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In Cambridge, Christian will contribute to the CGHR research theme "Global Experiences of Algorithmic Governance," building on his long-standing work on how technologies both shape and are shaped by discourses and regulations.

As part of the event “Who Is Making Generative AI the ‘Inevitable’ Technology of the Future?”, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach will give a presentation in English on the social and political shaping of generative AI.

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.

Prof. Christian Katzenbach participated in the RAIN Film Festival in Barcelona. Organized by Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the international festival is dedicated to AI-generated cinema and a meeting point for research, creation and critical thinking and takes place from 14 to 17 June.

ZeMKI is taking part in the University of Bremen’s Open Campus 2026 today. Under the motto ‘Opening up worlds – sharing knowledge’, the university is offering insights into research, study programmes and academic projects on campus.

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.

As part of the Media Structures and Platform Governance seminar, on 26 May 2026, Prof. Tim R Samples (University of Georgia) joined us to introduce the Longitudinal Digital Terms Corpus (LDT Corpus), a comprehensive time series of 861 TOUs from 50 prominent digital platforms spanning 1999 to 2025.

Imane El Qochairi is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. She is part of the research project “Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in (…)

Chiara Spiniello is a postdoctoral researcher at ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen. Her research lies at the intersection of political science, comparative public law, and digital governance, with a (…)

 In April, ZeMKI launched a new international and transdisciplinary research initiative titled “Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action“ (AI PAN-AFRICANISM). The project is funded by VolkswagenStiftung in their ‘Change! Fellowship’ line (…)

Dr. Adio-Adet Dinika is a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and co-lead of the Data Workers’ Inquiry project. With extensive fieldwork experience across Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, and other African countries, Dr. (…)

ZeMKI members Dr. Dennis Redeker and Dr. Chiara Spiniello contributed to the 2nd Annual Conference of the Horizon Europe project REMIT (Reignite Multilateralism via Technology), held at Luiss Università di Roma in Rome on 15-16 (…)