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Election polls and their news coverage function as a form of chained gatekeeping, shaping voters’ perceptions of fellow citizens’ preferences. The recent proliferation of polling firms equipped with low-cost, novel methods has not only multiplied (…)

This paper examines the Transcontinental Race (TCR), a self-supported ultra-distance cycling event across Europe, as a site where surveillance, care, and recognition intersect in complex ways. Drawing on two autoethnographic reflections from the 2023 (TCRNo9) (…)

There are, as of course well known in the philosophy of communication, several conceptualisations of the phenomenon of communication throughout media and communications research. Examples include the intersubjective sharing of experience, or intersubjective sharing of (…)

This article explores how TikTok’s short video format facilitates a distinctive mode of religious instruction that simplifies Islamic norms into binary categories of “right” (ḥalāl) and “wrong” (ḥarām). Focusing on two case studies, I highlight (…)

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. (…)

In the field of communication and media research, the “public sphere” and its “structural change” have long been central themes, particularly in the development of communication within society and politics. However, this concept often suffers (…)

Research on text simplification is commonly motivated by the assumption that available text is too complex. So far, an empirical basis for this claim is missing. This paper provides a starting point for substantiating the (…)

Discover the forth episode of the ZeMKI-Podcast

Vít Šisler, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often (…)

Editors are Prof. Dr. Sigrid Kannengießer, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Krotz, Prof. Dr. Michaela Pfadenhauer and Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Wimmer and is published by Springer VS Verlag. The series focuses on an interdisciplinary examination of the (…)

General Editor: Rasmus Greiner, Tatiana Astefeva Managing Editors: Delia González de Reufels, Winfried Pauleit Language: English ISSN 2627-5848 Research in Film and History is a peer-reviewed OA journal edited and published by staff and postdoctoral researchers (…)

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 (…)