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ComAI Lectures - All events in the Winter Semester 2025/26

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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.

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Taina Bucher (University of Oslo): Tech Transitions - Presenting AI: Slowing down the future
  • Datum: 25. November 2025
  • Location: Bremer Presse-Club

Abstract AI promises speed, efficiency, and seamless automation, yet in pursuing these ideals, we risk marginalizing practices and temporalities that matter: slowness, reflection, imperfection, and the capacity to linger. This talk reframes the conversation about AI futures by focusing not only on what is to come, but on what we risk losing in the process. (…)

10. November 2025

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Anne Kaun

Anne Kaun joins the ZeMKI Scientific Advisory Board
The President of the University of Bremen, Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther, has appointed Prof. Dr. Anne Kaun from Södertörn University in Sweden to the ZeMKI Scientific Advisory Board for the current term of office.

6. November 2025

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Andrea L. Guzman as ZeMKI Fellow in Bremen
In November 2025, the Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen will welcome Prof. Dr. Andrea L. Guzman from Northern Illinois University in the USA as a visiting research fellow.

5. November 2025

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Call for Papers: Workshop on International Relations in the Digital Age
Until December 1, 2025, abstracts can be submitted for the workshop on international relations in the digital age, which is being organized by ZeMKI and the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen, as well as the International Relations Section (IB Section) of the German Political Science Association (DVPW).

4. November 2025

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Creating Communication and Media Research Labs

New publication: Presentation of ZeMKI in the international anthology “Creating Communication and Media Research Labs”
The Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen is featured in the anthology “Creating Communication and Media Research Labs: A Blueprint for Success” (published by Springer Nature / Palgrave Macmillan). In it, ZeMKI members Dr. Leif Kramp, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler shed light on the origins, structure, and working methods of ZeMKI as an exemplary institution for interdisciplinary research in communication and media studies.

4. November 2025

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Prof. Dr. Andrea L. Guzman (Northern Illinois University): The Collective Consequences of AI Across Media Industries
  • Datum: 4. November 2025
  • Location: Bremer Presse-Club

Abstract This talk examines the shared implications of emerging AI technologies across media industries. Advancements in generative artificial intelligence are bringing rapid changes to communication industries. AI applications can perform increasingly human-like roles in the communication process and, as such, can augment and even automate human media work in profoundly different ways from predecessor technologies. (…)

3. November 2025