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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.

In December 2024, the latest version of OpenQDA, an open source research infrastructure for qualitative data analysis, was presented at a workshop at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. A report on this has now been published by Roland Toth.

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'!

ZeMKI member Dr. Leif Kramp co-authored a monograph (in German language) on digital media use in times of wars, crises and AI.

The local info app molo is expanding: The BMBF-funded ZeMKI project is no longer limited to project locations, but can now be used throughout Germany as a platform for local information and events.

A new article on the media coverage of " Maker" and "Quantified Self" movements in the Covid-19 pandemic by Jeanette Asmuss and ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Julie Lüpkes and Anne Schmitz has been published in the journal "Communications".

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a talk entitled: "Datafication, Automation and Communicative AI: Broadening the Scope of Mediatization Research" at an online colloquium on December 6 at 3 pm.

The local information app "molo.news" now operates under the shortened name "molo" and has received a comprehensive update.

On September 18th, the OpenQDA-Team gave a presentation "The OpenQDA project: a software architecture for a sustainable open research software for collaborative qualitative data analysis" at the 25th DINI conference in Potsdam.

From September 18 to 20, the 7th annual conference of the DGPuK sdivision Media Sports and Sports Communication took place in Hamburg with strong participation from the ZeMKI.

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