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Duration: 2021 – 2025 Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach Partner: Institute for Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) & German Research Foundation (DFG) Artificial intelligence (…)

Post-Doc Project Much research in game studies has focused on game communities and their effects on people and society. But with this project I argue that we need a better theoretical grounding for how game (…)

Head: Dr. Dennis Redeker Funding: Swiss Federal Office at Communications (OFCOM) Social media platforms such as Facebook, X and TikTok are the “new governors” (Klonick) or “custodians” (Gillespie) of the Internet. The way in which (…)

Postdoc project Video game cultures are central parts of contemporary societies. In addition to economic interests, due to the economic significance of the video game industry, this also involves socio-cultural and political discourses. Video games (…)

The research and evaluation of long-term film-aesthetic educational processes Team: Dr. Bettina Henzler Funding: EU (Erasmus+) From 2022 to 2024, the University of Bremen has been a partner in the international film education project Le (…)

The research project deals with the multiple entanglements of gaming and constructions of national identity by linking two research perspectives that are often perceived as contrary to each other - media aesthetics and communication studies. Particular attention is paid to the question of the extent to which concepts of national identity not only formulate "the own", but also "the other" in contrast to it, in order to find out to what extent constructions of nation within games can possibly transmit or even consolidate social inequalities in times of profound mediatization.

Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter Funding institution: DFG – German Research Foundation The information infrastructure project (INF project) “Advancing the Global Welfare State Information System (WeSIS), eScience Services and Research Data Management” has four main (…)

The project researches the users of system-critical alternative media and their usage patterns over time. Alternative media critical of the system are strongly associated with the spread of misinformation, conspiracy myths and populist agitation and (…)

The AMBITION project is a scientific pilot study on the news and media usage behavior of Fridays for Future supporters. The project examines the role of media and news offerings and the motivations for political (…)

Team: PD Dr. Rasmus Greiner, Tatiana Astafeva M.A. Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) Contact: film-history@uni-bremen.de The project aims to research German feature films from 1944/45 that were not completed or premiered until after the end (…)

Partner: Institute for Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) & German Research Foundation (DFG) Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a key technology in today’s societies. Political (…)

Team: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Anna Jobin, Laura Liebig, Licina Güttel Partners: Medialab at Sciences Po, Paris, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methods (CIM) at the University of Warwick, and the NENIC Lab at INRS Montreal, (…)