PRESS AND COMMUNICATION

The nearly unlimited access to GenAI is transforming how people search for information and form opinions. In the Communication Management Radar, Dr. Michelle Wloka and Professor Ansgar Zerfass from Leipzig University describe this phenomenon as “Simulated Communication.”

The Communication Management Radar identifies five key shifts for corporate communications: Simulated Communication, Constrained AI Agents, Cognitive Drift, Power Flux, Straetgic Subtraction

The Executive Board of the Academic Society for Management & Communication welcomes three new members.

Dr. Ansgar Zerfass, Professor of Strategic Communi-cation at Leipzig University in Germany, will celebrate his 60th birthday on October 11, 2025.

COMM-AIT is the world’s first scientifically based online AI competency test specifically designed for communications professionals. It was developed at the University of Leipzig in collaboration with the Academic Society for Management & Communication and Siemens AG, and is now available online free of charge.

Dr Michael Preuss and Dr Jan Dietrich Müller will join the Executive Board of the Academic Society from January 2025.

A new open-access platform and magazine has been launched to provide professionals in strategic communication, corporate affairs, and public relations with inspiring research insights.

The ECM 2024/25 shows how chief communication officers from the 300 largest European companies are tackling key challenges in geopolitical crises, artificial intelligence, and managerial learning.

The new research project at Leipzig University investigates how colleagues perceive communications departments and how they position themselves strategically to increase their recognition within the company.

The Communications Trend Radar 2024 identifies five key trends for corporate communications: Information Inflation, AI Literacy, Workforce Shift, Content Integrity und Decoding Humans