The prevalence of speech assistants taking orders, social bots influencing debates, and machines generating texts underscores the increasing sophistication of automated communication. Simultaneously, public discourse on these phenomena reflects the ongoing challenges associated with the automation of communication. It seems that the intricacies of today’s complex societies compel a reliance on automation to meet communication needs, while also generating additional issues for which automated communication appears to be the most plausible solution.
The “Communicative AI“ Research Unit, funded by the DFG and the FWF, is investigating in nine projects and one coordination project how societal communication changes when communicative AI becomes part of it. Top researchers from the fields of media and communication studies, informatics, sociology and law are involved. The research focuses on pioneer communities, the development of interfaces, the legal handling and governance of communicative AI, its role in journalism, in public (online) discourse, in everyday personal life through technological companions, in the health sector and in learning and teaching.
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 (…)
30. October 2024
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 (…)
1. September 2024
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 (…)
27. August 2024
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 (…)
4. July 2024
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
ZeMKI, Center for Media, Communication and Information Research
University of Bremen
Universität Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-67620
Sekretariat (Ms. Schmidt): +49 421 218-67606
E-mail: andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de
