Publication

A new study by Kim Lisa Ermler and her co-authors examines how German news media portray “trustworthy AI” and assign responsibility for it. The findings reveal tensions between challenging existing power asymmetries and legitimizing certain actors as providers of trustworthy technologies.

A new article co-authored by Prof. Christian Katzenbach and international colleagues has been published in AI & Society. Analyzing AI controversies across four countries between 2012 and 2022, the study reveals a major shift from "deep", situated AI frictions to "wide", abstract controversies surrounding Generative AI.

We are happy to share that our lab member, Rebecca Scharlach, was invited to write a commentary on the paper "The dark side of public values in algorithmic systems".

A new article by Luisa Runge, Christian Katzenbach, and Miira Hill has just been published in Feminist Media Studies. Examining TikTok’s community guidelines and corporate communication, the study reveals how the platform's progressive narratives of empowerment often clash with ambiguous policies that obscure the structural dimensions of sexism.

The new ZeMKI working paper by Prof. Dr. Lars de Wildt, entitled "Cultural Hegemony in Videogames (and the rise of China)" is now available.

New publication by Christian Katzenbach, Vasilisa Kuznetsova and Elizabeth Dubois on the development of election-related policies on major social media platforms and their changing responsibilities for democratic processes.

As part of the completed DFG-funded “Imaginaries of AI” project, the article “Who’s driving the AI hype in its formative phase? A longitudinal analysis of stakeholders in the US and German AI discourse on Twitter 2012–2021”, written by Dr. Vanessa Richter, Dr. Daria Dergacheva, Vasilisa Kuznetsova and Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, got published in AI and Society.

The new ZeMKI working paper by Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Carlos Gutiérrez-González, entitled “Restoring audiovisual products sustainably: innovative approaches to work with audiovisual archives” is now available. What is it about? The paper explores evolving definitions (…)

Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach co-authored a new article about the discursive order of AI, published in Big Data & Society.

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.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr Andreas Hepp, project manager of the ‘molo.news’ app, reported on the ad-free and data-saving news platform for local news in the Radio Eins podcast ‘Medienmagazin’ on 11 January 2025.

The research report presents the diverse research activities at ZeMKI since fall 2023 on 164 pages. For the first time, special attention is paid to a focus topic, which is presented on a total of 24 pages: this year communicative artificial intelligence, or ComAI for short.