20th ZeMKI Anniversary: International Conference on "20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?"Register now for free 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. previous 1…678910…15 next News Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler: Publication of articles in the series "Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik" ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler has published new articles in the series "Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik". 3. September 2024 NewsPublication "Automating Communication in the Digital Society" - Special Issue with New Media & Society Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach from the Lab for Platform Governance, Media and Technology has published a new special issue entitled “Automation in the Digital Society” together with Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold. 2. September 2024 News Dr. Miira Hill presents at the ESA 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association in Porto On August 29, 2024, Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Luisa Runge and Christian Katzenbach at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) in Porto. 1. September 2024 News Presentation on Teaching Experience Design Research at the 5th EdTech Research Forum Imke A.M. Meyer and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf gave a presentation entitled "Teaching Experience Design (TXD) Research: a case-study of the development of a classroom interaction environment in nursing education". 30. August 2024 News Conference Beyond Play: Registration and preliminary program online! You can now registrate for the Beyond Play conference "The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society". 29. August 2024 News New ZeMKI Working Paper: "The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective" Recently, a new ZeMKI working paper entitled “The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective” was published. 29. August 2024 News POLTRACK: Paper on attitudinal predictors of alternative news consumption published Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Patrick Zerrer from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID), together with Dr. Sebastian Stier and Helena Rauxloh from the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, have published an article entitled “Politicized and Paranoid? Assessing Attitudinal Predictors of Alternative News Consumption” in the ‘Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media’. 26. August 2024 News Call for applications for 8 doctoral positions at ZeMKI in the DFG Research Unit “Communicative AI” (FOR 5656) The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period. 26. August 2024 News New ZeMKI Member: Welcome Sandra Kero! Sandra Kero has been a research assistant and PhD candidate in the lab "Media Change and Long-Term Transformation Processes" since July 2024 16. August 2024 News New Article by ZeMKI Member Dr. Dom Ford ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has published a new journal article in Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association vol. 6, no. 3. 16. August 2024 News Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) The Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) took place in Montréal on August 9-11, 2024. 16. August 2024 News Registration Conference Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society The Registration for the conference "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society" has now started. 16. August 2024 News International Symposium: Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic On Tuesday, 08/13/24, a colloquium entitled “Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic” will take place at the Université de Montréal. 16. August 2024 News Special issue on "Agency in Datafied Societies" published The thematic issue on “Agency in Datafied Societies”, edited by Andreas Hepp and Stephan Görland, has been published as the latest issue of the journal Convergence. 13. August 2024 Events ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill presents at the EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam On July 19, 2024, Dr. Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann at the EASST-4S Conference in Amsterdam. 24. July 2024 News ZeMKI Member Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise presents at the SMSociety Conference in London on July 17th Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise presented her project on creative social media participation of citizens in the German parliamentary election campaign with a poster presentation at the SMSociety conference in London. 23. July 2024 News Dr. Daria Dergacheva at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference in September ZeMKI member Dr. Daria Dergacheva will be presenting at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference “The Informational Influence of Autocracies Abroad” in Ljublyana, Slovenia, on September 23rd 2024. 22. July 2024 NewsPublication New Article: „How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance“ by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach An important publication from the Lab’s own Dr. Prof. Christian Katzenbach in collaboration with colleagues was published. 19. July 2024 EventsNews ZeMKI member Dr. Dennis Redeker gives lecture on platform regulation at the Haus der Wissenschaft On 13 July 2024, Dr. Dennis Redeker, ZeMKI member and postdoc in the "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab" (Prof. Dr. Katzenbach), spoke about social media platforms and their regulation as part of the "Wissen um 11 (Knowledge at 11)" lecture series at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen. 15. July 2024 News Lecture by Prof. Andreas Hepp: "Why communities cannot be digital - and yet digital media and their infrastructures are fundamentally changing processes of communitization" ZeMKI member Prof. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the conference "Digital Communities - Social proximity from a spatial distance" on Thursday, July 18, 2024. 15. July 2024 News ZeMKI member Dr. Viejo Otero presenting at the SMSociety conference in London, July 17th. ZeMKI member Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero will be presenting at the Social Media and Society Conference (#SMSociety) in London on July 17th. Dr. Viejo Otero will present her paper titled "'We do not marshal your feed': How AltTech platforms conceptualize safety". 15. July 2024 News New ZeMKI-Member in the Lab Media and Religion: Welcome Amrei Sander! Dr. Amrei Sander has been a research associate in the project "The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19" in the Lab Media and Religion at the ZeMKI since July 2024. 12. July 2024 NewsPublication Two new publications by ZeMKI member Philip Sinner in the field of sports communication ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner has published two articles in the anthology "COVID-19 und die Sportkommunikation. Der Einfluss der Corona-Pandemie auf Sport, Medien und Journalismus". 11. July 2024 News Article on Mobile Tracking by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab A new paper by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab together with ZeMKI members Philipp Krieter and Stephanie Geise investigates mobile keyword tracking as a privacy-friendly data source in mobile media research. 5. July 2024 previous 1…678910…15 next
News Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler: Publication of articles in the series "Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik" ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler has published new articles in the series "Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik". 3. September 2024
NewsPublication "Automating Communication in the Digital Society" - Special Issue with New Media & Society Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach from the Lab for Platform Governance, Media and Technology has published a new special issue entitled “Automation in the Digital Society” together with Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold. 2. September 2024
News Dr. Miira Hill presents at the ESA 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association in Porto On August 29, 2024, Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Luisa Runge and Christian Katzenbach at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) in Porto. 1. September 2024
News Presentation on Teaching Experience Design Research at the 5th EdTech Research Forum Imke A.M. Meyer and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf gave a presentation entitled "Teaching Experience Design (TXD) Research: a case-study of the development of a classroom interaction environment in nursing education". 30. August 2024
News Conference Beyond Play: Registration and preliminary program online! You can now registrate for the Beyond Play conference "The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society". 29. August 2024
News New ZeMKI Working Paper: "The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective" Recently, a new ZeMKI working paper entitled “The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective” was published. 29. August 2024
News POLTRACK: Paper on attitudinal predictors of alternative news consumption published Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Patrick Zerrer from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID), together with Dr. Sebastian Stier and Helena Rauxloh from the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, have published an article entitled “Politicized and Paranoid? Assessing Attitudinal Predictors of Alternative News Consumption” in the ‘Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media’. 26. August 2024
News Call for applications for 8 doctoral positions at ZeMKI in the DFG Research Unit “Communicative AI” (FOR 5656) The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period. 26. August 2024
News New ZeMKI Member: Welcome Sandra Kero! Sandra Kero has been a research assistant and PhD candidate in the lab "Media Change and Long-Term Transformation Processes" since July 2024 16. August 2024
News New Article by ZeMKI Member Dr. Dom Ford ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has published a new journal article in Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association vol. 6, no. 3. 16. August 2024
News Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) The Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) took place in Montréal on August 9-11, 2024. 16. August 2024
News Registration Conference Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society The Registration for the conference "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society" has now started. 16. August 2024
News International Symposium: Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic On Tuesday, 08/13/24, a colloquium entitled “Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic” will take place at the Université de Montréal. 16. August 2024
News Special issue on "Agency in Datafied Societies" published The thematic issue on “Agency in Datafied Societies”, edited by Andreas Hepp and Stephan Görland, has been published as the latest issue of the journal Convergence. 13. August 2024
Events ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill presents at the EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam On July 19, 2024, Dr. Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann at the EASST-4S Conference in Amsterdam. 24. July 2024
News ZeMKI Member Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise presents at the SMSociety Conference in London on July 17th Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise presented her project on creative social media participation of citizens in the German parliamentary election campaign with a poster presentation at the SMSociety conference in London. 23. July 2024
News Dr. Daria Dergacheva at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference in September ZeMKI member Dr. Daria Dergacheva will be presenting at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference “The Informational Influence of Autocracies Abroad” in Ljublyana, Slovenia, on September 23rd 2024. 22. July 2024
NewsPublication New Article: „How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance“ by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach An important publication from the Lab’s own Dr. Prof. Christian Katzenbach in collaboration with colleagues was published. 19. July 2024
EventsNews ZeMKI member Dr. Dennis Redeker gives lecture on platform regulation at the Haus der Wissenschaft On 13 July 2024, Dr. Dennis Redeker, ZeMKI member and postdoc in the "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab" (Prof. Dr. Katzenbach), spoke about social media platforms and their regulation as part of the "Wissen um 11 (Knowledge at 11)" lecture series at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen. 15. July 2024
News Lecture by Prof. Andreas Hepp: "Why communities cannot be digital - and yet digital media and their infrastructures are fundamentally changing processes of communitization" ZeMKI member Prof. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the conference "Digital Communities - Social proximity from a spatial distance" on Thursday, July 18, 2024. 15. July 2024
News ZeMKI member Dr. Viejo Otero presenting at the SMSociety conference in London, July 17th. ZeMKI member Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero will be presenting at the Social Media and Society Conference (#SMSociety) in London on July 17th. Dr. Viejo Otero will present her paper titled "'We do not marshal your feed': How AltTech platforms conceptualize safety". 15. July 2024
News New ZeMKI-Member in the Lab Media and Religion: Welcome Amrei Sander! Dr. Amrei Sander has been a research associate in the project "The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19" in the Lab Media and Religion at the ZeMKI since July 2024. 12. July 2024
NewsPublication Two new publications by ZeMKI member Philip Sinner in the field of sports communication ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner has published two articles in the anthology "COVID-19 und die Sportkommunikation. Der Einfluss der Corona-Pandemie auf Sport, Medien und Journalismus". 11. July 2024
News Article on Mobile Tracking by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab A new paper by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab together with ZeMKI members Philipp Krieter and Stephanie Geise investigates mobile keyword tracking as a privacy-friendly data source in mobile media research. 5. July 2024
