ZeMKI-News (16)

The Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity participated in the 42nd Congress of the German Sociological Association “Transitions” (22–26 September 2025, University of Duisburg-Essen) by convening an ad-hoc group.

The 8th annual conference of the DGPuK Media Sports and Sports Communication expert group took place in Frankfurt am Main from September 17 to 19, 2025, under the theme of “Sustainability & Diversity in Sports Communication”.

What does it mean for education when AI becomes an integral part of learning and teaching processes? Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf present the (interim) results of their current projects on AI in education.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Section "Wissenssoziologie", Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp is participating in a panel discussion at the Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) today.

ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf, Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger, and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will give presentations on September 25, 2025, at the ECREA Digital Games Research Section Symposium “Digital Worlds, Real Impact - The Evolving Role of Games in Society”.

How is religious agency changing in the age of digitalization and artificial intelligence? Researchers at the Universities of Bremen and Würzburg are addressing this question in the new DFG research network CARD. The interdisciplinary project is scheduled to run for three years.

On September 22, 2025, the winter semester had already begun for international students at the University of Bremen and ZeMKI welcomes noumerous guests from all over the world.

The OpenQDA team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.3. OpenQDA has been enhanced with new features, which are now available.

ZeMKI member Delia González de Reufels was a guest on the COSMO podcast on September 21, 2025, discussing the topic “La Malinche – Strategin oder Verräterin Mexikos?”

The research project “Films by Yugoslav Women Filmmakers: Image, Sonic Icons, Lack of Digitization, and Gender,” led by ZeMKI member Dr. Vesi Vuković, sheds light on the mostly overlooked Yugoslav women filmmakers and other often neglected roles of women in film, such as editors and screenwriters.

The research team of Sabine Reich, Stephanie Geise, Anna Ricarda Luther, and Michael Linke will present their latest study at the Media Psychology section conference of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) 2025 in Duisburg.

On September 9 and 10, 2025, the annual meeting of the steering committee of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen took place at the Bildungsstätte Bredbeck (Osterholz-Scharmbeck).