Lab Media and Religion

Exploration of religion and history in digital games. From March 4-6 in Mainz at the theological department of the University of Mainz in cooperation with the working group Humanities and Digital Games, the medieval blog and Mittelalter.Digital https://kggames.uni-mainz.de/

The members of the Media and Religion Lab Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Dr. Hannah Grünenthal presented the project “Recov-19: The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19” at the spring meeting of the Network of German-speaking Researchers of Religion and Culture in Times of Deep Mediatization (GeNet-ISMRC). Together with the project “Covid-19 (…)

Where: Room 60.070, Linzer Str. 4 When: December 20, 2023 – 16:15 to 17:45h   Abstract: My paper explores the audiovisual design of videos by contemporary Muslim preachers. I hope to offer a broader perspective on this emerging field that considers the complexity of audiovisual material. I propose audiovisuality as a conceptual addition to existing (…)

Editors-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Prof. Dr. Xenia Zeiler Managing Editor: Dr. Dr. Lisa Kienzl Language: English ISSN 2364-382X Video games are undeniably an important factor in cultural and religious socialization today. Research on this influential sector in the field of media is also taking place in academic discourse. As the first academic peer-reviewed online (…)

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Dr. Kathrin Trattner will discuss “The Last of Us and Postmdern Ambiguities” with international colleagues in the panel “Death, Dying and Beyond Unit” on Sinntag. D. Hannah Grünenthal, also a ZeMKI member, will give a lecture with Kerstin Radde-Antweiler on Monday on the role of religion in secular (…)

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will give a lecture on “The Discussion of Climate Change in Gaming Discussion Forums” in the panel “Building a better World through Videogaming?”. The lecture is on 09.11.2023 in Busan/South Korea as part of the 7th World Humanities Forum. More information about the program and the forum can be (…)

On Wednesday, November 8, games researcher and ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will give a guest lecture as part of his research stay at the University of Malta. In line with Dom Ford’s research, the talk entitled: “Approaching From Software’s Souls series as myth`at the Institute for Digital Games”, will focus on the notion of (…)

ZeMKI members Dr. Dom Ford and Bodil Stelter will be at CEEGS 2023 in Leipzig from 19 to 21 October. This year’s CEEGS is entitled “Meaning and Making of Games” and is being hosted by Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. Dr. Dom Ford will give a lecture entitled “The city, according to city builders: the (…)

This year’s student symposium 2023 is entitled “Religion – Values – Media.” ZeMKI students and the ZeMKI Lab “Media and Religion” are involved. When: 11.10.2023 – 1 pm to 6:15 pm 12.10.2023 – 9 am to 5:15 pm Where: SFG 1020/1030 Click here for the program. First semester students are welcome!

The anthology “Medienvielfalt – Religionsvielfalt: Facetten der Transformation von Medien und Religion” from the book series “Medien, Kultur, Kommunikation” was edited by ZeMKI member Anke Offerhaus. The following texts by Anke Offerhaus were also published in the anthology: Media Diversity – Religious Diversity: Facets of the Transformation of Media and Religion (Introduction)) Online mourning also (…)

Under the title “Oldenburg School for the Social Sciences and the Humanities”, a series of events will take place in Oldenburg at the beginning of October to promote young academics in the humanities and social sciences. When: 04. to 06.10.2023 Where: Smart House, Oldenburg On October 6, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will give a (…)

At the end of August, the members of all four projects met in Bremen to discuss their results and plan the next steps. In this context, the first results of the group’s research on religion and digitalization in times of Corona were presented and discussed in a public lecture. The guests were colleagues from Canada, (…)

Workshop as part of the Creative Unit “Communicative Figurations” Date: February 9-10, 2015 Location: University of Bremen, ZeMKI, meeting room Organization: Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Ute Volkmann Objective There are several sub-projects in the research network “Communicative Figurations” that focus on audience participation as a relevant factor with regard to the social change under investigation. What these (…)

Internal event Media and communication change is currently the subject of various major research networks. The research group “Political Communication in the Online World” is investigating how politics and political communication are changing with the progressive establishment of the internet. The NCCR Democracy focuses, among other things, on the medialization of politics and society. The (…)