ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

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.

Numerous ZeMKI members will be presenting their research at the 10th conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).

The Lab Platform Governance, Media & Technology is goint to ECREA at the University of Ljubljana from September 24-27, 2024.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger discusses the media actions of radical vegans at a public event organized by Radio Bremen.

Prof. Cornelius Puschmann from the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID) will give a lecture at the WIN Conference.

On September 11, 2024, ZeMKI member Patrick Zerrer successfully completed his doctoral colloquium - congratulations! The title of the dissertation is “Political action and news use of the Fridays for Future Movement in Germany”.

Samira Ghozzi-Ben Miled will be a guest on September 16, 2024 at 6 p.m. at a panel event at the House of Science Bremen. The topic of the event is “Distance yourself! What happens when Muslims speak out publicly.” The panel was organized by Muslim Empowerment Bremen. For more information click here.