ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

The 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) will take place from June 2 to 8 in Cape Town, South Africa. This year’s conference is themed “Communication and Inequalities in Context” and will bring together over 2,900 researchers in the field of communication studies. ZeMKI will be represented at the conference by several (…)

ZeMKI member Dr. Philip Sinner was recently a guest on a Deutschlandfunk program hosted by Kevin Barth. The segment focused on Kika’s soccer broadcasts, in which children serve as presenters.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Emilija Gagrčin will be the keynote speaker at the opening panel of ECREA26.

As part of the P1 ComAI project “Pioneer Communities: Imagining ComAI and its Possible Futures”, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp has published the article “The Imaginative Landscape of AI: Locating Silicon Valley’s ‘quiet futuring’” in the Media, Culture & Society Journal. The article is open-access and is freely available to everyone.

Imane El Qochairi is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. She is part of the research project “Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action” with Dr. Dennis Redeker as Project Lead and she is affiliated with the ZeMKI (…)

Chiara Spiniello is a postdoctoral researcher at ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen. Her research lies at the intersection of political science, comparative public law, and digital governance, with a particular focus on digital constitutionalism, digital sovereignty, electoral processes, and forms of government. In 2021, she obtained a PhD in (…)