Center for media, communication and information research

The Center for Media, Communication and Information Research ( ZeMKI ) is an interdisciplinary research facility at the University of Bremen . It deals with questions of media and communication change at the interface between cultural and social sciences on the one hand and technical sciences on the other. In December 2011 the ZeMKI had 37 members, including nine professors, 24 research assistants and four other members.

history

The forerunner of the ZeMKI was the "Institute for Media, Communication and Information" (IMKI) founded on May 26, 2005. The aim of the establishment was to interdisciplinary interdisciplinary media research at the University of Bremen across several departments and to promote regional networking in the media sector in Bremen. On February 9, 2011, the IMKI was renamed ZeMKI in order to do justice to the strong focus on basic research.

research

Research at ZeMKI is interdisciplinary. Scientists from communication and media studies , cultural studies , information management and media education are involved in it. In addition to their research activities, the members of the ZeMKI teach at the various media courses at the University of Bremen.

Various research projects have been carried out at ZeMKI through third-party funding, among others funded by the German Research Foundation , the EU , the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the State Media Institute in North Rhine-Westphalia . In October 2010, the DFG Priority Program (SPP) 1505 “Mediatized Worlds” began, in which the ZeMKI is involved with several projects, including the coordination project. The SPP examines fields of action and social worlds that are inextricably linked with the media.

Furthermore, the ZeMKI is involved in a special research area (SFB) of the German Research Foundation. Within the framework of the SFB 597, research on the subject of “statehood in transition” is being carried out together with other institutes from the University of Bremen, Jacobs University Bremen and the University of Oldenburg. The aim of the CRC is to examine the changes that the classical nation state has undergone since the 1980s under the influence of globalization and liberalization.

In June 2011 the ZeMKI research group “Communicative Figurations of Mediatized Worlds” was recognized as a profile-building research group at the University of Bremen. The aim of the research group is to examine communicative figurations of mediatized worlds as exemplary webs of interdependencies under the influence of media technologies with regard to the present as well as historically.