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In mehreren Projekten untersucht das Institut die neuen kinderspezifischne Datenschutzvorschriften der DSGVO mit...
How do scientific findings about journalistic media and social media get into the world? What criteria do science...
That's How Twitter Users Think
BMBF Is Funding the Development of the IfGZ
Growing Up with Digital Media
Statement on the Discussion Draft of an Interstate Media Treaty of the Länder
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In mehreren Projekten untersucht das Institut die neuen kinderspezifischne Datenschutzvorschriften der DSGVO mit Blick auf Kinderrechte, zeigt Problemstellen auf und erarbeitet zusammen mit relevanten Stakeholdern Lösungspfade.
The brochure “Kinderseiten und DSGVO: Das geht gut! [Websites for Children and the GDPR: That Works Well!“] provides information and assistance on the GDPR implementation for providers of online content for children. It was written by the German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation...
Twitter users are not many but they are loud. With their discourse on the platform, they have great influence on the coverage of “traditional media.” In his study , Dr. Sascha Hölig observed active Twitter users and recognised interesting characteristics they have. Some of them were...
How do scientific findings about journalistic media and social media get into the world? What criteria do science editors use to select topics? And what impact can scientific content have with it?
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has selected a network of research and university institutes for the establishment of the “Institut für gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt [Institute for Social Cohesion]”, including the Hans-Bredow-Institut. Eleven institutions fro...
"Courageous step, further discussions necessary", this is how the statement by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Dr. Stephan Dreyer on the discussion draft of the Interstate Media Treaty of the Länder can be summed up in a nutshell. The entire statement can be downloaded here as pdf file....
The Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research welcomes the step taken by the Länder to modernise media regulation and adapt it to new forms of supply and use. Given the developments of recent years, this step is necessary. In the area of constitutional broadcasting, the Länder have a mandate...
A new study of the Hans-Bredow-Institut and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg will examine the significance of digital media for adolescents' growing up and relationship building. die Bedeutung von digitalen Medien für das Aufwachsen und die Beziehungsgest...
Dr. Sascha Hölig examines in a study to what extent the athmosphere on Twitter reflects the current athmosphere within society. The conclusion: Twitter fails as a mood barometer. In an interview on WDR 5, he spoke today with Anja Backhaus about the "elite network" and about the risks...
The new annual report 2017/2018 provides an overview of what happened at the Hans-Bredow-Institut during the research year 2017/2018 (the admission to the Leibniz Association is within our grasp!), what research we carried out, who we cooperated with, how we promoted young researchers and if we have...
The Hans-Bredow-Institut currently invites applications for several positions of Junior Researchers in Media Law (Level 13 TV-L, 65%, limited to three years), as of 1 January 2019. Further information in German: Das international renommierte Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung an der Uni...
To what extent can algorithmic recommendation systems be part of the journalistic activity of public service media providers and take the side of (or take the place of) journalistic selection and compilation of information? In a White Paper, the main characteristics and principles of algorithmic rec...
The Open Science Conference 2019 is dedicated to the Open Science movement and provides a unique forum for researchers, librarians, practitioners, infrastructure provider, policy makers, and other important stakeholders to discuss the latest and future developments in Open Science. It will take plac...
On the topic of "Data Analytics: Von der App-Entwicklung bis hin zum Online-Journalismus [From App Development to Online Journalism]", Prof. Walid Maalej will present the results of a collaborative project with the Hans-Bredow-Institut at the Tag des Wissens [Day of Knowledge] on 22 Septem...
Within the cooperation project Transnational Media Histories between the Macquarie University in Sydney and Universität Hamburg, the Research Centre Media History is organizing an international workshop at Universität Hamburg on 12 and 13 September 2018. The workshop brings together media...
Frauentausch [Wife Swap], Dschungelcamp [The Jungle Camp], Bauer sucht Frau [Farmer Wants a Wife] – Prof. Dr. Joan Kristin Bleicher knows them all. And probably better than anyone else. Since the first German season of Big Brother, the media researcher has been interested in the media format &...
Last week, an article by Dr. Stephan Dreyer was published in the journal Computer+Unterricht [Computer+Education]. In this article, he explains the legal framework for projects in the field of multimedia storytelling in education. Computer+Unterricht is the leading journal for digital teachin...
Negative attitudes towards the media have increased in Germany in recent years. In a study recently published in the journal M&K, the authors looked for reasons for media hostility. They specifically examined the connection between populist attitudes and media hostility at the individual l...
Issue 3/2018 of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" has been published, including an article on the relationship between populist attitudes, hostility towards the media, negative emotions and participation (Schindler et al.), with a contribution that answers the question...
An article by Bredow researcher Amélie Pia Heldt has been published in the current issue of the journal Computer und Recht (CR) [Computer and Law]. In this article, she focuses on the transparency in algorithmic decisions. Despite being anchored in the General Data Protection Regulation; tran...
Mediennetz Hamburg has published an interview with BredowCast host Johanna Sebauer. In this interview, they talked about the podcast itself and its role in promoting media literacy and media education. “Why is a podcast well suited for this kind of discussion, what is the advantage of it, and...
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Klinger, junior professor at Freie Universität Berlin gave the lecture “Rage against the Machines? Social Bots, Agency und die Nicht-Neutralität von Technologien [Social Bots, Agency and the Non-Neutrality of Technologies]“ at the Hans-Bredow-Institut. Social...
In her new blog post on juwiss.de, Amélie Pia Heldt writes about the challenges to regulate “fake news.” At the beginning of 2018, President Emmanuel Macron announced a law against “fake news.” It was triggered by the dissemination of disinformation during the electio...
In recent years, media brands such as Breitbart, Epoch Times or PI-News (Politically Incorrect) have attracted attention with controversial reporting. BredowCast host Johanna Sebauer talks to media researcher Dr. Cornelius Puschmann about the so-called 'alternative media'. With often lurid...
On 13 July 2018, researchers of the Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society visited Hans-Bredow-Institut. The guests were Kirsten Gollatz, Project Manager at the HIIG in Research Programme I "The Evolving Digital Society“ and the guest researchers Dr. Alfred Früh, Clara Iglesias K...
On 18 July 2018, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the licence fee is constitutional. For Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, director of the Hans-Bredow-Institut, this decision is convincing and not surprising. In an interview with the newspaper 'Handelsblatt', Wolfgang Schulz speaks for a...
An independent research commission on the use of Facebook data in the context of elections has now officially been launched under the name Social Science One. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann from Hans-Bredow-Institut and Prof. Dr. Barbara Pfetsch, member of the scientific council of the institute, are...
Media researcher Prof. Dr. Joan Kristin Bleicher, who is also an associated researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut, writes in her latest article for the Tagesspiegel about the status quo of German reality TV. Crossover to Social Media The variety of moving image formats that the Internet and social...
How do millennials consume news? How do they inform themselves? What content do they prefer? The “die medienanstalten“, an umbrella brand of the 14 state media authorities in Germany, addresses these questions in its current Content Report 2017. The report assembles contributions of auth...
This three-day training programme is tailored to up-and-coming researchers who want to learn the skills necessary to maximize the impact of their research beyond academia. The sessions will be held by renowned experts in their respective fields and cover the three dimensions of scholarly impact: eco...
How to finance investigative Journalism best? A Team of Prof. Dr. Michel Clement (Universität Hamburg / Hamburg Business School) and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen analysed eight alternative financing models. The study, that was commissioned by the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, shows: a...
An interview with Hans Bredow on the Beginnings of Broadcasting in the First World War can now be listened to in the podcast "SWR2 Archivradio – Geschichte in Originaltönen" ["SWR Radio Archive - History in Original Sounds"]. The war was a catalyst for a whole series...
A new research project of the German Digital Opportunities Foundation in Berlin and Stiftung Ravensburger Verlag addresses the question how media-educational support for children of preschool age can be usefully designed in a dialogue between parents and pedagogical specialists. Dr. Claudia Lampert...
Edoardo Celeste, PhD candidate at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin (UCD), gave a presentation on his recent paper “Terms of service and bills of rights: new mechanisms of constitutionalisation in the social media environment?” at the institute on 19 June 2018. Late...
On 14 June 2018, the Reuters Digital News Report 2018 was presented to the public in Berlin. Dr. Sasche Hölig of the Hans-Bredow-Institut presented the findings for Germany. Since 2013, he and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink of the Hans-Bredow-Institut has been the collaborating partner responsible for...
The results for Germany of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 have been carried out by Sascha Hölig and Uwe Hasebrink and published in the series Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Instituts [Working papers of the Hans-Bredow-Institut) as No. 44. The issue can be download here (pdf). &n...
The FIFA World Cup is a media spectacle that is without equal. Our new BredowCast-host Johanna Sebauer and the media historian Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner talk about how football has developed in the media and how both spheres have influenced each other. For some people, the World Cup is a spectacular f...
The 9th Hamburg Media Symposium, organised by the Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research, the Medienanstalt Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein (MA HSH) and the Chamber of Commerce, focused on the topic of media diversity on 7 June 2018.The video documentation will be available soon. Diversity is the key...
As part of the so-called "desk swap" of the Network of Centers, Amélie Heldt spent two weeks at the Center for Cyber Law and Policy, the Israeli partner institute at the University of Haifa. The stay at the beginning of May 2018 served as a forum for institutional exchange between...
At the 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Prague, the panel of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK) (LINK) took place on the morning of 28 May 2018, in which German communication science presents itself annually with a main t...
Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars was a guest researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut from February to May 2018. As a research fellow at the Kolleg "Algorithmed Public Spheres", she conducted a study on news aggregators over the course of the Russian presidential elections in March 2018. Her...
The Annual Conference of the International Communications Association (ICA) took place in Prague from 24 to 28 May 2018. The Hans-Bredow-Institut was represented by numerous contributions. In a total of five panels and four lectures, researchers of the institute presented their current research. An...
Issue 2/2018 of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" has been published, with articles on the perception of the media coverage on the PEGIDA movement (U. Bernhard), on the perception of interactive data visualisations in journalism (E. Bussemas), on the personal characteri...
In his current contribution to the journal 'Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft' 2/2018, Dr. Sascha Hölig writes about the personal characteristics of active Twitter users. The article is available at the eLibrary of Nomos. S. Hölig (2018): Eine meinungsstarke Minderheit als S...
For the first time in the history of the Hans-Bredow-Instituts, there were three disputations in one day. On Monday, 30 April 2018, Stephan Dreyer, Markus Oermann and Florian Seitz successfully defended their doctoral theses, which they wrote at the institute. The Hans-Bredow-Institut is happy for y...
