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ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was interviewed by the Austrian public radio station FM4 on the topic of “Right-wing extremism and games culture”. The interview can be accessed here.

Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID-Lab will give a talk at the workshop “Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science” at TU Berlin. The event from April 2 to 4, 2025 is open to the public and free of charge.

Katharina Heitmann-Werner examines, using the approach of communicative configuration, how urban public spheres are constituted by civil society actors and analyzes their communication strategies and networks in local public spheres.

The research group “Communicative AI” (ComAI) was featured in a recent taz article. It explores the central question of our project: How does societal communication change when Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes part of it?

ZeMKI member Paul Pressmann has completed a one-month research stay at the DMRC (Digital Media Research Centre) of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, to further expand international cooperation within the POLTRACK project.

From over 150 applications, the steering committee of the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen selected five researchers who will work together with at least two ZeMKI labs in interdisciplinary research for four weeks each until the end of 2025.

ZeMKI member Stephanie Geise talks about how images can manipulate our thoughts, especially when it comes to political election campaigns, in the new part of the buten un binnen thematic week “Denken & Gedanken“ on February 27.

In the media talk, which took place on January 21 at the Bremen Press Club, Jens Radü, head of the German magazine DER SPIEGEL, shared, among other things, how editorial offices deal with the use of AI.

In the next session of the PGMT-Lab online talk series "Behind the Scenes - Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research", Tom Divon and Dr. Carolina Are will be guests on the topic of "Platform Gaslighting".

In an interview with the University of Bremen's online magazine, ZeMKI member Professor Dr. Stephanie Geise reports on how dangerous AI-generated images can be for democracy and what measures can ensure transparency and integrity.

With the involvement of the audience, one of the questions discussed at the media talk on “AI in journalism” on January 21 was: “Does artificial intelligence scare you?”.

In an interview with the University of Bremen's online magazine, ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann explains what consequences the abolition of moderation mechanisms on platforms such as X and Facebook could have for democracy.