Projects

Project Overview Social media platforms and the creator economy have become highly influential in the dissemination of information and in politics. The current use of generative AI, coupled with political developments in the U.S., will significantly alter the dynamics of this sector. It is therefore important to understand the far-reaching implications of platform companies’ use (…)

“Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action” (AI PAN-AFRICANISM) is a four-year, transdisciplinary research project that aims to rethink the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa. While AI increasingly influences areas such as access to information, health, and digital public services, global rules are mostly determined by the U.S., the EU, and China. African countries often have little influence in this regard.

Since the coronavirus pandemic, religious services have been regularly broadcast online. Religious communities have been using social media for communication for many years. And the first robots are already being used in religious contexts. AI tools are already creating sermons, and there are apps that provide pastoral counseling. There is no question that religious practices (…)

Funded by: Impuls Forschung of the Hanse University Alliance Due to their dual identity as places of local cultural narratives and places of personal and collective memories, islands offer a unique context for the formation of memories. The project investigates the interplay between locally curated memory practices and translocal memory objects, focusing on the North (…)

Duration: 2021 – 2025 Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach Partner: Institute for Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) & German Research Foundation (DFG) Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a key technology in today’s societies. Political and economic actors in many countries have allocated considerable resources (…)

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 (…)

The research focuses on the conceptual foundations and empirical exploration of digital resilience in the context of the ongoing, far-reaching mediatisation of everyday social life and the proliferation of artificial intelligence in particular.

Funded by: Zentrale Forschungsförderung (ZF), Universität Bremen Project Overview My postdoctoral project “Value-driven 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 (…)