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Dr. Miira Hill from the DCID Lab discussed the impact of social media on democracy with leading German researchers. The group is working on a consensus paper and stronger networking within the research field.

Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, head of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), was interviewed on DLF's @mediasres program about the reporting on the World Climate Summit in Belém.

In the context of the third anniversary of chatGPT, ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann explains how AI-driven bots threaten public communication.

In the article entitled “Three Years of ChatGPT: How Does AI Threaten Public Communication?”, which recently appeared in the University of Bremen's online magazine, ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann explains the risks of automated bots for democratic discourse.

Yuru Li from the DCID Lab gave a presentation entitled "The Multi-Modal Frames of Politicians' Personalization Strategies and Their Impact on Social Media Engagement" at the CeCoR research meeting in Amsterdam on November 20, 2025.

Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, head of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), gave a lecture as part of the Brownbag Seminar series organized by the Diginomics Research Group.

The 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) will take place from October 15 to 18, 2025, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ZeMKI will also be represented with numerous contributions under this year's theme, “Ruptures.”

This year's protest research conference, entitled “Protests and Social Movements between Innovation and Tradition,” will take place from October 1 to October 2, 2025, at the Forum am Domshof in Bremen. ZeMKI will be represented with numerous presentations.

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.

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 POLTRACK research project investigates how the use of digital information services affects political opinion formation.

On September 3 and 4, Dr. Patrick Zerrer and Paul Pressmann participate in the second BMFTR status conference of projects in Berlin. There, they present the latest findings from the INDI (“Informed by Influencers”) research project.