20th ZeMKI Anniversary: International Conference on "20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?"
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.
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ComAI lecture with with Prof. Dr. David Gunkel (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Tomorrow is the third “Communicative AI Lectures: ChatGPT, Ethics and Sustainability” at ZeMKI with Prof. Dr. David Gunkel: “The Relational Turn: A Techo-Ethics for the 21st Century and Beyond“ – “Person, Thing, Robot – European Tour” When: 5th December 2023 – 18:00-20:00h Where: Rotunde, Cartesium Building (Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5, 28359 Bremen) If you are unable to attend (…)
4. December 2023

Dissertation Prize for ZeMKI Member Dr. Rieke Böhling
At the annual conference of the DGPuK specialist group “Sociology of Media Communication” in Mannheim, ZeMKI member Dr. Rieke Böhling was awarded the dissertation prize “Media – Culture – Communication” for her thesis “Mediated Memories of Migration”, which was completed in 2022. Rieke Böhling researched (media-)mediated memories in connection with the “guest worker” migration from (…)
1. December 2023

Meeting of theCompetence Network lernen:digital
In November 2023, a meeting of the lernen:digital competence network took place in Berlin, in which several ZeMKI members of Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter’s “Sociotechnical Systems and Critical Data Studies” lab took part. The meeting was intended to provide an insight into the strands and structures of the metaproject and offered the ZeMKI team the (…)
29. November 2023

5th December 2023: Third "Communicative AI Lectures: ChatGPT, Ethiks and Sustainability" at ZeMKI with Prof. Dr. David Gunkel: "The Rational Turn: A Techo-Ethiks for the 21st Century and Beyond" - "Person, Thing, Robot - European Tour"
We are excited to welcome Prof. Dr. David Gunkel (Northern Illinois University, USA) an our guest in Bremen and third presenter in the “ComAI Lectures: ChatGPT, Ethics and Sustainability” at ZeMKI. When: 5th December 2023 – 18:00 ti 20:00h Where: Rotunde, Cartesium Building (Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5, 28359 Bremen) David Gunkel will talk about redefining the moral (…)
29. November 2023

ZeMKI Member Dr. Philip Sinner at VII Research Meeting "Towards Development of Mediatization Resarch"
On 27.11.2023 the VII Research Meeting “Towards Development of Mediatization Resarch” will take place. This year the meeting is organized in cooperation of the Institute of Social Communication and Media Studies – Department of Mediatization of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin with the Wroclaw Academic Centre and the Academia Europaea Wroclaw Knowledge Hub (Poland). ZeMKI (…)
26. November 2023

Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry (LSE, UK): "AI as knowledge capture and colonial landgrab"
- Datum: 28. November 2023
- Location: Cartesium
26. November 2023

ZeMKI Research Colloquium with Dr. Victor Khroul (University of Bremen)
When: 29.11.2023 – 16:15 to 17:45 Where: Room 60.070, Linzer Str. 4 The research colloquium with Dr. Victor Khroul (University of Bremen) is entitled “Sacralization of the war in Ukraine in Russian mainstream an social media”.
23. November 2023

ComAI Lecture with Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry (LSE, UK)
On 28.11.2023 is te second lecture form the series “Communicative AI Lecture: ChatGPT, Ethics and Sustainability”. The guest is Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry (LSE, UK) with the topic “AI as knowledge capture and colonial landgrab”. When: 28.11.2023 – 18:00 – 20:00h Where: Rotunda, Cartesium Building (Enrique-Schmidt-Str.5, 28359 Bremen) If you can’t (…)
22. November 2023