“How religious influencers and the tech elite are attacking democracy” – ZeMKI media talks with Annika Brockschmidt on November 17
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.
News
New Article by ZeMKI Members Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach and Dr. Daria Dergacheva published in Policy & Internet Journal
The article entitled “Mandate to overblock? Understanding the impact of the European Union’s Article 17 on copyright content moderation on YouTube” presents the results of a study that examines the potential overblocking due to copyright moderation and changes in the diversity of cultural offerings on YouTube in two EU member states of comparable size and (…)
11. December 2023
ZeMKI-Workshop "Tutorial Culture – Audiovisual Diversity in Communicative Figurations of Informal Learning"
The ZeMKI-Lab “Media & Education” is organizing the workshop “Tutorial Culture – Audiovisual Diversity in Communicative Figurations of Informal Learning” next Friday, as part of the research focus “Audiovisual Cultures”. When: 08.12.2023 – 9:00 am to approx. 3:00 pm Where: ZeMKI meeting room, Linzerstraße 4. Everyone is invited! Gladly also – if time or (…)
7. December 2023
New Publication by ZeMKI Members Adrian Roeske and Andreas Breiter together with Colleagues
The claim to measure education is as old as teaching and learning processes have been offered and organized in an institutionalized form. The aim was and is to improve and optimize learning and education. The central hope is to be able to better support individual learning through the collection of data and the use of (…)
7. December 2023
Research Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Luca Rossi (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): "Who likes visual protest?"
When: 13.12.2023 – 16:15 bis 17:45 h Where: Room 60.070, Linzer Str. 4 Abstract: In recent years climate activism has seen a resurgence of physical forms of protests. From the public marches of Fridays for Future to the more extreme forms of disobedience of extinction rebellion, more and more the physical bodies of the activists have (…)
6. December 2023
Conference Participation of ZeMKI Members Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise and Michael Linke in Berlin
On December 7 and 8, the conference Analyzing protest in the digital age: Challenges and opportunities in combining text and video sources will take place at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise and Michael Linke will present their current results in the creation of a multimodal data set for (…)
5. December 2023
Prof. Dr. David Gunkel (Northern Illinois University, USA): „The Relational Turn: A Techno-Ethics for the 21st Century and Beyond“ - "Person, Thing, Robot - European Tour“
- Datum: 5. December 2023
- Location: Cartesium
5. December 2023
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
