20th ZeMKI Anniversary: International Conference on "20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?"
ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research
The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) is one of nine central research units at the University of Bremen and is one of the important European institutions researching questions into media-related transformations at the interface of the cultural, social, and technical sciences. Our research focuses on the emerging digital society in terms of the inequalities it generates while probing the historicity of their genesis and the challenges posed by algorithmic systems, automation, and the burgeoning datafied society.
News

New ZeMKI Working Paper: "Uncertain Election Polls, Uncertain News Coverage: Two-Sided Heterogeneity in News Outlet–Pollster Relations"
6. October 2025

New Research Colloquia in the Winter Semester 25/26
2. October 2025

ZeMKI at the annual protest research conference
1. October 2025

Domradio report on current research project on religion and artificial intelligence
30. September 2025

Ad-hoc Group at the DGS Congress 2025
29. September 2025

ZeMKI members at the 8th Annual Conference of the DGPuK Media Sports and Sports Communication Expert Group
26. September 2025

Andreas Breiter and Karsten D. Wolf on AI in education
26. September 2025

Andreas Hepp discusses the role of sociology of knowledge at the DGS Congress
25. September 2025
The labs
Selected reasearch projects


- Active
OpenQDA: open qualitative data analysis software
- Duration: 2023 – 2025
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf

- Active
Communicative Figurations of Informal Learning in Digital Gaming (CoFi ILDG)
- Duration: 2017
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf

- Active
molo.news: Research Network Tests Bremen News App
- Duration: 2023 – 2026
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen , Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold