ComAI member Juliane Jarke featured on the podcast series “Confirm Humanity – Epochenbruch”
The current season of the podcast “Confirm Humanity – Epochenbruch”, produced by and released on Freies Radio Salzkammergut, is dedicated to key questions of digital transformation. Across five elaborately produced radio features, experts from different disciplines discuss the present-day epochal shift brought about by digitalization and explore how human interests, societal values, and democratic principles can be taken into account in this process.
A particular focus of the season lies on topics also addressed within the DFG research unit Communicative AI (ComAI): the role of algorithms and AI in societal negotiation processes, questions of social justice and democratic publics, as well as the impacts of digital technologies on work, education, and knowledge.
ComAI member Juliane Jarke (University of Graz) appeared as a guest in three of the five episodes. In the episodes on social justice, democracy, and education and work, she contributed perspectives from technology studies and discussed, among other things, how data practices, algorithmic systems, and AI applications are reshaping societal power relations, opportunities for participation, and learning processes.
The podcast series combines journalistic reportage, academic expertise, and societal reflection, thereby contributing to the public debate on a human-centered shaping of digital future(s).
All five episodes of “Confirm Humanity – Epochenbruch” are available here: https://cba.media/podcast/confirm-humanity-epochenbruch
14. January 2026
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
ZeMKI, Center for Media, Communication and Information Research
University of Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-67620
Assistent Mrs. Schober: +49 421 218-67603
E-mail: andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de
