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#ShortVideoEducation TikTok vs. YouTube: What Are the Differences Between Explanatory Videos on Both Platforms? On March 19, 2026, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf from the ZeMKI Lab for Media & Education presented at the #TikTokTalks (…)

For 2026, the ZeMKI Steering Committee has selected seven international visiting scholars as part of the Visiting Research Fellowship program. Each fellow will spend at least four weeks collaborating with selected ZeMKI Labs.

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.

ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf, Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger, and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will give presentations on September 25, 2025, at the ECREA Digital Games Research Section Symposium “Digital Worlds, Real Impact - The Evolving Role of Games in Society”.

The OpenQDA team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.3. OpenQDA has been enhanced with new features, which are now available.

ZeMKI members Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Christian Schwarzenegger and Karsten D. Wolf share their expertise on the influence of video games on education, values, political attitudes, and communication channels in an article published by RiffReporter.

Because of the Gamescom that is taking place in Cologne this year, Karsten Wolf explains how video games and game-based learning can be integrated into school and extracurricular educational contexts.

The Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen welcomes media and technology expert Joyojeet Pal as a Visiting Research Fellow in June 2025.

Lisanne Heilmann and Karsten D. Wolf from the Lab ‘Media & Education’ gave a talk on ‘Rubric-Based Explainable Feedback with AI-Assistance’ at this year’s University:Future Festival 2025 at the AI-Stage in Graz, Austria. In the (…)

The research focus “Digital Gaming” is collecting abstracts for our special issue on “Beyond Play” until May 31!

The 5th conference of the Qualitative Methods Network will take place in Cologne from May 7 to 9, 2025. The theme for 2025 is Digital Methods in Qualitative Social Research: Applications, Challenges, Reflections.

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.