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On Wednesday, July 1, 2026, ZeMKI member Dr. Rieke Böhling will participate in the “Research and Education” panel at Career Day as part of the Euroculture Intensive Program.

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.

ZeMKI has posted a job opening for a research assistant (Ph.D. candidate) for the research program of the Good Life and Media Society Lab headed by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Emilija Gagrčin.

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 member Dr. Philip Sinner recently appeared as a guest on a WDR segment hosted by Kevin Barth in connection with the World Cup. The segment focuses on how children provide commentary on soccer matches.

The special issue "Religion and Covid-19," edited by Gladys Ganiel, Solange Lefebvre, and Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, includes articles by Prof. Dr. Radde-Antweiler (Researching Religions in Societies Emerging from Covid-19: Introduction and Church Communication during COVID-19) and Dr. Amrei Sander (Religion in Times of Crisis: Religious Organizations and Groups in Germany and Their Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic), among others.

The Use of Communicative AI: Between Educational Opportunities and Risks for Learning Bremen, June 13, 2026 – At the University of Bremen’s Open Campus 2026, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf from the Lab Media & (…)

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.

Dr. Priyanka Pereira is a postdoctoral researcher in the Lab Media & Education and in the Lab Socio-Technical Systems and Critical Data Studies at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI). Since May 2026, she is working within the project “Tools or Masters? On the hidden curriculum of AI appropriation in schools”, together with Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf and Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Priyanka Pereira as a new member of ZeMKI and look forward to a fruitful collaboration!

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.

Rejections and failures are not the exception in academic publishing — they are a core part of the process. That was one of the key takeaways from a recent ZeMKI PhD Programme workshop on publication (…)