Research Projects

Project Overview Social media platforms and the creator economy have become highly influential in the dissemination of information and in politics. The current use of generative AI, coupled with political developments in the U.S., will significantly alter the dynamics of this sector. It is therefore important to understand the far-reaching implications of platform companies’ use (…)

“Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action” (AI PAN-AFRICANISM) is a four-year, transdisciplinary research project that aims to rethink the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa. While AI increasingly influences areas such as access to information, health, and digital public services, global rules are mostly determined by the U.S., the EU, and China. African countries often have little influence in this regard.

Duration: 2021 – 2025 Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach 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 (…)

Funded by: Zentrale Forschungsförderung (ZF), Universität Bremen Project Overview My postdoctoral project “Value-driven Governance: European approaches to AI regulation” examines how values and ideologies shape the governance of AI systems in the European Union. Over the past year, the project has evolved to focus more specifically on how values are articulated, negotiated, and institutionalized within (…)

Coordination project of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

The sub-project of the research group 'Communicative AI' (ComAI) examines how tech corporations establish rules for their products and how societal actors can exert influence on them.

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 (…)

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. (…)