Lab Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID)

Yuru Li presents project on AI parodies on TikTok at CVMR25 symposium 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...

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)

ICA Communication History Division Award for Cornelius Puschmann and Miira Hill Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Dr. Miira Hill from the DCID Lab receive the Communication History Division Top Paper Award of the ICA for their paper “Nostalgic for a Better Democracy? How German R...

@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”.
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Jan Rau at re:publica 2025: Digital platforms and democratic discourse Jan Rau, ZeMKI member, 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”  In hi...

@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.
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COMPTEXT 2025: Presentation by Yuru Li on AI videos on TikTok 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 Unive...

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.

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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.

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Patrick Zerrer im Panel der Veranstaltungsreihe „Ortswechsel“ Am 28.04.2025 ist ZeMKI-Mitglied Dr. Patrick Zerrer Teil des Pannels von "Ortswechsel", einer Veranstaltungsreihe, die Potenzialräume in Braunschweig sichtbar macht.

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.

Nostalgia and nationalism: right-wing discourses on democracy in social media The journal 'Publizistik' has published a new article by Mira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann on the topic “Nostalgia for a better democracy? How right-wing German social media commentators (mis)remember...

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”.

ZDF tv team interviewing Cornelius Puschmann from the INDI research project

ZDF tv team at the ZeMKI office

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INDI project at the center of new ZDFheute report The team of the research project “INDI - INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” was accompanied at work as part of a current ZDF report entitled “Influencer und der Klimawandel”.

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.

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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.

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„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.

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Das Forschungsprojekt wird vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) finanziert und läuft noch bis 2027.

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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

The M.A. Digital Media and Society (DMS) is an interdisciplinary programme at the University of Bremen focusing on the digitalisation and datafication of contemporary societies. This clip presents the programme and the University of Bremen. Have a seat in the front row… Apply by March 15! More inf M.A. Digital Media and Society – Have a Seat in the Front Row…

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Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann at workshop on AI in scientific research Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID-Lab will give a talk at the workshop “Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science” at TU Berlin. The event from April 2...

@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.

Paul Pressmann undertakes POLTRACK research stay in Brisbane, Australia ZeMKI 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 expa...

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 🦘

AI and Counter-Speech: Insights from the BIDT-LMU Workshop in Munich From February 10–12, Prof. Cornelius Puschmann and Yuru Li from the DCID Lab are participating in the BIDT-LMU Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Counter-Speech in Munich to discuss how AI ...

@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.

Elon Musk and X: Jan Rau as an expert on the extreme right at ‚Le Monde‘ DCID member Jan Rau is quoted as an expert on right-wing extremism on social media in an article in the French newspaper 'Le Monde' on the influence of far-right accounts on Elon Musk's perspective on...

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! 📸

News values in fake news: study on global differences published A new study by ZeMKI members Sami Nenno and Prof. Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab, published in “The International Journal of Press/Politics”, examines the variation of news values in fake news ...

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