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In the article entitled “Three Years of ChatGPT: How Does AI Threaten Public Communication?”, which recently appeared in the University of Bremen's online magazine, ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann explains the risks of automated bots for democratic discourse.

We are delighted to announce that former ZeMKI member Anne Schmitz successfully defended her dissertation “Journalistic Tools as ‘Boundary Objects’”, on 18 November 2025.

Yuru Li from the DCID Lab gave a presentation entitled "The Multi-Modal Frames of Politicians' Personalization Strategies and Their Impact on Social Media Engagement" at the CeCoR research meeting in Amsterdam on November 20, 2025.

ZeMKI member Sandra Kero recently published an article together with Dr. Josephine B. Schmitt (CAIS) entitled “Narrative, Creative – Immersive? The Immersive Potential of Right-Wing Extremist Communication on Social Media”.

At ZeMKI, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp leads the work package “Prototypes of Social Cohesion”, supported by Hendrik Kühn, who works as a research associate.

ZeMKI members Sandra Kero and Rieke Böhling will participate in the joint conference of the DGPuK specialist groups on media, public relations, gender, and visual communication from November 19 to 21.

Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, head of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), gave a lecture as part of the Brownbag Seminar series organized by the Diginomics Research Group.

In October 2025, the Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen will welcome Prof. Dr. Lissa Holloway-Attaway from the University of Skövde in Sweden as a visiting scholar.

In the "Science Goes Public" format, ZeMKI members Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Dr. Stephanie Geise, and Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger will speak about research in the field of gaming on November 13, 2025, at 8:30 p.m. The three ZeMKI professors will demonstrate why computer games are serious research subjects!

An article by Andreas Hepp entitled “Approaching digital futures: why media and communication research needs to move from a perspective of consequence to one of emergence” was recently published in the journal “Communication Theory".

The President of the University of Bremen, Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther, has appointed Prof. Dr. Anne Kaun from Södertörn University in Sweden to the ZeMKI Scientific Advisory Board for the current term of office.

In November 2025, the Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen will welcome Prof. Dr. Andrea L. Guzman from Northern Illinois University in the USA as a visiting research fellow.