Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter (ZeMKI-Lab “Sociotechnical Systems and Critical Data Studies”) Research association/cooperation: Institute for Information Management Bremen (ifib), Technology and Education (ITB) Funding institution: Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) On behalf of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), ifib and the Institute for Technology and Education (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Sara Hofmann (ZeMKI-Lab “Sociotechnical Systems and Critical Data Studies”) Funding institution: German Civil Service Association (dbb), German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) In cooperation with the German Civil Service Association (dbb) and the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), this project investigated how employees and staff councils are involved in the introduction of (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Karsten Wolf Funding institution: Federal Ministry of Education and Research At the 10th It Summit of the Federal Government in Saarbrücken, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf presented an app prototype to support informal learning by means of explanatory and performance videos. The ZeMKI Lab “Media Education and Educational Media” (…)

Project management: Dr. Bettina Henzler Funding institution: DGF Since the early days of cinema, childhood has been a common film motif and a recurring topos in film-theoretical and cinephile discourses. The complex of childhood and film touches on a broad spectrum of questions concerning aspects of the mediation and mediality of film: On the viewer, (…)

Research association/cooperation: Institute for Technology and Education (ITB), Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter Funding institution: Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) The project researched the use of digital media in in-company training practice and developed concepts and materials for training personnel. The focus was (…)

Research association/cooperation: Institute for Music Education Research at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (hmtmh) Funding institution: Federal Ministry of Education and Research Together with the Institute for Music Education Research at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (hmtmh), we investigated the potential of feedback systems in music lessons in the (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pauleit (ZeMKI-Lab “Film, Media Art and Popular Culture”) Funding institution: Excellence Initiative of the federal and state governments The project explored how film sound and film sound generate, model and make history audible, and thus represented an extension of the approaches to cinematic storytelling and visual history. The innovative core (…)

Funding institution: Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag As a comprehensive process of social change, digitalization is also affecting institutions in various areas of education. Education policy, research and the public have been dealing with the “new media” for over two decades, and their importance in education and training is constantly growing. With (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp Project staff: Johanna Möller, Anne Mollen Research association/cooperation: University of Tampere, Finland Funding institution: Helsingin Sanomat Foundation The political implications of media technologies have been discussed by society as a whole since the revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden about the spying activities of the NSA, GCHQ and, not least, (…)

Project management: Dr. Aidan Power (ZeMKI-Lab “Film, Medienkunst und Populärkultur”) Funding institution: Exzellenz-Initiative von Bund und Ländern Examining select European science fiction films, while analysing key facets of production, this project questions dystopian representations of the European Union in light of prevailing concerns over social, political and economic crises. Long seen as a genre that (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pauleit (ZeMKI-Lab “Film, Media Art and Popular Culture”) Project collaborator: Dr. Stefano Odorico Funding institution: DFG Recent developments in digital technologies, as well as increased socio-cultural demands for participation, are changing and influencing our conception, design, reception, production and distribution of non-fictional audiovisual works. These developments form the basis for (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pauleit (ZeMKI-Lab “Film, Media Art and Popular Culture”) Funding institution: Bremen-TRAC/EU Marie Curie COFOUND program The interdisciplinary research focused on a comparative study of the work of independent Muslim feminist women filmmakers from Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, who, since the late 1970’s, have shared similar, yet varying, histories of politically (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI-Lab “Mediatization and Globalization”) Research network/cooperation: SPP 1505 “Mediatized Worlds” Funding institution: DFG With advancing mediatization and in particular the mediatization push of digitalization, more and more diverse possibilities are emerging to create and experience communitization through media. After the focus of research in the first two phases of (…)

Comparative analysis based on the study on media integration in elementary school in North Rhine-Westphalia Research association/cooperation: Institute for Information Management Bremen (ifib) Funding institution: Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM) The Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM) has commissioned ifib to evaluate the Medienpass NRW project. Building on the results of the study “Media (…)

Research network/cooperation: Sub-project of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 597 ‘Statehood in Transition’ at the University of Bremen Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI-Lab “Mediatization and Globalization”) Project staff: Dr. Swantje Lingenberg, Dipl.-Pol. Johanna Möller, Dr. Anke Offerhaus, Anne Mollen, Monika Elsler The comparative analysis of the reporting of national newspapers in six European (…)