ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

ZeMKI is currently developing “OpenQDA”, an open-source software for the qualitative coding of research data (interviews, observation protocols, etc.).

We warmly welcome our new ZeMKI member!

On 16/05/2024, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture online at 10:00 CET at the Institute for Global Communications & Integrated Media at Fudan University on the deep mediatization of the social world.  

Prof. Cornelius Puschmann from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID) is invited as an expert on social media data to the event "Navigating the Social Media Data Terrain: Roundtable on the Current Landscape of Social Media Data Availability" hosted by the SAMF Data Lab at the University of Copenhagen on 23 May 2024.

Katharina Schöppl has been working as a research assistant in the “Media Change and Long-Term Transformation Processes” lab since May 2024. We warmly welcome Katharina Schöppl and wish her a great start at the ZeMKI!

In late April 2024, ZeMKI and the University of Bremen, hosted their first-ever Erasmus+ “blended-intensive programme” (BIP). Around thirty students and half a dozen instructors from eight universities across Europe participated in a week-long workshop designed under the theme “Digital Constitutionalism and the UN Global Digital Compact”. This in-person phase of the blended-intensive format is flanked by (…)

The International conference ‘Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society’ will take place from September 30th to October 2nd 2024 at the University of Bremen, Germany. The conference is hosted by the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung; ZeMKI)

On 15/05/2024, the research colloquium by Prof. Dr Nicola Righetti on ‘Coordinated Behaviour on Social Media: Concepts and Tools’ will take place at the ZeMKI.

Hang Dao has been a research assistant and PhD fellow in the research area “Didactic Design of Multimedia Learning Environments” (Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf) at the University of Bremen and in the “Media and Education” lab at ZeMKI since April 2024. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Physics and English Studies and went on (…)

As part of the class Data Journalism with R in the winter term 2023-24, students in the media BA and MA programs have created a set of interactive web-based apps to visualize and make accessible a range of datasets on different socioeconomic issues. These apps are based on R shiny and make it possible to interrogate quantitative information in a variety of ways.

On Friday, 10/05/2024 Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a keynote speech at the “Mediatization Conference 5 - Mediatization versus Datafication Dialogue or Competition?”. The lecture on “Datafication, automation and communicative AI: Toward a redefinition of mediatization research” will take place from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m. hybrid in Lublin or online.

Prof. Cornelius Puschmann from the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Research (DCID) will present the research project "Informed by Influencers?" (INDI) at the networking meeting of the funding projects of the Science Communication Research funding guideline on 7 May 2024 at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Berlin.

On May 7th, ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill will give a lecture at the University of Passau on the topic of how commentators of the far right express their views on liberal values through social platforms. The talk offers insights into the intricate dynamics of political communication, especially concerning the misrepresentation of liberal values by (…)

As part of the international symposium "Indicators of Social Cohesion in Social Media and Online Media", organised by the Social Media Observatory (SMO), Prof. Cornelius Puschmann from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID) gave a lecture entitled "Watching the Greens? Predictors and Contingencies of Partisan Online Information Seeking".

On 15/05/2024 a presentation of the first results of the international research project “The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19” will take place online from 7 pm to 9 pm.

The Call for Paper for the 2nd ZeMKI Annual Conference from 30/09/2024 to 02/10/2024 at the University of Bremen is out now! Deadline for submissions: 15/06/2024.

In June 2020, the highly anticipated sequel to “The Last of Us” game was released. Within hours of its release, the game’s Metascore dropped to 3.3, while previous reviews from journalistic media had accumulated to a score of 95. What had happened? – The common reading of this “review-bombing” event is that players, unhappy with (…)

The Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), headed by Prof Cornelius Puschmann, is presenting three papers at the 10th European Communication Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in Ljubljana.

On 08/05/2024 the research colloquium of Dr. Matti Nelimarkka (University of Helsinki) will take place on the topic "Navigating the Visual Turn in Digital Media: 
Methodologies and Challenges for Visual Big Data".

Alex Krause joined the lab ‘Datafication and Mediatization’ at ZeMKI in April 2024 as a research assistant for the project ‘molo.news: validation of a relational platform for urban publicity’. Prior to this, he completed his B.A. (2019) and M.A. (2023) in Cultural Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His focus was on cultural change through the (…)

Prof. Dr. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, AUS) will be a guest in Bremen on 30 April 2024 and will give a lecture entitled “AI as Research Assistant: Upscaling Content Analysis to Identify Patterns of Polarization in the News”. The lecture will kick off the ComAI Lecture Series in the summer semester 2024. (…)

On 26 April 2024, ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner and the CoKoMeV team will give a presentation entitled “The communicative figuration of mediatized grassroot sports. Communicative strategies of Austrian and German sports clubs in response to the Covid-19 crisis”. The conference will take place from 25 to 27 April 2024 at TU Darmstadt. The conference (…)

Selim Başoğlu is a research associate and a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) since April 2024. Currently, he teaches introductory courses at the University of Bremen while also taking part in several research projects. In addition, he has been a guest researcher at the University of Oslo, Psychology (…)

ZeMKI member Dr. Anke Offerhaus was concordantly elected Dean of Academic Studies in Faculty 9. She now joins the dean’s office of Prof. Dr. Borchers and will continue her teaching activities in the ZeMKI degree programs as before. We congratulate Dr. Offerhaus on her election and wish her much joy and success in her new (…)