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Andreas Hepp

@ahepp.bsky.social
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Professor of media and communications at ZeMKI and Commfigurations, Uni Bremen, on #mediatization, #datafication, #pioneercommunities, #pioneerjournalism, #ComAI, #AI, #digitalfutures.

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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s truly special that I’ll be presenting my book, “Pioneer Communities: How Our Digital Futures Emerge in Silicon Valley and Beyond“, today at the Bathers Library Summer Symposium in Oakland. batherslibrary.cargo.site/summer-sympo...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My book "Pioneer Communities: How our #DigitalFutures Emerge in #SiliconValley and Beyond" is now in production! At the same time, the book’s website has gone live at @politybooks.bsky.social. If anyone’s interested, they can use the code 👉 AHP30 to get a 30% discount from Polity: t1p.de/9gkfb
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My post, “Pioneer communities and the #future of #AI in #China: Why #OpenClaw in Shenzhen is also about the one-person company”, has been published on our @com-ai.bsky.social blog. It reflects on my stay in #Shenzhen and my visits to various spaces and companies. 👉 comai.space/en/pioneer-c...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A fantastic #ICA2026 in Cape Town is coming to an end. I attended many fascinating panels, but the one that was particularly important to me was ‘Silicon Valley’s #Slippery #Futures: Artificial General Intelligence, Technofascism and the Limits of Reinventing the World’.
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We’ve had two fantastic @com-ai.bsky.social days: first, the quarterly meeting for all our projects, followed by a workshop on #futuring and #AI. The meeting kicked off with an inspiring discussion about #AI and #conspiracy theories with @snurb.info, our current #ComAI Mercator fellow.
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Out now and #openaccess: my paper „The imaginative #landscape of #AI: Locating #SiliconValley’s quiet #futuring” It’s based on my @com-ai.bsky.social media ethnography in the San Francisco Bay Area during the last 12 months. #pioneercommunities #AIsafety #AGI journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It’s great to be at re:publica again this year with the students from our @zemki.bsky.social MA Media, Culture & Society and MA Media & Public Engagement programmes at @unibremen.bsky.social.
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I am very much looking forward to delivering my keynote today on #pioneer #communities and ‘quiet’ and ‘loud’ #futuring at the IAMCR conference ‘Creative Communication and Empowerment’ at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Today we have the first talk in our #comai lecture series by @snurb.info on ‘the’ #public sphere, which no longer exists in that form (if it ever did). The use of ‘the’ is just as much in question as ‘public’ and ‘sphere’.
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I have just arrived in 🚊Graz, where we are meeting for the (late) summer ☀️retreat of our @com-ai.bsky.social Until Wednesday, we want to discuss what #research has been carried out in the projects over the last 6️⃣ months, what the challenges of #triangulating #methods 🔣 are,
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
While #OpenAI has released GPT-5, our research into the ‘imaginative landscape of AI’ in #SiliconValley / the San Francisco Bay Area is progressing. #ComAI
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🛫 💪 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!
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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!
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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!
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
👀 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.
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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)?
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Slow thinking, not necessarily indoors. #SlowScience
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Our @zemki.bsky.social research report is out just in time for the end of the year! If you want to find out more about what we have researched in the past year and what we are planning in our @com-ai.bsky.social research unit, then it's worth taking a look! 👇 zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/out-now-z...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Will #chatbots teach your children? Jeremy Knox argues in his @zemki.bsky.social #ComAI lecture that such ideas are part of a long tradition of imagining the role of #technology in #education which is also a story of power in education. This becomes more and more sensory power.
Jeremy Knox giving his ComAI lecture
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Today at the @zemki.bsky.social research seminar: Daniel Whelan-Shamy from @qutdmrc.bsky.social, presenting his research on the cultural form of #machinelearning and what it means for a critical understanding of #simulation. #ComAI #AI #genAI
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Fresh back from a great retreat of the @zemki.bsky.social steering committee - in which we talked about our research planning for the next five years, communicative AI and many new ideas. It was two super inspiring days with a great team that has great plans!
