Hans-Bredow-Institut - Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung

"MORE COMPREHENSIBLE, NOT SO POLITICAL" - INSIGHTS INTO THE NEEDS AND USAGE PRACTICES OF LOW-INFORMATION-ORIENTED YOUNG PEOPLE

More and more adolescents and young adults do not find their interests and concerns reflected in the traditional news media. Instead, social media offerings play an important role for this group of young people. They stay up to date almost exclusively via casual information contacts on TikTok and YouTube, preferring entertaining content and pursuing individual interests that they also talk about among their friends.

TRUST IN ESTABLISHED NEWS SOURCES AND ITS INFLUENCE ON DIGITAL INFORMATION CHOICES

The project examines the relationship between the news sources people use and the trust people place in news. It is based on data from the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey.

CAPACITIES AND COMPETENCES IN DEALING WITH HATE SPEECH AND HOSTILITY TOWARDS SCIENCE (KAPAZ)

Verbal attacks and threats against researchers on social media are a significant part of hostility towards science. This project develops strategies and measures to deal with these attacks and their effects at the level of both individual scientists and institutions to make the science system more resilient and adaptable to current developments.

Latest News

News, new research projects and publications from the Institute

Library and Office Secretariat Open Tuesdays to Thursdays - by Appointment Only

The library of the HBI is open Tuesdays to Thursdays, but only by prior appointment. After registering at bibliothek@leibniz-hbi.de, time slots will be allocated during which you can work in the library. If you have any questions, please contact our library team by e-mail at bibliothek@leibniz-hbi.d...

Dissertation published

News Must Die for News to Live

Online news is still used relatively rarely, with people often relying on friends and family for political information. Michael Reiss' dissertation develops an improved method for measuring online news consumption and argues in favour of comprehensively investigating various sources of informati...

Working Paper

The Lazy Legislature

In their working paper, media lawyers Tobias Mast and Christian Ollig look at a new, unconventional approach to legislation on the EU level. With the Digital Services Act and the Terrorist Content Online Regulation, the European legislator recently chose a new legislative technique...

Open Access

M&K-Themenheft "Telegram in der politischen Öffentlichkeit"

Our journal Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (M&K) focuses on the messenger service Telegram in its current issue 3-4/2023. It was edited by HBI researchers Gregor Wiedemann, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Jan Rau, Felix Victor Münch and Philipp Kessling. The entir...

Legislation on Sexual Offences as a Violation of Children's Rights

Sexting im Strafrecht

The consensual exchange of intimate image content (sexting) is now part of the reality of life for many children and young people who are developing sexually and exploring their sexuality in the digital space. Sünje Andresen and Stephan Dreyer, together with two colleagues from the "Arbeit...

Podcast: 100 Years of Radio

The Radio Journey

"Attention, attention! This is the transmitting station Berlin". These sentences marked the beginning of the "entertainment radio service by wireless telephone" in Germany in 1923. To mark the occasion, HBI media historian Hans-Ulrich Wagner spoke to Gábor Paál...

Podcast!

Mediensozialisation in der Langzeitstudie

Paulina Domdey and Katrin Potzel explain how children and young people grow up in a changing media environment and describe how to conduct research over a long period of time, using their research on media socialization as an example. The "Connected Kids" project aims to find out how chi...

Anthology

The Science-Media Interface

This open-access anthology combines current studies on science journalism, science communication, information science, and scientific communication. It discusses the interplay between publisher-driven and journalistic science communication and its impact on the science communication system. T...

Study Findings Available for Download

„Verständlicher, nicht so politisch“ – Einblicke in die Bedürfnisse und Nutzungspraktiken gering informationsorientierter junger Menschen

More and more adolescents and young adults do not find their interests and concerns reflected in the traditional news media. They have little interest in current world events, hardly use any information offered by established media and are therefore hardly reached by journalistic offerings. Instead,...

Article in "Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht"

Staatsferne der Medien und Staat im Diskurs

In the "Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht" [Journal of Copyright and Media Law], Tobias Mast discusses the incongruities between the constitutional figure of state neutrality of the media and the jurisdiction on the public relations of state agencies, which has recent...

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr. Johannes Schmees!

On 26 September 2023, Johannes Schmees successfully defended his dissertation on "Rechtsschutz durch Entscheidungsarchitekturen – Skizze einer deskriptiven Systematik zur Erfassung staatlich-exekutiver Entscheidungsbildung bei der Implementation algorithmisc...

Current Findings on Situation and Change

Journalismus in Deutschland 2023

In this working paper, Wiebke Loosen, Anna von Garmissen, Elsa Bartelt and Tim van Olphen present first findings from a representative survey involving 1,221 journalists in Germany, conducted between September 2022 and February 2023. The study is funded by the German Research Founda...

Jan-Hinrik Schmidt as an Expert on arte Program

Do Lies Make Our World Better?

The latest episode of the arte program "42 - The Answer to Almost Everything" looks at the phenomenon of lying and asks whether lies are always and exclusively bad, or whether they might not even make our world a better place. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt looks at the topic from his favorite place o...

Podcast!

Finnish Journalism and the Research of it

Journalism researcher Laura Ahva talks about the challenges and developments in Finnish journalism and how it is being researched. Laura Ahva is a junior professor for "Journalism Studies" at the University of Tampere and a visiting researcher at the HBI until the end of 2023. In a conv...

Small is Beautiful

HBI Coordinates Knowledge Forum for "Small Tech" Platforms

A regular policy table is to facilitate future exchanges between representatives of small and medium-sized social media platforms and the scientific community. Researchers of the HBI make scientific findings available in dialog with practitioners. At the same time, the practical experience of...

New Guest Researcher from Vienna

A Warm Welcome to Maximilian Brockhaus

We welcome our new guest researcher Maximilian Brockhaus from the University of Vienna. He will continue his research on school radio and school television in Austria and Europe between 1924–1993 at the HBI until the end of January 2024. Maximilian Brockhaus has been a university assistant (p...

RISC Symposium

Media Change, Cohesion and Social Change

Researchers from the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) discussed the topic of "Media Change, Cohesion and Social Change" in Hamburg at the end of September. The Social Media Observatory (SMO) presented current research results: PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt gave a presentatio...

Rules for Immersive Worlds

Einführung in die Regulierung der Metaverse

Matthias C. Kettemann, Caroline Böck and Martin Müller examine selected legal issues of rule application in the metaverse and look at future developments. Excerpt The metaverse is phenomenologically diverse; technically complex; economically endowed with much potential; challenging tradit...

Brief Expert Opinion

Zum Referentenentwurf des Digitale-Dienste-Gesetzes

In this HBI brief opinion, some aspects in the draft of the new Digital Services Act are commented on regarding DSA implementation and legal issues related to Germany's federal media law system. For several years now, the European Union has been issuing numerous regulations to implement t...

For World Children's Day on 20 September 2023

Stärkung von Kinderrechten durch den Digital Services Act

Ingrid Stapf, Stephan Dreyer, Laura Schelenz, Sünje Andresen, and Jessica Heesen have analyzed how the Digital Services Act (DSA) can strengthen children's rights in the digital realm. In a paper, they constructively accompany the implementation of the new European legal standard DSA from a...

Annual Report in English

Annual Report 2020–2022

Our annual report on the three "Corona years" 2020 to 2022 is now also available in English. It provides an overview of the research projects on socially relevant communication carried out during this period as well as our transfer activities. You can download the report here [pdf,...

Anthology

@ichbinsophiescholl: Darstellung und Diskussion von Geschichte in Social Media

In 2021/22, the Instagram project @ichbinsophiescholl of the public broadcasters SWR and BR let users participate in the last 10 months of the life of a remediated Sophie Scholl, played by Luna Wedler. A new anthology now examines this project from different academic perspectives and asks how histor...

Impulse Paper #5

The EU Elections 2024: How to Build Resilience Against Disinformation Campaigns on Social Platforms

Looking at the 2024 EU elections, the fifth impulse paper in the series "Digital Platforms: Design Proposals and Alternatives" examines the tension between electoral processes and disinformation. How well prepared are governments, platforms, and civil society to ensure healthy public disco...

Article in "Publizistik"

Concept and Challenges of a Social Media Observatory as a DIY Research Infrastructure

In their open access article published in "Publizistik", Gregor Wiedemann, Felix Victor Münch, Jan Philipp Rau, Phillip Kessling and Jan-Hinrik Schmidt write about the lessons learned from the establishment of the Social Media Observatory (SMO), an open science infrastructure for moni...

Anthology

Schlüsselwerke der Journalismusforschung

Wiebke Loosen and Armin Scholl have edited an anthology on the most influential texts in journalism research. From David Manning White's "Gate Keeper" (1950) to Herrmann Boventer's "Ethics of Journalism" (1984), the volume presents 24 classics in short...

Video

RISC Hamburg Introduces Itself

In a 5-minute video, some researchers from the Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) introduce themselves and their projects. Irene Broer, Aditya Kumar, Wiebke Loosen, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Wiebke Schoon and Rahel Winter also explain what they think about cohesion in...

ChatGPT, LaMDA, and the Hype Around Communicative AI

The Automation of Communication as a Field of Research in Media and Communication Studies

This article aims to define the research field of "automated communication" more clearly and recommends that we should broaden our view in order to better understand the current changes in the media environment. Instead of focusing on human-machine interaction alone, social communication s...

Continuities and Discontinuities

The Media Systems in Europe

This handbook provides an overview of current trends and issues in media systems within the European Union. Based on Hallin and Mancini's famous model for analyzing media systems ("Comparing Media Systems," 2004), the book examines Europe's media systems in different regions: North...

Social Media as a Threat to Democracy?

Judith Möller as a Guest on arte

HBI researcher Judith Möller was a guest on the arte programme "Agree to Disagree" and discussed with psychologist and scientist Bertolt Meyer the impact of social media on users as well as on our democracy as a whole. Can fake news and conspiracy theories undermine governments by dis...

Podcast!

Sicherheit für Kinder und Jugendliche im Netz

In this BredowCast, lawyer Sünje Andresen and media researcher Kira Thiel report on the dangers that lurk for adolescents on the internet and how safety can nevertheless be established. The two researchers come from different disciplines and have just as different perspectives on the topic:...

Advice from the Field of Publishing

Wissenschaftsgeleitetes Publizieren. Sechs Handreichungen mit Praxistipps und Perspektiven

A new practical guide on supporting OA publications provides extensive knowledge for successful and science-driven journal publishing. Cindy Hesse, librarian and OA expert at the HBI, contributed to it. In the section "Governance and Legal Form", she and other experts from the field...

BMBF Project

Trust in Established News Sources

The project examines the relationship between the news sources people use and the trust people place in news. It is based on data from the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey.

Filmanalyse zu "Barbie"

Alles so schön pink hier?

Medienwissenschaftlerin JOAN BLEICHER über Greta Gerwigs neuen Film „Barbie“ und dessen Rezeption. Greta Gerwigs neuer Hitfilm „Barbie“ ist ein Genrehybrid aus vielfältigen Bausteinen des populären Kinos. Er ist Roadmovie, Slapstick-Komödie, Animati...

Impulse #4

Threats to Democracy: Climate Misinformation and Gendered Disinformation

The fourth impulse paper in the series "Digital Platforms: Alternative Models and Designs" by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society has been published. It poses the question of the danger of disinformation in climate and gender issues and is based o...

Neu erschienen

Some Black Boxes are Made of Flesh; Others are Made of Silicon

Tobias Mast's article "Some Black Boxes are made of Flesh; Others are made of Silicon" appeared in issue 2/2023 of the journal Morals & Machines. Automated decisions, especially those that work with AI, are accused of being opaque black boxes. In this article, Tobias Mast argues t...