Online documentation of the lecture "Was ist uns der Reflexionsraum wert? Kultur im Radio: Hörspielkritik in der sich wandelnden Medienlandschaft [What Is the Space for Refection Worth to Us? Culture on the Radio: Radio Play Criticism in the Changing Media Landscape]" given by Hans-Ul...
Hamburg, 18 April 2018. Wiebke Loosen, Senior Researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research, has been appointed professor at Universität Hamburg. The certificate of appointment signed by university president Professor Dieter Lenzen was given to the media researcher yesterday by vice...
On 13 April 2018, the Joint Science Conference (GWK – Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz) of the Federal Government and the Länder has unanimously decided to accept the Hans-Bredow-Institut into the joint funding of the Leibniz Association. The admission is planned for the beginning of 201...
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force on 25 May 2018, will give effect to individual rights to information about using your own data for fully automated ADM systems (automated decision making, in short: ADM) that work without human intervention. However, the individ...
In her new article on the blog of Juwiss, Amélie Pia Heldt addresses the fundamental position of the citizen in the formation of public opinion on the occasion of the current debate about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. The citizen becomes the target of political and non-political advertise...
For students of the master programme ‘Journalism and Mass Communication’ at Universität Hamburg, the student council and the Hans-Bredow-Institut organised the “Medienschnack 2.0” (discussion) on the topic "Mobile Reporting – Journalismus aus der Hosentasche?...
The Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, Germany, invites applications for international postdoctoral research fellows who will conduct innovative research on the social and cultural impact of algorithms during stays of 3-12 months in Hamburg in the academic year 2018/2019. Th...
Global issues of Internet regulation and network security are dealt with quite differently in India, Brazil and Germany. A comparison of different regulatory approaches shows clear country specifics, especially in the area of data protection law. This is a result of the International Summer School &...
Hoffmann-Riem, W. (ed.) (2018): Big Data – Regulative Herausforderungen [Regulative Challenges]. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschafft. Edited by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, LL.M. With contributions by Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, Gerrit Hornung, Yoan Hermstrüwer, An...
Dreyer, S. (2018): Sorgen, Einstellungen, Wissen, Handeln: Die Ergebnisse des Jugendmedienschutz-Index aus medienpolitischer Sicht [Worries, Attitudes, Knowledge, Actions : The Findings of the Youth Media Protection Index from a Media-Political Point of View]. JMS-Report 1/2018, pp. 2-3. Download
Süss, D.; Lampert, C.; Trültzsch-Wijnen, C. W. (2018): Medienpädagogik. Ein Studienbuch zur Einführung [Media Education. An Introductory Student Handbook]. 3rd edition. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
Hölig, S.; Loosen, W. (2018): Das Publikum des Journalismus. Nachrichtenrezeption, Einstellungen und aktive Beteiligung [The Audience of Journalism. News Reception, Attitudes and Active Participation]. In: C. Nuernbergk, C. Neuberger (eds.), Journalismus im Internet [Journalism on the Internet]...
With the rejection of the popular initiative "No Billag" to abolish broadcasting fees, the future of public service broadcasting in Switzerland is now being discussed. However, also in Germany, there is a debate on whether things can continue as before. In an interview with Deutschlandfu...
The NetzDG has been in force since January, when French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a similar law at the same time. Is one of the two laws a really good solution? Stephan Dreyer and Amélie Heldt explain in this episode what it is all about. The Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) se...
Lampert, C.; Voß, M. (2018): Gesundheitsbezogene Apps für Kinder – Ergebnisse des Projekts HealthApps4Kids [Health-Related Apps for Children - Findings of the Project HealthApps4Kids]. Hamburg: Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut, February 2018 (Working Papers of the Hans-Bredow-Institut, N...
“There are plenty of legal regulations, as well as guidelines and provisions for self-regulation in advertising and at the marketplace for app providers,” says media lawyer Stephan Dreyer in an interview with Meinungsbarometer.info with a view to inappropriate advertising in digital offe...
In her blog article "From #MeToo to #RiceBunny: How Social Media Users are Campaigning in China" our guest researcher Jing Zeng describes the creativ use of nicknames and emoijs to discuss the issue of #MeToo in China. In Chinese, the phrase “rice bunny” is pronounced as &ldquo...
After a preview of the film “The Post”, freedom of the press and freedom of expression was the subject of a podium discussion on 19 February 2018 at the cinema ‘Abaton’ in Hamburg. Participants of the discussions were Johannes von Dohnanyi, journalist and author, Katharina Fe...
With a short information Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner has contributed to this radio feature on BBC Radio 3 about the development of modern classical music broadcasted in post-war West German radio, on Feb 11, 2018. Radio feature Robert Worby tells the fascinating story of how post-war West German radio,...
Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars from the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki is research fellow at the Kolleg "Algorithmed Public Spheres" from February until May 2018. During this time, Mariëlle will conduct a study on news aggregators during the Russian presidential elec...
"Der Bachelor: Weichgespült? [The Bachelor: Soft-Rinsed?]", explanatory piece by "Walulis sieht fern [Walulis Watches TV]" on stereotypes in the series "Der Bachelor [The Bachelor]" with comments by J. K. Bleicher on 22 January 2018 on YouTube, https://www.youtube....
Children and young people use media in order to position themselves within their social groups and contexts. Together with colleagues of the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, we examine in a longitudinal study what role their media repertoire and their communicative practices play and how these change over ti...
The blog post by Amélie Pia Heldt on http://www.juwiss.de addresses the draft law against misreporting on the Internet announced by the French President Emmanuel Macron, which is expected to be available by the end of 2018. Amélie Heldt explains which goals Macron wants to achieve with...
The Science Council has spoken out in favour of admitting the Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research into the Leibniz Association. The Council assesses the scientific quality of the Hans-Bredow-Institut and its structural relevance for the scientific system as "very good", its supra-regio...
Lampert, C.; Voß, M. (2018): Möglichkeiten und Grenzen digitaler Gesundheitsangebote im Unterhaltungsformat [Possibilities and Limits of Digital Health Services in Entertainment Format]. In: V. Scherenberg, J. Pundt (eds.), Digitale Gesundheitskommunikation. Zwischen Meinungsbildung und M...
The Internet has become increasingly important for the active search for health information in recent years. However, in the average population, it still lags behind personal conversations with doctors, family and friends as well as free brochures or mass media. How someone searches for health info...
From different countries and disciplines: Cornelius Puschmann was able to gather as many as four guest researchers from the postdoctoral research network "Algorithmed Public Spheres" in an internal workshop at the Institute on 29 January 2018. Together with Jing Zeng, Cédric Courtoi...
Bleicher, J. (2018): Reality TV in Deutschland - Geschichte, Themen, Formate [Reality TV in Germany - History, Themes, Formats]. Hamburg: Avinus Verlag. Publisher Information
Guest Editor Stephan Dreyer (Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research, Hamburg) and the merzWissenschaft Editing Team (JFF) welcome proposals for the special issue "Children | Media | Rights – Complex Requirements for Access, Protection and Entitlement in the Day-to-Day Media World of Chil...
In five panels and with four further presentations, members of the Hans-Bredow-Institut will be able to present their research at the annual conference of the International Communications Association ICA 2018 in Prague. Only 37.4% of all lecture and panel proposals had been accepted. Panels with Pa...
On 17 January 2018, the Media Policy Lab presented itself to the public for the first time. At a kick-off event at ALEX Berlin, guests from science, business and politics were able to get to know the lab and exchange views on network policy issues. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schu...
Julius Reimer from the Hans-Bredow-Institut & colleagues were chosen to present their research on "Opening the Black Box: Investigating the Algorithmization of Journalism" at the annual conference of the International Communications Association (ICA) 2018 in Prague in the panel for exc...
Loosen, W.; Häring, M.; Kurtanović, Z.; Merten, L.; Reimer, J.; van Roessel, L.; & Maalej, W. (2017): Making Sense of User Comments. Identifying Journalists’ Requirements for a Comment Analysis Framework. S│CM Studies in Media and Communication, 7(4), http://www.scm.nomos.de/en/archiv...
Issue 1/2018 Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft has been published, including articles on the depiction of politics in German satire shows (Politikdarstellung in deutschen Satiresendungen, authors: Dennis Lichtenstein, Cordula Nitsch), on the functions of local media for municipal politics (Fun...
A collective replica has now been published on the future of communication studies and the articles in the forum of the scientific journal Publizistik, in which, among others, Lisa Merten und Dr. Cornelius Puschmann from the Hans-Bredow-Institut were involved: Strippel, C., Bock, A., Katzenbach, C....
The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0 are pleased to announce the forthcoming Open Science Conference 2018, March 13-14, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The registration is now open. The Open Science Conference 2018 is the 5th international...
Juhi Kulshrestha, PhD candiate in the Social Computing Research group at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), is a research fellow in our Reserach Network "Algorithmed Public Spheres" from January until March 2018. Juhi is broadly interested in understanding how users are...
In a press release issued by the German UNESCO Commission on 9 January 2018, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, Chairman of the Communication and Information Committee of the German UNESCO Commission, on the occasion of the entry into force of the Network Enforcement Act, strongly recommends that the planne...
The Schader Prize 2018 goes to the communication scientist Otfried Jarren, chairman of the scientific advisory board and former director of the Hans-Bredow-Institut. Otfried Jarren is honored for his contributions to media policy and his achievements as a science manager. Jarren teaches and research...
Dr. Alina Laura Tiews has been granted a fellowship of the Leibniz Research Alliance 'Historical Authenticity': From January 2018 on, she will spend three months as a fellow at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) in Potsdam. The Leibniz Research Alliance Historical Authenti...
The adjustment of licence fees will soon be renegotiated. Reasons enough that there is currently a lively debate on the funding and the contents of public service broadcasting at the Federal State level. Why is public service broadcasting covered by licence fees and organised federally? Why do we st...
At the university of Luzern, Switzerland, Dr. Cornelius Puschmann will talk about the role of personalized search engine results in election campaigns on November 23, 2017 at 4:15 p. More information of the organizer (in German): https://www.unilu.ch/fakultaeten/ksf/institute/soziologisches-seminar...
For the next weeks and months, Jing Zeng from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Dr. Cédric Courtois will be part of our postdoctoral network 'Algorithmed Public Spheres' and will contribute to the team with their research. More a...
Brüggen, N.; Dreyer, S.; Drosselmeier, M.; Gebel, C.; Hasebrink, U.; Rechlitz, M. (2017): Jugendmedienschutzindex. Der Umgang mit onlinebezogenen Risiken. Ergebnisse der Befragung von Heranwachsenden und Eltern [Index for Youth Media Protection – Handling Online-Related Risks. Findi...
