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Prof. Dr. Sonja Utz (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien IWM & Eberhard Karls University Tübingen) Date: 14. January 2025 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract Language-based agents such as chatbots, voice assistants, and more recently, large language models, have become common tools for information retrieval. Assessing the quality of the information provided by these agents is crucial. This (…)

Recently, a new working paper by ComAI-members Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen together with Prof. em. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink entitled “The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective” was published. The publication addresses the concepts of “public sphere” and its “structural change” in communication and media research. It is (…)

How is social communication changing with the profound transformation of the digital media environment through communicative artificial intelligence? What consequences, risks, but also potentials are associated with the widespread use of this new technology in various social domains? The “Communicative AI” (ComAI) research group, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science (…)

The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), together with the Hamburg Leibniz Institute for Media Research and the universities of Graz and Vienna, has successfully applied to the German Research Foundation for a research unit. The topic: “Communicative Artificial Intelligence.” Nine research projects plus a coordination project will investigate the question of how (…)