ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

On 29/05/2024 the research colloquium of Katharina Hajek (LMU Munich & UdK Berlin, Germany) will take place on the topic “Constructing a Climate of Compliance – Understanding Resistance to Pro-Environmental Messages”. Abstract: Does every restriction of freedom lead to the same resistance? In the lecture, Katharina V. Hajek will provide insights into a project funded (…)

Sami Nenno, member of the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab, has recently published three new scientific articles in several publications.

The contribution by Prof Cornelius Puschmann, Head of the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab, for the upcoming Digital Democracy and Citizenship Conference in September 2024 has been accepted.

Sami Nenno from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab comments as an expert on AI and disinformation on the potential of synthetically generated voices for disinformation in the German newspaper taz. The background to this is the presentation of OpenAI’s voice engine model, which makes it possible to create artificial voices based on short (…)

ZeMKI member Dr. Dennis Redeker, member of the Lab "Platform Governance, Media and Technology", organized a roundtable on "Digital Governance between Multistakeholderism and Multilateralism" as part of the first conference of the EU Horizon Europe research project "Reignite Multilateralism via Technology" (REMIT). The conference took place on May 16 and 17, 2024 at KU Leuven and brought together academics with a policy audience from different areas of European and global technology policy.

ZeMKI member Dr. Daria Dergacheva is speaking at CPDP.ai 2024 conference in Brussels today, 22 May 2024.  She is a panelist at the panel organized by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), on “The Impact of Online Content Moderation and Curation on Fundamental Rights: How to Assess, Mitigate and Monitor Systemic Risks on Online (…)

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Holger Böning *December 16, 1949 – †May 5, 2024 The ZeMKI mourns the loss of its member, the long-standing spokesperson of the Institute of German Press Research in Faculty 9 at the University of Bremen. In the more than thirty years of his work at this institute, Holger Böning decisively advanced (…)

Fatima Maya and Karsten D. Wolf have just published their new research article “An Architecture for Formative Assessment Analytics of Multimodal Artefacts in ePortfolios Supported by Artificial Intelligence” in the edited volume “Assessment Analytics in Education” (Springer Link) as part of the IMPACT-Projekt. From the abstract: “A key objective of higher education is to promote (…)