecting abstracts for our special issue on “Beyond Play” until May 31! 21. May 2025
News OpenQDA and MeTag at the 5th NQM Conference: Digital methods in qualitative social research: applications, challenges, reflections The 5th conference of the Qualitative Methods Network will take place in Cologne from May 7 to 9, 2025. The theme for 2025 is Digital Methods in Qualitative Social Research: Applications, Challenges, Reflections. 7. May 2025
News Call for Papers for the Journal gamevironments Special Issue 2026 ZeMKI members Prof Dr Kerstin-Radde Antweiler, Prof Dr Karsten D. Wolf and Prof Dr Christian Schwarzenegger are guest editors for the currently advertised special issue “Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Meditized Society” of the journal gamevironments. 19. March 2025
News ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellows 2025 From over 150 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 at least two ZeMKI labs in interdisciplinary research for four weeks each until the end of 2025. 2. March 2025
News OpenQDA 1.0 – A Major Update for a Better User Experience! We are excited to announce the release of OpenQDA 1.0! This major update brings numerous improvements that make working with OpenQDA even more intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable. 4. February 2025