How is societal communication evolving with the profound transformation of the digital media environment through communicative artificial intelligence? What consequences, risks, and opportunities arise from the widespread use of this new technology across various social domains? The "Communicative AI" (ComAI) research unit, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), will begin exploring these questions from the perspectives of media and communication studies, sociology, science and technology studies, computer science, and law, starting in early 2025.
The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period. The specific job advertisements related to this project can be found on the research unit's website (www.comai.space). Additional information on the working environment and the benefits of completing a doctorate within the research unit is also available on the website.
The application deadline is September 27, 2024.
Overview of the research projects in the research unit
P1 | Pioneer Communities: Imagining ComAI and its possible futures (2 vacancies DFG)
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany
P2 | Interfaces: Implementing user-centered ComAI (2 vacancies DFG)
- Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka, TZI, University of Bremen, Germany
P3 | Law: The Juridification of ComAI (2 vacancies DFG)
- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | HBI, Germany
P4 | Governance: Private ordering of ComAI through corporate communication and policies (2 vacancies DFG)
- Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany
P5 | Journalism: Automating the news and journalistic autonomy (2 vacancies DFG)
- Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | HBI, Germany
P6 | Political discourse: ComAI and deliberative quality (1 vacancy DFG)
- Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany
- Dr. Gregor Wiedemann, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | HBI, Germany
P7 | Personal sphere: Companionship and ComAI (2 vacancies FWF)
- Prof. Dr. Michaela Pfadenhauer, Institute for Sociology, University of Wien, Austria
P8 | Health: Caring through ComAI (2 vacancies FWF)
- Prof. Dr. Juliane Jarke, BANDAS-Center, University of Graz, Austria
P9 | Education: ComAI for learning and teaching (2 vacancies DFG)
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter, ZeMKI, University of Bremen / Institute for Information Management Bremen, Germany
KF | ComAI Research Space (1 vacancy DFG)
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp , ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany
Contact:
University of Bremen
ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research
https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/
Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute
https://leibniz-hbi.de/en/
Institute for Information Management Bremen
https://www.ifib.de/en/home
University of Bremen
TZI, Center for Computing Technologies
https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/tzi
University of Graz
BANDAS-Center
https://business-analytics.uni-graz.at/en/center/
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
https://www.soz.univie.ac.at
Website of the Research Unit 5656 “Communicative AI”: www.comai.space
