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Prof. Dr. Radde-Antweiler: Research Fellow at UNC Greensboro
ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler is currently a Research Fellow at UNC Greensboro. Since last year, UNCG has established an E-Sports Center (https://esports.uncg.edu/), which offers study programs as well as research on the topic of digital (…)
Disinformation and AI-generated Fakes - will the Digital Services Act save the European Elections? Panel Discussion in Brussels with Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach
ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach travels to the Representation of the State of Lower Saxony to the European Union in Brussels. He is a speaker in a panel discussion on the role of platforms (…)
Contribution of DCID Lab to EASST-4S 2024
The Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), headed by Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, is contributing to the EASST-4S 2024 conference in Amsterdam. The theme of this year’s conference is “Making and Doing Transformations”. Miira (…)
New research article: Diversity in explanatory videos on YouTube
Verena Honkomp-Wilkens and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf from the ZeMKI Lab “Media & Education” have published a new open access article in the journal MedienPädagogik on “Diversity in explanatory videos on YouTube: Deconstruction or (…)
“Desinformationen und KI-generierte Fakes – rettet der Digital Services Act die Europawahl?” - Panel discussion in Brussels with lab member Prof. Dr Christian Katzenbach
Lab member Prof. Dr Christian Katzenbach will participate in a panel discussion on the role of platforms in the 2024 European elections in Brussels on 9 April 2024, starting at 6pm. The discussion will be held (…)
ZeMKI Member Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger as a Guest on the Podcast "Vergangenheitsformen"
As a guest in the HSozKult podcast “Vergangenheitsformen”, ZeMKI member Professor Christian Schwarzenegger talks to Claudia Prinz about “Memes und Geschichtskultur” and specifically his research on activism with historical memes and the significance of memes (…)
ZeMKI-Member Christian Katzenbach now Visiting Professor at LSE
ZeMKI-Member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach has started his position as visiting professor at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During his stay, until July 2024, Christian is working on topics ranging (…)
Lab member Daria Dergacheva will participate as a speaker in a panel discussion at the EMEA Summit 2024
Lab member Daria Dergacheva will participate as a speaker in a panel discussion at the EMEA Summit 2024, organised by the Trust & Safety Professionals Association (TSPA) on 17 May 2024 in Dublin. The (…)
ZeMKI members Dr Daria Dergacheva and Vasilisa Kuznetsova contributed to the Oxford 2024 Election Initiative by co-authoring the blogpost "2024 Russian Presidential Elections – How Digital Technologies Are Used to Wield Authoritarian Power"
ZeMKI members Dr Daria Dergacheva and Vasilisa Kuznetsova, together with other researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute, have published a blog post for the Oxford 2024 Election Initiative. Under the title “2024 Russian Presidential Elections (…)
Article by ZeMKI member Sami Nenno on the discourse about fake news in the Tagesspiegel
In a guest article in the Tagesspiegel, Sami Nenno, member of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity, sheds light on the scientific perspective on the reach of disinformation on the Internet.
Research Article "Learning Together with YouTube?" in "Computers in the School"
The Media & Education lab has published together with Christian Pentzold (Uni Leipzig) and Nina Altmaier (Uni Tübingen) a new article on collective learning practices in the journal „Computers in the School“: Although YouTube explanatory (…)
Lecture by ZeMKI Member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp at the Conference "Technisierung von Wissen" in Chemnitz
ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture entitled: “The Knowledge of Technologized Futures: Pioneering Communities, Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability” on 18.03.2024 at the conference “Technization of Knowledge” at Chemnitz University. The conference (…)