
Lab Media & Education (3)
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.

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger and Prof. Dr. Karsten Wolf: Article published in Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc)
The article on the topic “Digital Gaming. Indicator of a profound mediatization” has now been published in the journal Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc). Click here to access the article.
8. September 2024

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

Presentation on Teaching Experience Design Research at the 5th EdTech Research Forum
30. August 2024

New ZeMKI Member in the Lab Media and Education: Welcome Hang Dao!
Hang Dao has been a research assistant and PhD fellow in the research area “Didactic Design of Multimedia Learning Environments” (Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf) at the University of Bremen and in the “Media and Education” lab at ZeMKI since April 2024. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Physics and English Studies and went on (…)
9. May 2024

Call for Paper for conference: "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society"
4. 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

New research article: Diversity in explanatory videos on YouTube
Verena Honkomp-Wilkens and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf from the ZeMKI Lab “Media & Education” have published a new open access article in the journal MedienPädagogik on “Diversity in explanatory videos on YouTube: Deconstruction or continuation of a gendered order in informal audio-visual educational spaces?” (DOWNLOAD). YouTube is an important social video network for teenagers (…)
29. March 2024

Open Call for ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellows, 2024
8. February 2024