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Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach from the Lab for Platform Governance, Media and Technology has published a new special issue entitled “Automation in the Digital Society” together with Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold.

On August 29, 2024, Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Luisa Runge and Christian Katzenbach at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) in Porto.

Imke A.M. Meyer and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf gave a presentation entitled "Teaching Experience Design (TXD) Research: a case-study of the development of a classroom interaction environment in nursing education".

You can now registrate for the Beyond Play conference "The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society".

Recently, a new ZeMKI working paper entitled “The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective” was published.

Will the arrest of Telegram’s CEO in France have implications for platform regulation, in the EU and elsewhere?  The arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO and owner, has sent shockwaves through Telegram’s user base and (…)

Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Patrick Zerrer from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID), together with Dr. Sebastian Stier and Helena Rauxloh from the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, have published an article entitled “Politicized and Paranoid? Assessing Attitudinal Predictors of Alternative News Consumption” in the ‘Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media’.

The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period.

Sandra Kero has been a research assistant and PhD candidate in the lab "Media Change and Long-Term Transformation Processes" since July 2024

ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has published a new journal article in Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association vol. 6, no. 3.

The Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) took place in Montréal on August 9-11, 2024.

The Registration for the conference "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society"  has now started.