Research Reports

The year 2025 was marked by the 20th anniversary of ZeMKI. We are all very proud of our shared history, the many projects we have realized together, the successes, defeats, big celebrations, and small dramas. (…)

We are introducing a new feature with the 2023/24 research report: From now on, we want to cover a specific topic more comprehensively in each of the research reports, this year it is communicative AI. (…)

Browsing through the ZeMKI’s Research Report 22022/23, it is clear at first glance how much research into communicative AI has arrived at the ZeMKI: various projects on this topic are producing their first results in (…)

Time flies, now that a year is behind us in which we have moved from researching more less in an “online world” back into “co-presence”. Not only were there, again, many appearances at conferences, on-site (…)

Many say that 2020/21 was a year of many changes – driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. We do not want to claim that Corona had no consequences at ZeMKI, but . However, the truly game-changing (…)

Editorial The year 2019 was the first year that ZeMKI was recognized as a Central Research Unit (ZWE) of the University of Bremen. This makes us one of eight outstanding cross-departmental research units with a (…)

Editorial Sometimes, things happen faster than you think. 2018 was such a year for the ZeMKI. At the beginning of the year, our steering committee decided to submit an application to the Academic Senate (AS) (…)

We look back at a year in which various new research projects were started at ZeMKI. You can read about them in this report: Christine Lohmeier and Christian Pentzold founded the DFG-funded network for memory (…)

Editorial In the course of 2016, two major collaborative research projects involving the ZeMKI were successfully concluded: the priority programme “Mediatized Worlds” and the Creative Unit “Communicative Figurations”. The DFG-funded priority programme was established under (…)

Editorial For the ZeMKI, 2015 was a special year because it was characterized by the centre’s 10-year anniversary: Founded in 2005 under the name IMKI (Institute for Media, Communication and Information Research) and renamed in (…)

Editorial For media and communications researchers, 2014 was a special year. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) dedicated the Year of Science under the motto „The digital society“ (http://www.digital-ist.de); this has always been (…)

Editorial 2013 was a year of many activities and achievements for the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI). One of the main drivers for this development was the “Communicative figurations“ research group that (…)