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ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler has joined the advisory board of the Center for Critical Education on Antisemitism (CCEA). Since 2021, the CCEA has been conducting research and teaching within the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, focusing on how antisemitism is addressed in universities, schools, and non-formal educational settings.

ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler was involved in creating a dataset in which LLMs were tasked with answering a religious question from the perspective of one of twelve theological personas (six Christian and six Muslim).

On the afternoon of 8 July 2026, members of ZeMKI gathered at Linzer Straße 4 for the ZeMKI Research Day 2026. This internal event format provides a forum for presenting ongoing projects from the eleven ZeMKI Labs, discussing methodological issues and bringing together perspectives across the boundaries of the individual Labs.

On 8 July 2026, the ZeMKI Research Day at the Linzer Straße 4 site segued directly into the ZeMKI Summer Party. Following the day’s academic programme, the discussions moved outdoors and continued there in an informal setting.

This week the AI PAN-AFRICANISM consortium gathered in Bremen to kick-off a joint research and advocacy initiative on Pan-African AI governance.

In a recent article for the Medium Magazine, ZeMKI member Dr. Leif Kramp examines the international debate surrounding social media bans for children and adolescents. In it, he argues that the focus should be less on bans and more on promoting confident use of social media and online platforms in general. Efforts to strengthen digital resilience should target children, adolescents, and their parents and be promoted systematically and broadly.

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.

ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will give a presentation titled "EDUCATIONAL GAMES AS WAYS OF TEACHING ABOUT ANTISEMITISM" at the "Religion and (In)Equalities: European Academy of Religion Ninth Annual Conference" in Rome on June 30, 2026.

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

The Saturday edition of the Weser-Kurier on June 27 featured an essay by ZeMKI member Dr. Leif Kramp on the dominance of a handful of platform companies in digital media usage.

The IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) will take place from June 28 to July 2, 2026, at the University of Galway (Ireland). The theme of this year’s conference is “Peripheries and Connections: Media, Communication, and Transformation.” ZeMKI will be represented at the conference with several presentations.

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.