From 11-12 August 2026, the Association of Internet Researchers held a Flashpoint Symposium at Malmö University. The symposium, titled “Imagining and Co-creating Methods for Internet Research”, brought interdisciplinary scholars together to reflect on how, as technologies evolve, our relationship to the technological world changes, and so should our methods of studying it. The symposium invited attendees to question and challenge many of the dominant methodological approaches and to find ways to reimagine methods (…)
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 (…)
The latest issue of Aviso – the journal of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) – features a debate entitled “Communication science at a turning point? How AI is turning the academic world upside down” on the question of what the spread of AI means for communication and media studies. Two project managers from the “Communicative (…)
1. November 2025
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
ZeMKI, Center for Media, Communication and Information Research
University of Bremen