Research group EMPK is involved in a range of activities for science communication: 

Conferences

  • From February 10 - 11, 2022, research group EMPK hosted the 6th annual conference of the "Science Communication" section of the German Communication Association. Under the topic "Climate (change) communication", the diversity of communication on climate change and its scientific analysis was examined. An edited volume with a total of 12 contributions was published in the open access series "NEU-Kommunikation".  

  • The annual conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) was held in Ilmenau from May 12 - 14, 2010. Organized by the research groups EMPK and MKM, 350 scientists analyzed the topic "Media Innovations - How Media Developments Change Communication in Society". The results of the conference have been published in an edited volume of the same name.  

  • The 12th annual conference of the "Computer-mediated Communication" division (now: Digital Communication) of the German Communication Association was organized by EMPK from 6 - 8 November 2008. The conference was held on the topic of "Politics 2.0 - Politics and Computer-Mediated Communication". The results have been published in an edited volume "Politik 2.0 - Die Wirkung computervermittelter Kommunikation auf den politischen Prozess".  

  • On 20.06.2008, the research group organized a scientific colloquium on the topic of "Individualized use of media" as part of the Ilmenau Media Forum 2008. A conference volume with the same title has been published by the Ilmenau University Press and is available open access.  

Open-Access publication series: NEU-Kommunikation

The publication series „NEU-Kommunikation“ is a forum for scientific research about sustainability, energy and environmental communication. It publishes monographs, edited volumes and conference proceedings as open access gold format. For free download of all publications and further information please visit: neu-kommunikation.de

Dialogue

Dialogue is a method that enables people in political and/or ethical conflicts as well as situations of social division to actively listen to „the other“ and to gain mutual understanding. Dialogue helps to make unmanageable sitations manageable and to improve social relations in a society. Members of EMPK research group have been trained as dialogue facilitators by the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue in Norwayhttps://www.peace.no/and apply dialogue on political and social problems identified in the EMPK research projects. EMPK is a partner of the Ilmenau Dialogue Center IDC https://dialogue.iswi.org/