Lab Media and Religion

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.

Another year is coming to an end and we would like to say 'thank you'!

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.

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.

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.

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 (…)

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, (…)

On November 5, 2024, ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner will give a guest lecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna on the topic “‘Was Barbarossa not German?!’ Nation, History, and Identity in Gamer Discussions”. ‘What is the difference between a nation and a state?’ ‘Was Barbarossa German?’ ‘Are the Cree an actual nation?‘ (…)

ZeMKI member Dr. Hannah Grünenthal has published the article “‘Catholic’ and ‘Charismatic’. Two Logics of Legitimization and the Negotiation of Belonging in the German Catholic Charismatic Renewal” in “Social Forms of Religion European and American Christianity in Past and Present”. This article explores how the German Catholic Charismatic Renewal (GCCR) navigates its positioning in the (…)

ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford gave a presentation at this year's Central and Eastern European Game Studies Conference (CEEGS): "Reimagining Games, Art, and Performativity" in Nafplio, Greece, on October 10-12.

From September to October 2024, Dr. Piotr Siuda (Faculty of Cultural Studies, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland) will be a Research Fellow at ZeMKI. His research focus is gaming. More information here.

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf and Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger gave the opening lecture at the Beyond Play conference.

On September 30, 2024, the “Beyond Play The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society” conference will start at 11 a.m. with an exciting program at the University of Bremen. The conference will run until October 2, 2024.

Samira Ghozzi-Ben Miled will be a guest on September 16, 2024 at 6 p.m. at a panel event at the House of Science Bremen. The topic of the event is “Distance yourself! What happens when Muslims speak out publicly.” The panel was organized by Muslim Empowerment Bremen. For more information click here.

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.

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 (…)

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler has published new articles in the series "Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik".

You can now registrate for the Beyond Play conference "The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society".

ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has published a new journal article in Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association vol. 6, no. 3.

The Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) took place in Montréal on August 9-11, 2024.

The Registration for the conference "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society"  has now started.

On Tuesday, 08/13/24, a colloquium entitled “Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic” will take place at the Université de Montréal.

Dr. Amrei Sander has been a research associate in the project "The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19" in the Lab Media and Religion at the ZeMKI since July 2024.

ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has been longlisted for the Enter Award 2024. The award recognizes two outstanding achievements in the field of open access and sets an example for the democratization of knowledge.