Lab Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID)
@dcidlab.bsky.social
Lab at ZeMKI @zemki.bsky.social, University of Bremen @unibremen.bsky.social The DCID Lab researches the changing dynamics of digital communication using social science methods and computational approaches. Lab head: @cbpuschmann.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce that our ZeMKI member Hannah Marie Büttner successfully defended her dissertation, titled “Social Movement Power in Digitally Networked Protest: A Study of Anti-Covid Communities on Te https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/completed-phd-defense-on-the-power-of-social-movements/
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass unser ZeMKI-Mitglied Hannah Marie Büttner am 5. Mai 2026 ihre Dissertation mit dem Titel „Social Movement Power in Digitally Networked Protest: A Study of Anti-Covid Communities on Telegram“ https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/abgeschlossene-promotion-zur-macht-sozialer-bewegungen/
Patrick Zerrer, Paul Pressmann, and Cornelius Puschmann, together with Philipp Krieter, published the article “Beyond the Black Box: A Multimodal Approach to Understanding In-App Communication” in the new M&K special issue. More Information: zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/article-o...
Article on In-App Communication in the New M&K Special Issue
In the article “Beyond the Black Box: A Multimodal Approach to Understanding In-App Communication,” Patrick Zerrer, Paul Pressmann, and Cornelius Puschmann, together with Philipp Krieter, introduce ne...
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ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann appeared as an expert guest on Deutschlandfunk’s media magazine @mediasres. More information:
Cornelius Puschmann as an Expert in Deutschlandfunk's media magazine
ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann appeared as an expert guest on Deutschlandfunk's media magazine @mediasres. The episode, entitled “Minneapolis: The Influence of Right-Wing Newsfluencers,” focuses on the question of what influence right-wing influencers have on political opinion-forming in the US.
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@hill90210.bsky.social from the DCID Lab discussed the impact of social media on democracy with leading German researchers. The group is working on a consensus paper and stronger networking within the research field.
Miira Hill at Workshop on Social Media Research and Democracy
Dr. Miira Hill from the DCID Lab discussed the impact of social media on democracy with leading German researchers. The group is working on a consensus paper and stronger networking within the researc...
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Im Kontext des 3. Jahrestages von chatGPT, erklärt ZeMKI-Mitglied Cornelius Puschmann, wie KI-gesteuerte Bots die öffentliche Kommunikation bedrohen. zemki.uni-bremen.de/cornelius-pu...
Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, Leiter das Lab für Digitale Kommunikation und Informationsvielfalt (DCID), wurde im DLF-Format @mediasres zur Berichterstattung über den Weltklimagipfel in Belém interviewt. zemki.uni-bremen.de/cornelius-pu...
Yuru Li vom DCID-Lab hat am 20. November 2025 beim CeCoR-Forschungstreffen in Amsterdam einen Vortrag mit dem Titel „The Multi-Modal Frames of Politicians’ Personalization Strategies and Their Impact on Social Media Engagement” gehalten. zemki.uni-bremen.de/vortrag-von-...
On November 10, 2025, the research group Communicative AI (ComAI) held its quarterly meeting at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen. More information can be found here: comai.space/en/exchange-...
Exchange with Andrea Guzman and Planning of Joint Publications: ComAI Quarterly Meeting at the Haus der Wissenschaft
On November 10, 2025, the research group Communicative AI (ComAI) held its quarterly meeting at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen. The focus was on an exchang
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Do you want to apply under DSA40? PGMT and MMM are hosting a workshop on Nov 26 (15:00–18:00) to help researchers prepare stronger Article 40 applications. Funding available for participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Email viejoote@uni-bremen.de by Nov 18 for registration and details.
Lab-head @cbpuschmann.bsky.social gave a lecture on social media influencers as mediators of political information as part of the Diginomics Brownbag Seminar series, organized by the Diginomics Research Group from the Department of Economics at the University of Bremen.
Lecture by Cornelius Puschmann as part of the Diginomics Brownbag Seminar Series
Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, head of the Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), gave a lecture as part of the Brownbag Seminar series organized by the Diginomics Research Group.
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DCID member Yuru Li will present a project on AI-generated political parodies on TikTok together with Xin Zhou (University of Jena) at the Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR25) symposium from 5 to 7 August 2025 at the University of Zurich.
Yuru Li presents project on AI parodies on TikTok at CVMR25 symposium
DCID member Yuru Li will present a project on AI-generated political parodies on TikTok together with Xin Zhou (University of Jena) at the Computational Visual Media Research (CVMR25) symposium from 5...
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@pekasen.bsky.social presents two research projects at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping, Sweden on Semantic Similarity Networks and Explorable Hierarchical Topic Modelling (🗓️ 22.07. 🕜 13:30 📍Atrium) and Telegram: Data Infrastructure for Researching Platform Dynamics. (🗓️ 23.07. 🕜 13:30 📍Atrium)
Philipp Kessling Presents Two Projects at IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping
Philipp Kessling, advisory member of the DCID-Lab at ZeMKI, will present two posters at the 2025 International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) in Norrköping.
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@cbpuschmann.bsky.social and @hill90210.bsky.social from the DCID Lab were awarded with the Communication History Division Top Paper Award at the ICA Conference 2025 🎉
ICA Communication History Division Award for Cornelius Puschmann and Miira Hill
Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Dr. Miira Hill from the DCID Lab receive the Communication History Division Top Paper Award of the ICA for their paper “Nostalgic for a Better Democracy? How German R...
