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The POLTRACK research project investigates how the use of digital information services affects political opinion formation.

On September 3 and 4, Dr. Patrick Zerrer and Paul Pressmann participate in the second BMFTR status conference of projects in Berlin. There, they present the latest findings from the INDI (“Informed by Influencers”) research project.

From August 25 to September 4, 2025, Dr. Lucía Cores-Sarría from Madrid will be visiting ZeMKI through the YUFE network in the Lab Digital Communication and Information Diversity.

ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann is quoted in a Tagesschau article published on August 31, 2025, as an expert on disinformation in the context of the refugee debate.

The International Journal of Communication is launching a Special Section on The Imaginative Landscape of AI: Visions, Positions, Conflicts. Submissions that empirically explore emerging imaginaries, ideological positions, and conflicts surrounding AI are invited.

DCID member Yuru Li will present a project on AI-generated political parodies on TikTok together with Xin Zhou (University of Jena) at the Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR25) symposium from 5 to 7 August 2025 at the University of Zurich. 

Philipp Kessling, advisory member of the DCID-Lab at ZeMKI, will present two posters at the 2025 International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) in Norrköping.

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.

Dr. Miira Hill and Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab receive the Communication History Division Top Paper Award of the ICA for their paper “Nostalgic for a Better Democracy? How German Right-Wing Social Media Commentators (Mis)remember the Past”.

Jan Rau, ZeMKI member, will give a lecture on 27 May 2025 at 7:15 pm at re:publica 2025 in Berlin on the topic “Beyond the anger machine: How digital platforms can promote democratic discourse” 

ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill from the DCID-Lab will give a lecture on the communicative construction of visibility and subjectivation under the socio-technical conditions of the digital at the University of Milan-Bicocca on May 8, 2025.

ZeMKI member Yuru Li presents her research “Delegitimizing through Pixels: A Computational Analysis of GenAl Political Videos and User Responses on TikTok” at the COMPTEXT 2025 conference at the University of Vienna on April 25, 2025.