To what extent do people with disabilities have access to digital, online devices in care facilities? What opportunities and challenges does this present for the promotion of media literacy? Together with colleagues from the TU Dortmund, the Hans-Bredow-Institut analyses the media literacy in 14 car...
Hasebrink, U.; Hölig, S. (2017): Deconstructing Audiences in Converging Media Environments. In: S. Sparviero, C. Peil, G. Balbi (eds.), Media Convergence and Deconvergence. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 113–133. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51289-1_6.
Embedded in smart technologies, algorithms are taking decisions on a daily basis. What challenges arise from algorithmic decision making for human rights and for the regulation of artificial intelligence? In this blog article, Wolfgang Schulz and Anne-Kristin Polster document some initial findings w...
The collective volume "News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World" (eds.: An Nguyen), including an article by Wiebke Loosen and Julius Reimer, has been published. The different chapters of the volume do not only look on how journalists (mis-)understand and use numbers and stat...
Online Survey of Teachers and Educational Staff Is Starting Now We are looking for participants for this study: Do you work with children or young people aged between 9 and 16? Do you work in Bavaria, Hamburg or Schleswig-Holstein? If so, please participate at: https://www.soscisurvey.de/jmsp...
Schmidt, J.-H. (2018): Social Media. Second updated and expanded edition. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
The Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) commissioned the Hans-Bredow-Institut with a report on the topic of "Algorithms in Digital Media and Their Influence on Individual Opinion Formation of Users".
If Tinder works for dating, why should it not do so for news? In this project, the intuitive principle of Tinder will be applied to journalistic contents. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research promotes the development of an innovative news and information app for the city.
Hans-Bredow-Institut (2017): Annual Report 2016/2017 (pdf)
Including the article ‘Investigative Journalism for the Benefit of Public. Shedding Light on Correctiv as a New Kind of Journalism Organization Under Way’ along with contributions on journalism as a service, news consumption in Germany, communicating directly with voters in an election c...
What role do algorithms play for the constitution of the public spheres? Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Atilla-Filipe Cevik address this question in the postdoctoral research network “Algorithmed Public Spheres” and in this BredowCast. The postdoctoral research network “Algorithmed P...
It is official, she is entitled to call herself a doctor now: We congratulate Dr. Alina Laura Tiews sincerely on earning the doctoral degree and we are very happy for her! The dissertation "Fluchtpunkt Film" has been published by the Bebra-Verlag: Tiews, A. L. (2017): Fluchtpunkt Film. In...
What role do social media play for how voters inform themselves? How do social bots and fake news change election campaigns? How do they influence political opinion formation? The host Martin Fuchs and the two media researchers Jasmin Siri and Jan-Hinrik Schmidt discuss the digital world of the elec...
At the end of September, the channels will hand their proposals to the Rundfunkländerkommission [Federal State's Commission on Broadcasting], which will decide on a reform of public service broadcasting. But what does really matter? In a guest commentary in the newspaper 'Süddeutsc...
Only ten of overall 90 books made it onto the shortlist of the “Opus Primum” Award of the Volkswagen Foundation for the best publication of young researchers published in this year. The dissertation of Alina Laura Tiews is one them! The Publications that will be awarded are not only of...
Scherenberg, V.; Lampert, C. (2017): Gesundheits-Apps für Kinder. Undurchsichtiger Markt mit vielen Möglichkeiten [Health-Apps for Kids. Intransparent Market with Lots of Possibilities]. In: Dr. med. Mabuse - Zeitschrift für alle Gesundheitsberufe, 42(229), pp. 49-51.
We welcome Dr. Judith Möller from Amsterdam School of Communication Research as fellow at our post-doc Kolleq "Algorithmed Public Spheres" . Together with Dr. Cornelius Puschmann she will work on a concept for a study on how personalized search results can produce different kinds of p...
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz is part of the new permanent exhibition "Mediengeschichte/n neu erzählt" [New Tales about Media History] at the Museum für Kommunikation [for Communication] in Frankfurt. In a video statement he is one of "21 Heads Thinking Future" and reflects...
Part 2 of his findings about the role algorithmic personalization plays in Google searches about political parties and candidates Dr. Cornelius Puschmann describes in the blog entry of his post-doc kolleg "Algroithmed Public Spheres".
Following an invitation of the Volkshochschule Bremen [Adult Education Centre in Bremen], J.-H. Schmidt will give a talk on the subject of "Politische Kommunikation und Wahlkampf im Netz [Political Communication and Election Campaigns Online]" within the series "Smart Democracy"...
At the event SCICAR (Where Science Meets Computer Assisted Reporting) on 6 to 8 September 2017 at TU Dortmund, the Hans-Bredow-Institut can present two projects. "Wenn aus Daten Journalismus wird – eine wissenschaftliche Auswertung nominierter Datenjournalismus-Projekte [When Data b...
Wenn staatliche Akteure heute auch über soziale Medien mit den Bürgern kommunizieren, geht es nicht immer sachlich zu. Im neuen BredowCast spricht Daniela Friedrich mit Tobias Mast über Möglichkeiten und Grenzen staatlicher Kommunikation und diskutiert Tweets der Polizei. Nur &l...
Tiews, A. L. (2017): Fluchtpunkt Film. Integrationen von Flüchtlingen und Vertriebenen durch den deutschen Nachkriegsfilm 1945–1990 [Refuge on Screen. How Fictional Movies Integrated German Refugees and Expellees, 1945-1990]. Berlin: be.bra wissenschaft verlag.
The blog NiemannLab writes about Cornelius Puschmann's research results about the degree to which personalization affects people’s search results: http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/are-your-google-search-results-another-kind-of-filter-bubble-the-answer-seems-to-be-kind-of/
The dissertation by Alina Laura Tiews, Fluchtpunkt Film. Integrationen von Flüchtlingen und Vertriebenen durch den deutschen Nachkriegsfilm 1945–1990 [Refuge on Screen. How Fictional Movies Integrated German Refugees and Expellees, 1945-1990], has been published by the Be.Bra Verlag as vo...
Velicu, A.; Lampert, C. (2017): The Composite World of IoToys. In: G. Mascheroni; D. Holloway (eds.), The Internet of Toys: A Report on Media and Social Discourses around Young Children and IoToys. In: DigiLitEY, pp. 15-23 (pdf).
In an interview with Axel Schröder from Radio Deutschlandfunk Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz talks about his "UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Communication and Information" at the Law Department of Universität Hamburg (in German): http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/internet-kommunikation-dynami...
The Open Science Conference 2018, organized by the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0, will take place in Berlin, Germany, on March 13-14, 2018. Project presentations can be submitted until Sepember, 29th, 2017. Call for Project Presentations Open Science Conference 2018 (March 13-14, 2018 in Be...
Dankert, K.; Dreyer, S. (2017): Autonomie und Determinismus. Was sagt das Grundgesetz zu Alltagsentscheidungen durch Software? [Autonomy and Determinism. What Does the Basic Law Think about Day-to-Day-Decisions by Software?] In: S. Eder, C. Mikat, A. Tillmann (eds.), Software Takes Command. Herausfo...
From July, 24.-29, 2017, Lisa Merten will be part of the Summer School Series on Methods for Computational Social Science teil. Organized by GESIS, Greenwich University, University of Southern California and Cornell University and supported by Volkswagen-Stiftung, the summer school focuses on m...
The introduction of the special issue "Complexity" by guest editors Christian Katzenbach and Christian Pentzold can be downloaded via the Nomos-eLibrary: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/1615-634X-2017-3-483/theoriearbeit-in-der-kommunikationswissenschaft-zwischen-komplexitaetssteiger...
Pentzold, C.; Katzenbach, C. (2017): Komplexitätssteigerung und Komplexitätsreduzierung in der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Theoriebildung [Working with Theory in Communication Studies: Complexity between Complification and Simplification]. Special issue "Medien & Kommunikatio...
With how much enthusiasm our students do research on the topic of data journalism, you can here in the new 27th BredowCast (in German language). Data journalism is the topic of out project "When ‘Data’ Becomes ‘News’: A Comparative Analysis of Computational Journalism&...
Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Volker Lilienthal discuss the role of the media and their coverage of the G20 summit in Hamburg at "akademischen Tage zu G20 [Academic Days on the G20 Summit]", organised by ASta at Universität Hamburg on 5 July 2017, starting at 5 p.m. at the Department of...
PD Dr. Wiebke Loosen will discuss the question "Internetboom: Welche Zukunft haben Radio und Fernsehen? [Internet Boom: What Future Do Radio and Television Have?] in the Deutschlandfunk radio programme 'Lebenszeit' on 7 July 2017 starting at 10:10 a.m.
Schmidt, J.-H.; Hölig, S.; Merten, L.; Hasebrink, U. (2017): Nachrichtennutzung und Meinungsbildung in Zeiten sozialer Medien [News Usage and Opinion Formation in Times of Social Media]. In: Informatik Spektrum, 40(4), pp. 358–361 (pdf).
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters has published the scientific part of the Federal Government Report on Communications and Media on June 27, 2017. The report gives an overview of the development of the media in Germany between 2013 and 2016. The Hans-...
Now online: Videos and pdfs of the lectures at the lecture and discussion event "Soziale Medien: Gefahr oder Chance für Rechtsstaat und Demokratie?!!?" [Social Media: Threats or Chance State of Law for Democracy?!!?) in the Moot Court of the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, on 16 Ju...
From June 26th to June 29th, Dr. Jeannine Baker and Dr. Justine Lloyd from the Centre for Media History, Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia) are Visiting Fellows at the Research Centre Media History. The invitation to Hamburg is enabled by the MQ-FU-HAM Trilateral Strategic Partnership, a net...
Hölig, S.; Hasebrink, U. (2017): Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2017 – Ergebnisse für Deutschland [Findings for Germany]. Hamburg: Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut, Juni 2017 (Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Institut No. 42) (pdf).
Dr. Cornelius Puschmann will take part at the workshop of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University on June 29./30.6.2017.
Discussion event "Wir wollen reden – Bürgerschaft im Diskurs" [We Want to Talk – In Conversation with the Parliament] of the parliament in Bremen together with the media authority in Bremen, with a input lecture by Lisa Merten.
Since June, 14, 2017 our new website is on-line! Full of informationen, thematically interconnected, pretty and modern. We are looking forward to your comments and helpful hints on things, we could still improve!
8th Hamburger Mediensymposium [Hamburg Media Symposium], organised by the Hans-Bredow-Institut, the State Media Authority of Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (MA HSH) and the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce on the question how digitisation changes public communication.
