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The 5th conference of the Qualitative Methods Network will take place in Cologne from May 7 to 9, 2025. The theme for 2025 is Digital Methods in Qualitative Social Research: Applications, Challenges, Reflections.

On May 7, 2025, Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. The lecture will explore the concept of digital futures and the research perspectives required to investigate them.

How can we research the digital future? ZeMKI member Professor Dr Andreas Hepp addresses this question in a new article published in the Berliner Journal für Soziologie.

ZeMKI member Dr. Rieke Böhling is publishing her dissertation on the question of how people with a 'migration background' remember the migration histories of their families.

Katharina Heitmann-Werner examines, using the approach of communicative configuration, how urban public spheres are constituted by civil society actors and analyzes their communication strategies and networks in local public spheres.

From over 150 applications, the steering committee of the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen selected five researchers who will work together with at least two ZeMKI labs in interdisciplinary research for four weeks each until the end of 2025.

We are excited to announce the release of OpenQDA 1.0! This major update brings numerous improvements that make working with OpenQDA even more intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable.

At the ZeMKI General Assembly on January 24, 2025, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (right) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler (left) were confirmed in office as ZeMKI spokespersons for a further two years. In addition, Sandra (…)

ZeMKI member Professor Dr. Andreas Hepp reports on the molo news platform on Deutschlandfunk's format @mediasres.

Horizont Editor Helena Birkner reports on the continuing success and development of the app 'molo'.

In one section of the new handbook on contexts of media reception, ZeMKI members Prof. Dr Andreas Hepp and Dr. Philip Sinner deal with the subject area of ‘Media reception, community and communitisation’.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr Andreas Hepp, project manager of the ‘molo.news’ app, reported on the ad-free and data-saving news platform for local news in the Radio Eins podcast ‘Medienmagazin’ on 11 January 2025.