Projects (2)
Island Memories: An Investigation of Local and Digital Memory Practices
Funded by: Impuls Forschung of the Hanse University Alliance Due to their dual identity as places of local cultural narratives and places of personal and collective memories, islands offer a unique context for the formation (…)
- 2025 – 2026
- Dr. Berber Hagedoorn (University of Groningen), Dr. Rieke Böhling
We The (Social) Media: Social Media by and for social Movements
Funding institution: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research The aim of We The (Social) Media (WTSM) is to understand how members of social movements use social networks. This is important because millions of (…)
- 2023 – 2026
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter
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
Community Formation in Digital Games
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 (…)
- 2023 – 2026
- Dr. Dom Ford
MINT-Digital-Labs
Funding institution: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research Project duration: 2023-2026 Collaborative project for the utilization of STEM student laboratories for teacher training Student laboratories have proven to be enormously beneficial for motivation, (…)
- 2023 – 2026
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter
Prototypes of social cohesion
Participating institutions: ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI), Hamburg Funding: Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) Facebook, X and TikTok promote radicalization and hate speech. Digital platforms and (…)
- 2025 – 2026
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
ReCov19 - The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19
German Team: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Dr. Hannah Grünenthal International Team: Dr. Gladys Ganiel (Queen’s University Belfast), Prof. Dr. Solange Lefebvre (University of Montréal), Prof. Dr. Slawomir Mandes (University of Warsaw), Dr. Caoimhe Ni Dhonaill (…)
- 2022 – 2026
- Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
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
Political Polarization and individualized online Information Environments: A longitudinal Tracking Study (POLTRACK)
Project management: Dr. Lisa Merten, Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, Prof. Sebastian Stier and Prof. Katrin Weller Project collaboration: Helena Rauxloh Funding: Leibniz Association The online information environment offers citizens a wealth of news and other content (…)
- 2022 – 2025
- Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: The Communicative Construction of AI in China, Germany and the US
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 (…)
- 2021 – 2025
- Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach
Project IMPACT
Project management: Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf & Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter Funding institution: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research The joint project IMPACT promotes the improvement of higher education through the scalable (…)
- 2021 – 2025
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf
Remixing Political News Reception
Funded by: German Research Association (DFG) Images not only present information differently from article texts, they are also perceived differently by recipients in sensory terms, processed differently in affective and cognitive terms and can therefore (…)
- 2020 – 2025
- Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise