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Sascha Hölig Receives Fritz Thyssen Foundation Award
Media Use in German Refugee Camps 1945-2000
Matthias Kettemann Habilitated in New Subject Internet Law
The study, commissioned by the EU Commission, examines how the EU strategy Better Internet for Kids (BIK)...
The international report on news usage will be published on 12 June 2019. The findings for Germany were again compiled...
This book project, drawn up in the run-up to the Internet Governance Forum organised by Germany in November 2019,...
Research with Facebook Data for the First Time
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Das Themenheft möchte Beiträge versammeln, die sich mit übergeordneten Fragen der Entwicklung, Methodologie, Anwendung oder auch der Nachhaltigkeit von Forschungssoftware im Bereich der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft befassen. Herausgeber*in: Andreas Hepp, Wiebke Loosen, Uwe H...
Aktuelle Fragen und Befunde zu Zusammenhängen zwischen der Konstruktion von Geschlecht und digitaler Medientechnik (Geräte und Anwendungen) will das M&K-Themenheft in theoretischen und empirischen Beiträgen bieten. Gastherausgeber*innen: Corinna Peil, Kathrin Müller, Ricarda...
Über die Ausgestaltung des Mediensystems in Schleswig-Holstein schreibt Dipl.-Soz. Hermann-Dieter Schröder im Sammelband „Politik und Regieren in Schleswig-Holstein“, herausgegeben von Wilhelm Knelangen und Friedhelm Boyken. Im ersten Teil werden Organisation und Verbrei...
Since July 2019, Paul Solbach has been a doctoral candidate at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research HBI, and has been working on the DFG project "Pioneer Journalism: The Re-Figuration of Journalism's Organizational Foundations." His work focuses on the research of start-ups, incuba...
The second place of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation Award for Social Science Essays of 2018, endowed with 1000 EUR, goes to Dr. Sascha Hölig for his article "Eine meinungsstarke Minderheit als Stimmungsbarometer?! Über die Persönlichkeitseigenschaften aktiver Twitterer [Sensing the...
Amélie Pia Heldt writes in her article on the blog of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) about the current protests in Hong Kong and the risks of the smart city. The ideal vision of a Smart City is that services and objects are connected to the public...
There are specific information needs and media use practices in refugee shelters. Philipp Seuferling explores them and talks about it in the new episode of the BredowCast. To the Podcast Over the past decades, Germany has experienced a number of refugee movements. People from various countries fou...
Our new event series Leibniz Media Lunch Talks brings media research to the lunch table. Researchers from our institute or guests from outside present their projects in a relaxed atmosphere. You are welcome to bring your own lunch. Please register briefly at info@leibniz-hbi.de. Freedom...
Katharina Mosene joined the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans-Bredow-Institut in July 2019. She is a political scientist (M.A.) and is responsible for the research and event cooperation at the HBI, especially in the context of the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and the Network...
All presentations of the 10th Hamburg Media Symposium are now available online as video. What rules structure our online world? How it is decided what is allowed online? And how do social actors behave? These questions were the focus of the event, which was organised on 6 June 2019 by the Leibniz In...
The three best communication science articles of the year 2018 can all be found in our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" [Media & Communication Studies], according to the German Communication Association (DGPuK) at their annual meeting. Among the awards for outstanding...
With Johannes Schmees, we have another junior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │Hans-Bredow-Institut. Since July 2019 he has been responsible for the interdisciplinary project of the Volkswagen Foundation “Deciding About, By and Together with Algorithmic Decision Making S...
In their contribution to the volume Human Rights, Digital Society and the Law, Matthias Kettemann and Wolfgang Benedek show that freedom of expression is a central right of the information society and that states and companies have certain obligations to protect it. States have a duty to prot...
The article by Philipp Seuferling deals with the media use of refugees in Germany between 1945 and 2000. It was published in the open access journal "Media and Communication". This article provides a historical perspective on media practices in refugee camps. Through an analysis of...
On 26 June 2019, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann obtained the first lectureship in Internet Law in Germany. His inaugural lecture with the title "Asymmetrische Kommunikation als Herausforderung für das Recht [Asymmetrical Communication as a Challenge for Law]" marked the conclusion of th...
