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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.

ZeMKI member Dr. Dennis Redeker of the “Platform Governance, Media and Technology” Lab attended the United Nation’s Internet Governance Forum 2025 in Lillestrøm, Norway and presented research results and other outputs from research conducted at ZeMKI.

From May 26 to 30, 2025, the third edition of the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP) organized by the Digital Constitutionalism Network took place in Salerno, Italy. Entitled “Digital Constitutionalism and Digital Sovereignty: Navigating Power (…)

ZeMKI member Prof. Christian Katzenbach will give a lecture on “Responsibility and irresponsibility of digital platforms” on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at “Wissen um 11”, the science matinee at the Haus der Wissenschaften.

On June 3 and 4, leading international scholars will discuss key issues of technology and power at the conference “From Platform Governance to Generative AI” in Bremen. The final program is now released.

In recent weeks, proceedings and high fines against tech companies have caused a stir. In a press briefing, Professor Dr Christian Katzenbach sheds light on whether this points to stricter regulation.

ZeMKI member Dr. Rebecca Scharlach was recently elected to the Executive Committee (Open Seat) of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) for the 2025-2027 term.