ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

"A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in Migrants' Search for Asylum" by Professor Sarah Bishop (2020 ZeMKI fellow) illuminates the harrowing reality of pursuing asylum in the United States.

In an interview with Felix Krömer, Andreas Hepp talks about the mechanisms of social media and the role of influencers. Their relevance and influence, among other things in political discourse, is critically questioned.

The chapter discusses the use of photo elicitation in qualitative interviews and is published in the book "Mediatisierung religiöser Kultur" (“Mediatization of Religious Culture”).

It is now also present on Twitter, Facebook and Discord.The Academy is interested in a critical discourse on video games and values.

Author Bärbel Röben presents the research project on pioneer journalism by project leaders Andreas Hepp, Leif Kramp, Hendrik Kühn and Wiebke Loosen, which investigates new strategies within the transformation process of journalism.

On Wednesday Irina Zakharova successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "UNDERSTANDING DATA STUDIES: A methodological and conceptual inquiry into research on datafication". The doctoral thesis was awarded "summa cum laude" by all reviewers.

Welcome to the ZeMKI! Daniel Moersener joins the ZeMKI in the Lab "Film, Media Art and Popular Culture".

The chapter addresses a future-oriented form of journalism, so-called "pioneer journalism". The change in journalistic organizations that accompanies innovation is contextualized and examined within the change in journalism as a whole.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp talks about the ideology of the so-called "pioneer communities" of Silicon Valley, digitalization and the common good.

Dr. Daria Dergacheva is tracing the history of Yandex, Russia’s search engine that evolved into one of the world’s best digital ecosystems.

The topic of the colloquium is "Biases in Digital Trace Data and Statistical Correction: Sample Selection and Measurement Error Models".

Head of the Lab is Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise. It uses computer-based, process-accompanying and experimental research methods to investigate how visual and multimodal media messages affect political thought and action.

The two-day event will take place from June 30 to July 01. The leaders of the network are the former ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold and Prof. Dr. Christine Lohmeier.

Kjiv-based Dr. Artem Zakharchenko will be a guest fellow at the ZeMKI from June 2022 to May 2023. Based at the “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology”, Dr. Zakharchenko will be researching on war communication and strategic narratives on social media in the context of the Russian invasion.

Prof Moore's research paper addresses the complexity in worker protections, when privacy and data law are weighted towards consumer, rather than working data subjects.

The lecture will take place on June 30 within the Southwest German Media Days in Landau.

On June 29, 2022, Benedikt Westphal will present his research results on the topic "Between news value and structural factors - Which aspects influence the implementation of constructive journalism in editorial offices" at the Galerie am schwarzen meer (Am Schwarzen Meer 121) at 5 pm.

The "Digital Diaspora Lab" of the interdisciplinary, humanities research initiative "World of Contradictions" invites you to the online lecture on June 27 at 6 pm.

The lecture will take place on 25.6.2022 in the framework of the conference "Histories of Digital Journalism 2022" at Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

The award is for her paper "Predictive Data Stories: Typology of a Nascent Data-Journalistic Genre," co-authored by Christian Pentzold, former ZeMKI member.