ZeMKI at ECREA 2026 in Brno

From September 8 to 11, the 11th Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) will take place in Brno (Czech Republic). The conference’s theme is “Paths, Connections, and Futures.” Numerous ZeMKI members will present their research.

Overview of presentations featuring our ZeMKI members:

Wednesday, September 9, 2026:

11:30 – 11:45 AM
K2 I 410
Island memories: Exploring the intersection of local and digital memory practices
Berber Hagedoorn & Rieke Böhling

11:45 – 12:00 AM
K2 I 200
Contesting Trust, delegating Truth, resolving Uncertainty? Communicative AI as an Epistemic Authority in democratic sense-Making and Public Debate
Christian Schwarzenegger

3:00 – 3:15 PM
FA I B2.44
Controversies and challenges in GenAI content moderation: Shifting rules in the emergence of a new governance regime
Kim Lisa Ermler

4:45 – 5:00 PM
FSS I Aula
Mapping mobile news pathways: Investigating cross-platform news exposure via mobile in-app tracking
Patrick Zerrer

5:30 – 5:45 PM
FA I B2.13
“Too far away?“ The subjective experience of distance in multimodal news reception
Stephanie Geise

Thursday, September 10, 2026:

09:30 – 09:45 AM
FSS I P31
Journalistic independence dies in acquisition? Ownership and editorial shift at The Washington Post after Jeff Bezos
Rahel Winter

11:45 – 12:00 AM
K2 I 257
The future is… military? How the German Bundeswehr normalizes military preparedness in the digital culture of everyday life
Sandra Kero

12:00 – 12:15 AM
FA I B2.44
Fostering unicorns: Institutional optimism in the EU digital agenda
Rebecca Scharlach

Friday, September 11, 2026:

09:30 – 09:45 AM
FSS I P22
Preempting, facilitating, and coping with polarization: Democratic resilience in contested energy transitions
Emilija Gagrcin

09:45 – 10:00 AM
K2 I 200
How media repertoires affect climate literacy. Information diversity and the epistemic function of deliberative systems
Cornelius Puschmann

2:15 – 2:30 PM
K2 I S137
The comfort of normality: Affective sense-making in alternative media repertoires
Katharina Schöppl

4:45 – 5:00 PM
FA I B2.24
Scrolling through the climate crisis: Longitudinal evidence on climate science information diets on TikTok
Paul Pressmann

Overview of the posters by our ZeMKI members:

P06 CDE The communicative construction of competing futures and contemporary practices of mobilisation
Sandra Kero

P07 CDE Look Who’s Talking! In/visibilities of impacted communities in news reporting on AI
Rahel Winter

P09 CLP ComAI Provider’s Governance of User-Chatbot Relationships
Kim Lisa Ermler

P11 DMM “This affects me, this hurts me!” News reception and social participation of Persons with migration background in Germany
Nieki Samar

P25 POL From reactive to proactive moderation: AI tools for political discourse on social media
Patrick Frey

P28 SCI Communicating climate in the digital platform society: Visual practices, new communicators and the rise of GenAI in science communication
Paul Pressmann