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ZeMKI member Jan Rau holds a lecture on April 24, 2025 with the title “Digitale Turbulenzen: Challenges of a democratic society in times of (digital) upheaval” at the Digital Media Theme Days in Hamburg.

On April 21, 2025, De Gruyter published ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford's new book "Mytholudics - Games and Myth".

On April 28, ZeMKI member Patrick Zerrer will be part of the panel of “Ortswechsel”, a series of events that makes potential spaces in Braunschweig visible.

On April 22, Earth Day unites the world to raise awareness for the protection of our planet. At ZeMKI, researchers are investigating the crucial role that media and communication play in shaping how we understand and engage with climate change.

On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, David Gunkel will be a guest at ZeMKI for a panel discussion on “LLMs and the Death of the Author” from 10 am to 12 pm.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will hold a workshop at the working group “Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele” (Humanities and Digital Games) on April 17.

How can we research the digital future? ZeMKI member Professor Dr Andreas Hepp addresses this question in a new article published in the Berliner Journal für Soziologie.

PGMT Lab member Vasilisa Kuznetsova will be presenting at the upcoming Spring School "Media Climate Justice: Research, Skillsharing, Hacking", taking place in Bochum from 11 to 13 April. 

The journal 'Publizistik' has published a new article by Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann on the topic “Nostalgia for a better democracy? How right-wing German social media commentators (mis)remember the past”.

The next event in the ComAI Lecture series will take place on April 15. This time, Mike Schäfer from the University of Zurich will be a guest at the Bremen Press Club and talks on the topic “Science Communication and Artificial Intelligence: How AI is changing public communication about science”.

On April 9, 2025, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will hold a keynote presentation entitled “Mytholudics: Games and Myth” at the International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games at NOVA University Lisbon.

Christine Davidsson Sandal from Lund University visited ZeMKI as a guest researcher and met with Andreas Hepp whose publication “The Mediated Construction of Reality” served as one of the main theoretical inspirations for her doctoral dissertation.