Projects (4)

The project researches the users of system-critical alternative media and their usage patterns over time. Alternative media critical of the system are strongly associated with the spread of misinformation, conspiracy myths and populist agitation and the risk of social polarization and even radicalization. However, they can also form important arenas for counter-publicity and legitimate social (…)

The network is a DFG-funded association of a total of 18 renowned communication researchers working in the research field of CCS. The DFG will fund the network for three years from December 2021 with a total of around 120,000 euros. A total of 7 network meetings are planned, to some of which other researchers will (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf & Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter Funding institution: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research The joint project IMPACT promotes the improvement of higher education through the scalable use of artificial intelligence (AI) methods for the (partially) automated analysis of texts. The fundamental aim of the project is (…)

The AMBITION project is a scientific pilot study on the news and media usage behavior of Fridays for Future supporters. The project examines the role of media and news offerings and the motivations for political action. For example, the aim is to find out whether and in what form news is used, whether this news (…)

Team: PD Dr. Rasmus Greiner, Tatiana Astafeva M.A. Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) Contact: film-history@uni-bremen.de The project aims to research German feature films from 1944/45 that were not completed or premiered until after the end of the Second World War. These approximately 60 defector films are of disproportionate importance for film theory and (film) history. (…)

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 to AI development, and the technology is the subject of (…)

Team: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Anna Jobin, Laura Liebig, Licina Güttel Partners: Medialab at Sciences Po, Paris, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methods (CIM) at the University of Warwick, and the NENIC Lab at INRS Montreal, as well as the Algorithmic Media Observatory at Concordia University Funding: Open Research Area (ORA) funding line from DFG, ANR, (…)

Funded by: German Research Association (DFG) Images not only present information differently from article texts, they are also perceived differently by recipients in sensory terms, processed differently in affective and cognitive terms and can therefore trigger specific effects. Although the use of images to convey political information has a long historical tradition and images are (…)