GGR will hold the 39th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar which will be held as below:

■Title: Figurations of Digital Futures – or: Why We Need to Move from a Perspective of Consequence to One of Emergence

■ Speaker: Andreas Hepp (Professor, Media and Communications, Head of ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany)

■Date/Time: May 7th, 2025 (Wednesday), 12:40-13:40

■Place: Kunitachi Campus, Hitotsubashi University (The venue will be notified upon pre-registration)

■Language: English

■Pre-registration: https://forms.gle/bfou4GRatcAxo7e97

About the speaker:

Dr Andreas Hepp is Professor of Media and Communications, Head of ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, Germany, and spokesperson of the Research Unit “Communicative AI: The transformation of societal communication”. He was Visiting Researcher and Professor at leading institutions such as the London School of Economics and Political Science, Goldsmiths University of London, Université Paris II Panthéon ASSAS, Stanford University and others. His research focuses on mediatization, datafication, automation of communication, communicative AI, media use and appropriation. He is the author of 12 monographs including “The Mediated Construction of Reality” (with Nick Couldry, 2017), “Transcultural Communication” (2015) and “Cultures of Mediatization” (2013). His latest book is “Deep Mediatization” (2020). Andreas Hepp is currently working on a book on pioneer communities and digital futures to be published by Polity Press.

We are looking forward to your participation.

Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR)