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A new article by ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp has been published in taz – die tageszeitung. Titled “Expo in Osaka: Wooden Ring Instead of Crystal Ball”, the piece examines the range of future scenarios presented at Expo 2025 – from AI-driven life narratives to grassroots sustainability initiatives. The central question: What kinds of (…)

From June 25 to 27, 2025, Sara Skardelly and Leonie Winterpacht participated in the international Transforming Care Conference at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss transformations in care and caregiving in the face of social and technological change. In their presentation titled “Who cares? Contesting anticipations about (…)

As part of this year’s SENOvation Styria event, Sara Skardelly and Leonie Winterpacht presented initial insights from the ComAI sub-project “health: Caring through ComAI”, led by Juliane Jarke. The event took place on June 23, 2025, at the Medical Science City Graz and the Medical University of Graz, bringing together professionals and researchers from the (…)

The first European Conference on Critical EdTech Studies (ECCES) took place at the Zurich University of Teacher Education from June 18 to 20, 2025. The conference is dedicated to the critical examination of educational technologies from an interdisciplinary perspective. In their presentation “Rethinking Communicative AI in Higher Education through the framework of susceptibility to algorithmic (…)

As part of the newly released special issue “Refiguration or Transformation: The Reordering of the World Beyond Globalization” of the Berliner Journal für Soziologie, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (PI of ComAI project “Pioneer Communities”) has published an article. The piece, titled “Figurations of Digital Futures – or: Why We Need Media and Communication Research on (…)

In June 2025, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen, spokesperson of the research group Communicative AI) will address key questions on the transformation of public communication and the digital futures of communicative AI at two renowned events: 24 June 2025 – “AI meets humanities & social sciences” (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) In (…)

On June 13, 2025, as part of the International Communication Association (ICA) conference in Denver, a panel entitled “Critical Perspectives on Communicative AI and Society: Imaginaries, Data Infrastructures, Democracy, Silence and Automated Markets” took place. The panel provided a platform for leading scholars to discuss key challenges in dealing with communicative AI from a social (…)

What characterizes the “intellectual landscape” surrounding the development of artificial intelligence in California? ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp is currently conducting research as a visiting scholar at Stanford University on pioneer communities in Silicon Valley. Until October 20th, Andreas Hepp will work with the Silicon Valley Archives as part of his research stay and (…)

In early June 2025, the second internal workshop of the DFG/FWF Research Unit 5656 “Communicative AI” (ComAI) took place at the University of Bremen. The goal of the meeting was to sharpen shared perspectives on central theoretical and methodological challenges and to further structure the intensive exchange between the sub-projects. The focus was initially on (…)

On June 4, 2025, Annalena Mittlmeier (doctoral researcher) and Prof. Dr. Michaela Pfadenhauer presented key perspectives from the ComAI sub-project “Everyday Life and Communicative AI Companionship” (P7) at a seminar hosted by the University of Bielefeld. Their presentation focused on the question of post-sociality in relation to communicative AI – particularly in the context of (…)

Three new recordings of the ComAI Lectures with Axel Bruns, Benedetta Brevini and Christian Greiffenhagen are now available in full length on the ZeMKI YouTube channel. The lecture with guest speaker Prof. Dr. Axel Bruns, entitled “AI as Research Assistant”, deals with the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for the analysis of media content, especially for controversial (…)

On June 3 and 4, leading international scholars will discuss key issues of technology and power at the conference “From Platform Governance to Generative AI” in Bremen. The final program is now released.AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 Date and Location: 3-4 June 2025, BremenHost: Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT);Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI);University of (…)