Lab Media and Religion

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.

Call for Paper Conference “Beyond Play” is extended to the 30th June! The conference “Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society” will be held at the ZeMKI in Bremen from 30.09. – 02.10.24. For more information click here.

The International conference ‘Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society’ will take place from September 30th to October 2nd 2024 at the University of Bremen, Germany. The conference is hosted by the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung; ZeMKI)

On 15/05/2024 a presentation of the first results of the international research project “The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19” will take place online from 7 pm to 9 pm.

The Call for Paper for the 2nd ZeMKI Annual Conference from 30/09/2024 to 02/10/2024 at the University of Bremen is out now! Deadline for submissions: 15/06/2024.

In June 2020, the highly anticipated sequel to “The Last of Us” game was released. Within hours of its release, the game’s Metascore dropped to 3.3, while previous reviews from journalistic media had accumulated to a score of 95. What had happened? – The common reading of this “review-bombing” event is that players, unhappy with (…)

Professor Kerstin Radde-Antweiler explores climate change in relation to video games and gaming practices, analyzing discussions on environmental games and their narratives. Despite the prominence of climate change themes in games, her research reveals a lack of discussions about their content and connections to real-world events on gaming forums compared to other media platforms. However, (…)

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 (…)