ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

New "Communicative Figurations" Working Paper by ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow Dr. Simone Natale (Loughborough University) on artificial intelligence and voice assistants.

In 2020, twelve researchers from nine countries will visit the University of Bremen to join ZeMKI for four weeks as ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellows.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Yannis Theocharis cooperates with colleagues from the University of Liverpool, George Washington University and Loughborough University in a one-year project funded by Facebook.

The ZeMKI invites applications for paid 1-month Visiting Research Fellowships from excellent researchers in the field of media, communication, and information.

Special issue of the international online journal GAMEVIRONMENTS

ZeMKI member Prof Dr Andreas Hepp has written a new book on "Deep Mediatization" in which he takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and communications research: how digital media is changing society.

Once or twice a semester, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) of the University of Bremen invites personalities from media practice to discuss social issues relating to media change together with a ZeMKI member.

The focus of Stephan O. Görland's research will be on the question of the media repertoires of migrants in the UK compared to Germany. Stefanie Walter’s project deals with the recent climate protests such as Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion.

The presentation of the paper “Two models of curating the global spread of a pioneer community" takes place on December 12, 2019.

The presentation is entitled "Don’t bother me – out of sight, out of mind? Job entrants’ practices of mediating digital intimacies in friendships“ and takes place on December 10 as part of the conference "Digital Intimacies 5.0: Structures, Cultures, Power“.

ZeMKI-member Denise Fechner and Christian Pentzold (TU Chemnitz, former ZeMKI-member) have published an essay in the Journal 'Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies'

Maren Hartmann, Elizabeth Prommer, Karin Deckner und Stephan O. Görland (ZeMKI) publish new book in Springer Verlag.

Marion Brüggemann (ifib), Sabine Eder and Angela Tillmann published a new book in the book series "Schriften zur Medienpädagogik" by kopead Verlag.

The presentation is entitled „Religion, value systems and Esports? Thoughts on analytical approaches towards communication and negotiation of values, norms and meaning making processes within European Esports communities”

The workshop Towards development of mediatization research III is organized by the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication, University of Wrocław and Academia Europaea Wrocław Knowledge Hub and takes place on 15 November 2019.

The international conference takes places from 24. - 27. November 2019 at the House Of Science in Bremen.

The presentation is entitled “Communicative robots: Rethinking the entanglement of automated communication"

Prof. Dr. Hepp will give a presentation on November 1st at 10:30 AM in the panel "Theoretical and methodological approaches to mediatization I" which is entitled “Thinking media as a process: Deep mediatization, automation and communicative robots"

The fourteenths book in the Researching and Teaching Communication Book Series has been published. ZeMKI-member Leif Kramp has been one of the Co-Editors.

ZeMKI-member Erik Koenen has published his studies on Erich Everth im LIT Verlag.