Datum: 18. June 2026 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract This presentation examines worker-led AI governance, understood as the collective ability of workers, through unions, cooperatives, grassroots collectives, and social movements, to shape how AI is used, managed, deployed, negotiated, or refused at work. Grounded in ongoing empirical research with cultural workers across the Americas, the (…)

Date: 26. Mai 2026 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract One of the paradoxes of AI is that it is a global phenomenon, but at the same time, it is always situated in specific, local contexts and cultures. While approaches that aim to study local cultures of AI are important, there is the risk of neglecting (…)

Date: 7. April 2026 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Bio Axel Bruns is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. His books include Are Filter Bubbles Real? (2019) (…)

The 71st Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) takes place from March 18 to 20, 2026 at TU Dortmund University under the theme #Science #Communication #Democracy. Members of the research group „ComAI – Communicative AI“ contribute numerous presentations, bringing perspectives from the Research Space as well as subprojects P1, P4, P5, and P6 (…)

ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter and Paola Lopez publish their new work “The double edge of communicative AI: continuity and disruption in higher education”. What is it about? This paper examines how Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI), i.e., AI systems that automate communication, reshapes higher education. We advance “strategic temporal orientation” as a research attitude that (…)

Members of the ComAI subproject 3, Jonathan Nörz, Moritz Wiechert and Wolfgang Schulz, have published the blog post “Are we underestimating the communicative nature of the AI Act?”, which examines the EU’s AI legislation and argues that it introduces a distinct regulatory layer for communicative AI tools. The blog post discusses the regulation of AI-based (…)

Members of the ComAI subproject 3, Jonathan Nörz and Wolfgang Schulz, have published the blog post “Are we underestimating the communicative nature of the AI Act?”, which examines the EU’s AI legislation and argues that it introduces a distinct regulatory layer for communicative AI tools. The blog post discusses the regulation of AI-based communication systems (…)

On February 3, 2026, Andreas Breiter, Paula Goerke, Veronika Graceva, and Jule Jensen will present their hybrid-format lecture entitled “AI in Higher Education: Perspectives from Germany on Policies, Student Well-Being, and Datafication” at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) from 4 to 5 p.m. This presentation explores the current landscape of Al implementation (…)

The Leibniz Media Lecture by legal scholar Prof. Dr. Philipp Hacker, LL. M. (Yale), on January 28 was a double premiere: Not only was it the first Media Lecture organized by the ComAI research group, but it was also the first public event held in the new premises of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research (…)

A new article by ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp is being published as open access in a thematic issue of the International Journal of Communication (IJoC), edited by Christian Pentzold and Charlotte Knorr. The article, titled “Curating AI Into Being: Hacks/Hackers as Amplifiers of Journalism’s Digital Futures,” analyzes how the Hacks/Hackers network actively shapes the role of artificial (…)

As part of a workshop and an evening ComAI Lecture, media and communication scholar Mirca Madianou visited ZeMKI in Bremen. Across both formats, she presented and discussed key insights from her long-term research on digital technologies in humanitarian contexts, with a particular focus on power asymmetries, infrastructures, and the ethical implications of technological interventions. The (…)