What is ZeM?

The Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies (ZeM) is a joint research facility of the universities of the state of Brandenburg.
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Funding policy

ZeM supports its members in their research and has developed various policies for this activity. +

CONFERENCE

Information+ 2018

The Information+ conference brings together researchers and practitioners in information design and visualization to discuss common questions and current challenges.

WORKSHOP/PRESENTATION

DIGITAL CULTURAL ANALYTICS & VISUALIZATION

The Kinomatics Project – an international effort to collect, explore, analyse and represent digital data about the creative industries.

WORKSHOP

The Digital View - Mixed Methods in Image Analysis - Quantitative versus qualitative approaches

The workshop is part of the research project "ANCI" (analysing networked climate images), which is dedicated to the topic of similarity as a factor of image comparison using the example of climate images on the Internet.

ZeM-News

Maike Sarah Reinerth schließt Promotion mit summa cum laude ab

Am Donnerstag, dem 11.10.2018, hat Maike Sarah Reinerth, ehemalige Stipendiatin des ZeM, erfolgreich Ihre Dissertation an der Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF verteidigt. +

ZeM-NEWS

Research Group "Attention Strategies of Video Activism in the Social Web"

How do critical and humanitarian videos on the Social Web assert themselves against the superiority of advertising, entertainment and propaganda? What strategies do NGOs, art collectives and networks of activists pursue to capture the attention of their viewers?

EXHIBITION

HOME MOVIE COME BACK

The exhibition HOME MOVIE COME BACK will open on July 6, 2018. The exhibition shows the history of home cinema and is supported by the ZeM. Admission is free.

ZeM-NEWS

Förderlinien online

Die Förderlinien zur Forschungsförderung für ZeM-Mitglieder sind nun online und können hier heruntergeladen werden.

PUBLICATION

Klassiker des tschechischen und slowakischen Films (Classics of the Czech and Slovak Film)

The volume presents the most important Czech and Slovak films since 1930: 25 films whose aesthetics and themes give an impression of how diverse a Czech, Slovak and Czechoslovak nation still is in its film productions today.

PUBLICATION

A new Apparatus Issue has been published

Apparatus Issue 6 (2018): Women at the Editing Table: Revising Soviet Film History of the 1920s and 1930s

PUBLICATION

Bilder verteilen (Distributing Pictures)

Digital photographs are omnipresent: they are produced, distributed, commented on and stored billions of times every day. In interaction with digital technologies and social networks, practices have emerged that have radically changed the production and reception, distribution and archiving of photographic images.

PUBLICATION

Machtzeichen (Signs of Power)

Computers, in the present day, are linked in a fundamental sense, with demands for regulation and questions of availability – with the desire for and the fear of control. What forms of availability are these?