International Anniversary Conference "20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?"
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.
New article by Andreas Hepp in the Berliner Journal für Soziologie
How can we research the digital future? ZeMKI member Professor Dr Andreas Hepp addresses this question in a new article published in the Berliner Journal für Soziologie.
14. April 2025
ComAI Lecture with Mike Schäfer
The next event in the ComAI Lecture series will take place on April 15. This time, Mike Schäfer from the University of Zurich will be a guest at the Bremen Press Club and talks on the topic “Science Communication and Artificial Intelligence: How AI is changing public communication about science”.
9. April 2025
Keynote presentation by Dom Ford
On April 9, 2025, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will hold a keynote presentation entitled “Mytholudics: Games and Myth” at the International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games at NOVA University Lisbon.
9. April 2025
Christine Davidsson Sandal as guest researcher at ZeMKI
Christine Davidsson Sandal from Lund University visited ZeMKI as a guest researcher and met with Andreas Hepp whose publication “The Mediated Construction of Reality” served as one of the main theoretical inspirations for her doctoral dissertation.
8. April 2025
Session 18 of "Behind the Scenes" Online Talk Series with Simran Agarwal
In the next session of the PGMT-Lab online talk series “Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research”, Simran Agarwal will talk about “Examining the State-Platform Nexus in the Governance of Online News in India”.
7. April 2025
INDI project at the center of new ZDFheute report
The team of the research project “INDI - INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” was accompanied at work as part of a current ZDF report entitled “Influencer und der Klimawandel”.
2. April 2025
New Springer VS publication „Zukunft der Medien - Medien der Zukunft“
To mark the 20th anniversary of the series “Medien - Kultur - Kommunikation”, Springer VS has published the volume “Zukunft der Medien - Medien der Zukunft”
31. March 2025
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the UNCG-Conference "The Liminal Game"
ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the University of North Carolina on “Russian Invasion In Gamevironments And The Negotiation Of Values"
31. March 2025
Rasmus Greiner as a guest on the podcast “Moving Histories”
ZeMKI member Rasmus Greiner was a guest on the podcast “Moving Histories” and discussed the film “Godzilla Minus One” with the hosts.
28. March 2025
"Vermittelte Migrationserinnerungen: Medien, Generation und Familie" - book publication by Rieke Böhling
ZeMKI member Dr. Rieke Böhling is publishing her dissertation on the question of how people with a 'migration background' remember the migration histories of their families.
25. March 2025
New ZeMKI Working Paper: “German Version better”: Mimetic Normativity in TikTok Daʿwa
Recently a new ZeMKI working paper entitled “German Version better”: Mimetic Normativity in TikTok Daʿwa was published.
24. March 2025
New publication by Paloma Viejo Otero and Rebecca Scharlach
ZeMKI members Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero and Dr. Rebecca Scharlach published their new paper “‘We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re) conceptualise safety” in the Platforms & Society Journal. Find the link to the full article here.
21. March 2025
Kathrin Trattner: Guest at the arte_tv Gaming Stream on Civilization VII
ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was part of the format “Couchwissen” of the twitch channel of arte_tv on the topic Civilization VII.
21. March 2025
Call for Papers for the Journal gamevironments Special Issue 2026
ZeMKI members Prof Dr Kerstin-Radde Antweiler, Prof Dr Karsten D. Wolf and Prof Dr Christian Schwarzenegger are guest editors for the currently advertised special issue “Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Meditized Society” of the journal gamevironments.
19. March 2025
ZeMKI speakers at the 70th DGPuK Annual Conference in Berlin
The 70th annual conference of the DGPuK with the topic “Public spheres and their values” will take place from March 19-21, 2025 in Berlin. You can find out which ZeMKI members have been invited as speakers in the following article.
18. March 2025
Kathrin Trattner: Interview on radio station FM4
ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was interviewed by the Austrian public radio station FM4 on the topic of “Right-wing extremism and games culture”. The interview can be accessed here.
13. March 2025
Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann at workshop on AI in scientific research
Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID-Lab will give a talk at the workshop “Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science” at TU Berlin. The event from April 2 to 4, 2025 is open to the public and free of charge.
12. March 2025
Dissertation by Katharina Heitmann-Werner: Zivilgesellschaft und Stadtteilöffentlichkeit
Katharina Heitmann-Werner examines, using the approach of communicative configuration, how urban public spheres are constituted by civil society actors and analyzes their communication strategies and networks in local public spheres.
10. March 2025
ComAI featured in taz: Researching Societal Communication in the Age of AI
The research group “Communicative AI” (ComAI) was featured in a recent taz article. It explores the central question of our project: How does societal communication change when Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes part of it?
10. March 2025
Paul Pressmann undertakes POLTRACK research stay in Brisbane, Australia
ZeMKI member Paul Pressmann has completed a one-month research stay at the DMRC (Digital Media Research Centre) of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, to further expand international cooperation within the POLTRACK project.
9. March 2025
ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellows 2025
From over 150 applications, the steering committee of the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen selected five researchers who will work together with at least two ZeMKI labs in interdisciplinary research for four weeks each until the end of 2025.
2. March 2025
Stephanie Geise as a guest on buten un binnen's thematic week “Denken & Gedanken“
ZeMKI member Stephanie Geise talks about how images can manipulate our thoughts, especially when it comes to political election campaigns, in the new part of the buten un binnen thematic week “Denken & Gedanken“ on February 27.
28. February 2025
Review of media talk with Jens Radü: How do editorial offices deal with the use of AI?
In the media talk, which took place on January 21 at the Bremen Press Club, Jens Radü, head of the German magazine DER SPIEGEL, shared, among other things, how editorial offices deal with the use of AI.
26. February 2025
Session 17 of "Behind the Scenes" Online Talk Series with Tom Divon & Carolina Are
In the next session of the PGMT-Lab online talk series "Behind the Scenes - Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research", Tom Divon and Dr. Carolina Are will be guests on the topic of "Platform Gaslighting".
24. February 2025