Current research projects at ZeMKI
Current Research Projects
In the ZeMKI Labs research projects of various sorts are concurrently carried out. Projects are funded by the German Federal Ministery of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the European Union (EU) and various foundations.
Shaping 21st Century AI – Controversies and Closure in Media, Policy, and Research
Duration: 2021-2024
Lab "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology"
(Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach)
German Comedy after the Third Reich: Political Aesthetics and Entertainment in Transitional Films
Laufzeit: 2021-2024
Labs "Audio-visual Media and Historiography" and "Film, Media Art and Popular Culture"
(PD Dr. Rasmus Greiner)
Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: The Communicative Construction of AI in China, Germany and the US
Duration: 2021-2024
Lab "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology"
(Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach)
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All is data: The (gem-)lonely search for knowledge in a digitalized data world
Duration: 2020-2023
Lab "Information Management and Media Technology"
(Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter)
Platform Governance and Copyright (H2020)
Duration: 2020-2022
Lab "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology"
(Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach)
© Forschungsverbund Qualifica Digiltalis
Qualifica Digitalis
Duration: 2020-2022
Lab "Information Management and Media Technology"
(Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter)
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What Makes Social Media Content Harmful? A User-Centric Comparative Approach
Duration: 2020-2021
Lab "Computerbasierte Kommunikation und Demokratie"
(Prof. Dr. Yannis Theocharis)
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The Face in Film and Media Art as an Aesthetic Game with Identity and Critique of Security Systems
Duration: 2019-2022
Leader: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pauleit
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Digital Curation: Visual History of the Holocaust
Duration: 2019-2022
Lab "Film, Media Art and Popular Culture"
(Prof. Dr. Winfried Pauleit)
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Pioneer Journalism: The re-figuration of journalism’s organizational foundations
Duration: 2019-2022
Lab "Mediatization and Globalization"
(Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp)
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Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Incivility in Social Media Political Posts
Duration: 2019-2020
Lab "Computerbasierte Kommunikation und Demokratie"
(Prof. Dr. Yannis Theocharis)
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DATAFIED: DATA For and In EDucation. The construction of school in a datafied society
Duration: 2018-2021
Lab "Information Management and Media Technology"
(Dr. Juliane Jarke and Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter)
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Measurement of socio-political development dynamics and interstate linkages worldwide. Co-creation of the Global Welfare State Information System (WeSIS)
Duration: 2018-2021
Lab "Information Management and Media Technology"
(Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter)
Pioneer Communities: The quantified self and maker movement as collective actors of deep mediatization
Duration: 2018-2023
Lab "Mediatization and Globalization"
(Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp)
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Digital extracurricular learning and education-related practices of young people
Duration: 2018-2021
Labs "Media Education and Educational Media" and "Media Society and Digital Practices"
(Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf and Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold)
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Minorities and the media: The construction of religious identity in times of deep mediatization
Duration: 2018-2021
Lab "Media and Religion"
(Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler)
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"Tinder the city": Software-based scenarios against the crisis of publics in cities and surrounding areas
Duration: 2017-2020
Labs "Mediatization and Globalization" and "Information Management and Media Technology"
(Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp and Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter)
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Educational online support diagnostics for adult functional illiterates with job-related content
Duration: 2017-2020
Lab "Media Education and Educational Media"
(Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf)
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Audiovisual Histospheres: Experience and Reflection of Latin American Contemporary History in Fictional Film
Duration: 2017-2020
Labs "Audio-visual Media and Historiography" and "Film, Media Art and Popular Culture"
(Dr. Rasmus Greiner)
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Scientific Network: Communication Memory Studies: Principles, fields, and perspectives
Duration: 2017-2020
Lab "Media Society and Digital Practices"
(Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold)