Labs

This Lab investigates audio-visual media – particularly film and television – as historical sources and documents of the history of modernity. Central to this is the role of these media for memory and the construction (…)

The Datafication and Mediatization Lab deals with how societies change when they are increasingly saturated by digital media and their infrastructures. The lab focuses on the role digital data play in these globalized processes of (…)

Our digital information environment is complex: diverse, but also characterized by a lack of transparency, fake news and algorithms. The “Digital Communication and Information Diversity” (DCID) lab systematically examines how we use digital media and (…)

The Lab “Film, Media Art and Popular Culture” is concerned with visual and audio-visual media, their aesthetics and history as well as with their transformation in the context of digitalisation and globalisation. A particular research (…)

The Good Life and Media Society Lab (GLaMS) explores the role of media and communication in shaping what counts as a good life and for whom. The lab works on the premise that a good (…)

The lab “Media and Education” researches educational processes in a deeply mediatised society. Research focuses on (a) Actor-centred analysis of audiovisual educational spaces such as YouTube and TikTok, (b) the didactic and filmic analysis of (…)

The Media and Religion Lab is concerned with the interrelation between media and religions and their transformation. Thereby the perspective is a dual one: On the one hand side current as well as religious discourses (…)

Media emerge, change, and disappear – yet often in ways quite different from what their contemporaries expect. The lab investigates how media communication and its conditions change over long time spans and what these processes (…)

The Lab “Platform Governance, Media and Technology” examines the interactions between regulation, discourses and the development of technologies and business models. Digital platforms and new infrastructures, algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) and data are currently fundamentally (…)

The Lab “Political Communication and Innovative Methods” uses computer-based, process-accompanying and experimental research methods to investigate how visual and multimodal media messages affect political thought and action: How is political information in digitalised publics prepared (…)

The lab “Socio-Technical Systems and Critical Data Studies” explores reciprocal relations between digital technologies and social processes in organizations and communities (with a special focus on education). In the lab, we combine a deep understanding (…)