ZeMKI Professor Christian Katzenbach has taken over the role of Editor-in-Chief of the field-leading journal New Media & Society together with Australia-based professor Crystal Abidin. The journal has...

The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen is pleased to host two “EU-Africa AI Governance Fellows” in 2026 and 2027. Initiated by the Lab...

On 18 September 2026, ComAI PI Christian Katzenbach delivers a keynote at the 11th Annual Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG), titled "

What makes AI controversial? This article reports on an international expert consultation that we conducted between 2021 and 2023 to analyse recent controversies about AI in four countries: the United...

In this commentary on The dark side of public values in algorithmic systems written by David Moats, Minna Ruckenstein, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen, Maria Eidensko...

While social media platforms increasingly present themselves as spaces for empowerment and diversity, they also reinforce gendered power relations through their governance practices. This study exa...

Christian Katzenbach is Professor of Media and Communication at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen.

Platforms are key intermediaries of public and political communication, both heralded as facilitators of bottom-up democracy and condemned as democracy’s greatest danger. From misinformation to hat...

AI has become an ambiguous yet powerful term that routinely refers to different technological advances, with stakeholders competing for public attention to influence public perceptions and decision-ma...

As a transformative force, artificial intelligence (AI) has become central to national interests, international prestige, and geopolitical strategy, sparking a ...

Abstract. Social media facilitates new forms of cultural production from professionalized and commercialized users known as creators. While some have posit

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Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue o...

Platform governance is simultaneously a matter of public concern and a professional calling for Trust and Safety, the nascent field tasked with setting and enfo...

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