Platform Governance, Media, and Technology
The Lab "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology" examines the interactions between regulation, discourses and the development of technologies and business models. Digital platforms and new infrastructures, algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) and data are currently fundamentally (re)organising communication, the public sphere and society. At the same time, these media, their technologies and economic structures are themselves (still) in a process of formation that is shaped by governance, regulation and public debate. How should platforms like Facebook and YouTube deal with disinformation campaigns and hate speech? What challenges does the increasing use of automation and AI bring? And how do public debates and perceptions of problems in turn impact back on regulation and technology development?
We explore these questions with a focus on three areas of work:
(1) Platform Governance and Economics;
(2) Institutionalisation of AI - Regulation, Discourses, Technology;
(3) Automation Regulation and Communication.
In several large international third-party funded projects on these topics, funded by the DFG, the EU's H2020 framework programme, the BMBF, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB), we collaborate with partners in France, UK, Canada, Switzerland, and Italy. In empirical studies, the Lab integrates computational methods and qualitative approaches. We attach great importance to the development of open data infrastructures (Platform Governance Archive), especially in the notoriously non-transparent research field of platform governance.
Christian Katzenbach
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: LINZ6 60120
Phone: +49(0) 421 218 676 29
Equality, Platform Governance and Wellbeing
Duration: 2022-2025
Lab "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology"
(Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach)
Platform Governance Survey 2022: A Global Study of Public Attitudes Towards Content Moderation
Duration: 2022-2023
Lab "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology"
Principal Investigator: Dr. Dennis Redeker
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)
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)
Platform Governance and Copyright (H2020)
Duration: 2020-2022
Lab "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology"
(Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach)
Daria Dergacheva
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: LINZ4 40240
Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 67627
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Vasilisa Kuznetsova
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: LINZ6 60010
Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 xxx
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Laura Liebig
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: LINZ6 60010
Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 676 57
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Vanessa Richter
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: LINZ6 60010
Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 676 55
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Dennis Redeker
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: LINZ4 41290
Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 676 37
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Paloma Viejo Otero
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: LINZ4 40240
Phone: +49(0)421-218-67656
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