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OpenQDA: open qualitative data analysis software
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 (…)
- 2025 – 2026
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf
Digital resilience as a cross-disciplinary skill: Empirical and conceptual perspectives on media use, journalism and AI
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.
- Dr. Leif Kramp
Prototypes of social cohesion
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 (…)
- 2025 – 2026
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
Pioneer Communities: Imagining ComAI and its possible futures (ComAI P1)
Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)
- 2025 – 2028
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
molo.news: Research Network Tests Bremen News App
Following a successful test operation in Bremen, researchers are investigating how the news and information app molo.news can be made available throughout Germany. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is providing 1.5 million euros of funding for the project.
- 2023 – 2026
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen , Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold
"You Are Your History": Family Memory and Identity on Genealogy Platforms
This project analyzes how genealogy platforms shape and change media practices related to memory. It combines a mapping of platforms and an analysis of affordances with research into the lived experiences of users.
- 2023 – 2027
- Dr. Rieke Böhling