The ComAI research group (FOR 5656 »Communicative AI«) and the Knowledge Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS) warmly invite you to the interdisciplinary workshop “Von Gegenwartsanalysen zum Futuring. Methods for the Future-Oriented Generation of Practice and Knowledge”. The workshop will take place on 28 and 29 May 2026 at the Haus der Wissenschaft (…)

On May 5, 2026, Gabriela Molina León visited the ComAI Lecture series. A postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University (Denmark) working at the intersection of information visualization and human-computer interaction, she presented three projects on the role of generative AI in data visualization. The first, Hey Dashboard!, introduced DIANA (Dashboard Interactive Assistant for Navigation and Analysis), (…)

From 23–24 February 2026, Sara Skardelly from the subproject “Health: Caring through ComAI”, took part in “Anticipatory Infrastructures”, a two-day symposium held at Monash University in Melbourne. The event was hosted by the Emerging Technologies Lab (Monash University) and co-organised by the Academy of Mobility Humanities (Konkuk University). The symposium brought together social science, arts (…)

On Thursday, May 21, 2026, the ComAI research group’s Diversity & Gender Equality Working Group launches its new internal Lecture Series with a talk by Katharina Mosene (Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute). Under the title AI, Discrimination & Stereotypes, Mosene examines how communicative AI systems – particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) (…)

On 23rd April 2026, the Graz Sociodigital and Participatory Futures Studio (short: GraSP Futures Studio) was officially opened! This collaborative space for conducting participatory research with a range of social actors aims to imagine and co-create more inclusive and equitable sociodigital futures. It will build sustained engagements with local actors and residents, and in relation (…)

Our project P5  “Journalism: The Automation of News and Journalistic Autonomy” has been featured on the BredowCast, the academic podcast of the Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institute. Hosted by Kristina Kobrow, Prof. Dr Wiebke Loosen, Antonia Eichenauer and Jonah Wermter discuss findings from their first year of research.   At the heart of the project’s (…)

At the international conference “Creative Communication and Empowerment,” taking place on April 17. and 18. at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ZeMKI Head Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will deliver a keynote address on the topic of “quiet and loud futuring,” which is also the subject of his book on pioneering communities in relation to media technology (…)

Date: June 23, 2026 Time: 6:30 pm Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremen Press-Club Abstract This talk discusses how data donation infrastructures can be used to study political behaviour on social media platforms. It introduces data donation as a way to access user-centric traces of political information exposure and engagement that are otherwise difficult to obtain, and reflects on key (…)

As part of the ComAI Lectures series, communication and media scholar Axel Bruns visited the Bremer Presse-Club on April 7. Bruns, currently a Mercator Fellow at ZeMKI, presented a conceptual framework titled “Revisiting ‘the’ Public Sphere and its algorithmically shaped publics” that fundamentally challenges the classical Habermasian notion of a unified public sphere, replacing it (…)

Datum: 16. 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. May 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 (…)