Hepp, A.; Loosen, W.; Hasebrink, U.; Reichertz, J. (2017): Konstruktivismus in der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Über die Notwendigkeit einer (erneuten) Debatte [Constructivism in Communication Studies. The Necessity of a (Renewed) Debate]. In: Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 65 (2), pp....
Hans-Bredow-Institut (ed.): Konstruktivismus in der Kommunikationswissenschaft [Constructivism in Communication Sciences]. Special Issue "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" 65(2). Guest Editors: Andreas Hepp, Uwe Hasebrink, Wiebke Loosen, Jo Reichertz. Baden-Baden: Nomos. ...
Amélie Pia Heldt and Anne-Kristin Polster are supporting the institute's legal scientific field since April / May and are also writing their doctoral thesis this area. Amélie Heldt studied French and German law at the Universities of Paris Ouest Nanterre and Potsdam, completed an a...
With ten lectures and presentations, the Hans Bredow Institute is represented on the annual conference of the International Communications Association at the University of California, San Diego, CA, from 25 to 29 May 2017. Seven staff members of the institute were invited to present their research r...
Is the situation of refugees in Germany really new? Or are there similarities across time and countries? What are the specifics or parallels of flight and integration processes in the past and present? The new CD on the topic of "Flight and Expulsion in Broadcasting. Audio Recordings from...
With the Draft for an Act improving Law Enforcement on Social Networks (NetzDG), the German government reacts on Hate Speech and Fake News in Social Media. The draft has provoked criticism concerning freedom of speech because it creates incentives for providers to delete contents although they have...
Hamburg, 6.4.2017. Dr. Claudia Lampert gives a lecture on "Health Promotion and Digital Media - Opportunities, Limits, Challenges" at the opening event of "New Ways in Self-Help", more
The Hans-Bredow-Institut is founding member of the newly organized „News Integrity Initiative“ (NII), which will be funded by Facebook and other organisations with $ 14 millions. A group of tech industry leaders, academic institutions, non-profits and other organizations are jointl...
The network project looks at the historical and today's role of the media in the Baltic Sea Region in light of current challenges and analyses historical lines of developments of migration processes. In 2017/18, the project is funded by the Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg [Hamburg Researc...
Topic: Networking: Stability and Change of Social Communication Many scientists from the Hans Bredow Institute are speakers at the annual meeting of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft e. V. [German Society for Publishing and Communication Science] (...
Hans-Bredow-Institut (ed.) (2017): Flucht und Vertreibung im Rundfunk. Tondokumente aus den Jahren 1945 bis 1960 [Flight and Expulsion in Broadcasting. Audio Recordings from 1945 to 1960], conceptual design and text: A. L. Tiews and H.-U. Wagner. Hamburg: Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut.
Schmidt, J.-H.; Merten, L.; Hasebrink, U.; Petrich, I.; Rolfs, A (2017): Zur Relevanz von Online-Intermediären für die Meinungsbildung [Impact of Online Intermediaries on Opinion Formation]. Hamburg: Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut, (Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Institut Nr. 40 [Working Pape...
Dankert, K,.; Dreyer, S. (2017): Social Bots – Grenzenloser Einfluss auf den Meinungsbildungsprozess? [Social Bots - Unlimited Impact on Opinion Formation?] In: Kommunikation und Recht, Issue 2, pp. 73-78.
People with disabilities are still excluded from many media services and cannot join their friends or colleagues when they talk about television programmes. This is one of the outstanding results of a joint study carried out by the Hans-Bredow-Institut (Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink / Dr. Sascha Höli...
How can information processing be made transparent and controllable again for individuals and institutions by new technologies? In the current digital society, data are acquired, recorded and processed by new technologies in ever more areas of life. These types of data increasingly affect de...
Schmidt, J.-H.; Taddicken, M. (eds.) (2017): Handbuch Soziale Medien [Handbook Social Media]. Wiebaden: Springer VS.
Hans-Bredow-Institut (eds.): Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft [Media & Communication Studies], 64(4).
Video recording of the Bucerius Lab Lunch Session on 19.12.2016 How Google and Facebook influenced the US election was the subject of Bucerius Lab Lunch Session # 3 at Betahaus Hamburg on December 19, 2016. Nick Diakopoulos, Fellow at the Hans Bredow Institute, presented the results of the two top...
Hölig, S.; Hasebrink, U. (2016): Nachrichtennutzung über soziale Medien im internationalen Vergleich. Ergebnisse des Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2016 [News Consumption on Social Media in International Comparison. Findings of the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2016]. In: Me...
Wahl, S.; Grimm, M. (2016): How to Find an Alternative: A Typology of Cancer Patients’ Information Behavior with Regard to Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In: International Journal fo Communication and Health, (10), http://communicationandhealth.ro/upload/number10/STEFANIE-WAHL.pdf
Search engines, network and multimedia platforms as well as instant messaging services are crucial elements of communication and information behaviour online. They function as intermediaries because they open up numerous different sources for their users with the help of filtering algorithms and bun...
Birkner, T.; Löblich, M.; Tiews, A. L.; Wagner, H.-U. (eds.) (2016): Neue Vielfalt. Medienpluralität und -konkurrenz in historischer Perspektive [New Variety. Media Plurality and Media Competition in Historical Perspective]. Cologne: Halem (Öffentlichkeit und Geschichte, 10 [Pub...
