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Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology

The Lab “Platform Governance, Media and Technology” examines the interactions between regulation, discourses and the development of technologies and business models. Digital platforms and new infrastructures, algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) and data are currently fundamentally (re)organising communication, the public sphere and society. At the same time, these media, their technologies and economic structures are themselves (still) in a process of formation that is shaped by governance, regulation and public debate. How should platforms like Facebook and YouTube deal with disinformation campaigns and hate speech? What challenges does the increasing use of automation and AI bring? And how do public debates and perceptions of problems in turn impact back on regulation and technology development?

We explore these questions with a focus on three areas of work:

(1) Platform Governance and Economics;

(2) Institutionalisation of AI – Regulation, Discourses, Technology;

(3) Automation Regulation and Communication.

In several large international third-party funded projects on these topics, funded by the DFG, the EU’s H2020 framework programme, the BMBF, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB), we collaborate with partners in France, UK, Canada, Switzerland, and Italy. In empirical studies, the Lab integrates computational methods and qualitative approaches. We attach great importance to the development of open data infrastructures (Platform Governance Archive), especially in the notoriously non-transparent research field of platform governance.

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ZeMKI-Member Christian Katzenbach now Visiting Professor at LSE

ZeMKI-Member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach has started his position as visiting professor at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During his stay, until July 2024, Christian is working on topics ranging from AI discourses and regulation, to the role of social media platforms in society. At the department, he is teaching (…)

25. March 2024

ZeMKI members Dr Daria Dergacheva and Vasilisa Kuznetsova contributed to the Oxford 2024 Election Initiative by co-authoring the blogpost "2024 Russian Presidential Elections – How Digital Technologies Are Used to Wield Authoritarian Power"

ZeMKI members Dr Daria Dergacheva and Vasilisa Kuznetsova, together with other researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute, have published a blog post for the Oxford 2024 Election Initiative. Under the title “2024 Russian Presidential Elections – How Digital Technologies Are Used to Wield Authoritarian Power”, the researchers share their findings on how digital technologies can (…)

22. March 2024

Lecture Title Slide Prof. Christian Katzenbach holds lecture on the "Understanding the emergence of platforms and their governance" at Hertie School

ZeMKI member Prof. Christian Katzenbach holds lecture on the "Understanding the emergence of platforms and their governance" at Hertie School

ZeMKI member Prof. Christian Katzenbach will hold a lecture on “Understanding the emergence of platforms and their governance” at the Hertie School of Governance this Wednesday, March 13. The lecture will touch upon interesting topics such as: Platforms have become key players and institutions in contemporary societies But how do they become what they are, (…)

12. March 2024

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Open Call for ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellows, 2024
Come and work with us!  Our Fellowship Program invites international researchers to Bremen for four weeks to deepen and connect their research in the transformation of media, communication, and information. We are looking for established scholars who want to enjoy the thriving interdisciplinary research environment at ZeMKI.

8. February 2024

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Shifting AI controversies
  • Datum: 29. January 2024 – 30. January 2024
  • Location: Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
On behalf of the international research project Shaping 21st Century AI, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the ZeMKI, University of Bremen, in cooperation with the research group “Politics of Digitalization” at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), invite to an international conference on the topic of AI controversies. The conference was held in English.

21. January 2024

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New Article by ZeMKI Members Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach and Dr. Daria Dergacheva published in Policy & Internet Journal

The article entitled “Mandate to overblock? Understanding the impact of the European Union’s Article 17 on copyright content moderation on YouTube” presents the results of a study that examines the potential overblocking due to copyright moderation and changes in the diversity of cultural offerings on YouTube in two EU member states of comparable size and (…)

11. December 2023

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Lecture by ZeMKI Member Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero

On 16.11.2023, ZeMKI member Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero will give a lecture at the GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne. She will be part of the opening panel of the Conference on Harmful Online Communication (CHOC), which will take place on November 16 and 17. The opening panel discussion with the topic “Harmful (…)

14. November 2023

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5th Session of the "Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research"

“Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research” will take place online for the fifth time on November 14th at 2:00 pm. Our guest is Zheyu Shang , she will give a talk on “Towards a More Inclusive Platform Governance: User’s Practices of Participatory Content Moderation on China’s Digital Platforms”. Zheyu Shang is a PhD candidate at (…)

14. November 2023

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Building Trust in the Digital Age

Organized by Dr. Dennis Redeker, a panel discussion entitled “Building in the Digital Age: How to fight hate and misinformation on social media – in Georgia and beyond” will take place on 02.11.2023. When: 02.11.2023 – 17:00 to 19:00 hrs Where: House of Science Bremen (1st floor) Guests are Prof. Dr. Sergi Jorbenadze (Tbilisi State (…)

27. October 2023