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"Automating Communication in the Digital Society" - Special Issue with New Media & Society
Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach from the Lab for Platform Governance, Media and Technology has published a new special issue entitled “Automation in the Digital Society” together with Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold.
Dr. Miira Hill presents at the ESA 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association in Porto
On August 29, 2024, Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Luisa Runge and Christian Katzenbach at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) in Porto.
New blog post on the arrest of Pavel Durov and it's implications for platform regulation
Will the arrest of Telegram’s CEO in France have implications for platform regulation, in the EU and elsewhere? The arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO and owner, has sent shockwaves through Telegram’s user base and (…)
Call for applications for 8 doctoral positions at ZeMKI in the DFG Research Unit “Communicative AI” (FOR 5656)
The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period.
Dr. Daria Dergacheva at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference in September
ZeMKI member Dr. Daria Dergacheva will be presenting at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference “The Informational Influence of Autocracies Abroad” in Ljublyana, Slovenia, on September 23rd 2024.
New Article: „How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance“ by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach
An important publication from the Lab’s own Dr. Prof. Christian Katzenbach in collaboration with colleagues was published.
ZeMKI member Dr. Dennis Redeker gives lecture on platform regulation at the Haus der Wissenschaft
On 13 July 2024, Dr. Dennis Redeker, ZeMKI member and postdoc in the "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab" (Prof. Dr. Katzenbach), spoke about social media platforms and their regulation as part of the "Wissen um 11 (Knowledge at 11)" lecture series at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen.
ZeMKI member Dr. Viejo Otero presenting at the SMSociety conference in London, July 17th.
ZeMKI member Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero will be presenting at the Social Media and Society Conference (#SMSociety) in London on July 17th.
Dr. Viejo Otero will present her paper titled "'We do not marshal your feed': How AltTech platforms conceptualize safety".
New DFG Research Unit on the automation of societal communication
The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen, together with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in Hamburg and other research institutions in Graz and Vienna, has successfully acquired a Research Unit from the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the topic of "Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI)”.
Online Talk Series (11): Friederike Quint & Yannis Theocharis: 'Does the Community Understand the Community Guidelines?'
9. Juli 2024, 13:00 – 14:00 Uhr:
In the next edition of our online talk series "Behind the Scenes - Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research", Friederike Quint and Yannis Theocharis will talk about the role of community guidelines on social media platforms for users when evaluating potentially harmful content.
ZeMKI Member Dennis Redeker speaks at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance 2024
Dr. Dennis Redeker presented early results from the REMIT Horizon Europe research project at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) 2024.
Invitation to the Workshop 'The Playground: A Program on Taking Play Seriously in Digital Culture'
The Platform Governance Media and Technology Lab (PGMT), Radical Data and the cooperative kintsugi-lab cordinally invite to participate at a two day workshop.