Lab Media Change and Long-Term Transformation Processes

On May 14, 2025, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger gave a guest lecture at the University of Jena.

On May 20, 2025, ZeMKI member Sandra Kero will give the lecture “Die Rechte und die Frau: zwischen Obsession und (synthetischer) Imagination” as part of the lecture series “Rechtsextremismus, Medien und Geschlecht”.

ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise and Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger each contribute to the debate on AI-generated images and synthetic imagery in the current issue of DGPuK's Aviso, curated by Prof. Katharina Lobinger (Lugano).

On April 9, 2025, an interview with ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger was published in the Weser Kurier on the occasion of his appointment to the University of Bremen.

As part of the annual conference of the Passau Young Researchers Excellence Centre (PYREC), Simon Sax will speak on April 29 about the concept of pro-democratic communication and its significance in politically unstable times.

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.

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.

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 (…)