Andreas Hepp

Expo in Osaka: Holzring statt Glaskugel Die Länder auf der Weltausstellung in Japan zeigen sehr unterschiedliche Zukunftsvisionen. Warum sollten wir überhaupt so konkret darüber nachdenken?

📣 Warum brauchen wir kleine und große #Visionen 🌈 🤖 🌳 der #Zukunft? Welche Rolle kann #KI dabei spielen?

🗞️ In der aktuellen Wochenausgabe der @taz.de habe ich dazu einen Artikel anhand des Beispiels der #Expo in #Osaka, #Japan, geschrieben:

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This talk is tomorrow - on ‘The Future of Communicative AI: Why Societal Communication Matters and What This Means for Media and Communication Research’, #ComAI, #AI, #pioneercommunities, #Future: aimeetshss.acdh-ch-dev.oeaw.ac.at/conference/a...

In retrospect, this still says a lot about the imagination of technology and innovation.

Corona is now a little behind us, but it remains remarkable how members of pioneer communities such as the Maker movement were staged as ‘heroes’ during the pandemic and what fantasies existed about solving the problems of the pandemic with 'Do It Yourself'.

Solving the crisis with “do-it-yourself heroes”? The media coverage on pioneer communities, Covid-19, and technological solutionism Protective shields and medical devices produced in Makerspaces as well as the early detection of disease through self-measurement have been widely publicized in the media coverage of the Covid-19 pand...

I am very pleased that our article "Solving the crisis with 'do-it-yourself #heroes'? The media coverage on pioneer communities, #Covid-19, and technological #solutionism" is now also available in print: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Was sich gegen die Macht großer Online-Plattformen tun lässt | MDR.DE Online-Plattformen wie Instagram sind allgegenwärtig – und ihre Macht wächst stetig. Was lässt sich dagegen tun? Ein Gegenentwurf zu den großen Plattformen sind lokale soziale Medien.

molo war auf der @re-publica.com – und fällt gleich auf!

Wie beim MDR zu lesen ist: #rp25 ist ein Gegenentwurf zu großen sozialen Medien wie #Facebook, #Tiktok oder #X. Wer uns ausprobieren will: molo.news

Der Beitrag des MDR zur #rp25 findet sich hier: www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...

#ICA25 will still take place in Denver

BREAKING:
"Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029."
#ICA25

It was great to be able to give the presentation at Hitotsubashi University in #Tokyo. It's always great to learn more from colleagues about the different global perspectives on #SiliconValley and #pioneercommunities.

Am 7.5.2025 hält @ahepp.bsky.social
am Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) der Hitotsubashi University, Tokio, einen Vortrag zum Thema der digitalen Zukünfte und welcher Forschungsperspektive es bedarf, diese zu erforschen.
zemki.uni-bremen.de/forschungsau...

Figurationen digitaler Zukünfte – oder: Warum wir eine Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung der Emergenz brauchen - Berliner Journal für Soziologie The aim of this article is to contribute to a more systematic inclusion of digital futures—or, more precisely: various possible digital futures—in research on the refiguration of societies. A social-s...

Die Erforschung der digitalen Transformation fragt meist nach deren Folgen. Der Wandel ist aber schon im Gange, deshalb sei die Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung der Konsequenz um eine der Emergenz zu ergänzen, schreibt @ahepp.bsky.social im Berliner Journal.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Open Discussion with David Gunkel at ZeMKI On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, David Gunkel will be a guest at ZeMKI for a panel discussion on “LLMs and the Death of the Author” from 10 am to 12 pm.

On Tuesday (22 April) I will be at @unibremen.bsky.social for a panel discussion hosted by @zemki.bsky.social Looking forward to hanging out with @ahepp.bsky.social and colleagues to talk about LLMs and the death of the author.
zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/open-disc...

I will be working with multiple scholars and labs including @ahepp.bsky.social, Christian Katzenbach, and Andreas Breiter to better understand how AI is changing our world and people navigate these changes.

We are very much looking forward to welcome you @zemki.bsky.social!

🛫 💪 On February 25 & 26, 2025, we had our Kick-Off of the Research Unit @com-ai.bsky.social “Communicative AI: The transformation of societal communication” at @zemki.bsky.social - together with our partners at HBI, University Graz, @univie.ac.at & ifib.

We couldn't have wished for a better start!

Elon Musk-led group makes surprise bid of nearly $100bn for OpenAI Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder, responded that he would not accept and offered to buy X instead

It is noteworthy that Elon #Musk is trying to play the 'open' (“charity”) vs. 'commercial' (“for-profit”) card in his takeover bid for #OpenAI – and how Sam #Altman reacts to it. What is true, however, is that Twitter was once worth more: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Fresh back from our great retreat with the @zemki.bsky.social Lab Mediatization and Datafication - 2 days of intense discussion, great ideas and lots of fun. Thanks for that!

These were two exciting days among bright smart colleagues: annual retreat of the #Datafication and #Mediatization Lab @zemki.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social on the ambivalences of #comai at Gut Bredbeck

OpenQDA 1.0 – A Major Update for a Better User Experience! We are excited to announce the release of OpenQDA 1.0! This major update brings numerous improvements that make working with OpenQDA even more intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable.

💪‼️🥳 The update to 1.0 of #OpenQDA, our software and research infrastructure for coding #qualitative #data, is out: In addition to a new interface, the code system can now be managed easily and intuitively, and much more.

#QDA #opensource

zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/openqda-1...

Job advertisement: Tenure-Track-Professor for the subject area Media, Society and the Good Life The University of Bremen is seeking to fill a professorship in Communication and Media Studies in Faculty 9 Cultural Studies as soon as possible with then following profile: Tenure-Track-Professor (f/...

🚨 #Jobalert: The application deadline for the tenure track assistant professorship #Media, #Society and the #GoodLife at @zemki.bsky.social is February 6 (in 2 days):

zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/job-adver...

Some time ago we had a thematic section in IJoC on Californian ideology: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

The @zemki.bsky.social Research Day has begun: once a semester we all meet to discuss our research and new ideas together. A highlight every semester!

And while economic interests are often cited as the reason for this, it perhaps shows something else: #Californian #ideology has always been much more right-wing than it is often seen. It is worth taking a closer look, also on the historical dynamics.

👀 What happens when #SiliconValley CEOs watch #Trump more carefully: They believe Trump "will be incredible for the country in many ways!".

It's remarkable how one #SiliconValley CEO after the other is swinging in Trump's direction. Sam #Altman from #OpenAI was next.

MOLO – eine neue lokale soziale Plattform Bremen: MOLO – so heißt eine neue lokale soziale Plattform, eine Smartphone-App - als Ergänzung zu den großen sozialen Netzwerken, hoffen die Entwickler.

🔈 📻 Der Deutschlandfunk hat über unsere lokale #Plattform #molo berichtet – als Alternative zu #Facebook, #Instagram und ehemals #Twitter. Es geht darum, wie molo #Lokaljournalismus und #Community zusammen bringt und was die Überlegungen für die Zukunft sind.

www.deutschlandfunk.de/lokale-alter...

Angst vor KI? Die Mehrheit der Gäste sagt nein oder ist unentschieden. Die ZeMKI-Mediengespräche zum Thema „KI im Journalismus“ heute mit @jensradue.bsky.social und @ahepp.bsky.social im voll besetzten Bremer Presse-Club mit Bremen Zwei.

Any seats left? NO! Bremen Press Club overcrowded for the @zemki.bsky.social ZeMKI-Mediengespräch on AI and Journalism. Lisa-Maria Röhling (Radio Bremen/Bremen Zwei) together with Dr Jens Radü (Der Spiegel @spiegel.de) and Professor Dr Andreas Hepp (@ahepp.bsky.social ZeMKI @unibremen.bsky.social).

Danke!

Compared to #Wikipedia (static), #ChatGPT (dynamic) and #Alexa (voice) have more credibility - and no branding doesn’t change anything: #ComAI seems to be more credible than text, voice-based most.

In today's @zemki.bsky.social @com-ai.bsky.social #ComAI lecture, @sonja-utz.de presents her research on the #credibility of communicative #AI: Voice assistants (spoken-interactive) are more credible than search engine results (text). But what about #ChatGPT (interactive, but text)?