ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

On 26 April 2024, ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner and the CoKoMeV team will give a presentation entitled “The communicative figuration of mediatized grassroot sports. Communicative strategies of Austrian and German sports clubs in response to the Covid-19 crisis”. The conference will take place from 25 to 27 April 2024 at TU Darmstadt. The conference (…)

Selim Başoğlu is a research associate and a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) since April 2024. Currently, he teaches introductory courses at the University of Bremen while also taking part in several research projects. In addition, he has been a guest researcher at the University of Oslo, Psychology (…)

ZeMKI member Dr. Anke Offerhaus was concordantly elected Dean of Academic Studies in Faculty 9. She now joins the dean’s office of Prof. Dr. Borchers and will continue her teaching activities in the ZeMKI degree programs as before. We congratulate Dr. Offerhaus on her election and wish her much joy and success in her new (…)

The Call for Papers for the 2024 International Conference of the DGPuK (German Communication Association) Visual Communication Section on “Generative Images – Generative Imageries: Challenges of Visual Communication (Research) in the Age of AI” was recently published. The conference will take place from November 20-22, 2024 at the University of Bremen and is supported by (…)

ZeMKI member Dr. Stephanie Seul will give a lecture entitled “Writing Women into the Historical Narrative of War Reporting: Avis Waterman, “The Times” Correspondent on the Italian Front During the First World War” at the conference “Rethinking Our Communicative Pasts: Reparatory and Radical Perspectives” at Loughborough University in London on April 26, 2024 from 2 (…)

On Thursday, April 25, 2024, a public roundtable on the United Nations Global Digital Compact will take place at 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the House of Science in Bremen. The Global Digital Compact is currently being negotiated by the UN member states; a first draft text was published in early April. The roundtable is (…)

Professor Kerstin Radde-Antweiler explores climate change in relation to video games and gaming practices, analyzing discussions on environmental games and their narratives. Despite the prominence of climate change themes in games, her research reveals a lack of discussions about their content and connections to real-world events on gaming forums compared to other media platforms. However, (…)

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, together with Göran Bolin, Andrea L. Guzman and Wiebke Loosen, has published a special issue on “Mediatization and Human Machine Communication” in the journal Human-Machine Communication. This issue includes a selection of five articles that were submitted via a call for papers last year. The editorial provides an overview (…)