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Head of Lab Christian Katzenbach now Visiting Professor at LSE
Head of PGMT Lab Christian Katzenbach has started his position as visiting professor at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During his stay until July 2024, Christian is working on topics ranging from AI discourses and regulation, to the role of social media platforms in society. At the department, he is teaching classes in…
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Portrait of Lab Lead and PGMT work
The online magazine Up2Date of the University of Bremen has produced a nice portrait of the head of the PGMT Lab Christian Katzenbach and of the work at PGMT. The text focussed on our wok on discourses and regulation of AI, specifically on the projects Shaping AI and Imaginaries of AI. The article quotes Christian…
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PGMT at #IAMCR2023
Good morning! Today #IAMCR2023 is starting with the full programm in Lyon and online. The PGMT team is directly starting with two competing presentations at 8:30 this Monday: Then on Wednesday: Don’t hesitate to reach out to us either via mail, or catch Adrian, Daria, or Vanessa in the hallways in Lyon.
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Talks at “Global Perspectives on Platform, Labour, and Social Reproduction”
Next week 27-28 June 2023, the conference “Global Perspectives on Platform, Labour, and Social Reproduction” will happen at the University of Amsterdam. PGMT will be present with two presentations by Vanessa Richter and Paloma Viejo Otero. Vanessa will present joint work with Thomas Poell on the “Politics of Platform Imaginaries”; Paloma will talk about our…
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Next up in Online Talk Series: Rebecca Scharlach on Social Media’s Governing Principles (June 13)
In two weeks, we are holding the second session of our online talk series: On June 13, 15:00 CEST, Rebecca Scharlach from Hebrew University will talk about about her empirical research on underlying principles in social media’s platform polices: “The promises and challenges of identifying values in social media platform policies“. This is an online…
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PGMT talks at #ICA23
After #unstable23 and the Shaping AI Consortium Meeting in Montreal we are now heading to Toronto for #ICA23 (by a wonderful evening train ride BTW – highly recommended!). In Toronto, we will be presenting the following papers: Finally Opening Up? The Evolution of Transparency Reporting Practices of Social Media PlatformsChristian Katzenbach; Dennis Redeker; Selim BasogluFriday,…
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Shaping AI – PGMT Going to Canada
Following last week’s DGPuK 2023, this week again is conference week at PGMT: We are en route to Canada 🇨🇦🍁. Before heading to Toronto for #ICA23, we are co-hosting the Shaping AI symposium “(un)Stable Diffusions“, a two-day international symposium on AI’s publics, publicities, and publicizations at Milieux Institute in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, together with our project partners…
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AI, Agenda-Setting and the illusion of automation – PGMT at #DGPuK2023
It is quite busy weeks ahead at the PGMT lab. Just before ICA 2023, we are hosting the Annual Conference of the German Communication Association DGPuK 2023 here at ZeMKI in Bremen. The overaching theme is “Automation in Media and Communication”, and PGMT is contributing with two papers: The conference is happening on-site on the…
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Folklore Input into the Ukrainian Strategic Narrative – Artem Zakharchenko with input to ASN World Convention 2023, NYC
This week our fellow and guest researcher Dr. Artem Zakharchenko is presenting his work at the ASN World Convention 2023 in New York City, hosted by Columbia University. Artem will participate in the panel “Folklore and Narratives of Russia’s War against Ukraine” with a contribution on “Folklore Input into the Ukrainian Strategic Narrative”. Dr. Artem…
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Behind the Scenes – ZeMKI and University of Groningen launch online talk series on platform governance
The Lab “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology” (PGMT) at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, and the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, are launching an online talk and discussion series “Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research”. This series kicks-off on Tuesday, May 9, 15:00 CEST with a talk by Tarleton…