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
‼️A new ZeMKI working paper by Uwe Hasebrink, @wiebkeloosen.bsky.social and myself - which we also presented at the last #ICA24. zemki.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/u...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Is there anyone who wants to go to the ECREA 2024 conference in Ljubljana and still needs a registration at the regular price? I have one to give away. If so, please contact me. #ECREA2024
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
‼️JOB ALERT‼️: In our research unit "Communicative AI: The Automation of Social Communication" 18 PhD positions for 4 years are advertised. #AI #media #communication #ComAI #generativeAI #pioneercommunities #digitalsociocracy #JOB #jobs More information here: . 👇👇👇 comai.space
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
‼️ GREAT 🚀: Our Research Unit "Communicative #AI" is funded by the @dfgpublic.bsky.social! Using innovative methods & comprehensive data, we are investigating the consequences, risks and potential of the #automation of societal #communication. #ComAI #generativeAI For more: www.comai.space
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
Today the @zemki.bsky.social summer party - we have a lot to celebrate with the Educators - including the fact that the #DFG Research Unit #ComAI is coming. But also much more. It was a great year! zemki.uni-bremen.de/neue-dfg-for...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
Three days ago #ICA24 winner of the Outstanding Book Award, today at the @zemki.bsky.social research seminar: @annekaun.bsky.social with a talk on "Vanishing Act - the Disappearance of Printed News". #news #newspaper #journalism
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
The human is performing for the machine: Christian Greiffenhagen analyses #human #AI #interaction, taking the example of hotel customers and how they are disciplined by a #facialrecognition kiosk. #ComAI Lectures at @zemki.bsky.social
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
What a great honor! Unfortunately I can't be there in person, but I have just been named a Fellow of the International Communication Association. Many thanks to the ICA and everyone who nominated me. I never expected this. 🍾🎉🎈 #ICA24
International Communication Association Fellows
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Just published: My article on the life cycle of #pioneercommunities and the influence they have on our #digital #futures. #Makers, #QuantifiedSelf, #HacksHackers, #pioneers #startup #innovation #digitalfutures #mediatization #hype #hypecycle 👇👇 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
I will be giving a talk today at Fudan University on "Towards a Digital Society: Communicative AI and the Deep Mediatization of the Social World". Even though the lecture is "only" online, I'm already very excited: This is the first time that I am speaking exclusively for Chinese colleagues.
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
At the “#Mediatization vs. #datafication“ conference in Lublin tomorrow, I will give a talk on “Broadening the scope of mediatization research“, focusing on 3 theses:
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
„AI as a research assistant“: @snurb.bsky.social at today‘s @zemki.bsky.social #ComAI Lectures: #AI is not only changing communication in society. It also provides a tool for exploring them, especially when it comes to #polarisation.
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
Our special issue of @hmcjournal.bsky.social on #mediatization and human-machine communication has been published, with many highly topical articles on communicative #AI, automated #communication and how it is changing culture and society. #ComAI, #HMC 👇👇👇 stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
First public presentation of #OpenQDA at #DGPUK24. @zemki.bsky.social openqda.org
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Spread the word: #OpenQDA is available as early access. It’s a new software for #coding of #qualitative #data such as #interviews, #protocols and others. OpenQDA is clear and easy to use, you can work together as a team, extend everything via plugins - and it's #opensource. openqda.org
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
It's great to be here at the University of Coimbra today to give a talk on "What do we know about our digital #futures?". It will be about #pioneercommunities, communicative #AI and #sustainability. The talk is part of the final conference of the myGender project, with Ines Amaral and others. #ComAI
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Tomorrow we have an online information event for our two @zemki.bsky.social , @unibremen.bsky.social MA programs „MA Media and Public Engagement“ and „MA Digital Media and Society“. For all interested, please just tune in: zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/info-sess...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Tomorrow, Tuesday, 19.00 is our next #ComAI Lecture with @davidgunkel.bsky.social. He will be speaking at @zemki.bsky.social on "The Relational Turn: A Techo-Ethics for the 21st Century and Beyond". I am very much looking forward... #AI #ethics #robot #figuration www.uni-bremen.de/zemki/events...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
‼️DEADLINE Today: Job Alert‼️: Interested in a PhD in the field of digital media practices, pioneers, communicative AI? There is a PhD position at my young, innovative lab at @zemki.bsky.social 👇👇👇 www.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/us...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Tomorrow, 28.11.2023, 18:00 is our next #ComAI Lecture at @zemki.bsky.social with @couldrynick@indieweb.social on „AI as knowledge capture and colonial landgrab“. #AI #datacolonialism #datafication deep #mediatization www.uni-bremen.de/zemki/events...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
„VIVA LA #GENERATION – Die Generationendebatte in den Medien.“ Meine Folien sind fertig, ich freue mich auf den Vortrag am 24.11.23, ab 9:30 Uhr beim JFF / der Bayerischen Landeszentrale für neue Medien in München: www.jff.de/veranstaltun...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Tomorrow (21.11.2023, 18:00), there is the first #ComAI Lecture @zemki.bsky.social with Julia Velkova on „Greening the #cloud: #Data and #energy entanglements in friction“. #AI, #sustainability #infrastructure www.uni-bremen.de/zemki/events...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Die neue M&K ist erschienen, mit einem Artikel zu „Zwischen Staatsskepsis und Verschwörungsmythen. Eine Figurationsanalyse zur kommunikativen Konstruktion von Gegenöffentlichkeiten auf #Telegram" von Katarina Bader, Kathrin Friederike Müller & Lars Rinsdorf: www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/1615...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
We are pleased to announce an exciting lecture series this semester on "Communicative AI: #ChatGPT, #Ethics, and #Sustainability" at @zemki.bsky.social. With Julia Velkova, Nick Couldry, @davidgunkel.bsky.social, Arne Hintz, & Petter Bae Brandtzaeg. More info here: www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki/eve...
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
‼️Job Alert‼️: Interested in a PhD in the field of digital media practices, pioneers, communicative AI? A PhD position is available at my young, innovative lab at @zemki.bsky.social. Application deadline is 27.11.2023, more info can be found via this link: 👇👇👇 www.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/us...
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