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The latest issue of Aviso features a debate entitled “Communication science at a turning point?” on the question of what the spread of AI means for communication and media studies. Andreas Hepp from ZeMKI is participating in the debate.

In the autumn of 2025, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen welcomes Dr. Berber Hagedoorn as a Visiting Research Fellow.

The 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) will take place from October 15 to 18, 2025, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ZeMKI will also be represented with numerous contributions under this year's theme, “Ruptures.”

The 8th annual conference of the DGPuK Media Sports and Sports Communication expert group took place in Frankfurt am Main from September 17 to 19, 2025, under the theme of “Sustainability & Diversity in Sports Communication”.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Section "Wissenssoziologie", Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp is participating in a panel discussion at the Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) today.

On September 22, 2025, the winter semester had already begun for international students at the University of Bremen and ZeMKI welcomes noumerous guests from all over the world.

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.

The article by ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp entitled "Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneer communities", which appeared online in the Journal "New Media & Society" in 2024, is now also available in print.

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.

Titled “Expo in Osaka: Wooden Ring Instead of Crystal Ball”, Andreas Hepp examines the range of future scenarios presented at Expo 2025 – from AI-driven life narratives to grassroots sustainability initiatives in the German newspaper taz.

In the summer of 2025, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen welcomes Professor Eugenia Siapera as a Visiting Research Fellow.

At ZeMKI Dr. Philip Sinner represents the research project “CoKoMeV (Covid-19, Kommunikation, Medien und Vereine)”. Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, the overall study by Christof Seeger, Jörg-Uwe Nieland, Thomas Horky, Christiana Schallhorn, Daniel Nölleke und Philip Sinner, has been investigating how popular sports clubs in Germany and Austria have dealt with communication challenges.