@hill90210.bsky.social from the DCID Lab discussed the impact of social media on democracy with leading German researchers. The group is working on a consensus paper and stronger networking within the research field.

Im Kontext des 3. Jahrestages von chatGPT, erklärt ZeMKI-Mitglied Cornelius Puschmann, wie KI-gesteuerte Bots die öffentliche Kommunikation bedrohen. zemki.uni-bremen.de/cornelius-pu...

Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, Leiter das Lab für Digitale Kommunikation und Informationsvielfalt (DCID), wurde im DLF-Format @mediasres zur Berichterstattung über den Weltklimagipfel in Belém interviewt. zemki.uni-bremen.de/cornelius-pu...

Yuru Li vom DCID-Lab hat am 20. November 2025 beim CeCoR-Forschungstreffen in Amsterdam einen Vortrag mit dem Titel „The Multi-Modal Frames of Politicians’ Personalization Strategies and Their Impact on Social Media Engagement” gehalten. zemki.uni-bremen.de/vortrag-von-...

On November 10, 2025, the research group Communicative AI (ComAI) held its quarterly meeting at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen. More information can be found here: comai.space/en/exchange-...

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Lab-head @cbpuschmann.bsky.social gave a lecture on social media influencers as mediators of political information as part of the Diginomics Brownbag Seminar series, organized by the Diginomics Research Group from the Department of Economics at the University of Bremen.

DCID member Yuru Li will present a project on AI-generated political parodies on TikTok together with Xin Zhou (University of Jena) at the Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR25) symposium from 5 to 7 August 2025 at the University of Zurich.

@pekasen.bsky.social presents two research projects at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping, Sweden on Semantic Similarity Networks and Explorable Hierarchical Topic Modelling (🗓️ 22.07. 🕜 13:30 📍Atrium) and Telegram: Data Infrastructure for Researching Platform Dynamics. (🗓️ 23.07. 🕜 13:30 📍Atrium)

@cbpuschmann.bsky.social and @hill90210.bsky.social from the DCID Lab were awarded with the Communication History Division Top Paper Award at the ICA Conference 2025 🎉

Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann und Dr. Miira Hill vom DCID-Lab erhalten den Communication History Division Top Paper Award der ICA für ihr Paper „Nostalgic for a Better Democracy? How German Right-Wing Social Media Commentators (Mis)remember Liberal Values”. zemki.uni-bremen.de/ica-communic...

@thejanrau.bsky.social will give a lecture on 27 May 2025 at 7:15 pm at re:publica 2025 in Berlin on the topic “Beyond the anger machine: How digital platforms can promote democratic discourse”.

ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill from the DCID-Lab will give a lecture on the communicative construction of visibility and subjectivation under the socio-technical conditions of the digital at the University of Milan-Bicocca on May 8, 2025. zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/?p=7906

ZeMKI member Yuru Li presents her research “Delegitimizing through Pixels: A Computational Analysis of GenAl Political Videos and User Responses on TikTok” at the COMPTEXT 2025 conference at the University of Vienna @univie.ac.at today.

ZeMKI member @thejanrau.bsky.social holds a lecture on April 24, 2025 with the title “Digitale Turbulenzen: Challenges of a democratic society in times of (digital) upheaval” at the Digital Media Theme Days in Hamburg. zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/talk-digi...

Am 28.04.2025 ist ZeMKI-Mitglied @pzerrer.bsky.social Teil des Pannels von „Ortswechsel“, einer Veranstaltungsreihe, die Potenzialräume in Braunschweig sichtbar macht und den Austausch zwischen Interessierten, Kulturschaffenden, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Stadtgesellschaft und Verwaltung schafft.

The journal 'Publizistik' has published a new article by Miira Hill @hill90210.bsky.social and Cornelius Puschmann @cbpuschmann.bsky.social on the topic “Nostalgia for a better democracy? How right-wing German social media commentators (mis)remember the past”.

The team of the research project “INDI – INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” was accompanied at work as part of a current @zdfde.bsky.social report entitled “Influencer und der Klimawandel”

Die ZeMKI-Mitglieder Cornelius Puschmann, Paul Pressmann und Patrick Zerrer möchten mit INDI u. a. das gesellschaftliche Verständnis und die Möglichkeiten von Social Media Plattformen bei der Vermittlung von Wissen, Ideen und Informationen in den Vordergrund heben. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...

INDI möchte unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann ein Bewusstsein dafür schaffen, wie soziale Medien als Plattform für Wissensvermittlung dienen, und gleichzeitig herausfinden, in welchem Umfang Nutzer*innen regelmäßig wissenschaftliche Inhalte konsumieren. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...

„INDI - INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” erforscht unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann die Art und Weise, wie klimawandelrelevantes Wissen auf sozialen Netzwerken verbreitet und konsumiert wird. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...

Das Forschungsprojekt wird vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) finanziert und läuft noch bis 2027. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...

The DCID-Lab will be represented at the 70th Annual Conference of the DGPuK “Values” from March 19 to 21 in Berlin with five contributions by @cbpuschmann.bsky.social, @pzerrer.bsky.social, @thejanrau.bsky.social and @pekasen.bsky.social

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@Hill90210.bsky.social and @cbpuschmann.bsky.social from the DCID Lab give a lecture at the workshop „Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science“ at the @tuberlin.bsky.social. The event from 2nd to 4th April 2025 is public and free.

ZeMKI & DCID member Paul Pressmann has completed a one-month research stay at the DMRC (Digital Media Research Centre) of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, to further expand international cooperation within the POLTRACK project 🦘

@cbpuschmann.bsky.social and Yuru Li from DCID Lab discuss how AI is shaping online discourse at the @bidt.bsky.social & LMU Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Counter-Speech in Munich from 10-12 February.

DCID member @thejanrau.bsky.social is quoted as an expert on right-wing extremism on social media in an article in the French newspaper ‘Le Monde’ @lemonde.fr on the influence of far-right accounts on Elon Musk’s perspective on Europe.

🎉 Erstes Treffen der Bremer ComAI-Gruppe! Gestern haben wir uns kennengelernt, Ideen ausgetauscht und gemeinsam Pläne für die Arbeit am Research Space geschmiedet. Ein Gruppenfoto durfte natürlich nicht fehlen! 📸

A new article by @saminenno.bsky.social & @cbpuschmann.bsky.social: “All The (Fake) News That’s Fit to Share? News Values in Perceived Misinformation across Twenty-Four Countries” in The International Journal of Press/Politics studies the variation of news values in fake news in non-WEIRD countries