Projects
- Active
OpenQDA: open qualitative data analysis software
Based on our own needs regarding collaborative work, methodological expansion, fair data usage, and support for open research processes, ZeMKI has been developing OpenQDA since January 2023. You can use the software at https://openqda.org/ and find the source code and developer documentation at https://github.com/openqda. The current special features of OpenQDA are: As a web-based application (…)
- Duration: 2023 – 2025
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf
- Aktiv
Values-based Governance
Funded by: Zentrale Forschungsförderung (ZF), Universität Bremen Project Overview My postdoctoral project “Values-based Governance: European approaches to AI regulation” examines how values and ideologies shape the governance of AI systems in the European Union. Over the past year, the project has evolved to focus more specifically on how values are articulated, negotiated, and institutionalized within (…)
- Duration: 2024 – 2027
- Project lead: Dr. Rebecca Scharlach
- Active
Prototypes of social cohesion
Participating institutions: ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI), Hamburg Funding: Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) Facebook, X and TikTok promote radicalization and hate speech. Digital platforms and social media are therefore typically seen as problems when it comes to social cohesion. In contrast, this work package focuses (…)
- Duration: 2025 – 2026
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
ComAI Research Space (ComAI coordination project)
- Duration: 2025 – 2028
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Dr. Gregor Wiedemann
- Active
Education: ComAI for learning and teaching (ComAI P9)
- Duration: 2025 – 2028
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter
- Active
Political discourse: ComAI and deliberative quality (ComAI P6)
- Duration: 2025 – 2028
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Dr. Gregor Wiedemann
Governance: Private ordering of ComAI through corporate communication and policies (ComAI P4)
- Duration: 2025 – 2028
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach
- Active
Pioneer Communities: Imagining ComAI and its possible futures (ComAI P1)
- Duration: 2025 – 2028
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
