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Christian Katzenbach at RAIN Film Festival in Barcelona
Prof. Christian Katzenbach participated in the RAIN Film Festival in Barcelona. Organized by Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the international festival is dedicated to AI-generated cinema and a meeting point for research, creation and critical thinking and takes place from 14 to 17 June. As part of the festival´s Research Day on 15 June at the Poblenou…
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Successful workshop on “International Relations in the Digital Age”
On 26 and 27 March 2026, PGMT member Dr. Dennis Redeker (ZeMKI) jointly with Dr. Berenike Prem (InIIS, University of Bremen), in cooperation with the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW), hosted the workshop”International Relations in the Digital Age: Governing – and Being Governed by – Technology” (see Call for Papers…
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Public Talk: Professor Marianne Franklin (Groningen)
On Thursday, 26 March 2026 at 17:00, the PGMT Lab through the EU-funded project REMIT (“Reignite Multilateralism via Technology”) will host a public discussion with Professor Marianne Franklin of the University of Groningen. The event, held at the Kleiner Saal of the Haus der Wissenschaft is open to the public and moderated by PGMT member…
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ZeMKI hosts AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025
The Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT), at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, is hosting the next AoIR Flashpoint Symposium on 3-4 june 2025.
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Dr. Rebecca Scharlach in an interview with SWR Aktuell
PGMT Lab member Dr. Rebecca Scharlach can be heard in an interview with SWR moderator Ulrike Alex on the subject of “bad news”.
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ZeMKI member Daria Dergacheva presenting at ‘Countering Hybrid Threats While Protecting Digital Rights’ Workshop
Dr. Daria Dergacheva from PGMT Lab will present on the topic “Governing Russian disinformation: very large social media platforms policies in the context of Russian invasion and war in Ukraine” at a workshop at Maastricht University on October 11, 2024.
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“Automation in the Digital Society” – Special Issue with New Media & Society published
Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach has co-published a new special issue entitled “Automation in the Digital Society” together with Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold.
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Lab member Dr. Viejo Otero presenting at the SMSociety conference in London, July 17th.
Our member, Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero, will be presenting at the Social Media and Society Conference (#SMSociety) in London on July 17th. Dr. Viejo Otero will present her paper titled “‘We do not marshal your feed’: How AltTech platforms conceptualize safety,” co-authored with Rebecca Scharlach with the colaboration of our student assistants Alessa Eggeling and…
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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…
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#TikTokban
Unpacking the US TikTok ban by Rebecca Scharlach TL;DR: TikTok, one of the most popular platforms worldwide, is seen as a security risk for the United States. But why? (A meme about the TikTok ban. For more, klick here) Can the US government really ban TikTok? Do they really want to do that? Unsurprisingly, many…