Grimm, M.; Wolf, S.; Lampert, C. (2016): Big, Small, Or Many Data? Eine systematische Literaturschau zu digitalen Daten in der Gesundheitskommunikation [Big, Small, Or Many Data? A Systematic Literary Survey on Digital Data in Health Communication]. In: A.-L. Camerini, R. Ludolph, F. Rothenfluh, F....
Since October 2016, he belongs to us: Dr. Cornelius Puschmann is our new Senior Researcher as well as coordinator of the postdoc research group Algorithmed Public Spheres (APS) at the Hans Bredow Institute. From March to October 2016 he had alreday been woking part time at the institue, continuing w...
Seven researchers of the institute will be at the Annual Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association ECREA 2016, which takes place from November 9 - 12 in Prague. Furthermore, they will attend the Pre-Conference "Children, Youth and Media". The European Netw...
Accessibility plays a key role in the debate on inclusion. A significant aspect is the unimpeded access to media services for all people. Up until now, there has been no reliable data collection on how people with disabilities use media. A study conducted by the Hans-Bredow-Institut (Prof. Dr. Uwe H...
Loosen, W.; Reimer, J.; de Silva-Schmidt, F. (2016): Wenn aus Daten Journalismus wird. Eine Inhaltsanalyse der für die Data Journalism Awards 2013 bis 2015 nominierten Projekte [When Data Become Journalism. A Content Analysis of the Nominated Projects for the Data Journalism Awards from 2013 to...
The plenary panel discussion “Who Rules the Internet?” was the only public event that took place on October 6 at the AoIR2016, with about 600 guests attending. The annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers 2016 was hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Int...
A third of all media reports on the transfer of players in the Bundesliga [German Soccer League] turns out to be wrong. This is the conclusion reached by the study “Mailand oder Madrid?! Eigenschaften und Verlässlichkeit der Fußball-Transferberichterstattung in Deutschland“ [&...
Tagung des Leibniz-Forschungsverbunds Historische Authentizität, des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam und des Hans-Bredow-Instituts am 13./14.07.2017 in Potsdam, Einreichungen bis 25.03.2017 möglich „Medien“ und „Authentizität“...
Hans-Bredow-Institut (2016): Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft [Media & Communication Studies]. 2016.3.
Hans-Bredow-Institut (2016): Annual Report 2015/2016 (pdf).
In order to find out what has to be considered for future developments of youth media protection, children and young people, parents and pedagogues are asked for their individual perspectives.
Lampert, C.; Kühn, J. (2016): Kommunizieren, Koordinieren, Kontrollieren. Zur Rolle von mobil genutzten Instant-Messaging-Diensten in der Familie [Communicate, Coordinate, Control. On the Role of Used Mobile Instant Messaging Services for Families]. In: Studies in Communication Sciences, DOI: 1...
The project MIRACLE (Machine-readable and Interoperable Age Classification Labels in Europe), a project co-financed by the EU Commission, has completed the development of a common data model for interoperable electronic age indicators at the end of July. Under the direction of the Hans-Bredow-Instit...
The Hans-Bredow-Institut has written the academic report on the current development of media in Germany for the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien [German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media]. The report provides significant parts to the Federal Governme...
How the sensitive topic cancer was addressed in the entertainment television series “Club der roten Bänder” [Red Band Society]” is the focus of this project.
Relationships between media and by media do not stop at borders. The cooperative project with the Macquarie University in Sydney investigates such transnational histories of media.
The 7th European Communication Conference (ECC) of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) will take place from 31 October 2018 to 3 November 2018 in Lugano in Switzerland. Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen and Julius Reimer from the Hans-Bredow-Institut will also be at this international...
LANgelegt [Incapacitated]: The Internet is gone and nothing works anymore: How protected are our data networks from blackout? And are we prepared for an emergency?
The future of research will be decentralised! As one of the official event partners, we cordially invite you to the 1st international Conference on Blockchain for Science, Research and Knowledge Creation, taking place during the Berlin Science Week. Early bird tickets are available until 1 October 2018:...
How protection against online risks is implemented and promoted in schools and in out-of-school youth work and education will be the subject of the second presentation showing the results of our cooperation project with fsm and jff.
Über den "Mythos Jugendschutzmaschinen: Reichweite, Grenzen und Fragen automatisierter Inhaltsbewertungen durch Software" hält Dr. Stephan Dreyer den Impulsvortrag im Rahmen der Veranstaltung "KJM im Dialog – Jugendschutz ex Machina: Neue Möglichkeiten im technischen...
Dr. Claudia Lampert represents the Hans-Bredow-Institut at the Medienkompetenztag [Media Literacy Day] of the Media Authority Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (MA HSH) in Kiel-Gaarden with the topic "Creator, Influencer & Co. – Wer beeinflusst die Kinder [Who Influences the Children]" You...
The HIIG and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb present an academic lecture series on Making Sense of the Digital Society, this time with Nick Couldry talking about Colonised by data – the hollowing out of digital society.
Unter dem Titel "Schmutz, Schutz und Teilhabe" gibt Dr. Stephan Dreyer eine rechtswissenschaftliche Einordnung von wohlverstandenen Interessen und dem Recht auf Beteiligung von Kindern. Die 14. Interdisziplinäre Tagung von JFF, BLM, Deutschem Kinderhilfswerk und dem Bayerischen Staatsministerium...
The Open Science Conference 2019 is the 6th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. It is dedicated to the Open Science movement and provides a unique forum for researchers, librarians, practitioners, infrastructure provider, policy makers, and other important stakeholders...
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