Infrastructures
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
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
Sub-Project INF: Further Development of the Global Welfare State Information System (WeSIS), eScience Services and Research Data Management
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 (…)
- 2022 – 2025
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter
AMBITION - Activists’ MoBile InformaTION
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 (…)
- 2021 – 2024
- Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Patrick Zerrer, Philipp Krieter
UseNews
Project management: Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann The useNews dataset has been compiled to enable the study of online news engagement. It relies on the MediaCloud and CrowdTangle APIs as well as on data from the (…)
- 2020 – 2022
- Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
Platform Governance Archive (PGA)
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach Funding institution: University of Bremen The Platform Governance Archive (PGA) is a project to promote a critical examination of the way platforms organize and govern our communication and activities. (…)
- 2020
- Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach
Digital Constitutionalism Network Database
The database of the Digital Constitutionalism Network (DCN), a global interdisciplinary network of academics, consists of a regularly updated data set of so-called “Internet bills of rights” (IBRs). Digital constitutionalism describes the political process of (…)
- 2022
- Dr. Dennis Redecker
WeSIS
Measuring socio-political development dynamics and inter-state interdependencies worldwide. Co-creation of the Global Welfare State Information System TP A01 in the SFB 1342: Global Development Dynamics of Social Policy. Cooperation of ifib with the University of (…)
- 2018 – 2021
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter
DFG project "The sustainable provision of software for research on cross-media practices and digital traces"
The basic aim of this research project is to further develop the media diary software MeTag and the Q-Sort or free sorting software MeSort and, in doing so, to develop a model of good practice for the provision of research software in the field of media and communication.
- 2018 – 2024
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
"Tinder the city" – Software-based scenarios against the crisis of publics in cities and surrounding areas
The economic crisis of regional newspapers continues as local news apps have yet failed to establish themselves. Researchers and software developers of the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research and of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) are now trying to go a new, much more experimental way: In co-creation, together with future users, they developed an innovative mobile news- and information-app for young people in the city and its surrounding areas.
- 2017 – 2021
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter und Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen