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Annual ZeMKI Conference: "When Machines Join the Conversation: Empirical Findings on Communicative AI"

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ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) is one of seven 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 coordinates the international „Communicative AI“ research unit.

Investigating how deep mediatization transforms society — at the intersection of culture, communication, and technology.

Exploring how communicative AI reshapes the fabric of societal communication — and what futures it opens and forecloses.

Developing and refining digital methods in context — combining computational approaches with qualitative depth.

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Dr. Patryk Wasiak (Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) History of Software User Interfaces as Digital Media Infrastructure
  • Datum: 11. November 2026
  • Location: 28359 Bremen, DE

Abstract:  My lecture presents key points in the historical evolution of software user interfaces (UIs) and their role in the relationships between users, designers, machines, and economic and social systems. I argue that UIs serve as critical visual technologies that mediate interactions between users and computers. I outline the history of UIs, from early home (…)

28. September 2026

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Anne Clausen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Social media platforms and the spreading of intolerance
  • Datum: 28. October 2026
  • Location: 28359 Bremen, DE
PhD student Anne Clausen from the Digital Democracy Centre, University of Southern Denmark presents findings from her PhD project ‘High Choice Platform Environments and the Spreading of Intolerance’ (2024-2027). The project focuses specifically on online hate speech targeting sexual and gender minorities.

28. September 2026

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Prof. Dr. Ana Grgić (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Seeing the Fireflies: Towards a New Historiography of Yugoslav Women's Cinema
  • Datum: 21. October 2026
  • Location: 28359 Bremen, DE

Abstract: Drawing on Georges Didi-Huberman’s Survival of the Fireflies (Survivance des lucioles), this seminar argues for a new historiography of Yugoslav women’s cinema grounded not in canonical narratives or complete archives, but in the survival of fragile images, dispersed traces, and fragmentary memories. Rejecting the assumption that marginalised filmmakers, films, and works simply disappear from (…)

28. September 2026

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ZeMKI Research Report 2025/26 Published
The new ZeMKI research report provides insights into current research projects, topics, and activities at the Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research at the University of Bremen. The 2025/26 edition focuses on the focus topic “Digital Gaming.” Several articles address digital games as a subject of media and communication research, values and education in the context of gaming, and the new Digital Gaming & Media Experience Research Studio (DiGaMER) at ZeMKI.

23. September 2026

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Cover Zeitschrift Communicatio Socialis eine Frau mit roten Haaren und Sonnebrille

Publication: Communicatio Socialis
ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler has published together with Ilona Nord an article titled "Agency, Religion, and Digitalization: Interdisciplinary Inquiries and Systematizing Reflections" in the journal "Zeitschrift für Ethik der Medien und der digitalen Gesellschaft" (Journal for the Ethics of Media and the Digital Society). 

22. September 2026