Projects
Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action (AI PAN-AFRICANISM)
“Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action” (AI PAN-AFRICANISM) is a four-year, transdisciplinary research project that aims to rethink the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa. While AI increasingly influences areas such as access to information, health, and digital public services, global rules are mostly determined by the U.S., the EU, and China. African countries often have little influence in this regard.
- 2026 – 2030
- Dr. Dennis Redeker
Generative AI & the Creator Economy at the Margins
Project Overview Social media platforms and the creator economy have become highly influential in the dissemination of information and in politics. The current use of generative AI, coupled with political developments in the U.S., will (…)
- 2026 – 2029
- Dr. Vanessa Richter
CARD (Conceptualizing Agency, Religion and Digitalization)
Since the coronavirus pandemic, religious services have been regularly broadcast online. Religious communities have been using social media for communication for many years. And the first robots are already being used in religious contexts. AI (…)
- 2025 – 2028
- Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Ilona Nord (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
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
Governance: Private ordering of ComAI through corporate communication and policies (ComAI P4)
The sub-project of the research group 'Communicative AI' (ComAI) examines how tech corporations establish rules for their products and how societal actors can exert influence on them.
- 2025 – 2028
- Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach
Political discourse: ComAI and deliberative quality (ComAI P6)
Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)
- 2025 – 2028
- Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Dr. Gregor Wiedemann
Education: ComAI for learning and teaching (ComAI P9)
Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)
- 2025 – 2028
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter
ComAI Research Space (ComAI coordination project)
Coordination project of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)
- 2025 – 2028
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Dr. Gregor Wiedemann
Reignite Multilateralism via Technology (REMIT)
The four-year EU Horizon Europe project REMIT (Reignite Multilateralism via Technology) creates policy-relevant knowledge on how technologies are governed globally. It further develops academic insights aimed to enable greater international cooperation on technology governance, specifically (…)
- 2023 – 2027
- Dr. Dennis Redeker
INDI - INFORMED BY INFLUENCERS
The project Informed by Influencers (INDI) focusses on the way in which knowledge relevant to climate change is disseminated and consumed on social networks. The aim is to determine the proportion of social media posts (…)
- 2024 – 2027
- Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
"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
Value-driven Governance
Funded by: Zentrale Forschungsförderung (ZF), Universität Bremen Project Overview My postdoctoral project “Value-driven Governance: European approaches to AI regulation” examines how values and ideologies shape the governance of AI systems in the European Union. Over (…)
- 2024 – 2027
- Dr. Rebecca Scharlach