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. ZeMKI administration is on winter vacation from Monday 23.12.24 to January 3. The Central Research Unit will be closed to the public during this time. previous 123456…11 next NewsZeMKI-News International Symposium: Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic On Tuesday, 08/13/24, a colloquium entitled “Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic” will take place at the Université de Montréal. 16. August 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Special issue on "Agency in Datafied Societies" published The thematic issue on “Agency in Datafied Societies”, edited by Andreas Hepp and Stephan Görland, has been published as the latest issue of the journal Convergence. 13. August 2024 EventsZeMKI-News ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill presents at the EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam On July 19, 2024, Dr. Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann at the EASST-4S Conference in Amsterdam. 24. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI Member Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise presents at the SMSociety Conference in London on July 17th Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise presented her project on creative social media participation of citizens in the German parliamentary election campaign with a poster presentation at the SMSociety conference in London. 23. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Dr. Daria Dergacheva at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference in September ZeMKI member Dr. Daria Dergacheva will be presenting at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference “The Informational Influence of Autocracies Abroad” in Ljublyana, Slovenia, on September 23rd 2024. 22. July 2024 NewsPublicationZeMKI-News New Article: „How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance“ by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach An important publication from the Lab’s own Dr. Prof. Christian Katzenbach in collaboration with colleagues was published. 19. July 2024 EventsNewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI member Dr. Dennis Redeker gives lecture on platform regulation at the Haus der Wissenschaft On 13 July 2024, Dr. Dennis Redeker, ZeMKI member and postdoc in the "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab" (Prof. Dr. Katzenbach), spoke about social media platforms and their regulation as part of the "Wissen um 11 (Knowledge at 11)" lecture series at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen. 15. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Lecture by Prof. Andreas Hepp: "Why communities cannot be digital - and yet digital media and their infrastructures are fundamentally changing processes of communitization" ZeMKI member Prof. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the conference "Digital Communities - Social proximity from a spatial distance" on Thursday, July 18, 2024. 15. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI member Dr. Viejo Otero presenting at the SMSociety conference in London, July 17th. ZeMKI member Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero will be presenting at the Social Media and Society Conference (#SMSociety) in London on July 17th. Dr. Viejo Otero will present her paper titled "'We do not marshal your feed': How AltTech platforms conceptualize safety". 15. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News New ZeMKI-Member in the Lab Media and Religion: Welcome Amrei Sander! Dr. Amrei Sander has been a research associate in the project "The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19" in the Lab Media and Religion at the ZeMKI since July 2024. 12. July 2024 NewsPublicationZeMKI-News Two new publications by ZeMKI member Philip Sinner in the field of sports communication ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner has published two articles in the anthology "COVID-19 und die Sportkommunikation. Der Einfluss der Corona-Pandemie auf Sport, Medien und Journalismus". 11. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Article on Mobile Tracking by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab A new paper by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab together with ZeMKI members Philipp Krieter and Stephanie Geise investigates mobile keyword tracking as a privacy-friendly data source in mobile media research. 5. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News New DFG Research Unit on the automation of societal communication 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)”. 3. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford longlisted for the Enter Award 2024! 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. 2. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Research Colloquium: Dr. Julia Borst (University of Bremen): "How and Why Do Literary Scholars Study Websites? – Insights into a Research Project on Afroeuropean Activism in the Digital Space" On 03/07/2024 the research colloquium of Dr. Julia Borst (University of Bremen) will take place. 1. July 2024 ZeMKI-News ZeMKI Summer Party with molo.news and The Educators 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". 1. July 2024 NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI Research Day 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. 30. June 2024 EventsNewsZeMKI-News Online Talk Series (11): Friederike Quint & Yannis Theocharis: 'Does the Community Understand the Community Guidelines?' 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. 26. June 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Appointment as ICA Fellow: High honor for Andreas Hepp 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. 24. June 2024 NewsZeMKI-News New ZeMKI Working Paper: "Auditing the Text Understandability of German Public Administration Websites" Recently, a new working paper by former ZeMKI member Dr. Henrik Heuer et al. was published. 21. June 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Invitation to the Conference: “Intertwining and Rethinking Digitalization, Society and Co-Worlds from a Queer Feminist Perspective” 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.” 21. June 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Philip Sinner visits the University of Luxembourg 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. 20. June 2024 NewsZeMKI-News Research Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden): "Vanishing Act - An Ethnography of Digitalization and the Disappearance of Printed News" On 26/06/2024 the research colloquium of Prof. Dr. Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden) will take place. 20. June 2024 NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI Member Dennis Redeker speaks at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance 2024 Dr. Dennis Redeker presented early results from the REMIT Horizon Europe research project at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) 2024. 20. June 2024 previous 123456…11 next
NewsZeMKI-News International Symposium: Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic On Tuesday, 08/13/24, a colloquium entitled “Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic” will take place at the Université de Montréal. 16. August 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Special issue on "Agency in Datafied Societies" published The thematic issue on “Agency in Datafied Societies”, edited by Andreas Hepp and Stephan Görland, has been published as the latest issue of the journal Convergence. 13. August 2024
EventsZeMKI-News ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill presents at the EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam On July 19, 2024, Dr. Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann at the EASST-4S Conference in Amsterdam. 24. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI Member Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise presents at the SMSociety Conference in London on July 17th Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise presented her project on creative social media participation of citizens in the German parliamentary election campaign with a poster presentation at the SMSociety conference in London. 23. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Dr. Daria Dergacheva at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference in September ZeMKI member Dr. Daria Dergacheva will be presenting at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference “The Informational Influence of Autocracies Abroad” in Ljublyana, Slovenia, on September 23rd 2024. 22. July 2024
NewsPublicationZeMKI-News New Article: „How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance“ by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach An important publication from the Lab’s own Dr. Prof. Christian Katzenbach in collaboration with colleagues was published. 19. July 2024
EventsNewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI member Dr. Dennis Redeker gives lecture on platform regulation at the Haus der Wissenschaft On 13 July 2024, Dr. Dennis Redeker, ZeMKI member and postdoc in the "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab" (Prof. Dr. Katzenbach), spoke about social media platforms and their regulation as part of the "Wissen um 11 (Knowledge at 11)" lecture series at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen. 15. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Lecture by Prof. Andreas Hepp: "Why communities cannot be digital - and yet digital media and their infrastructures are fundamentally changing processes of communitization" ZeMKI member Prof. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the conference "Digital Communities - Social proximity from a spatial distance" on Thursday, July 18, 2024. 15. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI member Dr. Viejo Otero presenting at the SMSociety conference in London, July 17th. ZeMKI member Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero will be presenting at the Social Media and Society Conference (#SMSociety) in London on July 17th. Dr. Viejo Otero will present her paper titled "'We do not marshal your feed': How AltTech platforms conceptualize safety". 15. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News New ZeMKI-Member in the Lab Media and Religion: Welcome Amrei Sander! Dr. Amrei Sander has been a research associate in the project "The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19" in the Lab Media and Religion at the ZeMKI since July 2024. 12. July 2024
NewsPublicationZeMKI-News Two new publications by ZeMKI member Philip Sinner in the field of sports communication ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner has published two articles in the anthology "COVID-19 und die Sportkommunikation. Der Einfluss der Corona-Pandemie auf Sport, Medien und Journalismus". 11. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Article on Mobile Tracking by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab A new paper by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab together with ZeMKI members Philipp Krieter and Stephanie Geise investigates mobile keyword tracking as a privacy-friendly data source in mobile media research. 5. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News New DFG Research Unit on the automation of societal communication 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)”. 3. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford longlisted for the Enter Award 2024! 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. 2. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Research Colloquium: Dr. Julia Borst (University of Bremen): "How and Why Do Literary Scholars Study Websites? – Insights into a Research Project on Afroeuropean Activism in the Digital Space" On 03/07/2024 the research colloquium of Dr. Julia Borst (University of Bremen) will take place. 1. July 2024
ZeMKI-News ZeMKI Summer Party with molo.news and The Educators 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". 1. July 2024
NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI Research Day 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. 30. June 2024
EventsNewsZeMKI-News Online Talk Series (11): Friederike Quint & Yannis Theocharis: 'Does the Community Understand the Community Guidelines?' 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. 26. June 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Appointment as ICA Fellow: High honor for Andreas Hepp 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. 24. June 2024
NewsZeMKI-News New ZeMKI Working Paper: "Auditing the Text Understandability of German Public Administration Websites" Recently, a new working paper by former ZeMKI member Dr. Henrik Heuer et al. was published. 21. June 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Invitation to the Conference: “Intertwining and Rethinking Digitalization, Society and Co-Worlds from a Queer Feminist Perspective” 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.” 21. June 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Philip Sinner visits the University of Luxembourg 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. 20. June 2024
NewsZeMKI-News Research Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden): "Vanishing Act - An Ethnography of Digitalization and the Disappearance of Printed News" On 26/06/2024 the research colloquium of Prof. Dr. Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden) will take place. 20. June 2024
NewsZeMKI-News ZeMKI Member Dennis Redeker speaks at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance 2024 Dr. Dennis Redeker presented early results from the REMIT Horizon Europe research project at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) 2024. 20. June 2024