ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen, together with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in Hamburg and other research institutions in Graz and Vienna, has successfully acquired a Research Unit from the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the topic of "Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI)”.

ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has been longlisted for the Enter Award 2024. The award recognizes two outstanding achievements in the field of open access and sets an example for the democratization of knowledge.

On 03/07/2024 the research colloquium of Dr. Julia Borst (University of Bremen) will take place.

Next Wednesday, July 3rd, the ZeMKI summer party with molo.news, the information platform for Bremen and Leipzig, will take place. Current and former members of ZeMKI will come together to end the summer semester with drinks and barbecue in a relaxed atmosphere. A special highlight of the party will be a live performance by the band "The Educators".

On July 1, the members of the ZeMKI will meet to discuss joint research perspectives. At the internal conference, ZeMKI members will present the current status of their research projects in two poster sessions and discuss perspectives for the joint medium-term research strategy up to the year 2030.

9. Juli 2024, 13:00 – 14:00 Uhr: In the next edition of our online talk series "Behind the Scenes - Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research", Friederike Quint and Yannis Theocharis will talk about the role of community guidelines on social media platforms for users when evaluating potentially harmful content.

Special honor for the spokesperson of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen: At the meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Gold Coast, Australia, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp was appointed ICA Fellow on June 22, 2024.

Recently, a new working paper by former ZeMKI member Dr. Henrik Heuer et al. was published.

Luisa Runge (M2C Institute for Applied Media Research, Bremen University of Applied Sciences) and Miira Hill (DCID, ZeMKI) have qualified for the conference “Intertwining and Rethinking Digitalization, Society, and Co-Worlds from a Queer Feminist Perspective” at Leibniz University Hannover with their contribution “Queer Feminist Perspectives on TikTok: A Critical Analysis of Sexism and Platform Governance.”

ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner was invited by Prof Dr Robin Samuel, Dr Anette Schumacher, Dr Hannes Käckmeister, Simone Charles (Digital Documentation and Research Centre (DDRC)) and the Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg | Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse (MENJE) to the University of Luxembourg.

On 26/06/2024 the research colloquium of Prof. Dr. Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden) will take place.

Dr. Dennis Redeker presented early results from the REMIT Horizon Europe research project at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) 2024.

On June 25, the ZeMKI will host the last ComAI Lecture in the spring semester 2024.

The Platform Governance Media and Technology Lab (PGMT), Radical Data and the cooperative kintsugi-lab cordinally invite to participate at a two day workshop.

Call for Paper Conference “Beyond Play” is extended to the 30th June! The conference “Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society” will be held at the ZeMKI in Bremen from 30.09. – 02.10.24. For more information click here.

The pre-release version of the "OpenQDA" software currently being developed at ZeMKI is now available.

The Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID) Lab, headed by Prof Cornelius Puschmann, will be represented with four contributions at the 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Australia.

Andreas Hepp and Stephan Görland are publishing a thematic issue on "Agency in a Datafied Society" in the journal Convergence.

Prof. Dr. Benedetta Brevini (NYU and University of Sidney) will be a guest in Bremen on 18 June 2024.

This year's annual conference of the International Communications Association (ICA) will take place in Goald Cost, Australia, from June 20 to 24. The ZeMKI will be represented with numerous contributions and ZeMKI members will present research at the institute.

Time and Date: June 18, 2024, 3-4 pm (CET) Join ONLINE via ZOOM (check updates for the link) We are excited to announce the tenth  installment of the ongoing Online Talk Series “Behind the Scenes- Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Platform Regulation”. This session, led by postdoctoral researcher Robert Gorwa, explores the strategy he developed (…)

Prof. Christian Schwarzenegger will give the lecture “Kein Vertrauen ist auch keine Lösung. Vielschichtigkeit und Inkonsistenzen in der Nutzung (Alternativer) Nachrichtenmedien” as part of the TrustTalks lecture series.

Tomorrow June 5th, lab members Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach and Vanessa Richter are going to present a talk on “Negotiating AI as a sociotechnical phenomenon: Competing imaginaries of AI by stakeholders in the US, China, and Germany” the content of which, addresses producers and proponents of AI-related communication, based on interviews with AI experts in (…)

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach will give a lecture on ‘Plat-formation: The Formation of Platforms and Their Governance’ at the University of Sheffield on Thursday, the 30th of May. Abstract How do social media platforms become what they are, how do they change and what is the role of governance in this process? Platforms (…)