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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.

 

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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.

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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.

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9th ZeMKI Research Day

The ZeMKI Research Day will take place on January 24. At the internal event, current projects will be presented and discussed, overarching research perspectives will be developed at thematic tables and current questions from the ZeMKI doctoral program and from the group of postdocs will be discussed. The Research Day is taking place for the (…)

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Call for applications: ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellowship 2025

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.

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ZeMKI research software in focus

In December 2024, the latest version of OpenQDA, an open source research infrastructure for qualitative data analysis, was presented at a workshop at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. A report on this has now been published by Roland Toth.