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“Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action” (AI PAN-AFRICANISM) is a four-year, transdisciplinary research project that aims to rethink the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa. While AI increasingly influences areas such as access to information, health, and digital public services, global rules are mostly determined by the U.S., the EU, and China. African countries often have little influence in this regard.

Based on our own needs regarding collaborative work, methodological expansion, fair data usage, and support for open research processes, ZeMKI has been developing OpenQDA since January 2023. You can use the software at https://openqda.org/ and (…)

The research focuses on the conceptual foundations and empirical exploration of digital resilience in the context of the ongoing, far-reaching mediatisation of everyday social life and the proliferation of artificial intelligence in particular.

Participating institutions: ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI), Hamburg Funding: Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) Facebook, X and TikTok promote radicalization and hate speech. Digital platforms and (…)

Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

The project Informed by Influencers (INDI) focusses on the way in which knowledge relevant to climate change is disseminated and consumed on social networks. The aim is to determine the proportion of social media posts (…)

The four-year EU Horizon Europe project REMIT (Reignite Multilateralism via Technology) creates policy-relevant knowledge on how technologies are governed globally. It further develops academic insights aimed to enable greater international cooperation on technology governance, specifically (…)

With the rise of participatory media over the past decades, a ‘new culture of learning’ (Gee 2008; Thomas and Brown 2011) has been described, in which people develop expertise in domains outside formal education, vocational (…)

Funding institution: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research The aim of We The (Social) Media (WTSM) is to understand how members of social movements use social networks. This is important because millions of (…)

Funding institution: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research Project duration: 2023-2026 Collaborative project for the utilization of STEM student laboratories for teacher training Student laboratories have proven to be enormously beneficial for motivation, (…)