ComAI Lecture with Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry (LSE, UK)

On 28.11.2023 is the second lecture form the series “Communicative AI Lecture: ChatGPT, Ethics and Sustainability”. The guest is Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry (LSE, UK) with the topic “AI as knowledge capture and colonial landgrab”.


When: 28.11.2023    –    18:00 – 20:00h
Where: Rotunda, Cartesium Building (Enrique-Schmidt-Str.5, 28359 Bremen)

If you can’t be there in person, you can get a Zoom-Link here.

More information about the lecture by Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry and the lecture series here.

ZeMKI Member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach goes to the LSE as a Visiting Professor

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach will join the Department of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics (LSE) as a visiting professor in 2024. During his stay from February to July 2024, he will work on topics ranging from discourses and developments in AI to the role of social media platforms in society. The residency will be supervised by LSE professors Alison Powell, Jean-Christophe Plantin and Nick Couldry. LSE’s department is a world-leading education and research center for communication and media studies at the heart of LSE’s academic community in central London and is ranked 1st in the UK and 3rd in the world in this field.

New lecture series at ZeMKI: ComAI Lectures

The hype surrounding ChatGPT has brought it to the attention of the general public: Communicative AI – the spread of generative AI for the purpose of communication – is becoming increasingly widespread. But what exactly does it mean when machines become part of human communication relationships? How is social communication changing as a result? To what extent are the digital infrastructures of communicative AI a challenge for the environment and climate? What new types of human work will emerge with communicative AI – and which professions may disappear? What does all this mean for human practice and how is governance of communicative AI possible?

These are the questions we want to discuss together with international experts at the University of Bremen. The following speakers have been invited:

– November 21, 2023
Prof Dr Julia Velkova (Linköping University, Sweden):
“Greening the cloud: data and energy entanglements in friction”
18.00-20.00, Rotunde, Cartesium (also part of the FB9 sustainability lecture)

– November 28, 2023
Prof Dr Nick Couldry (LSE, Great Britain):
“AI as Knowledge Capture and Colonial Landgrab”
18.00-20.00, Rotunde, Cartesium

– December 05, 2023
Prof Dr David Gunkel (Northern Illinois University, USA)
“The Relational Turn: A Techno-Ethics for the 21st Century and Beyond”
18.00-20.00, SFG 1040

– 16 January 2024
Dr Arne Hintz (Cardiff University, United Kingdom):
“Deciding about Communicative AI: Governance, Participation and Social Justice”
18.00-20.00, Rotunde, Cartesium (also part of the FB9 Sustainability Lecture)

– January 30, 2024
Prof Dr Petter Bae Brandtzaeg (University of Oslo, Norway)
“The Future of Free Speech in an AI-Driven Society”
18.00-20.00, SFG 1040

We invite the interested public to attend the lecture series to discuss the socially highly relevant topic of Communicative Artificial Intelligence. The events will be held in English. All experts will be present in person in Bremen. If you are unable to attend in person for any reason, you have the option to participate online. To receive the access link, please write to: yoezer@uni-bremen.de.

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki/events/comai-lectures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1st ComAI Lecture with the Topic “Greening the Cloud: Data and Energy Entanglements in Fiction”

On 21.11.2023 is the first lecture from the series “Communicative AI Lecture: ChatGPT, Ethics and Sustainability”. The guest is Prof. Dr. Julia Velkova (Linköping University, Sweden) with the topic “Greening the cloud: data and energy entanglements in fiction”, this lecture is also part of the Sustainability Lectures of Department 9.

When: 21.11.2023 – 18:00 to 20:00 hrs

Where: Rotunda, Cartesium (Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5, 28359 Bremen)

More information about the lecture and Prof. Dr. Julia Velkova can be found here.

If you can’t be there in person, you can get a Zoom link here.

Lecture on “Deep Mediatization as a Driver of Diversity in Education? Empirical Impulses from Media Socialization Research”Lecture on

Katrin Potzel, Claudia Lampert, Rudolf Kammerl and Paulina Domdey gave a lecture on “Deep mediatization as a driver of diversity in education? Empirical impulses from media socialization research” at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2023 with the topic “The value of diversity in education and educational research” on 23.10.2023 in Glasgow.

Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach interviewed by SWR

Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach was invited to the podcast “Was geht, was bleibt” by SWR Kultur on 20.10.2023 as an expert on the topic of the episode “KI-Fake-News un Bild und Ton: Droht uns die Infokalypse ?” In conversation with presenter Christian Batzlen, Katzenbach talked about misinformation, platforms, AI, Elon Musk and X/Twitter in the context of the current situation in Israel and Palestine.

The whole interview can be found here as well as on other podcast platforms.