ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

On 28.11.2023 is te second lecture form the series “Communicative AI Lecture: ChatGPT, Ethics and Sustainability”. The guest is Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry (LSE, UK) with the topic “AI as knowledge capture and colonial landgrab”.   When: 28.11.2023    –    18:00 – 20:00h Where: Rotunda, Cartesium Building (Enrique-Schmidt-Str.5, 28359 Bremen)   If you can’t (…)

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Dr. Kathrin Trattner will discuss “The Last of Us and Postmdern Ambiguities” with international colleagues in the panel “Death, Dying and Beyond Unit” on Sinntag. D. Hannah Grünenthal, also a ZeMKI member, will give a lecture with Kerstin Radde-Antweiler on Monday on the role of religion in secular (…)

On 24.11.2023, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the 19th Interdisciplinary Conference of the JFF – Institute for Media Education. The title of this year’s conference is “VIVA LA GENERATION- The Generation Debate in the Media”. Andreas Hepp’s contribution in Munich deals with the topic “Generation App, Social Media and (…)

The XXI Cyberspace Conference will take place at Masaryk University in Brno on November 24 and 25, 2023. The conference is jointly organized by the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Sciences of Masaryk University and the European Academy of Lay an ICT. Together with Christine Trültzsch-Wijnwn (Charles University Prague) and Sascha Trültzsch-Wijnwn (…)

Tomorrow is the first lecture in the series “Communicative AI Lecture: ChatGPT, Ethics and Sustainability”. Our guest is Prof Dr Julia Velkova (Linköping University, Sweden) with the topic “Greening the cloud: data and energy entanglements in fiction”. When: 21.11.2023  – 18:00 bis 20:00 Uhr Where: Rotunde, Cartesium building (Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5, 28359 Bremen) If you can’t (…)

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach will join the Department of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics (LSE) as a visiting professor in 2024. During his stay from February to July 2024, he will work on topics ranging from discourses and developments in AI to the role of social media platforms in (…)

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 (…)

“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 (…)

On 21.11.2023 is the first lecture from the series “Communicative AI Lecture: ChatGPT, Ethics and Sustainability”. The guest is Prof. Dr. Julia Velkova (Linköping University, Sweden) with the topic “Greening the cloud: data and energy entanglements in fiction”, this lecture is also part of the Sustainability Lectures of Department 9. When: 21.11.2023 – 18:00 to (…)

The ZeMKI Lab “Socio-Technical Systems and Critical Data Studies” of Prof. Dr. Andreas Breitner, together with the ZeMKI Lab “Media and Education” of Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf and colleagues from the University of Twente (ELAN, Prof. Kim Schildkamp), won the second hackathon on the topic of “AI in Education”. Over the course of two (…)

From 9 to 11 November, the members of the Temporary Working Group will meet at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague to discuss current empirical projects and theoretical approaches to media sports, sports communication, mediatization, automation and datafication under the umbrella topic of “Sports Communication in Transition”. The conference will be (…)

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will give a lecture on “The Discussion of Climate Change in Gaming Discussion Forums” in the panel “Building a better World through Videogaming?”. The lecture is on 09.11.2023 in Busan/South Korea as part of the 7th World Humanities Forum. More information about the program and the forum can be (…)

On Wednesday, November 8, games researcher and ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will give a guest lecture as part of his research stay at the University of Malta. In line with Dom Ford’s research, the talk entitled: “Approaching From Software’s Souls series as myth`at the Institute for Digital Games”, will focus on the notion of (…)

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 (…)

ZeMKI members Dr. Dom Ford and Bodil Stelter will be at CEEGS 2023 in Leipzig from 19 to 21 October. This year’s CEEGS is entitled “Meaning and Making of Games” and is being hosted by Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. Dr. Dom Ford will give a lecture entitled “The city, according to city builders: the (…)

ZeMKI member Dr. Jens Pohlmann gave a lecture at the Department of Communication at the University of Davis in California, USA, on 12.10.2023. The lecture was entitled “Platform Regulation and Freedom of Speech in Germany/Europe and the USA”. In terms of content, the lecture focused on the initial results of the analysis of the discourse (…)

This year’s student symposium 2023 is entitled “Religion – Values – Media.” ZeMKI students and the ZeMKI Lab “Media and Religion” are involved. When: 11.10.2023 – 1 pm to 6:15 pm 12.10.2023 – 9 am to 5:15 pm Where: SFG 1020/1030 Click here for the program. First semester students are welcome!

The anthology “Medienvielfalt – Religionsvielfalt: Facetten der Transformation von Medien und Religion” from the book series “Medien, Kultur, Kommunikation” was edited by ZeMKI member Anke Offerhaus. The following texts by Anke Offerhaus were also published in the anthology: Media Diversity – Religious Diversity: Facets of the Transformation of Media and Religion (Introduction)) Online mourning also (…)

From 5 to 6 October, ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Dr. Leif Kramp, Hendrik Kühn, Gino Krüger, Dr. Philip Sinner and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf met with their national and international colleagues for the workshop “Refiguration of Public Communication 2023” of the Network of Communicative Figurations, organized by ZeMKI, in Hamburg.

Under the title “Oldenburg School for the Social Sciences and the Humanities”, a series of events will take place in Oldenburg at the beginning of October to promote young academics in the humanities and social sciences. When: 04. to 06.10.2023 Where: Smart House, Oldenburg On October 6, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will give a (…)

ZeMKI member Dr. Leif Kramp is co-author of a study publication on the current state of non-profit journalism in Germany (“Non-Profit Journalism”). The white paper, which was written together with Dr. Stephan Weichert (VOCER Institute for Digital Resilience) and published by the Otto Brenner Foundation as workbook 112, reviews the current basis for discussion on (…)

In the third episode of the ZeMKI podcast, host Juri Fidora talks to ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, head of the “Platform Governance, Media and Technology” lab. Listen to the new episode here

In the report by the Y-Kollektiv (ARD) “Hitler memes at schools. Trivialization of Nazi ideology”, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger is interviewed as an expert. He explains why sharing Hitler memes does not necessarily have to be political, but why distancing oneself from them by claiming that they are just for fun is also (…)