ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

A new publication by ZeMKI member Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero entitled "Platform Governance and Social Justice. Governing Hate Speech on Social Media" will be published by Emerald Publishing Limited on November 18, 2024.

In context with Elon Musk's takeover of X, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach was recently quoted in the dossier "Digitalwende" of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and will be heard on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on Saturday, November 2, 2024.

ZeMKI member Dr. Hannah Grünenthal has published the article “‘Catholic’ and ‘Charismatic’. Two Logics of Legitimization and the Negotiation of Belonging in the German Catholic Charismatic Renewal” in “Social Forms of Religion European and American Christianity in Past and Present”. This article explores how the German Catholic Charismatic Renewal (GCCR) navigates its positioning in the (…)

On November 6, 2024, the research colloquium by Prof. Dr. Christian Greiffenhagen, Rongyu Li and Mark Perry on "Resolving Ambiguity in Symmetrical Interactions: 'Do I Scan You or You Scan Me?'” will take place at the ZeMKI.

A research group involving ZeMKI members Prof. Cornelius Puschmann and Patrick Zerrer has been awarded the contract for a study by the Federal Network Agency on the systemic risks of platforms in the context of the Digital Service Act.

The invitation to the event with the abstract of the lecture and more information about Dr. Jens Pohlmann can be found here.

From October 30, 2024 to November 02, 2024, this year's Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference will take place at the University of Sheffield, where numerous ZeMKI members will give presentations.

The PGMT Lab is going to AoIR in Sheffield, UK, from October 30 to November 2, 2024. The conference brings together hundreds of academics, researchers and other participants for an interdisciplinary, multi-methodological look at the Internet.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger holds two presentations at workshops in Copenhagen and Stockholm this week.

We are excited to welcome Dr. Rebecca Scharlach as the newest member of the PGMT Lab at ZeMKI! In her postdoctoral project, Rebecca will explore the socio-technical impact of integrating generative AI into social media platforms.

ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford gave a presentation at this year's Central and Eastern European Game Studies Conference (CEEGS): "Reimagining Games, Art, and Performativity" in Nafplio, Greece, on October 10-12.

On October 23, 2024, the research colloquium by Prof. Dr. Lars de Wildt on "Global Gaming’s Reorientation to China" will take place at the ZeMKI.

Dr. Daria Dergacheva from PGMT Lab will present on the topic “Governing Russian disinformation: very large social media platforms policies in the context of Russian invasion and war in Ukraine” at a workshop at Maastricht University on October 11, 2024.

ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise and Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann are part of the Graduate Student Scholarship Program (GSSP) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

From September to October 2024, Dr. Piotr Siuda (Faculty of Cultural Studies, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland) will be a Research Fellow at ZeMKI. His research focus is gaming. More information here.

The local information app "molo.news" now operates under the shortened name "molo" and has received a comprehensive update.

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf and Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger gave the opening lecture at the Beyond Play conference.

On September 30, 2024, the “Beyond Play The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society” conference will start at 11 a.m. with an exciting program at the University of Bremen. The conference will run until October 2, 2024.

On September 18th, the OpenQDA-Team gave a presentation "The OpenQDA project: a software architecture for a sustainable open research software for collaborative qualitative data analysis" at the 25th DINI conference in Potsdam.

A new publication entitled “Communicating the League of Nations: Contributions to a Transnational Communication History of the League of Nations in the Inter-War Period (1920-1938)” by Erik Koenen and other ZeMKI members has been published.

With three documentaries and accompanying discussions, City 46 cinema's film series "DEMOKRATIE SEHEN/SEE DEMOCRACY" addresses the state of democracy today and brings the absence, failure and significance of democracy in different countries to the screen.

The program for the 3rd IASGAR Research Day “Digital Gaming and Values” on September 28, 2024 is now online.

From September 18 to 20, the 7th annual conference of the DGPuK sdivision Media Sports and Sports Communication took place in Hamburg with strong participation from the ZeMKI.

Today marked the end of the 2024 Writing Week, which took place from September 16 to 20 at the Ev. Bildungszentrum Bad Bederkesa.