
Research Projects

- 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 – 2027
- Project lead: Dr. Rebecca Scharlach

ComAI Research Space (ComAI coordination project)
- Duration: 2025 – 2028
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Dr. Gregor Wiedemann

Governance: Private ordering of ComAI through corporate communication and policies (ComAI P4)
- Duration: 2025 – 2028
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach

- 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 – 2027
- Project lead: Dr. Dennis Redeker

- 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 – 2025
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero

- Completed
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 – 2024
- Project lead: Dr. Dennis Redecker

- Completed
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 – 2025
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach

- Completed
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 – 2024
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach