Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT)

Category: Teaching

  • Invitation to the Workshop ‘The Playground’

    Invitation to the Workshop ‘The Playground’

    The Platform Governance Media and Technology Lab (PGMT), Radical Data and the cooperative kintsugi-lab cordinally invite to participate at a two day workshop: The Playground: A Program on Taking Play Seriously in Digital Culture ZeMKI, Bremen, June 24-25, 2024 The Playground is a series of experiments on integrating play in the co-creation of digital art…

  • ‘Plat-formation: The Formation of Platforms and Their Governance’ – lecture by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach at the University of Sheffield on Thursday

    ‘Plat-formation: The Formation of Platforms and Their Governance’ – lecture by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach at the University of Sheffield on Thursday

    ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach will give a lecture on ‘Plat-formation: The Formation of Platforms and Their Governance’ at the University of Sheffield on Thursday, the 30th of May. Abstract How do social media platforms become what they are, how do they change and what is the role of governance in this process? Platforms…

  • Erasmus+ BIP on the UN Global Digital Compact a success

    Erasmus+ BIP on the UN Global Digital Compact a success

    In late April 2024, ZeMKI and the University of Bremen, hosted their first-ever Erasmus+ “blended-intensive programme” (BIP). Around thirty students and half a dozen instructors from eight universities across Europe participated in a week-long workshop designed under the theme “Digital Constitutionalism and the UN Global Digital Compact”. This in-person phase of the blended-intensive format is…

  • Interdisciplinary Erasmus+ blended-intensive programme a success

    Interdisciplinary Erasmus+ blended-intensive programme a success

    More than 20 students and ten instructors from universities across Europe spent a week in beautiful Padova for the final phase and highlight of their Erasmus+ “blended-intensive programme” (BIP). The in-person component of the BIP “Digital Constitutionalism and Platform Governance” took place in late September at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies…

  • ZeMKI/PGMT participates in interdisciplinary Erasmus+ blended-intensive programme

    ZeMKI/PGMT participates in interdisciplinary Erasmus+ blended-intensive programme

    Students of the BA Communication and Media Studies and the two MA programs at ZeMKI, University of Bremen, participate in a transnational blended learning experience funded by the Erasmus+ program. More than a dozen students from ZeMKI’s programs and the university’s Political Science MA study programs participate in a so-called “blended-intensive programme” (BIP), a relatively…

  • MA Class Trip to Re:Publica 2023

    MA Class Trip to Re:Publica 2023

    This week members of PGMT are on a MA class trip to re:publica 2023. With his MA research seminar “Social Media Platforms: Formation, Change, Governance”, Christian Katzenbach is visiting this major European conference and festival on the digital society. Students are attending sessions on platforms and AI in order to better understand the transformations and…