ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

The new research project entitled "Informed by Influencers? (INDI)" at the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity has officially started. The project is led by Prof. Dr Cornelius Puschmann and will run from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2027.

Research software has become an important tool for qualitative research. However, currently available research software for qualitative data analysis can have some disadvantages: It is sometimes functionally overloaded and complicated to use, tends to be geared towards individual users or is expensive to purchase or use. This is why we at ZeMKI have developed OpenQDA, (…)

The annual conference of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK) will take place in Erfurt from March 13 to March 15. The Political Communication and Innovative Methods Lab will be represented with lectures in Erfurt.

ZeMKI member Prof. Christian Katzenbach will hold a lecture on “Understanding the emergence of platforms and their governance” at the Hertie School of Governance this Wednesday, March 13. The lecture will touch upon interesting topics such as: Platforms have become key players and institutions in contemporary societies But how do they become what they are, (…)

In the latest podcast episode of Terra X History (ZDF), ZeMKI member Prof. Christian Schwarzenegger takes a fascinating look at the history of communication. The full podcast episode is available since March 8, 2024 on ZDF.de and all common podcast platforms.

For the morning echo on WDR5, ZeMKI member Prof. Christian Schwarzenegger was interviewed about the controversial podcast Hoss & Hopf and the success of such media formats.

Nieki Samar presents a joint paper with Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise entitled “Creative Participation Online: New forms of multimodal and multimedia political communication on social media?”. Here they present their current results in researching the phenomenon of “Creative Participation”.

In the fourth episode of the ZeMKI podcast, host Juri Fidora talks to ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, head of the “Digital Communication and Information Diversity” lab. Listen to the new episode here

Prof Dr Cornelius Puschmann from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab comments as an expert on online disinformation on the results of the Bertelsmann study "Verunsicherte Öffentlichkeit" in the Weser Kurier.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler takes part in a panel discussion at the hybrid conference “Church History and Game Studies? Explorations of Religion and History in Digital Games” at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The conference is a collaboration between the Chair of Church History at the Department of Protestant Theology at Goethe University Frankfurt, (…)

On 23.04.2024, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler is giving a lecture as part of the lecture series “Religious Practice in Digital Change” in the theme year “The Digitization of Religion” at the University of Münster. The subject of the lecture series is the question of how different churches and religious communities deal with the (…)

ZeMKI member Prof Dr. Andreas Hepp gave a lecture on February 26, 2024 entitled “What do we know about our digital futures? Pioneer communities, artificial intelligence and sustainability!” at the University of Coimbra at the last conference of the “myGender” project. Abstract: Since the 1970s, our ideas of how we imagine technologized futures have been (…)

Exploration of religion and history in digital games. From March 4-6 in Mainz at the theological department of the University of Mainz in cooperation with the working group Humanities and Digital Games, the medieval blog and Mittelalter.Digital https://kggames.uni-mainz.de/

The “unifreunde”, the Society of Friends of the University of Bremen and the Constructor University, will award this year’s Bremen Student Prize for outstanding theses on February 27, 2024. Two prizes were awarded in the field of natural sciences and engineering, two prizes in the field of social sciences and humanities and a special prize (…)

The members of the Media and Religion Lab Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Dr. Hannah Grünenthal presented the project “Recov-19: The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19” at the spring meeting of the Network of German-speaking Researchers of Religion and Culture in Times of Deep Mediatization (GeNet-ISMRC). Together with the project “Covid-19 (…)

Come and work with us!  Our Fellowship Program invites international researchers to Bremen for four weeks to deepen and connect their research in the transformation of media, communication, and information. We are looking for established scholars who want to enjoy the thriving interdisciplinary research environment at ZeMKI.

At the upcoming Media Practice Week Alumni Talk, she will share her personal experiences and insights into her career path after graduation.

On February 5, 2024, Andrea Grahl, research assistant at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), will enrich the opening panel of the Media Practice Week 2024 at the SFG 2010 with her expertise on the topic of journalism. Grahl, research assistant in the “molo.news” project, will provide well-founded insights into current developments (…)

On behalf of the international research project Shaping 21st Century AI, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the ZeMKI, University of Bremen, in cooperation with the research group “Politics of Digitalization” at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), invite to an international conference on the topic of AI controversies. The conference was held in English.

On January 15, 2024, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter gave a lecture on current research projects at Oxford University. The event was organized by the Department of Education and the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). Particular emphasis was placed on the digital transformation of education, especially with regard to the potential of artificial intelligence. Abstract: (…)

ZeMKI is hosting a series of online info and Q&A sessions starting on January 15 about its M. A study programs: the established M. A. Digital media and Society, and the newly installed M. A. Media and Public Engagement. The M. A. Digital Media and Society is an English-language programme marked by an interdisciplinary focus, (…)

Submission deadline for a special issue of merzWissenschaft on “Media, Media Concepts and Public Audience in the Digital Transformation” ends on January 24, 2024. ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp is co-editor. The special edition of merzWissenschaft is published every December. This issue is dedicated to just one current topic, which it examines comprehensively and (…)