ZeMKI Lab Media and Religion The Lab Media and Religion is concerned with the interrelation between media and religions and their transformation. Thereby the perspective is a dual one: On the one hand side current as wll as religious discourses and their authorities are shaped by media. On the other hand side religious practices are always also media practices and religious identities are always media identities likewise. So, actors respectively groups present, discuss and organise their religious perceptions through diverse media (books, pictures, videos, virtual worlds etc.). In this sense religion is a mediatized phenomenon that is necessary to be analyzed in respect of issues of media communication. previous 123 next News Presentation by Dom Ford at the Nordic DiGRA Conference 2025 On May 28, 2025, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will give a talk titled “Player Democracy in Old School RuneScape” at the Nordic DiGRA Conference 2025. 27. May 2025 News Results of the Recov-19 project were presented at the Transatlantic Platform Conference on May 15-16, 2025 Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Amrei Sander presented their final findings at the conference for the funding line “Recovery, Renewal, and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World.” 21. May 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 Kerstin Radde-Antweiler publishes article in new handbook for the Study of Religion Radde-Antweiler's contribution uses the example of mediatized self-crucifixions in the Philippines to show the added value of looking at religious phenomena through and with mediatization approaches. 13. May 2025 News New Publication "Mytholudics - Games and Myth" by Dom Ford On April 21, 2025, De Gruyter published ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford's new book "Mytholudics - Games and Myth". 22. April 2025 News Kerstin Radde-Antweiler as speaker at “Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele” ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will hold a workshop at the working group “Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele” (Humanities and Digital Games) on April 17. 17. April 2025 News Keynote presentation by Dom Ford On April 9, 2025, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will hold a keynote presentation entitled “Mytholudics: Games and Myth” at the International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games at NOVA University Lisbon. 9. April 2025 News Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the UNCG-Conference "The Liminal Game" ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the University of North Carolina on “Russian Invasion In Gamevironments And The Negotiation Of Values" 31. March 2025 News Kathrin Trattner: Guest at the arte_tv Gaming Stream on Civilization VII ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was part of the format “Couchwissen” of the twitch channel of arte_tv on the topic Civilization VII. 21. March 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 Kathrin Trattner: Interview on radio station FM4 ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was interviewed by the Austrian public radio station FM4 on the topic of “Right-wing extremism and games culture”. The interview can be accessed here. 13. 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 Hepp and Radde-Antweiler elected to ZeMKI spokespersons for a further two years At the ZeMKI General Assembly on January 24, 2025, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (right) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler (left) were confirmed in office as ZeMKI spokespersons for a further two years. In addition, Sandra Kero (center) was elected as a new representative of the doctoral students for the ZeMKI Steering Committee. Kero has been (…) 27. January 2025 News New Publication: "'Honor died on the beach': Constructing Japaneseness through monstrosity in Ghost of Tsushima“ A new chapter on the study of monsters in video games has been published by Joleen Blom and ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford in ‘Monstrosity in Games and Play’. 15. January 2025 Fall Semster 24/25 9th ZeMKI Research Day Datum: 24. January 2025Location: ZeMKI 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 (…) 14. January 2025 News 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. 7. January 2025 News Publication of 10th Anniversary Issue "Revisiting Gamevironments" The journal gamevironments celebrates its 10th anniversary with the publication of the 21st issue “Revisiting Gamevironments”. 2. January 2025 ConferencesFall Semester 25/26 20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society? Datum: 23. October 2025 – 24. October 2025Location: Haus der Wissenschaft The international anniversary conference of the ZeMKI in the 20th year of its existence examines the foundations of media and communication research: It is about exploring long-term trends resulting from today's media change and visions for the future. 20. December 2024 News ZeMKI wishes a happy end of year! Another year is coming to an end and we would like to say 'thank you'! 19. December 2024 News Article published in Media and Communication ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger, Dr. Erik Koenen, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf have published the article “Beyond Play: Researching the Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in Deeply Mediatized Societies” in the journal Media and Communication. 18. December 2024 News Samira Ghozzi-Ben Miled: Publication of her work on Western constructions in Tintin The monograph by ZeMKI member Samira Ghozzi-Ben Miled (M.A.) on "Tintin" - Western Constructions of the Middle East in Pop Cultural Media: A Discourse Analysis on the Construction of the Other" was recently published by VIRR. 26. November 2024 News Dom Ford: Lecture"How players talk about disastrous game launches: What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II?" On November 29, 2024, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will give a talk on "How players talk about disastrous game launches: What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II?" at the “Conference on Language, Norms and Digital Lives” at the University of Copenhagen. 20. November 2024 News Lecture by Kerstin Radde-Antweiler at the workshop "Playing the Aggressor. Historical Conquest, Colonization, and Resistance in Video Games" ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will give a lecture on November 16, 2014 on the topic “How to Deal with an Aggressor in Real Time? Digital Gaming as Part of Interpreting and Negotiating the Russian Invasion of 2022” at the University of Heidelberg. The workshop will analyze video games that reconstruct, model, or draw (…) 15. November 2024 News Report: Recov-19 Project “Between Faith and Pandemic” A new report from the Recov-19 project on the topic “Between faith and pandemic – How Corona has changed religious communities” was published in the online magazine “up2date”. Easter 2020: Instead of together with tens of thousands of believers, the Pope celebrated the Easter mass alone with a few other clergy. Elsewhere, digital offerings flourished, (…) 12. November 2024 previous 123 next
