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Michael Reiss from the Leibniz Institute for Media Research will give a lecture on the use of generative AI for research and as a source of information for users as part of the DCID Lab Colloquium on 15 January 2025 at 10:30 am.

Our Fellowship Program invites international researchers to Bremen for four weeks to deepen and connect their research in the transformation of media, communication, and information. We are looking for established scholars who want to enjoy the thriving interdisciplinary research environment at ZeMKI.

At ZeMKI, the DFG/FWF research unit “ComAI” on the automation of social communication, which was acquired jointly with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, the University of Graz and the University of Vienna, starts on January 1, 2025.

Another year is coming to an end and we would like to say 'thank you'!

Dr. Darian Harff from the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna will give a guest lecture on the political communication of influencers at the DCID Lab's colloquium on December 18, 2025.

The Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID) welcomes Daniel Whelan-Shamy from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, as a visiting researcher at ZeMKI. 

Cornelius Puschmann and Paul Pressmann will give a talk on "Images of Resistance: Exploring Folk Theories in User-Induced Collective Interventions against AI-generated Images on Facebook" at a DGPuK conference in Bremen.

Harvard's NiemanLab has featured research from the POLTRACK project by Cornelius Puschmann, Patrick Zerrer, Sebastien Stier and Helena Rauxloh on predictors of alternative news consumption in a recent newsletter.

A paper authored by Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Hendrik Meyer, and Prof. Dr. Michael Brüggemann is scheduled for presentation at the 2024 Association of Internet Researchers Conference (AoIR) in Sheffield on November 2, 2024. 

A research group involving ZeMKI members Prof. Cornelius Puschmann and Patrick Zerrer has been awarded the contract for a study by the Federal Network Agency on the systemic risks of platforms in the context of the Digital Service Act.

Numerous ZeMKI members will be presenting their research at the 10th conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).

Prof. Cornelius Puschmann from the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID) will give a lecture at the WIN Conference.