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

Anu Masso, Associate Professor of Big Data in Social Sciences at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance in Tallin, is guest researcher at the Network "Algorithmed Public Spheres" from 11/2019 til 1/2020

A GUIDE TO THE INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM (IGF) 2019

End of November, the United Nations Global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) comes to Germany for the first time. Researchers from HIIG and HBI, which will contribute to the Forum, collected the most interesting events between the 25th and 29th November.

Herwig Mitter, lawyer from the University of Vienna and guest researcher at the institute, will examine how media freedom within the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) relates to internet intermediaries, more specifically, whether and to what extent these are protected or rather obliged by the Convention.

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News, new research projects and publications from the Institute

Schüler/innen informieren sich am Institut

Was man im Netz darf und kann – und was nicht

Schülerinnen und Schüler des Hamburger Gymnasiums Altona haben am 8. November 2019 mit Matthias K. Klatt und Keno Christoffer Potthast darüber diskutiert, was man aus juristischer Perspektive im Netz darf und kann – und was nicht. Großes Interesse bestand auch an der Frage...

The Most Interesting Events at the IGF2019

A Guide to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2019

At the end of November, the United Nations Global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) comes to Germany for the first time. Following the motto “One World. One Net. One Vision”, researchers and politicians from all over the world will discuss the central legal, political, social and technolog...

Welcome, Enjoy Your Stay!

Herwig Mitter as Guest Researcher at the Institute

Fom October until December 2019, Mag. Herwig Mitter from the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna will investigate how media freedom within the ECHR relates to Internet intermediaries, in particular whether and to what extent they are protected or obliged b...

With Federal President Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Harvard University

Livestream Stream: Ethics of the Digital Transformation

As part of the delegation of Federal President Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz will discuss ethical issues of digital transformation at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University on November 1. The event will be broadcasted live here (local time...

Just published!

M&K 4/2019

As "Between Wanting and Having to" Elena Link, Axel Haverich, Christoph Klimmt and Tobias Schilling describe the motivation and commitment for communication in life science research alliances. Stefan Gürtler, Ruedi Käch and Ruedi Niederer investigated the "Presumed Influence...

New Guest Researcher

A Warm Welcome, Clara Iglesias Keller!

We welcome Clara Iglesias Keller at the HBI. From October 2019 to April 2020, she will be a guest researcher at our institute focusing on regulatory strategies for disinformation. She completed her PhD (2019) and Master degree (2011) in Public Law at the University of the State of Rio de Jane...

Linguistic Creativity and Narrative Skills

Literary Prize for Johanna Sebauer

In the Landesmuseum in Eisenstadt, Austria, Johanna Sebauer was awarded the Literature Prize 2019 of the Province of Burgenland on the evening of 17 October 2019. She was honoured for her prose text "Nincshof." The jury awarded her "prize-worthy literature" for her ability to com...

Financially Strong Collaborative Research Centre

Cooperation with New ADM Research Centre in Australia

A new centre for research into automated decision-making systems is being established in Australia. It is funded with a total of 71.1 million Australian dollars. The HBI will be an international cooperation partner. How automated decision making (ADM) systems can be applied in an ethically re...

Guest Researcher from Shanghai

We Welcome Chen Xinsheng

Chen Xinsheng from Fudan University (Shanghai, China) will be a guest researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut from 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2020. Chen Xinsheng is a PhD student at the Center of Information and Communication Studies at Fudan Universit...

Facebook Must Delete Hate Postings

Glawischnig-Piesczek und die Gefahren nationaler Jurisdiktionskonflikte im Internet

Facebook can be forced to delete hate postings worldwide. This is the ruling of the European Court of Justice in the Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland Limited (C-18/18) case. Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, former spokeswoman for the Austrian Green Party, had sued the US company after it refused to...

The HBI in the Leibniz PhD Network

Irene Broer Elected Section's Spokesperson

At this year's General Assembly of the Leibniz PhD Network in Potsdam, Germany, Irene Broer, junior researcher at the HBI, was elected speaker of the PhD students in Section B. Thus, she represents the doctoral candidates in the Leibniz Institutes in the fields of economics, social sciences and...

Podcast with Guest Researcher

Freedom of speech on US college campuses

Republicans are more likely to tolerate speakers with political views different from their own on US college campuses than Democrats and liberals, a new study finds. The results seem surprising since in previous studies on political tolerance Democrats had always turned out to be more tolerant. So...

Educational Leave at the Institute

The Media, Media Change and Digital Media Practices

Participants of the educational leave "Medienstadt Hamburg" informed themselves about social media and social cohesion in changing media environments at the Institute on 26. September 2019. The topics included the role of the media, media change and digital media practices in the context o...

Visiting the Institute

Leibniz Trainee Visits the HBI

Since mid-September, Mareike-Vic Schreiber has supported the public relations team at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut as an intern. The internship is part of a two-year traineeship that Mareike-Vic is currently completing at the Leibniz Association's headquarters...

Presentation of Results

EU Kids Online

How do children and adolescents in Europe use the Internet; which risks do they encounter and how do they handle them? The project EU Kids Online has been dealing with these questions since 2006.

Exchange with High-Tech Country

Delegation Trip to Israel

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen travels to Israel today with a delegation of 70 representatives from politics, business and science. The aim of the three-day trip is to expand the exchange and cooperation in the fields of science, education, business and innovation with the high-tech country of Israel. &nbs...

Sascha Hölig in Oxford

As Guest Researcher at the Reuters Institute

Dr. Sascha Hölig begins his stay in Oxford today. He will spend the coming months as a visiting scholar at the renowned Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. During this time, he will focus intensively on international news repertoires. Sascha Hö...

Contribution to Handbook

Talking to People I: Survey

In their contribution to the Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Dr. Sascha Hölig write about one of the most important tools in communication science: the survey. „Within the broad repertoire of communication research methods, 's...

Interview with Claudia Lampert

Transparent Health Apps for Children

Health apps for children and adolescents are entering the market. They differ enormously in quality. In the Tutzinger Diskurs, Dr. Claudia Lampert explains how to make the App Store more transparent. excerpt: You also criticise the fact that the range of health apps is currently very confusing. Fo...

First Article Free of Charge

Issue 3/2019 M&K

In "Heimat - das ist ein Gefühl [Home – It’s a Feeling]", Holger Schramm and Nicole Lieber explain concepts and formulate desiderata and perspectives for communication research on 'home' in the media. Other articles deal with the influence of media use during the 2...

Dissertation Successfully Defended

Congratulations Tobias Mast!

Tobias Mast successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut on 16 August 2019. The topic of his thesis was "Staatsinformationsqualität [Quality of State Information]." Congratulations on your well-deserved success! Tobias M...

Blog Article

Mit Normen gegen Internet-Fragmentierung

Matthias C. Kettemann writes about the normative change on the Internet in his curent article on the blog of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Recently, Daniel Lambach argued here that cyberspace was not right now “in danger of breaking apart”...

"Memory" in Journalistic Practice

Non-Commemorative Memory in News Production: Discovering Underlying Motivations for Journalists’ Memory Work

Irene Broer and first-time author Dr. Stefanie Trümper have published this paper in the journal Memory Studies, which explores how media professionals incorporate memories of historical events into their journalistic work. The study was funded by the interdisciplinary excellence cluster Climate...

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Schriftliche Stellungnahme zum zweiten Diskussionsentwurf eines Medienstaatsvertrages der Länder

The new Interstate Media Treaty (MStV) is supposed to modernise media regulation and adapt it to new forms of offerings and usage. Like the first version, the core of the revised draft aims to include new media actors in the scope of application of the State Treaty. The media law experts Prof. Dr. W...

How Incidental Is "Incidental"?

Incidental News Exposure on Social Media

In addition to children's photos of our friends and cat videos, we also casually encounter news content on social networks. Dr. Anna Sophie Kümpel and Lisa Merten examine how this happens by chance and what this news contact means. You know it: A friend posts a link on Facebook. You...

Welcome to the Institute

Researches Journalist-Audience-Relationships

Since August 2019, Louise Sprengelmeyer has been working as a junior researcher in research programme 1 "Transformation of Public Communication: Journalistic and Intermediary Functions in the Process of Opinion Formation". She is particularly involved in the changing relationship between j...

Welcome to the Institute

EU Kids Online Got Reinforced

Since August 2019, Kira Thiel has been a junior researcher in the competence area of Growing Up in Digital Media Environments at the institute. Welcome! Currently, she works mainly in the project "EU Kids Online". Her research interests include (negative) emotions in the use of media by...

Uses of the Past in Refugee Documentaries in Sweden and Germany

The article by Dr. Hans-Urlich Wagner and guest researcher Philipp Seuferling in the journal Media History focuses on the memory culture of migration in the media on a theoretical and empirical level. Migration not only entangles people, cultures and societies but also histories and memories of div...

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CfP M&K Special Issue 'Research Software'

The thematic issue aims to bring together contributions that deal with overarching questions of the development, methodology, application or sustainability of research software in the field of media and communication science. Publishers: Andreas Hepp, Wiebke Loosen, Uwe Hasebrink With the digitalis...

Submit Abstracts by 15 November 2019!

CfP M&K special issue 'Technik – Medien – Geschlecht revisited'

Current questions and findings on the relationships between the construction of gender and digital media technology (devices and applications) will be presented in theoretical and empirical articles in the thematic issue of M&K. Guest editors are Corinna Peil, Kathrin Müller, Ricarda Dr&uu...

Book Chapter

Medien und Medienpolitik in Schleswig-Holstein

In the anthology "Politik und Regieren in Schleswig-Holstein [Politics and Governance in Schleswig-Holstein]", edited by Wilhelm Knelangen and Friedhelm Boyken, Dipl.-Soz. Hermann-Dieter Schröder writes about the design of the media system in Schleswig-Holstein. In the first part, t...

Best Social Science Article

Sascha Hölig Receives Fritz Thyssen Foundation Award

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...

New at the Institute

Welcome, Paul Solbach!

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...

Blog Article

Proteste in Hongkong: Vom Octopus zur Datenkrake?

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...

Podcast

Media Use in German Refugee Camps 1945-2000

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...

Delicious Media Research

Leibniz Media Lunch Talks

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...

New at the Institute

Katharina Mosene Is New Research Coordinator

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...

Three in One Fell Swoop

Awards for M&K Articles

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...

All Presentations Available as Video

Review: 10th Hamburg Media Symposium

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...

New at the Institute

New Junior Researcher Johannes Schmees

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...

New Publication

Freedom of Expression Online

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...

Media Practices Among Refugees

“We Demand Better Ways to Communicate”: Pre-Digital Media Practices in Refugee Camps

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...

Congratulations!

Matthias Kettemann Habilitated in New Subject Internet Law

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...

A Warm Welcome!

Anna Boch Guest Researcher at the Institute

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...

Project for the European Commission

BIK Policy Map

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.

For Reading and Listening!

Fritz Bauer and the Radio

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...

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Analysis of the First NetzDG Reports

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...

In Tagesspiegel Background

One Internet for All People

"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...

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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019: Ergebnisse für Deutschland

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...

Book Contribution

Medienerziehung aus der Perspektive der Verfassung

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...

Contribution to the Völkerrechtsblog

The GDPR and Algorithmic Decision-Making

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...

Radio Remains Popular

Zur Relevanz des Rundfunks

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...

First Podcast in English

Igor, Gabriela and Their YouTube Journey

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...

Guest from Australia

Dr. Karen Pearlman as Guest Researcher in Hamburg

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...

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Summer School "Governance Technologies" at HBI

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...

Workshop at the HBI

JF:TEC Researches Technological Change

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...

All Contributions from the HBI at a Glance

Annual Conference of the ICA 2019 in Washington

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...

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M&K 2/2019

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...

Book Project

Busted: The 50 Most Common Internet Myths

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.

How to Proceed with the Controversial Law?

Expert Opinion on the Network Enforcement Act

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...

Invitation to the 10th Hamburg Media Symposium

The Limitations of What Can Be Said: Who Determines the Rules of Public Discourse Online?

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...

Online Dossier

Die Medienlogik der Informationsintermediäre und ihre Bedeutung für Meinungsbildung

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,...

Journal Article

Upload-Filters: Bypassing Classical Concepts of Censorship?

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...

Podcast

Legal Steps against Disinformation on the Net

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...

Integration through Communication

64th Annual Conference of the DGPuK

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...

SHARENEWS Project Launched

Research with Facebook Data for the First Time

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,...

Online Dossier

Von der Schwierigkeit, Fake News zu regulieren: Frankreichs Gesetzgebung gegen die Verbreitung von Falschnachrichten im Wahlkampf

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...

Blog Article

News Website, Search Engine or Social Media? Explaining Different Pathways to News Online

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...

We Are In!

Sommer des Wissens

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...

Nominations

Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden

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...

Blog Article

The EU’s Struggle To Protect Copyright and Freedom of Speech

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...

In the Current Print Version

Four Theses on the Situation of Culture-Oriented Radio

"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...

Welcome to the Institute!

New at the Institute: Anna Sophia Tiedeke

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...

Guest Researcher at the Institute

New Colleagues at "Algorithmed Public Spheres"

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...

Researching Social Cohesion

Workshop Discussion with Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt

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...

Congratulations on Your Scholarship!

Johanna Sebauer in Literature Retreat in Italy

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...

On the Jurisdiction of the BVerfG

Der Personalmangel rechtfertigt nicht jedes Mittel

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.:...

Dr. Stephan Dreyer on the Upload Filter

"Filling the legal decision-making leeway needs people - at least for now."

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....

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Internationale Regeln für Soziale Medien: Menschenrechte wahren und Desinformation bekämpfen

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...

Article in Journal

Öffentliche Kindheit in Elternblogs?

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...

New Paper Published

How Do Intermediaries Shape News-Related Media Repertoires and Practices?

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...

New Episode Online!

Like-Economy: Das Geschäft mit den Followern

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...

New Podcast Episode

Die Wege unserer Daten

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...

1st Article Available for Download

M&K 1/2019

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...

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Explaining Online News Engagement Based on Browsing Behavior: Creatures of Habit?

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...

How the Internet Is Changing Society

The Peoples' Internet

The international cooperation project investigates how the Internet has changed and will continue to change societies in the USA, Europe and China.

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Jugendschutzprogramme und aktuelle technische Herausforderungen

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...

Preliminary Report Published

Children's Perspective on Privacy Issues

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...

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Open Science Conference 2019

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...

Apply until 15 Februar 2019!

International Summer School in India

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...

Representative Survey

What Journalists Should Do – and What They Want to Do

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.

New Podcast Episode

BredowCast 39: The Relotius Case

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...

Literature on the Radio

Siegfried Lenz: How the Author Uses the Media

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.

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Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technologies: Global Politics, Law and International Relations

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...

Discussion Paper

The General Data Protection Regulation and Automated Decision-Making: Will It Deliver?

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...

Welcome to the Institute

New Guest Researcher Jonathon Hutchinson

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...

Online Article

Es ist kompliziert: Jugendmedienschutz in Deutschland

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...

New Podcast Episode

Special Edition on Joining the Leibniz Association

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...

Welcome!

New Senior Researcher Mag. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard)

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...

Report Based on the Institute’s Scientific Opinion Published

Federal Government Adopts Report on Media and Communications 2018

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...

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Data Protection in Platform Ecosystems

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...

BREDOW is LEIBNIZ!

New Name: Leibniz Institute for Media Research

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...

Interdisciplinary VolkswagenStiftung Project

Opportunities and Limitations of ADM Systems

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.

Migration as a Classroom Subject

“Tune In! Historical Radio Programmes on Flight and Expulsion”

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...

TV Discussion on Hamburg 1

Discussion on Hamburg 1 with Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink

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...

New Episode

Facebook's "Supreme Court"

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...

Summary of Key Findings

Wie können Empfehlungssysteme zur Vielfalt von Medieninhalten beitragen?

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...

Workshop Report as Video

Communicating Port Cities

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...

Joy about Third-Party Funding

DFG Funding for Three Projects on Media Change

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...

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Annual Report 2017/2018

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).

Design Phase Begins

Institute for Social Cohesion

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.

BMBF Project

Media and Science Communication

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?

Joining the Leibniz Association!

Bredow Will Be Leibniz in 2019

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...

Recently Published

M&K 4/2018 Special Issue "Selbstbestimmung in der digitalen Welt"

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&...

Project Findings

Media Literacy in Care Facilities for People with Disabilities in Bremen

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...

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(Un)certainly Positive. The Portrayal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in German Cancer Patient Magazines

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...

New Podcast Episode

How the Protection of Minors in the Media Should Be

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...

On the Safer Internet Forum

Research Network EU Kids Online Conducts Representative Survey in 20 European Countries

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...

Open Access Publication

Visuelle Evidenz? Eine qualitative Bildtypenanalyse zur Visualisierung von Evidenz in Fernsehbeiträgen

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...

Analysis

International Declaration on Information and Democracy Adopted

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...

Index for Youth Media Protection Published

Teachers Need Support in Teaching Media Literacy

(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...

Interview

Growing Up Healthy in the Digital World

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...

New Publication

Entscheidungen unter Ungewissheit im Jugendmedienschutz

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.

New Publication

Gewährleistung der Möglichkeit internetbasierter Kommunikation – eine Vermessung des grundgesetzlichen Schutzkonzepts

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...

Bredows on Tour

Hans-Bredow-Institut at the ECC 2018 in Lugano

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...

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First Diversity Report of die medienanstalten Published

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...

What Does the GDPR Mean for Children?

GDPR and Growing Up in Digital Media Environments

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.

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Guideline for Providers of Online Content for Children

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...

New Podcast Episode

That's How Twitter Users Think

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...

We Are Part of It!

BMBF Is Funding the Development of the IfGZ

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...

A Growing Plant

Statement on the Discussion Draft of an Interstate Media Treaty of the Länder

"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....

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Stellungnahme zum Diskussionsentwurf eines Medienstaatsvertrags der Länder

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...

Families Wanted to Participate in Study!

Growing Up with Digital Media

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...

Twitter, the Elite Network

Dr. Sascha Hölig in an Interview with the WDR

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...

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Jahresbericht 2017/2018

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...

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Algorithmische Empfehlungen. Funktionsweise, Bedeutung und Besonderheiten für öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunkanstalten

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...

Call for Project Presentations // Deadline 12. Oktober

Open Science Conference 2019 Call

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...

Presentation of Project Results

Day of Knowledge 2018

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...

International Workshop in Hamburg

Transnational Media History

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...

New Podcast Episode

Reality TV in Germany

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 &...

Legal Questions in Multimedia School Projects

New Article by Dr. Stephan Dreyer

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...

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Where Does Media Hostility Come From?

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...

Recently Published

M&K 3/2018

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...

Transparency in Algorithmic Decisions

New Article by Bredow Researcher Amélie Pia Heldt

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...

Science in Podcast Format

Johanna Sebauer in an Interview about the BredowCast

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...

Guest Lecture

Social Bots, Agency and the Non-Neutrality of Technologies

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...

New Blog Article

The Difficulty of Regulating Fake News

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...

Listening to Research

Breitbart and Co. - Alternative Media in Focus

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...

What's Your Research?

Researchers from the HIIG Visit the Hans-Bredow-Institut

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...

New Interview

Constitutional Court Decision on the Broadcasting Licence Fee

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...

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