Andreas Hepp
@ahepp.bsky.social
Professor of media and communications at ZeMKI and Commfigurations, Uni Bremen, on #mediatization, #datafication, #pioneercommunities, #pioneerjournalism, #ComAI, #AI, #digitalfutures.
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
Outside the USA, @anthropic.com’s latest model is no longer available. I wrote a blog post for the @com-ai.bsky.social website about what the “export ban” on #Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 reveals about global #power geometries and #AISafety. 👉 comai.space/en/more-than...
More than AI Safety: What the Export Ban on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Reveals about Global Power Geometries
A blog post by Andreas Hepp Anyone who, as a non-American, currently wants to work with Anthropic’s latest language model, Claude Fable 5, has, since Satur
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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...
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.
#toread #paper The imaginative landscape of AI: Locating Silicon Valley’s “quiet futuring” by Andreas Hepp https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437261454515
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/...
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.
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.
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’.
‼️ The deadline (December 1, 2025) for our Call for Abstracts on “THE IMAGINATIVE #LANDSCAPE OF #AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS” is approaching. I am very happy to edit this thematic issue of @ijoc-usc.bsky.social with @ntnsndr.in #openaccess. More information: comai.space/en/call-for-...
Call for Papers: The Imaginative Landscape of AI – Visions, Positions, Conflicts
Few technological developments spark more debate today than artificial intelligence. From promises of human advancement to fears of existential risk, AI generat
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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,
#CfP THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE OF AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS ❓ What are the #future #visions and #imaginaries of #communications, #society, and social #change in diverse #global contexts in relation to #AI, #AGI and #ComAI? 📣 Submissions invited to #IJoC: comai.space/en/call-for-...
Call for Papers: The Imaginative Landscape of AI – Visions, Positions, Conflicts
Few technological developments spark more debate today than artificial intelligence. From promises of human advancement to fears of existential risk, AI generat
comai.space
‼️ #JobAlert: Computer Science / Computational Social Science / Media and Communications At @zemki.bsky.social we are looking for a research assistant for developing web-based tools for collecting and visualising data on communicative #AI. More information: comai.space/stellenaussc...
Stellenausschreibung: Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (w/m/d) als Teil der Forschungsgruppe „Communicative AI“ gesucht
An der Universität Bremen ist am Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI) frühestens zum 01.01.2026 eine Stelle als Wissenschaf
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While #OpenAI has released GPT-5, our research into the ‘imaginative landscape of AI’ in #SiliconValley / the San Francisco Bay Area is progressing. #ComAI
📣 Warum brauchen wir kleine und große #Visionen 🌈 🤖 🌳 der #Zukunft? Welche Rolle kann #KI dabei spielen? 🗞️ In der aktuellen Wochenausgabe der @taz.de habe ich dazu einen Artikel anhand des Beispiels der #Expo in #Osaka, #Japan, geschrieben: taz.de/Expo-in-Osak...
Expo in Osaka: Holzring statt Glaskugel
Die Länder auf der Weltausstellung in Japan zeigen sehr unterschiedliche Zukunftsvisionen. Warum sollten wir überhaupt so konkret darüber nachdenken?
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This talk is tomorrow - on ‘The Future of Communicative AI: Why Societal Communication Matters and What This Means for Media and Communication Research’, #ComAI, #AI, #pioneercommunities, #Future: aimeetshss.acdh-ch-dev.oeaw.ac.at/conference/a...
AI meets Humanities & Social Sciences | AI meets Humanities & Social Sciences
23-25 June 2025, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
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ZeMKI@zemki.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 On June 24, 2025, @ahepp.bsky.social will give a talk at the conference “AI meets humanities & social sciences” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
I am very pleased that our article "Solving the crisis with 'do-it-yourself #heroes'? The media coverage on pioneer communities, #Covid-19, and technological #solutionism" is now also available in print: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Solving the crisis with “do-it-yourself heroes”? The media coverage on pioneer communities, Covid-19, and technological solutionism
Protective shields and medical devices produced in Makerspaces as well as the early detection of disease through self-measurement have been widely publicized in the media coverage of the Covid-19 pand...
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molo war auf der @re-publica.com – und fällt gleich auf! Wie beim MDR zu lesen ist: #rp25 ist ein Gegenentwurf zu großen sozialen Medien wie #Facebook, #Tiktok oder #X. Wer uns ausprobieren will: molo.news Der Beitrag des MDR zur #rp25 findet sich hier: www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...
Was sich gegen die Macht großer Online-Plattformen tun lässt | MDR.DE
Online-Plattformen wie Instagram sind allgegenwärtig – und ihre Macht wächst stetig. Was lässt sich dagegen tun? Ein Gegenentwurf zu den großen Plattformen sind lokale soziale Medien.
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BREAKING: "Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029." #ICA25
Am 7.5.2025 hält @ahepp.bsky.social am Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) der Hitotsubashi University, Tokio, einen Vortrag zum Thema der digitalen Zukünfte und welcher Forschungsperspektive es bedarf, diese zu erforschen. zemki.uni-bremen.de/forschungsau...
Die Erforschung der digitalen Transformation fragt meist nach deren Folgen. Der Wandel ist aber schon im Gange, deshalb sei die Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung der Konsequenz um eine der Emergenz zu ergänzen, schreibt @ahepp.bsky.social im Berliner Journal. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Figurationen digitaler Zukünfte – oder: Warum wir eine Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung der Emergenz brauchen - Berliner Journal für Soziologie
The aim of this article is to contribute to a more systematic inclusion of digital futures—or, more precisely: various possible digital futures—in research on the refiguration of societies. A social-s...
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On Tuesday (22 April) I will be at @unibremen.bsky.social for a panel discussion hosted by @zemki.bsky.social Looking forward to hanging out with @ahepp.bsky.social and colleagues to talk about LLMs and the death of the author. zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/open-disc...
Open Discussion with David Gunkel at ZeMKI
On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, David Gunkel will be a guest at ZeMKI for a panel discussion on “LLMs and the Death of the Author” from 10 am to 12 pm.
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I will be working with multiple scholars and labs including @ahepp.bsky.social, Christian Katzenbach, and Andreas Breiter to better understand how AI is changing our world and people navigate these changes.
🛫 💪 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!
It is noteworthy that Elon #Musk is trying to play the 'open' (“charity”) vs. 'commercial' (“for-profit”) card in his takeover bid for #OpenAI – and how Sam #Altman reacts to it. What is true, however, is that Twitter was once worth more: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk-led group makes surprise bid of nearly $100bn for OpenAI
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder, responded that he would not accept and offered to buy X instead
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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!
These were two exciting days among bright smart colleagues: annual retreat of the #Datafication and #Mediatization Lab @zemki.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social on the ambivalences of #comai at Gut Bredbeck
💪‼️🥳 The update to 1.0 of #OpenQDA, our software and research infrastructure for coding #qualitative #data, is out: In addition to a new interface, the code system can now be managed easily and intuitively, and much more. #QDA #opensource zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/openqda-1...
OpenQDA 1.0 – A Major Update for a Better User Experience!
We are excited to announce the release of OpenQDA 1.0! This major update brings numerous improvements that make working with OpenQDA even more intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable.
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