Anna Boch, PhD candidate in Sociology at Stanford University, is guest researcher at the institue from June to August, She is researching public opinion on online hate speech and content moderation, using approaches from sociology, communication studies, and law. Anna Boch’s dissertation proj...
The study, commissioned by the EU Commission, examines how the EU strategy Better Internet for Kids (BIK) is being implemented in the individual Member States and draws up a BIK Policy Map III on this basis.
Fritz Bauer's plea against the vilification of the resistance fighters of 1952 is only one of the audio documents that Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner included in his article "Fritz Bauer und das Radio [Fritz Bauer and the Radio]" in contemporary historical research. Wagner, Hans-Ulrich...
Amélie Pia Heldt's article "Reading Between the Lines and the Numbers: An Analysis of the First NetzDG Reports" in Internet Policy Review examines the activity reports that platforms, which receive more than 100 complaints a year, must publish under the NetzDG. The article is av...
"We don't need new basic and human rights for the 'internet age'. The rules already in force are sufficient. They only have to be applied in a technology-sensitive way," argues Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann in the section 'Standpunkt' of the Tagesspiegel Background Digitali...
The international report on news usage will be published on 12 June 2019. The findings for Germany were again compiled by the HBI and can then be downloaded as a pdf file. Around 2,000 people per country were interviewed in 2019. In total, the study is based on 75,749 respondents from 38 countries i...
In the volume Medienerziehung in der digitalen Welt. Grundlagen und Konzepte für Familie, Kita, Schule und Soziale Arbeit [Media Education in the Digital World. Foundations and Concepts for Family, Kita, School and Social Work], Dr. Stephan Dreyer writes about media education from a constitutio...
Dr. Stephan Dreyer and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz ask the following question in their contribution to the Völkerrechtsblog [international law blog]: To what extent can the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) protect the interests of individuals, groups and society as a whole that appea...
In their contribution to the Content Report 2018 of the State Media Authorities, Dr. Sascha Hölig and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink explain the relevance of broadcasting in various information repertoires. [...] Nachrichteninhalte des Rundfunks [haben] offline wie online eine sehr hohe Reichwe...
Igor and Gabriela are fictional characters created by media researcher Dr. Jonathon Hutchinson. In his current project, Jonathon tries to uncover patterns in YouTube’s recommender system. For that purpose he created individual YouTube accounts for five different fictional characters and observ...
From 6 to 17 June 2019, Dr. Karen Pearlman from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) will be a guest at the Institute for Media and Communication (IMK) at Universität Hamburg. Dr. Pearlman is an accomplished film scholar and an impressive filmmaker/documentary filmmaker. Together with Dr. H...
From 16 to 19 September 2019, the interdisciplinary summer school "Governance Technologies: Privacy, Fairness & Transparency" will take place in Hamburg. It is aimed at young PhD students as well as post-docs interested in the interface between computer science, law and philosophy. You...
The Junges Forum: Technikwissenschaften JF:TEC met on 23 May 2019 for a first workshop at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut. The programme included the discussion of disciplinary perspectives on the topic of decisions, the presentation of current projects, publications...
The International Communication Association (ICA) invites participants to its annual conference in Washington, D.C., from 24 to 28 May 2019. Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut will also be there to present their work in various panels. The Contrib...
Philip Baugut and Katharina Neumann write about the relations between journalists and right-wing extremists (Beziehungen zwischen JournalistInnen und Rechtsextremisten) in the new issue of M&K. Further articles deal with the digital change of the knowledge order (Neuberger et al.), research ethi...
This book project, drawn up in the run-up to the Internet Governance Forum organised by Germany in November 2019, clears up misconceptions about the impact and reality of the Internet and explains fact-based, vividly and practically what science knows about Internet-based communication.
Expert opinion by Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann as expert for the public hearing on the Network Enforcement Act at the invitation of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection of the German Bundestag on 15 May 2019. the entire expert opinion as pdf Central Statements The process of a...