Basic Contribution to the Dogmatics of Fundamental Rights

Die kompetenzielle Bedeutung der Grundrechtsschranken

Some fundamental rights may be interfered with "by or on the basis of a law", others may only be restricted "on the basis of a law", and before a constitutional amendment in 1968 there were also fundamental rights that could only be restricted "by a law". The discussio...

Use It Free of Charge

Database of Public Spokespersons

The "Database of Public Spokespersons" (DBÖS) offers a comprehensive collection of the most relevant German social media accounts on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram and systematises actors who contribute to public communication. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Felix Münch and Li...

Cooperation Project for VW Foundation

Hate Speech and Hostility towards Science

In recent decades, there has been an increase in the number of attacks on scientists through digital platforms for science communication and the political desire for more social impact. The climate debate of the past few years has made this phenomenon very clear. Most recently, researchers were at...

Project Results in brief

Safety for Children in the Digital World: Most Important Findings in English

Numerous studies show that children increasingly use social networking sites such as TikTok, Instagram and BeReal at an earlier age and to a greater extent to search for information, discuss ideas or feel connected to others. However, interactions with others in various online communities also pose...

Podcast!

Die Denkwerkstatt als wissenschaftliche Methode

Irene Broer has chosen the think tank as the survey method for her current research project. She explains the advantages of this innovative transfer-oriented format in the BredowCast. You have to imagine a think tank as a protected space where people are invited to express themselves completely f...

Impulse Paper #3

Rat beim Beirat: Potenzial von Plattformbeiräten

The third impulse paper in the series "Digital Platforms: Alternative Models and Designs?" by the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society has been published. It poses the question of the potential of platform advisory boards and is based on the results of a...

Change and Growth during the Corona Years

Jahresbericht 2020–2022

The Institute's annual report 2020-2022 shows how the Institute has successfully fulfilled its mission of conducting research on socially relevant communication and making the results available to society in the three years of Corona from 2020 to 2022. You can download the pdf here [13,6 MB] F...

German Findings of "Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023" Published

News Fatigue in Germany on the Rise

Interest in news continued to decline in 2023. 52 per cent of adult internet users in Germany say that they are extremely or very interested in news (2022: 57%). The reach of news overall is also slightly declining in the long-term view. 89 per cent of adult internet users in Germany read, listen to...

International News Consumption

Reuters Institute Digital News Report

The annual international representative survey on changing news usage conducted by the Reuters Institute (Oxford) shows general trends and national peculiarities of developments. The Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut carries out the German part of this study.

Presentations on YouTube

The HBI at the re:publica 2023

The HBI was represented at the 17th edition of re:publica with two presentations and a panel discussion. Some of the contributions were recorded and are now available on the event's YouTube channel. On the first day of the conference, our PhD students Josefa Francke and Jan Rau introduced...

Review of the 13th Hamburg Media Symposium

Influence and Responsibility of Social Media Content Creators

About 200 guests came to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce on 30 May 2023 to discuss the social significance of social media content creators with experts from academia and practice. The theme of this year's event was "Just Saving the World for a Moment? Influence and Responsibility of Social...

Project Findings Published

Mediennutzung und politische Kultur in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

The study "Media Use and Political Culture in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania" investigated how people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania inform themselves about politics and other socially relevant topics in their federal state and what general attitudes they have towards politics. The study...

Legal Concerns and Questions of Effectiveness

Stellungnahme: Eckpunkte des BMJ zum Gesetz gegen digitale Gewalt

Several HBI experts from the fields of media law, protection of minors from harmful media, platform regulation and internet research have given their opinion on a key issue paper of the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ) on a law concerning digital violence. In this paper, they assess the three measu...

First Place!

DGPuK Journal Article Award 2023 for Our Researchers

Wiebke Loosen, Stephan Dreyer, Wolfgang Schulz and their co-authors were awarded first place in the DGPuK Journal Article Award 2023 for their article "Von der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion zur kommunikativen KI" [From Human-Machine Interaction to Communicative AI]. KI as a Research Object...

Podcast!

Bessere Regeln für Zugang zu Plattformdaten?

The European Union's Digital Services Act requires large online platforms to provide access for science in the future. A potential milestone for research into digital phenomena. The two internet researchers Jan Rau and Vincent Hofmann explain what needs to be considered for the law to be of op...

Publication!

Exploring the Interrelation between Journalism and Social Cohesion

Julius Reimer, Verena Albert and Wiebke Loosen explain in their new article in the journal "Journalism" how journalism can strengthen or weaken social cohesion. The article is based on the findings of four group discussions with 21 experts from journalism, academia and civil societal "...

Qualitative Study

Wahrnehmung, Bewertung und Bewältigung belastender Online-Erfahrungen von Jugendlichen

The findings of the qualitative study by Kira Thiel and Dr Claudia Lampert provide valuable information on how young people deal with stressful online experiences and where they need support. From a media education perspective, approaches that raise young people's awareness of their rights in t...

73rd Annual Conference

The HBI at the ICA 2023 in Toronto

Media researchers from all over the world will travel to Toronto from May 25th to 29th to share their current studies at the largest conference for communication studies, the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Several members of the HBI will also be there to pres...

Scientific Publishing

Our Journal M&K Becomes More English

From now on, German-speaking authors will also be able to submit articles in English to our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (M&K)" [Media & Communication Studies]. Until now, this was only possible for those who did not speak German. M&K is published with texts...

Fourth Edition

Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Policy Map 2023

The fourth edition of the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Policy Map provides an overview of the implementation of the "European Strategy for a Better Internet for Kids" (BIK Strategy) in the EU Member States as well as Iceland and Norway. It is the first report of its kind since the adopti...

Project Findings

Perspectives on Platform Power, Public Values and the Potential of Social Media Councils

In the final report of the research project "Platform://Democracy", project leaders Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz present possibilities for a better protection of human rights and democratic values in the digital space. Based on research data...

Recently Published!

M&K 1-2/2023

The articles in issue 1-2/2023 of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" (Media & Communication Studies) address, among other things the rediscovery of the sociological category "class" in communication studies (Polkowski & Jandura), the influence of social...

Blog: Research Data Access

Clearing the data fog: German far-right research’s requirements for the DSA research data access

Following the EU Digital Services Act, large online platforms are now required to share their data with researchers. This is a potential milestone for researchers examining the digital far-right. However, some factors need to be considered so that the act does not become a paper tiger. Jan Rau summa...

Doctoral Thesis Published

Das Sondervotum beim Bundesverfassungsgericht

The doctoral thesis of our former colleague Dr Matthias K. Klatt was published by Mohr Siebek in April 2023. Content Judges have been able to issue dissenting opinions on Senate decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court since December 1970. After a very long political and academic discussi...

Blog zum Tag Pressefreiheit

Pressefreiheit weltweit: Deutschland rutscht auf Platz 21 ab

Die Freiheit der Presse ist in Deutschland auch in diesem Jahr zurückgegangen. Nicht nur am heutigen Tag der Pressefreiheit ist es daher unsere Pflicht, uns für eine freie, unabhängigen Presse einzusetzen. von Matthias C. Kettemann und Johanna Sebauer In der heute veröffen...

Podcast!

Medienmosaik Schweiz

In this BredowCast, media researcher Manuel Puppis talks about the peculiarities of the media system in Switzerland. Switzerland has 8.7 million inhabitants, one tenth of Germany, with four language regions. How does a media system function in such a small-scale linguistic field? "Basically...

A New Form of Regulated Self-Regulation

AGB-Recht als Regulierungsrecht

Tobias Mast explains in his article published in the Juristen Zeitung (JZ) the meta-process that GTC law is currently undergoing in the area of platform regulation. To the article (fee required; in German) Abstract The functional descriptions of GTC law no longer capture its nature in the are...

Student Assistant Published Article

„Schadensersatz ohne Schaden“ nach der DSGVO?

Lennart Schiek, student assistant at the HBI, has published an essay in the most cited and oldest German journal on data law, "Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD". In his article, he undertakes an attempt to categorise Article 82 of the GDPR from a civil-dogmatic point of view. Link to...

A Classic Celebrates Its Birthday

60 Years "Psychology of Mass Communication"

In 1963, the communication scientist and media researcher Gerhard Maletzke published his book "Psychologie der Massenkommunikation" (Psychology of Mass Communication), which is still considered a fundamental work of media research today. Maletze was a researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut...

Cooperation project for German Cancer Aid

Fertility and Ethics in Oncology

On behalf of the German Cancer Aid, this cooperative project investigates how younger patients with newly diagnosed cancer can be optimally counseled in dealing with fertility issues.

Podcast!

Mit Influencer*innen Nachrichtenmuffel erreichen?

Influencers could succeed in reaching an audience that is not interested in news about political issues at all. Hannah Immler and Dr. Lisa Merten discovered this in an elaborate Instagram study. People who tend to avoid news in their everyday lives can hardly be reached by traditional media with...

"Platform Governance"

Summer School in Delhi 2023

Following a two-year pandemic break, the Media Law Summer School, co-organised by the HBI, took place again in Delhi, India, from 20 to 26 March. In addition to Director Wolfgang Schulz, HBI research assistants Vincent Hofmann and Christian Ollig took part. This year's topic was "Platform G...

BMBF Project Document Collection

Repository for Policy Documents (REPOD)

This project aims to create a targeted information and advisory infrastructure for actors from politics, administration and other areas of society, by establishing a repository that exclusively contains publications of policy and societal advice from the entire German science system. The HBI support...

BMBF Project Local News App

molo.news: Validation of a Relational Platform for Urban Publics

After a successful test run in Bremen, a science team is researching how the local news and information app "molo.news" can be made available nationwide. The BMBF is funding the project with 1.5 million euros.

Dissertation Published

Intensivere Drittwirkung

In her dissertation thesis, Amélie Heldt asks whether information intermediaries such as social networks are or should be bound by freedom of expression when they moderate users' posts and comments. Based on a constitutional, comparative and interdisciplinary analysis, she advoc...

Blog: Digital Law

The DSA highlights codes of conduct: What can we learn from their similarities and differences to GDPR codes?

The Digital Services Act (DSA) encourages codes of conduct to be developed with the purpose of “tackling different types of illegal content and systemic risks”, or for the specific purpose of online advertising or accessibility. This approach follows in the footsteps of the General Data...

Guest Researcher

Manuel Puppis for 2 months at HBI

In March and April 2023, we welcome Prof. Dr. Manuel Puppis as a visiting researcher at HBI. Manuel Puppis is Full Professor of Media Structures and Governance in the Department of Communication and Media Research DCM, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He also serves as vice-chair of th...

Im Blog: #UseTheNews-Forschungsüberblick

Familienangehörige sind wichtige Nachrichtenquelle

Im #UseTheNews-Forschungsüberblick für Februar hat Leonie Wunderlich einige internationale Studien zusammengefasst: Sie zeigen, dass das familiäre Umfeld eine Rolle beim Nachrichtenkonsum junger Menschen spielt, negative Online-Kommentare dem Ansehen von Nachrichtenanbietern schaden k...

Blog: Öffentlich-Rechtliche auf Social Media

Löschen für die Vielfalt

Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht gelangt mit einiger Anstrengung zu einer generellen Pflicht öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunkanstalten, Inhalte auf ihren Social Media-Präsenzen zu moderieren und Nutzendenkommentare ohne hinreichenden Sendungsbezug zu löschen. Die Chance, ein zukunftweisend...

Editorship

Transparency or Opacity

Martin Fertmann, together with Simone Kuhlmann, Fabrizio De Gregorio, Hannah Ofterdinger and Anton Sefkow, has published an anthology with contributions from legal scholars on the problem of transparency in automated decision-making processes. The anthology is available as an open access publicatio...

Public Service Broadcasting

Sascha Hölig Advises ZDF Television Council on Quality Measurement

Dr. Sascha Hölig will be part of a panel of experts advising the ZDF Television Council as of March 2023 with his expertise as a researcher. ZDF wants to make the quality of its programming comprehensible and transparently measurable in the future and is seeking support from the scientif...

Study Launch

Political Media Use in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

A new study by the HBI investigates how people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania inform themselves about politics and other socially relevant topics in their federal state and what their general attitudes towards politics are. The telephone survey will start in February 2023 and will last abou...

Media Use in a Federal State

Media Use and Political Culture in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

How do people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania inform themselves about politics and other socially relevant topics in their federal state? And what general attitudes do they have towards politics?

Complete Study as Brochure

Jugendmedienschutzindex 2022

Parents' concerns about their children's online safety are increasing. Children and young people encounter online risks more frequently. These are the findings of the Youth Media Protection Index 2022, which has now been published as a brochure. HBI researchers Dr. Claudia Lampert, Dr. Steph...

We are thrilled!

Judith Möller Is New Professor at HBI

We welcome our new colleague Judith Möller! The internationally highly renowned communication scientist from the University of Amsterdam, takes over the professorship "Empirical Communication Research, especially Media Use and Social Media Effects" at the University of Hamburg in coop...

Podcast!

Medical Controversies Online

Magdalena Góralska is a guest researcher at the HBI and explores how digital communication influences medical debates. In this BredowCast, she gives an insight into the latest findings of her research. As part of her doctoral project at the University of Warsaw, Magdalena Góralska i...

Jugendmedienschutz-Report 6/22

Folgen der sich wandelnden Regulierungsansätze im Jugendmedienschutz

Dr. Stephan Dreyer, Sünje Andresen and Neda Wysocki have published an article in the current Youth Media Protection Report. In this article, they address the systematic changes in the legal protection of minors from harmful media and the associated control advantages for interaction and communi...

Blog: Kinder, wie die Zeit vergeht!

Das HBI gratuliert der Sesamstraße zum 50. Geburtstag

50 Jahre Sesamstraße – eine Kindersendung feiert Geburtstag. Das HBI gratuliert aufs Herzlichste, hat es doch die Sendung gerade in ihren Anfängen intensiv und forschend begleitet. Claudia Lampert und Hans-Ulrich Wagner haben einen Blick in das Institutsarchiv geworfen. Am 8. Januar...

Hans Bredow Explains the System

75 Years of Public Service Broadcasting in Germany

75 years ago, on 1 January 1948, the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR, forerunner of NDR and WDR) became Germany's first "public service" broadcaster. A few days earlier, Hans Bredow had explained to the Germans what that meant and why broadcasting should be organised federally. SWR2 A...

An Obituary

In Memory of Dieter Roß

We mourn the death of Prof. Dr. Dieter Roß, who was a researcher and highly esteemed and popular colleague at the Hans-Bredow-Institut from 1965 to 1983 and then a professor at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Hamburg. When Dieter Roß became emeritus professor in...

Overview

Overview Study Digital Methods

This comprehensive and compact overview of methodological approaches in Computational Social Science (CSS) seeks to broaden the spectrum of methods in technology assessment.

Blog: Plattformregulierung

Nein, Elon Musk, so geht Plattformdemokratie nicht

Nach einer Online-Abstimmung hat Elon Musk den Twitter-Account von Donald Trump wieder freigeschaltet mit den Worten: „The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei”. Plattformdemokratie funktioniere anders, meint Matthias C. Kettemann. Dieser Beitrag ersch...

Blog: Plattformregulierung

Digitale Demokratie by Design: Was Habermas Stört und Elon Musk freut

Die Regeln für Plattformen sind vorhanden und auch in Geltung. Angesichts der Eigengesetzlichkeiten der Plattformwirtschaft fehlt es jedoch an der effektiven Anwendung und Durchsetzung dieser Regeln. Matthias C. Kettemann diskutiert den Zusammenhang und gibt Einblicke in den aktuellen Stand der...

Twitter-Alternative mit Problemen

Was bei Mastodon besser laufen muss

Seit Elon Musk Twitter übernommen hat, schauen sich viele User:innen nach Alternativen um. Mastodon tritt als Gewinner auf. Die Plattform hätte nun die Chance, neue Wege nachhaltiger Content-Governance zu pilotieren und zum Experimentierraum für demokratische Diskurse zu werden, finde...

Blog: Donald Trump wieder auf Twitter

„Auf Twitter ließ er Medien nach seiner Pfeife tanzen“

Donald Trump darf wieder twittern. Welchen Einfluss der ehemalige US-Präsident nun auf der Plattform erlangt, hänge weniger von Trump selbst ab, als von journalistischen Medien und wie sie mit seinen Tweets umgehen, sagt PD. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt. Obwohl er angekündigt hatte, weitre...

Options for Actions for the Federal Government

Menschenrechte im Digitalen

How can human rights be protected online? For example, by expanding transparency in the digital space, by reviewing existing legal norms on human rights protection in the digital sphere more effectively, by carrying out a mandatory human rights impact assessment before using algorithmic decision-mak...

Handbook

Methods in Practice: Studying Children and Youth Online

A new online handbook from the project CO:RE – Children Online: Research and Evidence explains how to conduct research on the online use of children and adolescents and which ethical aspects need to be considered. go to the Online Handbook Kotilainen, S. (Hrsg.). (2022). Methods in...

Anthology

100 Jahre Radio in Deutschland

Dr Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes about radio personalities and their careers in his contribution to the anthology "100 Years of Radio in Germany", which has been published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb). The book is available in the online shop of the bpb. About the Boo...

Podcast!

Elon Musks Twitterübernahme: Folgen für die Wissenschaft

In this BredowCast, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt talks about Elon Musk's Twitter takeover and what this could mean for academics and media research. Only 10 percent of Germans use Twitter regularly, yet the takeover of the platform by entrepreneur Elon Musk is making waves. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt explains...

Findings from Germany

Onlinenutzung von Kindern und Jugendlichen in der Pandemie

How young people shaped their online activities in the first phase of the Corona pandemic and how their parents dealt with the situation was researched by Dr Claudia Lampert and Kira Thiel. They wrote about it in the journal Kinder- und Jugendschutz in Wissenschaft und Praxis. Their research...

M&K Special Issue

Call for Papers: "Telegram in the Political Public Sphere"

With more than 700 million monthly active users, the messenger service Telegram is one of the largest social media services in the world. Yet there is little research on this platform and its impact on the political public sphere. Therefore, the journal M&K is calling for proposals for a specia...

For a Secure Data Exchange

Data Portal Right-Wing Extremism

For the "Data Portal for Research on Racism and Right-Wing Extremism", the HBI is developing a research data infrastructure for the secure exchange of social media account lists in compliance with data protection regulations.

Cooperation Project with University of Hamburg

New Methods in Automated Content Analysis

The cooperation project applies two methods developed in computer science to the field of empirical communication science, which enable semi-automated content analyses to examine even huge amounts of data.

Peer-reviewed Paper

Boundary Detection and Categorization of Argument Aspects via Supervised Learning

In this conference paper, Mattes Ruckdeschel and Dr. Gregor Wiedemann describe analysis options for the automatic recognition of argument aspects, which are used to categorise pro/con arguments in terms of content. Based on the paper, argumentation patterns and their changes in public disc...

Best Practices

How Platforms Respond to Human Rights Conflicts Online

A new working paper edited by Prof. Matthias C. Kettemann collects best practices of various internet platforms in dealing with human rights violations online. It has been published as open access in the context of the Global Digital Human Rights Network. You can download the article here (PDF) &n...

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M&K 4/2022

The articles in issue 4/2022 of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" address, among other things, the self-perception of constructive journalists (Steinigeweg), virtual stakeholder dialogues (Ziegele, Kurtze & Zerfaß), the sports journalistic coverage of the Tage...

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Social Media Content Creators aus Sicht ihrer jungen Follower

Teenagers and young adults specifically follow influencers and other accounts on social media to be entertained, informed or to participate in the conversation. Social media content creators on Instagram, TikTok and other platforms fulfil different functions for different motives of use and contribu...

Podcast!

Influencer: Ihr Erfolg bei jungen Menschen

Adolescents and young adults follow influencers and other accounts for different motives. Leonie Wunderlich researched them. What an "Influencer" is, is not yet agreed upon by science. In the "Use-the-News" study, Leonie Wunderlich wanted to find out, among other things, how y...

Youth Media Protection Index 2022

Growing Parental Concerns about the Online Safety of Their Children

77 percent of parents in Germany are concerned about the online safety of their children. Parents of 11- to 14-year-olds are particularly concerned. The focus lies on risks of interaction, frightening content and how long they use the internet. Children and young people are particularly concern...

Communication Governance as Democracy Protection

Perspektiven auf die Plattform- und KI-Regulierung der Demokratien

In an article in the series "Frankfurter Studien zum Datenschutz" [Frankfurt Studies on Data Protection}, Prof. Dr. Matthias Kettemann discusses perspectives on the regulation of platforms and AI regarding the protection of democracy. The article and the entire issue in which it appeared a...

Open Acces!

Digital Transformations in Public International Law

Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg have published a book on the digital transformation of international law. It is an open access publication by Nomos. About the Book While the birth of international law is often da...

Exam

Zeig mir, wie du heißt und ich sag dir, wer du bist!

In his contribution to the methodology section of the journal JURA - Juristische Ausbildung [Legal Education], Dr. Tobias Mast develops an advanced public law exam on fundamental rights and administrative procedural law. The exam deals with exam-relevant problems of the identification obligation for...

Kritisch und nah dran

Lokaljournalismus, wie er sein sollte

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2041. Irgendwo in Deutschland lebt Chris, der ideale Lokaljournalist. Sechs Praktiker:innen haben sich auf dieses Gedankenspiel eingelassen und Geschichten über Chris geschrieben. Welche Metaphoriken verwenden sie dabei und was lässt sich daraus für die Zukunft...

Livestream Discussion

Talks on the Implementation of the DSA in Germany

Dr. Tobias Schmid, Director of the State Media Authority NRW, and Dr. Wilhelm Eschweiler, Vice President of the Federal Network Agency, discuss what they think about the national implementation of the Digital Service Act in a conversation with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz on 22 and 29 Septemb...

Book Chapter

Fraktionen und Abgeordnete

Dr. Tobias Mast writes in his contribution to the new Handbook of the Law of State Expression about the legal competencies and boundaries for parliamentary groups and members of parliament when communicating publicly in their official role. This area of law is gaining in importance due to new ways...

Project Findings Open Access

Sozialisation in einer sich wandelnden Medienumgebung [Socialisation in a Changing Media Environment]

In the DFG project "Connected Kids: Socialisation in a Changing Media Environment", Rudolf Kammerl, Claudia Lampert and Jane Müller investigated how media developments and the increasing use of media in families, peer groups, schools, etc. affect the actor constellations and communica...

Podcast!

Beziehungspflege: Journalismus und sein Publikum

Louise Sprengelmeyer and Julius Reimer explore the relationships that journalists have with their audiences. They identified eleven different types of relationships. The relationship of journalism to its audience has changed a lot through digital media. While journalists and other media professio...

Journalism under Duress

World's Largest Survey of Journalists Has Started

The academic study "Journalism under Pressure: Risks and Uncertainties in a Changing Media World" aims to find out how much journalistic work has changed due to digital transformation and which professional challenges journalists currently find particularly pressing. It has started on 1 Se...

Welcome to the Institute!

Ericka Menchen-Trevino at HBI

Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Ass. Professor at the School of Communication at the American University in Washington, DC, visited the HBI in August 2022. Among other things, she is supporting the HBI project "Tracking Political Polarization" with her expertise. Ericka also met with Lisa M...

Findings of Use the News Study

Types of Information Orientation and Information Levels Among Young and Old News Audiences

Leonie Wunderlich and Dr. Sascha Hölig present the results of the surveys conducted within the framework of the project Use the News in their article recently published in the journal Media and Communication. Users can be characterised by a certain pattern of news-related attitudes,...

Podcast!

Medien im Gefängnis

Anne Kaun, professor at Södertörn University and visiting researcher at the HBI, explores how media works in prisons Anne Kaun's initial research idea was to investigate places where there is very limited access to media. She quickly landed with this idea in prison as a research loca...

Call for Papers!

Contemporary Methods of Child and Youth Media Research

This fall, the HBI will host the annual conference of the DGPuK division of media education. 6 - 7 October 2022, Hamburg Call for Papers In the run-up to the conference, we are looking for innovative contributions that address, for example, one of the following issues - preferably using the...

To be published soon open access

M&K 3/2022

The articles in issue 3/2022 of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" [Media & Communication Studies] deal with the question of "How Election Communication Mobilizes" (Winfried Schulz), with "Structural Differences between Journalists’ Perceptions o...

Video 12th Hamburg Media Symposium

On Disinformation and the Possibilities and Limits of Existing Tools to Fight It

The 12th Hamburg Media Symposium took place on 5 July 2022 under the title "Anything but "Sweet Little Lies" ... - On Disinformation and the Possibilities and Limits of Existing Tools to Fight It". In front of around 100 guests, experts discussed disinformation as a social proble...

Anthology

The Law of Global Digitality

A new anthology, co-edited by Matthias C. Kettemann, explores how law regulates our digital future and how digital developments influence law. It is available as an open access publication from Routledge. Abstract The anthology is the first serious attempt to describe the interplay of la...

Podcast!

Praktiken der Aneignung von Vergangenheiten

As part of the Leibniz Research Network "Value of the Past", Barbara Christophe and Hans-Ulrich Wagner are interested in how people create references to the past. To this end, they observe history lessons at school, but also memes and social media projects. “Practices of Appropriati...

Dossier: "Human Rights Online"

European Views On The Privatization Of The "Online Public Space"

Should a large-scale social media platform decide to block legal content? Should a platform with more than three billion users be able to restrict the access to protected speech, to decide that criticism on Covid-19 policy is misinformation, or that euthanasia equals suicide – on a worldwide...

Dossier: "Human Rights Online"

When unconsent is no option

Digital identity systems must not be mandatory until they are human rights-compliant by Rosanna Fanni As states ramp up their digital policy strategies to curb the power of dominant technology platforms, they also seize greater control over digital infrastructures. While the past decade favou...

Dossier: "Human Rights Online"

The need for research on GDPR codes of conduct

While many aspects of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been thoroughly investigated, codes of conduct remain under-researched. As corporate actors and regulatory authorities ramp up their usage, this academic lacuna needs to be urgently addressed. By Carl Van...

Potentials and Limitations

Potenziale spielerischer Gesundheitsanwendungen (g-Health) für die Förderung von Gesundheitskompetenz

In their contribution to the anthology "Gesundheitskompetenz" [Health Literacy], Dr. Claudia Lampert and Daniel Tolks write about the potential of game-based offerings in the health sector. It was published in the Springer series "Pflege – Therapie – Gesundheit" [Nurs...

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Diskussionsentwurf zur Novellierung des Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrages: Schriftliche Stellungsnahme des HBI

Wolfgang Schulz and Stephan Dreyer are very critical of the draft discussion paper for a new Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media. The concept of a "youth protection device" at the operating system level presented in the draft, a kind of child protection mode that can...

Findings for Germany Published

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022 – Ergebnisse für Deutschland

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022 on news consumption in international comparison was carried out simultaneously in 46 countries in order to identify general trends as well as national peculiarities. The HBI is responsible for the German part of the study; it is supported by the state m...

Experiences of People over 60

Healthy Digital – Fit for Apps and the Internet

What experiences do older people have with digital health programmes and services, and how can their digital health literacy be improved? As part of a transdisciplinary project, the HBI investigates the experiences with and attitudes towards digital health programmes of over-60-year-olds.

Podcast!

Argument Mining

Gregor Wiedemann and his team analyse large quantities of text with automated methods. Is this the future of media research? What once had to be laboriously coded by hand in content analyses, Gregor Wiedemann does in a fraction of the time. Together with his team, he is developing procedures that...

Open Access Series

Article Series on the Governance of Desinformation

How can the challenges in the governance of disinformation be addressed on a conceptual, empirical and institutional level? A three-part open access article series on this topic has been published in the online journal Internet Policy Review. The articles are based on an expert workshop organised by...

Understanding Digital Corporations as States?

Self-Statification of Corporate Actors?: Tracing Modes of Corporate Engagements with Public International Law

In order to understand the role of large digital corporations in international lawmaking on the internet from a jurisprudential perspective, Anna Sophia Tiedeke applies Michel Foucault's model of "stateification" (Étatisation). This article is published as an open access paper b...

Book Chapter

EU Digital Services Act: The White Hope of Intermediary Regulation

Amélie Heldt writes about the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the possible consequences of its enactment in its current form in the book Digital Platform Regulation - Global Perspectives on Internet Governance. The volume was edited by Terry Flew and Fiona R. Martin and is available...

Digital Conference

HBI Researchers at re:publica 2022

Christina Dinar and Anna von Garmissen will be part of re:publica, one of the most important digital conferences in Germany. It will take place in Berlin from 8 to 10 June 2022 with the title Any Way The Wind Blows. Anna von Garmissen will moderate the panel "Public value broadc...

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Gesetzessammlung: Information, Kommunikation, Medien, 19. Auflage

The legal basis in the field of information, communication and media is changing so rapidly that the traditional book form often seems inappropriate for practitioners of the law as well as for publishers. A collection of laws is hardly on the market when, in all likelihood, the media treaty has alre...

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Risk Atlas Growing Up in a Digital World

The updated and expanded 2nd edition of the risk atlas “Digitales Aufwachsen. Vom Kind aus denken. Zukunftssicher handeln” [Growing Up in a Digital World. Taking a Child's Perspective. Acting Future-Proof]. The atlas is published by the Federal Centre for Child and Youth Media Protec...

Legal Assessment of EU Proposal

Chat Control to Fight Depiction of Abuse

Dr Stephan Dreyer has given the Science Media Center Germany (SMC) a legal assessment of the EU Commission's proposal for a regulation to identify and report depictions of child sexual abuse. The legislative proposal contains many improvements in the fight against depictions of abuse on the inte...

Podcast!

Mit Twitterdaten forschen

The Twitter platform has been giving researchers access to its archive for about a year now. Philipp Kessling collects huge amounts of data from there for his research. In this episode of the BredowCast, he explains what exactly he does and what it's all about. In a selection process that req...

Blog-Artikel zum Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden

Von Stimmkünsten und Hörprozessen

Ob man es nun Hörspiel oder Podcast nennt: Serielles Erzählen liegt auch im Audio-Bereich im Trend. Das und andere Entwicklungen zeigen sich in der diesjährigen Auswahl für den Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden - Preis für Radiokunst, berichtet Jury-Mitglied Hans-Ulrich W...

All Contributions of the Institute at a Glance

ICA's Annual Conference 2022 in Paris

At the end of May, some HBI staff members will travel to Paris, where the International Communication Association (ICA) will hold its annual conference from 26 to 30 May. It is the world's largest conference for communication studies. After two years of online conferences due to the pandemic, it...

Importance of Broadcasting Archives

Arbeit am Medien-Gedächtnis der Gesellschaft

In his article published in info7 – Das Magazin für Medien, Archive und Information, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes about the situation of public broadcasting archives and their importance for users as well as for authors working for broadcasters. Abstract There was talk of a "...

International Expert Workshop at HBI

Linking survey data and digital traces

Twenty-five international experts attended a HBI-organized workshop this week to discuss the benefits, challenges and best practices of combining survey data with digital tracking data in social research. The main focus was on how academia can gain new insights into media use and opinion formation a...

Welcome!

Torben Klausa is Research Fellow at the HBI

Torben Klausa is a Research Fellow at the Institute in May 2022. The question "Does the state have a duty to regulate digital platforms?" is at the centre of his research. In his doctoral thesis with the title "The Serving Freedom of Social Networks" at Bielefeld University, he...

Project funded by Stiftung Mercator

Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders

How could "platform councils" or other institutions for integrating public interests into platform rule-making processes ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account? A new project is embarking on a search for global best practice models.

World Press Freedom Day

Sacrificing Freedoms to Protect Them?

The Russian TV network RT as well as Sputnik have been banned by the Council of the European Union (EU). In an op-ed on Legal Tribune Online, Wolfgang Schulz examines the legal situation and analyses whether the EU has overstepped its authority in the process, leaving communications freedoms to fall...

Volkswagen Foundation Funds Joint Project

STEAM – The Socio-Technical Ecosystem Architecture Method

Why do digital media feed us certain messages and not others? Which technical service providers and algorithms play a role when messages reach us? Which of these functions are socially acceptable and which, on the other hand, constitute manipulation? The project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation a...

Einschätzung des Gesetzentwurfs

Was ist vom neuen Digital Services Act DSA zu halten?

Mit dem Digital Services Act DSA steht auf EU-Ebene nun ein bedeutsames neues Gesetz kurz vor der Verabschiedung. Für das Science Media Center Germany hat Matthias C. Kettemann den Gesetzentwurf beurteilt. Am 22. April 2022 haben das Europäische Parlament und der Rat eine vorl&aum...

Blog-Interview: Journalismus und sein Publikum

Der Tagesspiegel Checkpoint-Newsletter

Jeden Morgen ab 6 Uhr informiert der preisgekrönte Tagesspiegel Checkpoint-Newsletter nicht nur Berlinerinnen und Berliner per E-Mail über das tagesaktuelle Geschehen in der Hauptstadt. Im Interview spricht die verantwortliche Redakteurin Ann-Kathrin Hipp über die Idee hinter dem erfo...

Publication of the Global Digital Human Rights Network

Governing Information Flows During War

"A Comparative Study of Content Governance and Media Policy Responses After Russia’s Attack on Ukraine" is the subtitle of #4 in the Working Paper Series of the Global Digital Human Rights Network, published by Mart Susi, Wolfgang Benedek, Gregor Fischer-Lessiak, Matthias C. Ketteman...

Open Access available

Not All Who Are Bots Are Evil

In their article in new media & society, the authors examine how bots are regulated on 9 platforms and develop an analytical scheme to develop a generalisable normative framework for agent governance. Makhortykh, Mykola; Urman, Aleksandra; Münch, Felix Victor; Heldt, Amélie; Dreye...

Blogbeitrag zum MStV-E

Öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk als Pionier?

Kann eine Reform des Medienstaatsvertrages den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk zukunftsfest für die Online-Welt machen? Valerie Rhein und Stephan Dreyer bewerten ausgewählte Aspekte des Reformentwurfs der Rundfunkkommission der Länder. Von Valerie Rhein und Stephan Dreyer...

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