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On December 11, 2025, ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will give a lecture at the University of Bern on "RECOV-19: The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19". The Covid19 pandemic has revealed how diverse worldviews shape responses to crises.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will participate in a network meeting of the CARD project at the University of Würzburg from December 8th to 10th. How is religious agency changing in the age of digitalization and artificial intelligence? Researchers at the Universities of Bremen and Würzburg are addressing this question in the new DFG research network CARD. The interdisciplinary project is scheduled to run for three years.

The local information platform molo unveils version 5.0 of its app, which offers users a range of helpful new features.

On December 5, the workshop Towards Development of Mediatization Research IX will take place, with this year's theme being youth, sports, and media.

On December 4 and 5, 2025, the workshop “How quickly times change – Diagnosing the present and refiguring spaces” will take place at the Technical University of Berlin as part of the Collaborative Research Center 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces.”

On the occasion of ChatGPT's third anniversary, ZeMKI member Christian Katzenbach explains how AI can be controlled with a rule-based system.

Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, head of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), was interviewed on DLF's @mediasres program about the reporting on the World Climate Summit in Belém.

In the context of the third anniversary of chatGPT, ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann explains how AI-driven bots threaten public communication.

To mark the 20th anniversary of ZeMKI, the welcoming address by the Rector of the University of Bremen, Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther, and the four keynote speeches by Nick Couldry, Alenda Y. Chang, José van Dijck, and Christian Vaccari are available in full on YouTube.

On the occasion of ChatGPT's third anniversary, ZeMKI member Andreas Breiter explains what the spread of AI tools means for education.

The Network of German-Speaking Religious and Cultural Researchers in Times of Deep Mediatization (GeNet-ISMRC) is hosting an online lecture by Prof. Dr. Pauline Cheong (Arizona State University) on the topic of "Faithful Automation and dynamisms of innovation in leadership, communication and ethics" on December 2nd from 6-8 pm (online). Registrations can be sent to ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler.

On the occasion of ChatGPT's third anniversary, ZeMKI member Andreas Hepp shares his expertise on how the visions of pioneering communities have shaped ChatGPT's development and social positioning.