What rules structure our online world? How it is decided what is allowed online? And how do social actors behave? These questions will be discussed at the 10th Hamburg Media Symposium of MA HSH, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research on 6 June 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in t...
In a dossier of the Federal Agency for Civic Education on the subject of "Digital Disinformation", Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt writes about the media logic of information intermediaries such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. "Mit dem Internet, und speziell mit den sozialen Medien,...
The European Union elects its Parliament at the end of May. Could fake news affect the result? How can we take legal action against this? Is that even supposed to happen? Johanna Sebauer asked the media law expert Dr. Matthias Kettemann. Lies are not forbidden. Who lies has to bear in most cases...
Amélie Pia Heldt published in the anniversary edition of JIPITEC (Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law) "10 Years of JIPITEC" the article "Upload-Filters: Bypassing Classical Concepts of Censorship?" Protecting human r...
The 64th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) attracted about 500 participants from the scientific and practical fields of communication science. This topic this year was "Integration durch Kommunikation in digitalisierten Öffentlichkeiten [Integration through...
For the first time in history, Facebook grants science access to its data records. As part of the SHARENEWS project, Dr. Cornelius Puschmann is investigating the criteria according to which Facebook users share messages on the platform. Facebook, with its approximately two billion users worldwide,...
Amélie Heldt writes about the difficulty of regulating fake news in a dossier on the subject of "digital disinformation" published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Der Begriff "Fake News" ist seit einigen Jahren omnipräsent. Im engeren Sinne sind dam...
On the Internet, we reach news via a wide variety of channels. For example, via search engines, social media or via the news sites directly. The authors Judith Möller, Robbert Nicolai van de Velde, Lisa Merten and Cornelius Puschmann trace these paths in a guest article on the blog of the...
Our PhD student Amélie Heldt is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She wrote a guest article on EU copyright reform for the blog of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). "On March 26, 2019, the European Union (EU) Parliament voted...
The Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut is participating in Sommer des Wissens [Summer of Knowledge] with five events from 20 to 23 June 2019. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Universität Hamburg, Hamburg's universities and research institutions are transf...
A 13-member jury, including Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner, has nominated three works for the 68th Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden [Radio Play Award of the War Blinds], which will be awarded on 7 May at Deutschlandfunk Köln. The winner of the renowned award, awarded by the Bund der Kriegsblinden e...
"Radio-Kulturen im medialen Wandel. Eine Standortbestimmung und vier Thesen zur Lage des kulturorientierten Hörfunks [Radio Cultures in Media Change. An Assessment of the Current Situation and Four Theses on the Situation of Culture-Oriented Radio]" by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner can be re...
Since April 2019, Anna Sophia Tiedeke is part ot the team of our research area "Regulatory Structures and the Emergence of Rules in Online Spaces“. She studied law at Universität Hamburg and Université Panthéon-Sorbonne I in Paris with a focus on European and Internatio...
Maris Männiste and Dr. Cristiano Ferri joined the postdoctoral research group "Algorithmed Public Spheres“, led by Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, in April 2019. In the picture from left to right: Dr. Cristiano Ferri, Dr. Jonathon Hutchinson, Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Dr. Felix Victor M&uum...
The "Institute for Social Cohesion" is in the conception phase. What is social cohesion and how can it be explored? A workshop discussion with Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt. In the summer of 2018, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) selected eleven research institutions from te...
Johanna Sebauer, host of the BredowCast and science communicator at the institute, has received a scholarship from the Burgenland Cultural Department for the artist studio in Paliano, Italy. There, she is allowed to devote the month of April to free writing. Johanna Sebauer has already published sh...
The article by Matthias Klatt on the Jurisdiction of the Federal Constitutional Court concerning "Acting Judges" is published in the Neuen Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht. It is available on the publisher's website, the download is subject to a charge. Klatt, Matthias K.:...
The controversial EU copyright reform is currently putting thousands of people on the streets. The amendment is to be voted on in the EU Parliament at the end of March. At the Science Media Center Germany, Dr. Stephan Dreyer presented his view on the new copyright law and explained possible risks....
Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube and Twitter are increasingly becoming a vehicle for the strategic use of information by states (so-called dis/information operations). These platforms, which are conceptually defined as 'social media', provide their users with a wide range of opportunities to obt...
In parent blogs, people give an insight into their everyday family life and thereby also affect children's rights, especially with regard to privacy and informational self-determination. The article by Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt published in the journal merz - Zeitschrift für Medienpädagog...
Online intermediaries such as search engines, social network sites, or video platforms provide access to diverse content; however, there is a school of thought that argues that they may also contribute to the structural deformation of the public sphere. To assess the impact of these Web-based servic...
A global economic sector has emerged from the trade with likes, followers and commentaries. Prof. Dr. Patrick Vonderau is researching it. Likes, followers, shares and comments can be bought. Quite legally and often with just a few clicks. " The trade with the digital good is also called...
On the Internet, our data goes a long way, which is often difficult to understand. Florian Wittner followed them and wanted to know which one of the many actors in the so-called "platform ecosystems" is responsible for data protection. We rarely interact online with just one provider, but...
Issue 1/2019 M&K contains articles on media reporting on football referees (Schäfer/Eschmann), on the construct of media disenchantment (Fawzi/Obermaier), on the dexterity of news language (Lange/Kouros/Schwab), on the opportunities of digitalisation for publishing in communication science...
Understanding how citizens keep themselves informed about current affairs is crucial for a functioning democracy. Extant research suggests that in an increasingly fragmented digital news environment, search engines and social media platforms promote more incidental, but potentially more shallow mode...
The international cooperation project investigates how the Internet has changed and will continue to change societies in the USA, Europe and China.
Youth protection programmes as a form of technical protection of minors from harmful media have not really made it into the minds and hearts of parents, educational specialists and media providers. Once celebrated as an achievement of the Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media (J...
The problems children and young people face in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Norway, and Slovakia when dealing with digital media can be seen in the preliminary report of a current survey conducted by the research network EU Kids Online. The report was published on the occasion of the ‘S...
Students with a focus on Media Law as well as European and International Law have the opportunity to participate in an international summer school on “Law, Internet and Democracy” being held from 25 to 31 March in Delhi, India. The summer school brings together a diverse group of schola...
The registration for the 6th International Open Science Conference is now open. The Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0 invites you from 19 to 20 March 2019 to Berlin. The event is dedicated to the open science movement and offers researchers and practitioners a unique platform for exchange, discu...
A population survey collects representative data for the first time on the tasks assigned to journalists by the German population. These will then be compared with existing data on the self-perception of journalistic roles.
The project investigates the broadcasting activities of the Hamburg author Siegfried Lenz (1926-2014) and explores the development of the cultural value of public service broadcasting.
The fabrication scandal surrounding Claas Relotius shook the media world at the end of 2018. A few weeks have passed since then, and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, a journalism researcher, looks at the events and background information with some distance in the current BredowCast. In December 2018, short...
Analysis by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Dr. Stephan Dreyer, commissioned by the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Algorithmic systems evaluate people – which poses risks – for us as individuals, for groups and for society as a whole. It is therefore important that algorithmic processes be auditab...
In a digitally connected world, the question of how to respect, protect and implement human rights has become unavoidable. This contemporary Handbook offers new insights into well-established debates by framing them in terms of human rights. It examines the issues posed by the management of key Inte...
With us as guest researcher until the middle of June 2019: Dr. Jonathon Hutchinson, lecturer for online communication and media at the University of Sydney/Australia, will conduct research on automated media and algorithms in media within the postdoc-kolleg Algorithmed Public Spheres. As the curren...
His objective has the protection of minors from harmful media clearly in sight: to enable children and young people to grow up safely with media. Risks and dangers in media relations should be kept away from them. But creating laws for it is anything but easy. Who regulates what in the protection of...
The Hans-Bredow-Institut is a member of the Leibniz Association since 1 January 2019. This is the biggest change in the history of the Institute. In this special edition of the BredowCast, Johanna Sebauer talks to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, one of the two directors of the Institute, about the signif...
We are very happy to welcome Mag. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard) as a new senior researcher at our institute. As of today (15 January 2019), he is head of the research programme "Regulatory Structures and the Emergence of Rules in Online Spaces.” In line with his previous work...
