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On January 15, 2026, FOCUS magazine published an article entitled "'So toxic': Illegal nude images flood Musk's chatbot", in which ZeMKI member Christian Katzenbach shares his expertise on the chatbot Grok, which creates critical and illegal X-content on command.

On December 17 and 18, 2025, the international conference “GenAI & Creative Practices: Past, Present, and Future” will take place at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and online via Zoom. ZeMKI will also be represented with several contributions.

On the occasion of ChatGPT's third anniversary, ZeMKI member Christian Katzenbach explains how AI can be controlled with a rule-based system.

In November 2025, the Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen will welcome Prof. Dr. Andrea L. Guzman from Northern Illinois University in the USA as a visiting research fellow.

Until December 1, 2025, abstracts can be submitted for the workshop on international relations in the digital age, which is being organized by ZeMKI and the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen, as well as the International Relations Section (IB Section) of the German Political Science Association (DVPW).

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.

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 International Journal of Communication is launching a Special Section on The Imaginative Landscape of AI: Visions, Positions, Conflicts. Submissions that empirically explore emerging imaginaries, ideological positions, and conflicts surrounding AI are invited.

How is the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) envisioned – and who shapes these visions? A new article by ZeMKI members Vanessa Richter and Christian Katzenbach investigates this question.

Congratulations to former ZeMKI member Laura Liebig, who recently successfully defended her dissertation entitled Power Dynamics in AI Discourse!

In the summer of 2025, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen welcomes Professor Eugenia Siapera as a Visiting Research Fellow.