News Presentation by Dom Ford at the Nordic DiGRA Conference 2025 On May 28, 2025, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will give a talk titled “Player Democracy in Old School RuneScape” at the Nordic DiGRA Conference 2025. 27. May 2025
News Results of the Recov-19 project were presented at the Transatlantic Platform Conference on May 15-16, 2025 Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Amrei Sander presented their final findings at the conference for the funding line “Recovery, Renewal, and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World.” 21. May 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 Kerstin Radde-Antweiler publishes article in new handbook for the Study of Religion Radde-Antweiler's contribution uses the example of mediatized self-crucifixions in the Philippines to show the added value of looking at religious phenomena through and with mediatization approaches. 13. May 2025
News New Publication "Mytholudics - Games and Myth" by Dom Ford On April 21, 2025, De Gruyter published ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford's new book "Mytholudics - Games and Myth". 22. April 2025
News Kerstin Radde-Antweiler as speaker at “Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele” ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will hold a workshop at the working group “Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele” (Humanities and Digital Games) on April 17. 17. April 2025
News Keynote presentation by Dom Ford On April 9, 2025, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will hold a keynote presentation entitled “Mytholudics: Games and Myth” at the International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games at NOVA University Lisbon. 9. April 2025
News Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the UNCG-Conference "The Liminal Game" ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the University of North Carolina on “Russian Invasion In Gamevironments And The Negotiation Of Values" 31. March 2025
News Kathrin Trattner: Guest at the arte_tv Gaming Stream on Civilization VII ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was part of the format “Couchwissen” of the twitch channel of arte_tv on the topic Civilization VII. 21. March 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 Kathrin Trattner: Interview on radio station FM4 ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was interviewed by the Austrian public radio station FM4 on the topic of “Right-wing extremism and games culture”. The interview can be accessed here. 13. 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 Hepp and Radde-Antweiler elected to ZeMKI spokespersons for a further two years At the ZeMKI General Assembly on January 24, 2025, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (right) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler (left) were confirmed in office as ZeMKI spokespersons for a further two years. In addition, Sandra Kero (center) was elected as a new representative of the doctoral students for the ZeMKI Steering Committee. Kero has been (…) 27. January 2025
News New Publication: "'Honor died on the beach': Constructing Japaneseness through monstrosity in Ghost of Tsushima“ A new chapter on the study of monsters in video games has been published by Joleen Blom and ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford in ‘Monstrosity in Games and Play’. 15. January 2025
Fall Semster 24/25 9th ZeMKI Research Day Datum: 24. January 2025Location: ZeMKI 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 (…) 14. January 2025
News 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. 7. January 2025
News Publication of 10th Anniversary Issue "Revisiting Gamevironments" The journal gamevironments celebrates its 10th anniversary with the publication of the 21st issue “Revisiting Gamevironments”. 2. January 2025
ConferencesFall Semester 25/26 20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society? Datum: 23. October 2025 – 24. October 2025Location: Haus der Wissenschaft The international anniversary conference of the ZeMKI in the 20th year of its existence examines the foundations of media and communication research: It is about exploring long-term trends resulting from today's media change and visions for the future. 20. December 2024
News ZeMKI wishes a happy end of year! Another year is coming to an end and we would like to say 'thank you'! 19. December 2024
News Article published in Media and Communication ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger, Dr. Erik Koenen, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf have published the article “Beyond Play: Researching the Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in Deeply Mediatized Societies” in the journal Media and Communication. 18. December 2024
News Samira Ghozzi-Ben Miled: Publication of her work on Western constructions in Tintin The monograph by ZeMKI member Samira Ghozzi-Ben Miled (M.A.) on "Tintin" - Western Constructions of the Middle East in Pop Cultural Media: A Discourse Analysis on the Construction of the Other" was recently published by VIRR. 26. November 2024
News Dom Ford: Lecture"How players talk about disastrous game launches: What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II?" On November 29, 2024, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will give a talk on "How players talk about disastrous game launches: What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II?" at the “Conference on Language, Norms and Digital Lives” at the University of Copenhagen. 20. November 2024
News Lecture by Kerstin Radde-Antweiler at the workshop "Playing the Aggressor. Historical Conquest, Colonization, and Resistance in Video Games" ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will give a lecture on November 16, 2014 on the topic “How to Deal with an Aggressor in Real Time? Digital Gaming as Part of Interpreting and Negotiating the Russian Invasion of 2022” at the University of Heidelberg. The workshop will analyze video games that reconstruct, model, or draw (…) 15. November 2024
News Report: Recov-19 Project “Between Faith and Pandemic” A new report from the Recov-19 project on the topic “Between faith and pandemic – How Corona has changed religious communities” was published in the online magazine “up2date”. Easter 2020: Instead of together with tens of thousands of believers, the Pope celebrated the Easter mass alone with a few other clergy. Elsewhere, digital offerings flourished, (…) 12. November 2024