ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) is one of nine central research units at the University of Bremen and is one of the important European institutions researching questions into media-related transformations at the interface of the cultural, social, and technical sciences. Our research focuses on the emerging digital society in terms of the inequalities it generates while probing the historicity of their genesis and the challenges posed by algorithmic systems, automation, and the burgeoning datafied society.

ZeMKI administration is on winter vacation from Monday 23.12.24 to January 3. The Central Research Unit will be closed to the public during this time.

RECOV-19 Project Meeting at ZeMKI

At the end of August, the members of all four projects met in Bremen to discuss their results and plan the next steps. In this context, the first results of the group’s research on religion and digitalization in times of Corona were presented and discussed in a public lecture. The guests were colleagues from Canada, (…)

6. September 2023

Lecture by ZeMKI member Dr. Leif Kramp

The Freiherr vom Stein Academy and the German Association of Towns and Municipalities are organizing the 1st German Local Press Day on 06.09.2023 in Bonn. At this event, ZeMKI member Dr. Leif Kramp will discuss the demands on modern (local) journalism. To the event page

5. September 2023

Lecture by ZeMKI Member Prof. Dr. Rainer Stollmann

The lecture by ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Rainer Stollmann “On the tightrope between feudalism and capitalism: Till Eulenspiegel in Bremen” took place on 01.09.2023 on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition “Till Eulenspiegel in Bremen” at the Focke-Museum Bremen.

5. September 2023

ZeMKI member Prof Dr Cornelius Puschmann publishes article "Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future" in a special issue of "Digital Journalism"

Prof Dr Cornelius Puschmann, Head of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity, has co-authored an article with Prof Dr Mario Haim entitled "Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future" in the journal "Digital Journalism".

15. February 2023

ZeMKI member Prof Dr Cornelius Puschmann publishes article "Device-Dependent Biases in Mobile Online News" in the journal "Computational Communication Research".

Prof Dr Cornelius Puschmann, Head of the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab, has published an article with Prof Dr Mario Haim entitled "Device-Dependent Biases in Mobile Online News" in the journal "Computational Communication Research".

31. January 2023