ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

Verena Honkomp-Wilkens and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf from the ZeMKI Lab “Media & Education” have published a new open access article in the journal MedienPädagogik on “Diversity in explanatory videos on YouTube: Deconstruction or continuation of a gendered order in informal audio-visual educational spaces?” (DOWNLOAD). YouTube is an important social video network for teenagers (…)

As a guest in the HSozKult podcast “Vergangenheitsformen”, ZeMKI member Professor Christian Schwarzenegger talks to Claudia Prinz about “Memes und Geschichtskultur” and specifically his research on activism with historical memes and the significance of memes for the digital culture of remembrance. 43 entertaining and hopefully informative minutes. Now on Spotify and wherever podcasts are available. (…)

Linxin Wang is a guest researcher at ZeMKI for three months through the Bremen-Cardiff-Alliance. She plans to submit a journal article in the next three months. She also intends to collect data in Germany related to Chinese immigrants and their use of social media, particularly with regard to building virtual family relationships and health communication.

ZeMKI-Member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach has started his position as visiting professor at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During his stay, until July 2024, Christian is working on topics ranging from AI discourses and regulation, to the role of social media platforms in society. At the department, he is teaching (…)

In a guest article in the Tagesspiegel, Sami Nenno, member of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity, sheds light on the scientific perspective on the reach of disinformation on the Internet.

The Media & Education lab has published together with Christian Pentzold (Uni Leipzig) and Nina Altmaier (Uni Tübingen) a new article on collective learning practices in the journal „Computers in the School“: Although YouTube explanatory videos are a successful genre, there has been little research into the ways they form part of adolescents’ collective learning (…)

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture entitled: “The Knowledge of Technologized Futures: Pioneering Communities, Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability” on 18.03.2024 at the conference “Technization of Knowledge” at Chemnitz University. The conference explores the question of how and with which concepts current experiences of technologized social reality(ies) and processes of the technologization (…)

The International Academy for the Study of Gaming and Religion (IASGAR)  and the Research Area Digital Gaming at the ZeMKI – Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research is hosting its third IASGAR Research Day. Exclusively for early-stage researchers, graduate students and doctoral students, the workshop welcomes research on media-centered approaches, perspectives of game developers and publishers, and viewpoints (…)

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 (…)