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Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann und Dr. Miira Hill vom DCID-Lab erhalten den Communication History Division Top Paper Award der ICA für ihr Paper „Nostalgic for a Better Democracy? How German Right-Wing Social Media Commentators (Mis)remember Liberal Values”. zemki.uni-bremen.de/ica-communic...
@thejanrau.bsky.social will give a lecture on 27 May 2025 at 7:15 pm at re:publica 2025 in Berlin on the topic “Beyond the anger machine: How digital platforms can promote democratic discourse”.
Jan Rau at re:publica 2025: Digital platforms and democratic discourse
Jan Rau, ZeMKI member, will give a lecture on 27 May 2025 at 7:15 pm at re:publica 2025 in Berlin on the topic “Beyond the anger machine: How digital platforms can promote democratic discourse” In hi...
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ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill from the DCID-Lab will give a lecture on the communicative construction of visibility and subjectivation under the socio-technical conditions of the digital at the University of Milan-Bicocca on May 8, 2025. zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/?p=7906
ZeMKI member Yuru Li presents her research “Delegitimizing through Pixels: A Computational Analysis of GenAl Political Videos and User Responses on TikTok” at the COMPTEXT 2025 conference at the University of Vienna @univie.ac.at today.
COMPTEXT 2025: Presentation by Yuru Li on AI videos on TikTok
ZeMKI member Yuru Li presents her research “Delegitimizing through Pixels: A Computational Analysis of GenAl Political Videos and User Responses on TikTok” at the COMPTEXT 2025 conference at the Unive...
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ZeMKI member @thejanrau.bsky.social holds a lecture on April 24, 2025 with the title “Digitale Turbulenzen: Challenges of a democratic society in times of (digital) upheaval” at the Digital Media Theme Days in Hamburg. zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/talk-digi...
Am 28.04.2025 ist ZeMKI-Mitglied @pzerrer.bsky.social Teil des Pannels von „Ortswechsel“, einer Veranstaltungsreihe, die Potenzialräume in Braunschweig sichtbar macht und den Austausch zwischen Interessierten, Kulturschaffenden, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Stadtgesellschaft und Verwaltung schafft.
Patrick Zerrer im Panel der Veranstaltungsreihe „Ortswechsel“
Am 28.04.2025 ist ZeMKI-Mitglied Dr. Patrick Zerrer Teil des Pannels von "Ortswechsel", einer Veranstaltungsreihe, die Potenzialräume in Braunschweig sichtbar macht.
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The journal 'Publizistik' has published a new article by Miira Hill @hill90210.bsky.social and Cornelius Puschmann @cbpuschmann.bsky.social on the topic “Nostalgia for a better democracy? How right-wing German social media commentators (mis)remember the past”.
Nostalgia and nationalism: right-wing discourses on democracy in social media
The journal 'Publizistik' has published a new article by Mira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann on the topic “Nostalgia for a better democracy? How right-wing German social media commentators (mis)remember...
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The team of the research project “INDI – INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” was accompanied at work as part of a current @zdfde.bsky.social report entitled “Influencer und der Klimawandel”
INDI project at the center of new ZDFheute report
The team of the research project “INDI - INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” was accompanied at work as part of a current ZDF report entitled “Influencer und der Klimawandel”.
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Die ZeMKI-Mitglieder Cornelius Puschmann, Paul Pressmann und Patrick Zerrer möchten mit INDI u. a. das gesellschaftliche Verständnis und die Möglichkeiten von Social Media Plattformen bei der Vermittlung von Wissen, Ideen und Informationen in den Vordergrund heben. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...
INDI möchte unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann ein Bewusstsein dafür schaffen, wie soziale Medien als Plattform für Wissensvermittlung dienen, und gleichzeitig herausfinden, in welchem Umfang Nutzer*innen regelmäßig wissenschaftliche Inhalte konsumieren. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...
„INDI - INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” erforscht unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann die Art und Weise, wie klimawandelrelevantes Wissen auf sozialen Netzwerken verbreitet und konsumiert wird. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...
Das Forschungsprojekt wird vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) finanziert und läuft noch bis 2027. zemki.uni-bremen.de/...
The DCID-Lab will be represented at the 70th Annual Conference of the DGPuK “Values” from March 19 to 21 in Berlin with five contributions by @cbpuschmann.bsky.social, @pzerrer.bsky.social, @thejanrau.bsky.social and @pekasen.bsky.social
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Three days left! 📣 🤗 Join the M.A. Digital Media and Society at the University of Bremen and have a seat in the front row: www.youtube.com/watc... 💻Get informed under the following link: zemki.uni-bremen.de/... APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 March 2025!
M.A. Digital Media and Society – Have a Seat in the Front Row…
The M.A. Digital Media and Society (DMS) is an interdisciplinary programme at the University of Bremen focusing on the digitalisation and datafication of contemporary societies. This clip presents the programme and the University of Bremen. Have a seat in the front row… Apply by March 15! More inf
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@Hill90210.bsky.social and @cbpuschmann.bsky.social from the DCID Lab give a lecture at the workshop „Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science“ at the @tuberlin.bsky.social. The event from 2nd to 4th April 2025 is public and free.
Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann at workshop on AI in scientific research
Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID-Lab will give a talk at the workshop “Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science” at TU Berlin. The event from April 2...
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ZeMKI & DCID member Paul Pressmann has completed a one-month research stay at the DMRC (Digital Media Research Centre) of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, to further expand international cooperation within the POLTRACK project 🦘
Paul Pressmann undertakes POLTRACK research stay in Brisbane, Australia
ZeMKI member Paul Pressmann has completed a one-month research stay at the DMRC (Digital Media Research Centre) of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, to further expa...
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