ZeMKI Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Research Research Projects previous 12 next Aktiv Re-evaluating Governing Principles: Navigating the Integration of Generative AI in Everyday Communication Systems Funded by: Zentrale Forschungsförderung (ZF), Universität Bremen Elevator Pitch This postdoctoral project examines the socio-technical impact of generative AI integration into communication ecosystems. Through policy analysis, expert interviews, and user surveys, I will reassess how platform values evolve amid ongoing technological and regulatory changes. Project Overview This research investigates the principles shaping generative AI regulation (…) Duration: 2024 – 2027Project lead: Dr. Rebecca Scharlach Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology ComAI Research Space (ComAI coordination project) Coordination project of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI) Duration: 2025 – 2028Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Dr. Gregor Wiedemann Lab Datafication and Mediatization Lab Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Governance: Private ordering of ComAI through corporate communication and policies (ComAI P4) Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI) Duration: 2025 – 2028Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Active Reignite Multilateralism via Technology (REMIT) The four-year EU Horizon Europe project REMIT (Reignite Multilateralism via Technology) creates policy-relevant knowledge on how technologies are governed globally. It further develops academic insights aimed to enable greater international cooperation on technology governance, specifically multilateral governance pathways. The scope of the project is broad, including the governance of technologies such as AI, blockchain, Internet (…) Duration: 2023 – 2027Project lead: Dr. Dennis Redeker Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Active Equality, Platform Governance and Wellbeing Head: Prof. Dr. Chrisitan Katzenbach, Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero Lab: Platform Governance, Media and Technology Funding: YUFE Postdoctoral Program The project “Equality, Wellbeing and Platform Governance” investigates whether the rules and moderation policies of social platforms in relation to hate speech play a significant role in the discrimination and resulting wellbeing of minorities in Europe. (…) Duration: 2022 – 2025Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Active Platform Governance Survey: A Global Study of Public Attitudes Towards Content Moderation Head: Dr. Dennis Redeker Funding: Swiss Federal Office at Communications (OFCOM) Social media platforms such as Facebook, X and TikTok are the “new governors” (Klonick) or “custodians” (Gillespie) of the Internet. The way in which they moderate global online communication has an impact on the communication practices of billions of people and can determine the (…) Duration: 2022 – 2024Project lead: Dr. Dennis Redecker Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Active Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: The Communicative Construction of AI in China, Germany and the US Partner: Institute for Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) & German Research Foundation (DFG) Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a key technology in today’s societies. Political and economic actors in many countries have allocated considerable resources to AI development, and the technology is the subject of (…) Duration: 2021 – 2025Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Active Shaping 21st Century AI – Controversies and Closure in Media, Policy and Research Team: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Anna Jobin, Laura Liebig, Licina Güttel Partners: Medialab at Sciences Po, Paris, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methods (CIM) at the University of Warwick, and the NENIC Lab at INRS Montreal, as well as the Algorithmic Media Observatory at Concordia University Funding: Open Research Area (ORA) funding line from DFG, ANR, (…) Duration: 2021 – 2024Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology previous 12 next
Aktiv Re-evaluating Governing Principles: Navigating the Integration of Generative AI in Everyday Communication Systems Funded by: Zentrale Forschungsförderung (ZF), Universität Bremen Elevator Pitch This postdoctoral project examines the socio-technical impact of generative AI integration into communication ecosystems. Through policy analysis, expert interviews, and user surveys, I will reassess how platform values evolve amid ongoing technological and regulatory changes. Project Overview This research investigates the principles shaping generative AI regulation (…) Duration: 2024 – 2027Project lead: Dr. Rebecca Scharlach Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology
ComAI Research Space (ComAI coordination project) Coordination project of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI) Duration: 2025 – 2028Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Dr. Gregor Wiedemann Lab Datafication and Mediatization Lab Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology
Governance: Private ordering of ComAI through corporate communication and policies (ComAI P4) Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI) Duration: 2025 – 2028Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology
Active Reignite Multilateralism via Technology (REMIT) The four-year EU Horizon Europe project REMIT (Reignite Multilateralism via Technology) creates policy-relevant knowledge on how technologies are governed globally. It further develops academic insights aimed to enable greater international cooperation on technology governance, specifically multilateral governance pathways. The scope of the project is broad, including the governance of technologies such as AI, blockchain, Internet (…) Duration: 2023 – 2027Project lead: Dr. Dennis Redeker Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology
Active Equality, Platform Governance and Wellbeing Head: Prof. Dr. Chrisitan Katzenbach, Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero Lab: Platform Governance, Media and Technology Funding: YUFE Postdoctoral Program The project “Equality, Wellbeing and Platform Governance” investigates whether the rules and moderation policies of social platforms in relation to hate speech play a significant role in the discrimination and resulting wellbeing of minorities in Europe. (…) Duration: 2022 – 2025Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology
Active Platform Governance Survey: A Global Study of Public Attitudes Towards Content Moderation Head: Dr. Dennis Redeker Funding: Swiss Federal Office at Communications (OFCOM) Social media platforms such as Facebook, X and TikTok are the “new governors” (Klonick) or “custodians” (Gillespie) of the Internet. The way in which they moderate global online communication has an impact on the communication practices of billions of people and can determine the (…) Duration: 2022 – 2024Project lead: Dr. Dennis Redecker Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology
Active Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: The Communicative Construction of AI in China, Germany and the US Partner: Institute for Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) & German Research Foundation (DFG) Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a key technology in today’s societies. Political and economic actors in many countries have allocated considerable resources to AI development, and the technology is the subject of (…) Duration: 2021 – 2025Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology
Active Shaping 21st Century AI – Controversies and Closure in Media, Policy and Research Team: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Anna Jobin, Laura Liebig, Licina Güttel Partners: Medialab at Sciences Po, Paris, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methods (CIM) at the University of Warwick, and the NENIC Lab at INRS Montreal, as well as the Algorithmic Media Observatory at Concordia University Funding: Open Research Area (ORA) funding line from DFG, ANR, (…) Duration: 2021 – 2024Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology