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From September 8 to 11, the 11th Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) will take place in Brno (Czech Republic). The conference’s theme is “Paths, Connections, and Futures.” Numerous ZeMKI members will present their research.

On August 14, 2026, ZeMKI member Dr. Adio-Adet Dinika appeared as a guest on the 74th episode of Rebecca Mbaya’s interview series “The African Innovators Series.” The title of the interview is “Dr. Adio-Adet Dinika on the Labor AI Refuses to Name.”

The PGMT Lab welcomes EMILDAI master's students Mauricio Dal Pozzo Schneider and Nataly Garcia Alvarado for a summer research stay.

ZeMKI member Dr. Adio-Adet Dinika was a guest on Dr. Anita Nowak’s podcast “Purposeful Empathy,” discussing the topic “The Hidden Exploitation (and Trauma) Behind AI.”

The ECREA European Doctoral Summer School is currently taking place from August 3 to 9 at Södertörn University in Stockholm. ZeMKI member Prof. Christian Schwarzenegger is participating as a lecturer and discussant. In addition to providing feedback on several European dissertation projects, he is also offering a workshop on working with qualitative data. Patrick Frey and Luisa Runge are presenting their own dissertation projects and receiving feedback from international experts.

On the afternoon of 8 July 2026, members of ZeMKI gathered at Linzer Straße 4 for the ZeMKI Research Day 2026. This internal event format provides a forum for presenting ongoing projects from the eleven ZeMKI Labs, discussing methodological issues and bringing together perspectives across the boundaries of the individual Labs.

On 8 July 2026, the ZeMKI Research Day at the Linzer Straße 4 site segued directly into the ZeMKI Summer Party. Following the day’s academic programme, the discussions moved outdoors and continued there in an informal setting.

In Cambridge, Christian will contribute to the CGHR research theme "Global Experiences of Algorithmic Governance," building on his long-standing work on how technologies both shape and are shaped by discourses and regulations.

As part of the event “Who Is Making Generative AI the ‘Inevitable’ Technology of the Future?”, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach will give a presentation in English on the social and political shaping of generative AI.

ZeMKI is taking part in the University of Bremen’s Open Campus 2026 today. Under the motto ‘Opening up worlds – sharing knowledge’, the university is offering insights into research, study programmes and academic projects on campus.

Imane El Qochairi is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. She is part of the research project “Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in (…)

Chiara Spiniello is a postdoctoral researcher at ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen. Her research lies at the intersection of political science, comparative public law, and digital governance, with a (…)