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 ZeMKI Members: Presentations at Beyond Play Conference Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf and Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger gave the opening lecture at the Beyond Play conference. 1. October 2024 News Beyond Play: Start of the 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. 30. September 2024 News Samira Ghozzi-Ben Miled: Panel "Please distance yourself!! What happens when Muslims speak out publicly" 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. 13. September 2024 News 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 News 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 News Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler: Publication of articles in the series "Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik" ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler has published new articles in the series "Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik". 3. September 2024 News Conference Beyond Play: Registration and preliminary program online! You can now registrate for the Beyond Play conference "The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society". 29. August 2024 News New Article by ZeMKI Member Dr. Dom Ford ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has published a new journal article in Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association vol. 6, no. 3. 16. August 2024 News Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) The Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) took place in Montréal on August 9-11, 2024. 16. August 2024 News Registration Conference Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society The Registration for the conference "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society" has now started. 16. August 2024 News International Symposium: Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic On Tuesday, 08/13/24, a colloquium entitled “Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic” will take place at the Université de Montréal. 16. August 2024 News New ZeMKI-Member in the Lab Media and Religion: Welcome Amrei Sander! 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. 12. July 2024 News ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford longlisted for the Enter Award 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. 2. July 2024 News You got more time! Call for Paper Conference "Beyond Play" is extended to the 30th June! 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. 18. June 2024 ConferencesSpring Semester 2024 BeyondPlay 2024: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society Datum: 30. September 2024 – 2. October 2024Location: ZeMKI 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) 10. May 2024 News Presentation and discussion of the results of the Recov19 project at the Protestant Academy of the Rhineland 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. 4. May 2024 News Call for Paper for conference: "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society" 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. 4. May 2024 News Bodil Stelter: Lecture at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto (Japan) on "Gender-related Valuations in The Last of Us franchise“ 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 (…) 3. May 2024 News “And also the ice age comes and goes” The Discussion of Climate Change and Values in Gaming Discussion Forums 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, (…) 18. April 2024 News 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 News ZeMKI Member Dr. Dom Ford at Symposium ‘Videogames as Folkworlds: Nationalism – Democracy – Sustainability’ in Regensburg ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has been invited to give a talk at the University of Regensburg on ‘A World to Escape to: Gameworlds as Otherworlds in Datafied Society’ at the symposium ‘Videogames as Folkworlds: Nationalism – Democracy – Sustainability’, 11–12 April. About the event: Funded by the Vielberth Foundation and sponsored by the Leibniz (…) 9. April 2024 News Prof. Dr. Radde-Antweiler: Research Fellow at UNC Greensboro ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler is currently a Research Fellow at UNC Greensboro. Since last year, UNCG has established an E-Sports Center (https://esports.uncg.edu/), which offers study programs as well as research on the topic of digital gaming. During her three-month stay, she will collaborate with the Network for the Cultural Study of Videogaming (https://cas.uncg.edu/ncsv). The stay (…) 9. April 2024 News Call for Applications: IASGAR Research Day The International Academy for the Study of Gaming and Religion (IASGAR) and the Research Area Digital Gaming at the ZeMKI – Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research is hosting its third IASGAR Research Day. Exclusively for early-stage researchers, graduate students and doctoral students, the workshop welcomes research on media-centered approaches, perspectives of game developers and publishers, and viewpoints (…) 17. March 2024 News Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler at Symposium on Church History and Game Studies ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler takes part in a panel discussion at the hybrid conference “Church History and Game Studies? Explorations of Religion and History in Digital Games” at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The conference is a collaboration between the Chair of Church History at the Department of Protestant Theology at Goethe University Frankfurt, (…) 3. March 2024 previous 123 next
News ZeMKI Members: Presentations at Beyond Play Conference Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf and Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger gave the opening lecture at the Beyond Play conference. 1. October 2024
News Beyond Play: Start of the 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. 30. September 2024
News Samira Ghozzi-Ben Miled: Panel "Please distance yourself!! What happens when Muslims speak out publicly" 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. 13. September 2024
News 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
News 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
News Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler: Publication of articles in the series "Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik" ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler has published new articles in the series "Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik". 3. September 2024
News Conference Beyond Play: Registration and preliminary program online! You can now registrate for the Beyond Play conference "The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society". 29. August 2024
News New Article by ZeMKI Member Dr. Dom Ford ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has published a new journal article in Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association vol. 6, no. 3. 16. August 2024
News Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) The Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) took place in Montréal on August 9-11, 2024. 16. August 2024
News Registration Conference Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society The Registration for the conference "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society" has now started. 16. August 2024
News International Symposium: Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic On Tuesday, 08/13/24, a colloquium entitled “Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic” will take place at the Université de Montréal. 16. August 2024
News New ZeMKI-Member in the Lab Media and Religion: Welcome Amrei Sander! 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. 12. July 2024
News ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford longlisted for the Enter Award 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. 2. July 2024
News You got more time! Call for Paper Conference "Beyond Play" is extended to the 30th June! 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. 18. June 2024
ConferencesSpring Semester 2024 BeyondPlay 2024: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society Datum: 30. September 2024 – 2. October 2024Location: ZeMKI 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) 10. May 2024
News Presentation and discussion of the results of the Recov19 project at the Protestant Academy of the Rhineland 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. 4. May 2024
News Call for Paper for conference: "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society" 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. 4. May 2024
News Bodil Stelter: Lecture at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto (Japan) on "Gender-related Valuations in The Last of Us franchise“ 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 (…) 3. May 2024
News “And also the ice age comes and goes” The Discussion of Climate Change and Values in Gaming Discussion Forums 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, (…) 18. April 2024
News 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
News ZeMKI Member Dr. Dom Ford at Symposium ‘Videogames as Folkworlds: Nationalism – Democracy – Sustainability’ in Regensburg ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has been invited to give a talk at the University of Regensburg on ‘A World to Escape to: Gameworlds as Otherworlds in Datafied Society’ at the symposium ‘Videogames as Folkworlds: Nationalism – Democracy – Sustainability’, 11–12 April. About the event: Funded by the Vielberth Foundation and sponsored by the Leibniz (…) 9. April 2024
News Prof. Dr. Radde-Antweiler: Research Fellow at UNC Greensboro ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler is currently a Research Fellow at UNC Greensboro. Since last year, UNCG has established an E-Sports Center (https://esports.uncg.edu/), which offers study programs as well as research on the topic of digital gaming. During her three-month stay, she will collaborate with the Network for the Cultural Study of Videogaming (https://cas.uncg.edu/ncsv). The stay (…) 9. April 2024
News Call for Applications: IASGAR Research Day The International Academy for the Study of Gaming and Religion (IASGAR) and the Research Area Digital Gaming at the ZeMKI – Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research is hosting its third IASGAR Research Day. Exclusively for early-stage researchers, graduate students and doctoral students, the workshop welcomes research on media-centered approaches, perspectives of game developers and publishers, and viewpoints (…) 17. March 2024
News Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler at Symposium on Church History and Game Studies ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler takes part in a panel discussion at the hybrid conference “Church History and Game Studies? Explorations of Religion and History in Digital Games” at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The conference is a collaboration between the Chair of Church History at the Department of Protestant Theology at Goethe University Frankfurt, (…) 3. March 2024