The Federal Government adopted the “Report on Media and Communications 2018” on 9 January 2019. In its political part, the report summarises the current challenges to a media order that is committed to freedom of the media and expression, supports fair competition and safeguards the dive...
The conference paper “The Unlikely Siblings in the GDPR Family: A Techno-Legal Analysis of Major Platforms in the Diffusion of Personal Data in Service Ecosystems” addresses the topic of data protection in platform ecosystems. Using a techno-legal analysis method, they trace the path of...
Since the beginning of 2019 the Hans-Bredow-Institut fr Media Research has been a member of the renowned Leibniz Association and shows this with its new name: Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI). The decision to accept the Hans-Bredow-Institut as a new member was made b...
The interdisciplinary basic research project examines the opportunities and limitations of algorithmic decision making systems by using the example of their use in criminal justice systems.
How the topic of migration can be dealt with in class is explained in the current “Eckert-Dossier”, including the contribution “Ohren auf! Historische Radiosendungen zu ‚Flucht und Vertreibung‘ als neue Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte und Ressourcen für die Gesc...
The quality and quantity of economic reporting has changed significantly in recent years. This is the consensus of the panel of experts, which was broadcasted in the programme "Standpunkte TV [Standpoints TV]" on "Wirtschaftsberichterstattung im Norden [Economic Reporting in the North...
Mark Zuckerberg announced that an independent body resembling a sort of "Supreme Court" could function as a complaint office for users in controversial content issues in the future. In episode 38 of the BredowCast, the lawyer Amélie Heldt explains the legal issues raised by this pro...
Algorithmic recommendation systems in public service programmes are generally reasonable and justified, but it strongly depends on its design. This is the conclusion of the study "Algorithmic Recommendations. Functionality, Meaning and Peculiarities for Public Service Broadcasters". The fi...
How to explore ‘communicating port cities’ in three continents – this was the topic of the 'Transnational Media Histories'-workshop 2018. The event took place from 12 to 13 September 2018 at Universität Hamburg, a workshop within the 'MQ-FU-HAM Trilateral Strategi...
Changes in journalism and the relationship between journalists and the audience are the focus of three research projects that have recently been granted funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The three projects originate from the research project “Communicative Figurations” and...
The Annual Report in English language informs about the developments towards our membership in the Leibniz Association, our mission, research, publications and events in 2017 and 2018. Hans-Bredow-Institut (ed.) (2018): Annual Report. Hamburg: Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut (pdf).
Together with ten other institutions, the Hans-Bredow-Institut will develop a concept for the establishment of a decentralised "Institute for Social Cohesion" over the course of a year.
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 Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung becomes a member of the Leibniz Association on 1 January 2019. This was decided by the general meeting at the 24th annual conference of the Leibniz Association on Thursday, 29 November 2018. The Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung aus Ber...
Issue 4/2018 M&K focuses on the topic "Selbstbestimmung in der digitalen Welt [Self-Determination in the Digital World]", published by Hartmut Wessler, Patrik Haffner & Eike Mark Rinke. This issue includes articles by the guest editors as well as Adrian Meier; Kathrin Friederike M&...
For people with disabilities, lack of equipment and lack of Wi-Fi are the biggest obstacles to Internet participation. These are findings of a study on “Media Literacy in Care Facilities for People with Disabilities in Bremen”, which has been conducted by Jun. Prof. Ingo Bosse and Dr. Na...
Cancer patients frequently use media to search for information on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Media coverage may influence their perception and decision making. Against the background of the framing concept, we analyze the portrayal of CAM in magazines that specifically address can...
How to deal with digital media is like learning to ride a bike – even if you fall flat on your face at the beginning. Once you have learned how to handle it, it is liberating but it can also be risky. Using this analogy, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink explains the protection of minors in the media as...
The international research network EU Kids Online currently interviews children and young people aged 9 to 17 in 21 European countries about their online experiences. The representative surveys include 1000 interviews in each country. The scope and nature of online activities, risks, media literacy...
Michael Grimm's article "Visuelle Evidenz? Eine qualitative Bildtypenanalyse zur Visualisierung von Evidenz in Fernsehbeiträgen [Visual Evidence? A Qualitative Analysis of Image Types for the Visualisation of Evidence in Television Reports]" has been published in the conference pr...
The "International Declaration on Information and Democracy“ wants to create some sort of a constitution for the public. In her new blog article at JuWiss.de, Amélie Heldt analyses how useful this is. An international commission consisting of journalists, Nobel laureates and membe...
(06 November 2018) - The Index for Youth Media Protection is the result of a far-reaching study that interviewed teachers and educators in Germany to assess online risks for young people. The index was iniated and published by the German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Digital Media Ser...
Dr. Claudia Lampert spoke with the magazine "Gesunde Stadt [Healthy City]" of the Wiener Gesundheitsförderung [Vienna Health Promotion] about growing up healthy in the digital world and how parents can support this. One of the things she explains is what sense mobile phone bans make...
The jurisprudential dissertation by Dr. Stephan Dreyer examines how legislators come to their decisions in the field of the protection of minors in the media, even if they have knowledge deficits in this area and must judge on an uncertain basis.
Is there a "basic right to Internet access" in Germany? Dr. Markus Oermann pursued this question in his jurisprudential dissertation "Gewährleistung der Möglichkeit internetbasierter Kommunikation. Eine Vermessung des grundgesetzlichen Schutzkonzepts [Ensuring the Possibilit...
The Hans-Bredow-Institut was represented with numerous contributions at the 7th European Communication Conference (ECC) of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), which took place from 31 October to 3 November 2018 in Lugano, Switzerland. Contributions of the Hans-Bre...
The Hans-Bredow-Institut participated in the first Vielfaltsbericht [Diversity Report] of die medienanstalten with an article by Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Dr. Sascha Hölig. In this article, the authors observe the role of social media within the news usage of Germans and put the results into...
In several projects, the institute is investigating the new child-specific data protection regulations of the GDPR with regard to children's rights, identifying problem areas and working together with relevant stakeholders to develop solutions.
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...
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....
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. For this project, we are looking for families from Hamburg or Nuremberg and the surrou...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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 &...
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...
In dubio pro Data. Online data is like fingerprints for investigators today. Chat messages and data in the cloud help to convict criminals. Is everything going to be safer or is there room for new crime? At the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), moderator Katja Weber (radioeins,...
Leibniz Media Lunch Talk with Anna Boch (Stanford, currently guest researcher at the HBI) from 12–1.15 p.m., 3rd floor in the institute. Please bring your own lunch! Recently, colleges and universities across the United States had to choose whether to allow controversial speakers on campus, facing...
Guest in our series "Leibniz Media Lunch Talk", 1–2 pm: Dr. Anna Sophie Kümpel, research associate at the Institute for Communication Science and Media Research of the LMU Munich. In her research, she deals with diverse forms of public communication in social online media and specifically...
Responding appropriately to disinformation on the Internet is seen as one of the major challenges for politicians, companies and civil society. In the media, the danger is often placed abroad. For example, states would be attacked from abroad by means of disinformation operations and thus undermine democratic...
The Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut will be present with the following contributions at the Future of Journalism Conference 2019 in Cardiff, Wales: Julius Reimer: The Incomputable Audience: The Social Construction of Journalists’ Perceptions of Users Sascha Hölig,...
From 16 to 19 September 2019, the interdisciplinary summer school "Governance Technologies: Privacy, Fairness & Transparency" will take place in Hamburg. It is aimed at young PhD students as well as post-docs interested in the interface between computer science, law and philosophy. Young...
Julius Reimer gives the presentation A beautiful but dangerous beast? Challenges and Potentials of Interdisciplinary Research using the Example of Collaborations with Computer Science in Applied Journalism Research in the context of the annual conference of the German Communication Association’s...
For the first time, the largest international conference for journalistic research takes place in Germany. Investigative research, data journalism, cross-border cooperation and freedom of the press - more than 1,000 journalists from over 130 countries will discuss these and other topics in Hamburg from...
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