About the Event

AI has taken centre stage in society. In politics, in media debate and, of course, in the business world, AI is both taken for granted and treated as an object of fundamental controversy. But it did not simply arrive at that point. It was brought into being, not only technologically but also with the help of longstanding and powerful discourses establishing AI as both magical and inevitable.

Who drives this process? How does this discourse materialise in AI governance and, ultimately, in our understanding of AI? The lecture reconstructs this discursive order of AI and its performative politics, drawing on empirical work on the 'global AI race,' media debates across different countries, and interviews with stakeholders.

About the Speaker

Christian Katzenbach is Professor of Media and Communication at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen. He is Head of the Lab “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology” and directs the MA programme “Digital Media and Society”. His research and teaching is informed by a multidisciplinary background in media and communication studies, philosophy, and computer science. In international projects funded by national research councils, the European Commission and foundations, he investigates the formation of platforms and their governance, the discursive and political shaping of "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) and the increasing automation of communication. Christian is Editor-In-Chief of New Media & Society.

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