Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT)

Das Bild zeigt einen Aufsteller mit dem ZeMKI Logo und das Lab Team, 12 Personen, die darum herum stehen.

We are happy to share that @kasiapol.bsky.social, PhD student from @carletonsppa.bsky.social, is spending January 2026 as a visiting researcher at our lab. The visit builds on theoretical connections with @ckatzenbach.bsky.social‘s work on sociotechnical imaginaries.

Global creator culture? Converging values and generic practices in YouTube reviews Abstract. Social media facilitates new forms of cultural production from professionalized and commercialized users known as creators. While some have posit

💡Check out the new article “Global creator culture? Converging values and generic practices in YouTube reviews“ 🤳🏽 led by Blake Hallinan with the contribution of PGMT Postdoc Rebecca Scharlach. Out now #openaccess.

Read it here 👉 academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

📢 New publication!
Yishu Mao, Vanessa Richter and @ckatzenbach.bsky.social examine how corporate actors shape the future of #AIgovernance through “hedging” imaginaries across China 🇨🇳 Germany 🇩🇪 & the US 🇺🇸
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1177/2053...

#ResponsibleAI #TechImaginaries #Research

Congratulations to @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @redeker.bsky.social , @rscarlets.bsky.social , Luisa Runge and Kim Ermler 🙌🏼

PGMT members proudly represented ZeMKI at #PlatGovNet2025! With 3 panel chairs and 3 presentations across topics from AI governance to content moderation and social XR, our researchers helped shape vibrant discussions on the future of platform governance. Thanks to all who joined!

Yesterday’s we hosted a DSA40 Workshop with the attendance of experts LK Sailing and Julian Jaursch.
Outlining how strong institutional structures are for securing platform data access under the DSA and affirming how building teams is essential for ensuring researchers can exercise this right!

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💡 New Publication from the Shaping AI project now published in Big Data & Society. “On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation”🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

By @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , Anders Kristian Munk and @annajobin.bsky.social

Do you want to apply under DSA40?
PGMT and MMM are hosting a workshop on Nov 26 (15:00–18:00) to help researchers prepare stronger Article 40 applications.
Funding available for participants on a first-come, first-served basis.
Email viejoote@uni-bremen.de by Nov 18 for registration and details.

On the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation - Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach, Anders Kristian Munk, Anna Jobin, 2025 Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue o...

💡 New publication alert!
“On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now.
📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Join to see the continuation of the AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 conversations at #AoIR2025!
At today’s roundtable “Where Do We Go From Here? Part II – Lessons from the AoIR Flashpoint Symposium on AI & Platform Governance” to reflect on the future of platform and AI governance.

📘 New Publication: “Priorities and exclusions within Trust and Safety industry standards” - lead by @blakeplease.bsky.social, and in collaboration with our lab member @rscarlets.bsky.social.

👉 Read the full article #openaccess in New Media & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⏰ Call for Papers: The #PlatGovNet2025 conference is accepting submissions now!

Key info:

🗓️ The conference will take place on December 1–2, 2025.

📝 Abstracts (800–1,000 words) are due September 2

💯% free and online!

👉 Details and submission link here: platgov.net/conferences/...

📘 New Publication: “Negotiating AI(s) futures: competing imaginaries of AI by stakeholders in the US, China, and Germany” by Vanessa Richter, @ckatzenbach.bsky.social, and Jing Zeng, published in the @jscicom.bsky.social.

👉 Read the full article here: jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Our incredible #AoIR2025Symposium is almost over…

We are grateful for the opportunity to host so many brilliant scholars who share our passion for researching platform governance, content moderation, and generative AI.

Already looking forward to what comes next. Let’s keep the momentum going!

🥳 We're kicking off the #AoIR2025Symposium tonight in Bremen!

Thank you to everyone joining us for the next two days to critically explore the evolving landscape of platform and AI governance.

We look forward to lively discussions!

👉 platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

We are getting ready for you! #AoIR2025Symposium platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

🎉Next week, we will kick off our #AoIR2025Symposium in Bremen with a fantastic program and lineup, and we have almost reached capacity!

This is your last chance to secure one of the remaining seats: members.aoir.org/event-6113333

See you next week!

👉 platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

He is author of the widely cited 2010 essay, “The Politics of ‘Platforms’”, and his current work investigates how social media platforms and other algorithmic information systems shape public discourse.

Tarleton is co-founder of the blog Culture Digitally, co-editor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society (MIT, 2014), and author of Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media (Yale, 2018).

Tarleton Gillespie is a Senior Principal Researcher at @msftresearch.bsky.social New England and an affiliated Associate Professor at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. He is also author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT, 2007).

🔎 Finally, we are delighted to introduce Tarleton Gillespie as the final keynote speaker of our #AoIR2025Symposium Welcome Conversation, "Where Do We Stand, and How Did We Get Here?"

Welcome!

👉 Full conference program and registration (few seats remaining): platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

In her capacity as information law expert, Natali regularly advices the @ec.europa.eu, @europarl.europa.eu, @coe.int, OSCE, @unesco.org, and national governments, regulators and civil society organisations.

Natali co-founded the @aimediademlab.bsky.social and is a founder and Principal Investigator of the Research Priority Area Information and Communication in the DataSociety (ICDS). Her research focuses on how AI and ADS are changing democratic societies and the implications for law and governance.

Natali is Professor of Information Law and Digital Technology at the University of Amsterdam, with a special focus on AI. She is a board member at the @ivir-uva.bsky.social and one of the leaders of the Human (e) AI’ Research Priority Area.

🔎 Re-meet @natalihelberger.bsky.social, one of the keynote speakers in the "Where Do We Stand, and How Did We Get Here?" Welcome Conversation of our #AoIR2025Symposium.

Welcome Natali Helberger!

👉 Full conference program & registration (few seats remaining): platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

Sarah is author of Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP, 2019).

Informed by feminist STS perspectives, she is keenly interested in the way power, geopolitics and economics play out on and via the internet, reproducing global inequities and social injustice.

She is the faculty director and co-founder of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2), co-director of the Minderoo Initiative on Technology & Power, and a research associate of the @oii.ox.ac.uk‬.

Sarah T. Roberts is a full professor at UCLA (Gender Studies, Information Studies, Labor Studies), specializing in Internet and social media policy, infrastructure, politics and culture, and the intersection of media, technology and society.

🔎 Amazing @ubiquity75.xyz will complete our #AoIR2025Symposium Concluding Plenary Panel, "Where Do We Go From Here?,” on Wednesday.

Welcome to Bremen Sarah T. Roberts!

👉 Full conference program and registration (few seats remaining): platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

Thomas is co-author of Platforms and Cultural Production (Polity, 2022) and The Platform Society (OUP, 2018). Finally, he is a member of the editorial board of Social Media + Society, Digital Journalism, Platforms & Society, Journal of Digital Social Research, and Communication and the Public.