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HBI FOUNDS "METHODS LAB"

In the recently founded Media Research Methods Lab (MRML), the HBI bundles its methodological expertise in one organisational unit. It combines established social science methods with novel digital procedures.

CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNALISM RESEARCH - JOURNALISM INTERDISCIPLINARY

For a special issue of our journal M&K we are looking for contributions that deal with interdisciplinary questions of journalism and the increasing interdisciplinary nature of the field.

RESEARCH INSTITUTE SOCIAL COHESION FGZ

Eleven German research institutions form the FGZ to investigate current social challenges from different perspectives. The HBI examines the role of the media concerning social cohesion.

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News, new research projects and publications from the Institute

Corona Pandemic

Library and Office Secretariat Open Again on Tuesdays - by Appointment Only

The library of the HBI is open again on Tuesdays since 1 September 2020. After registering at bibliothek@leibniz-hbi.de, time slots will be allocated during which you can work in the library while respecting the distance regulations and wearing a mouth and nose mask. The secretariat is open on Tues...

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M&K 4/2020

The articles in issue 4/2020 M&K focus on journalistic ethics of responsibility and sexual abuse (Philip Baugut / Katharina Neumann), on Netflix and disruptive innovations in the age of digitalization (Hendrik Michael / Sophie Reitmeier / Miriam Czichon), on media coverage of autonomous driving...

Podcast!

Das HBI auf der Europäischen Medienkonferenz

The media legal experts Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Amélie Heldt report on the EU media conference and explain the complex interaction between science and politics. For four months, from July to October 2020, our Institute provided scientific support for the EU media conference. The...

Video Recordings Online!

Internet Governance Forum 2020

Several colleagues from the HBI took part in the 15th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which ended yesterday. From 2 - 17 November 2020, actors from politics, science and civil society discussed our digital future and related policy issues under the topic "Internet for Human Resilience a...

Open Access Article

Block, Hide or Follow – Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media

In this paper, Lisa Merten analyses how users curate their news consumption on social media by specifically following or blocking news accounts. She draws on the data set collected by the Reuters Digital News Survey, which includes information on the online news usage behaviour of over 70,000 respo...

Corona im Wissenschaftsjournalismus

„Es gab nur noch ein Thema“

Irene Broer erforschte gerade das Science Media Center Germany, als erste Nachrichten über eine „mysteriöse Lungenkrankheit“ in China die Redakteur*innen erreichten. In den folgenden Wochen wurde sie Zeugin einer journalistischen Ausnahmesituation. Im Media Research Blog-I...

Austria's Communications Platforms Act

Così fan tutte: Some Comments on Austria’s Draft Communications Platforms Act

Dr. Matthias Kettemann, Gregor Fischer and Felicitas Rachinger analyse the draft of the new Austrian Communications Platforms Act in the latest Graz Law Working Paper. To the paper (PDF) Abstract Austria’s Communications Platforms Act (KoPl-G) provides for a multi-stage procedure for conten...

Open Access

Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt: Ein interdisziplinärer Dialog

The Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC), in which the HBI is involved with five projects, has published its first publication. The anthology presents contributions on issues of social cohesion from all eleven German institutes and thus offers a first interdisciplinary look at this highly topic...

Open Access

How Document Sampling and Vocabulary Pruning Affect the Results of Topic Models

In the new issue of the journal Computational Communication Research, Dr. Gregor Wiedemann writes together with three other authors about how Topic Modeling could be simplified. Topic Modeling is an increasingly popular method for analyzing texts in the social sciences. However, for particularly lar...

RISC Team Complete

Meet the Newest Members of Our FGZ Team!

In the next years, we will realise five projects at the HBI in Hamburg as part of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC). We are happy to welcome a few new colleagues into the team, which is now complete. The RISC has a decentralised structure and is supported by ten other research institutio...

Protection of Minors from Harmful Media

Nichts für schwache Nerven?! Wie Bund und Länder den Jugendmedienschutz modernisieren wollen

The Law on the Protection of Minors from Harmful Media is too old and calls for modernisation. In the current issue of the journal Kinder- und Jugendschutz in Wissenschaft und Praxis [Protection of Minors in Science and Practice], Dr. Stephan Dreyer gives an overview of the planned changes, their po...

Accompanying Text to Wolfgang Borchert

„Auf dieses Stück haben wir gewartet“ – Wie Wolfgang Borcherts „Draußen vor der Tür“ zum Rundfunk kam

Wolfgang Borchert's " Draußen vor der Tür [Outside the Door]" is a protest cry against the destructive power of war. After its first broadcast in 1947, it became the radio's biggest audience success in the post-war era. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner contributed to the extensive...

Call for Papers!

Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Journalism Research - Journalism Interdisciplinary

For a planned thematic issue of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft [Media & Communication Studies]" (M&K) we are looking for contributions that deal with forms of interdisciplinary journalism research, interdisciplinary questions about journalism as well as with t...

Open Access Article

The President and Free Speech: Consequences of Twitter's Fact-Checking Indication

In her article in the open access journal Internet Policy Review, Amélie Heldt writes about freedom of expression in the United States and the consequences of the US President's executive order on preventing online censorship. You can read the entire article here Abstract While we consi...

Hate Speech Online

Loi Avia: Frankreichs Verfassungsrat kippt Gesetz gegen Hass im Netz

In her blog article on JuWissBlog, Amélie Heldt gives an insight into the French counterpart of the Network Enforcement Act, why it is partly unconstitutional and what consequences this could have. You can download the article here (pdf) Abstract "Non conformité partielle...

Journalistic Response to COVID-19

Rapid Reaction: Ethnographic Insights into the Science Media Center and Its Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak

Irene Broer writes about the editorial response of the Science Media Center Germany (SMC) to the outbreak of the pandemic in a special issue of the Journal of Science Communication, which focuses exclusively on communication in connection with COVID-19. Irene Broer was part of the editorial t...

Journalism Studies

What Journalists Want and What They Ought to Do. (In)Congruences Between Journalists’ Role Conceptions and Audiences’ Expectations

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Julius Reimer and Dr. Sascha Hölig analyze the self-image of journalists in their article published in the journal Journalism Studies. The focus is not only on their own role perception, but also on the expectations of their audience - in other words, what journalists w...

Open Access!

Identifying Tipping Point(s): Wendepunkte bei der Verabschiedung der DSM-Richtlinie

In the conference volume "Tipping Points", Amélie Heldt writes about the concept of tipping points and the possible impact of the debate about upload filters on the copyright directive. The interdisciplinary symposium "Tipping Points. On the Relationship between Freedom and th...

Media Repertoires of Internet Users

Combining Old and New: Patterns of Media Use across Legacy and Online Media in Germany

Julia Behre, Dr. Sascha Hölig and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink have published an article in the journal Comunicazioni Soziali about media repertoires of adult internet users in Germany. In their article, they analyse which age group tends to use "new" media and which group prefers to use &...

Platform Regulation

Stellungnahme zu Kommunikationsplattformengesetz in Österreich

Together with other legal experts in the field of platform regulation, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann issued a statement on the ministerial draft of the Communications Platform Act (KoPI-G), an Austrian federal law on measures to protect users on communications platforms. This statement can be...

Download the Diversity Report 2020 Free of Charge

Soziale Medien, Falschinformationen und ihr Einfluss auf die Meinungsbildung. Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien und die USA im Vergleich

In the Diversity Report 2020 of die medienanstalten, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Dr. Sascha Hölig write about social media, misinformation and its influence on opinion formation, comparing Germany, France, Great Britain and the USA. You can download the complete Diversity Report 2020 free of c...

Media Research Methods Lab

HBI founds "Methods Lab"

In the recently founded Media Research Methods Lab (MRML), the HBI bundles its methodological expertise in one organisational unit. What is new is the combination of established social science methods with novel digital procedures. The HBI is pleased to welcome Dr. Gregor Wiedemann, who holds...

Interview in "Frag Leibniz"

Do Print Media Still Exist in the Future?

After professional journals, newspapers will be the next print medium to disappear, says Hermann-Dieter Schröder in his contribution to "Frag Leibniz [Ask Leibniz]", a campaign by the Leibniz Association. In the long run, print media will largely disappear. They will be replaced by el...

Podcast Episode!

Wie wird man Medienforscher*in?

Wiebke Loosen is one of the best-known journalism researchers in Germany. In this BredowCast she talks to Johanna Sebauer about how her professional career has developed. In the end, it might have been her aversion to chemistry, which made Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen a journalism researcher. After all...

Video: First Findings from UNESCO Study

Almost All Germans Use (Comparatively Slow) Internet

95 per cent of all households in Germany have Internet access. 86 per cent use it, in the age group of 16-54 years it is 99 per cent. However, fast Internet access is still unequally distributed. These are initial findings from the study "The State of the Internet in Germany" presen...

Online Article

Gering ausgeprägtes Interesse? Verständnis von Nachrichten und Journalismus im Wandel

In an article on the innovation.dpa.com, Leonie Wunderlich writes about the first results of our project "Use The News" on news usage in the digital age. You can read the complete article here. Abstract Population-representative studies on news usage, such as the recent...

Book Contribution

Nachrichtenrezeption in crossmedialen Medienumgebungen

In the "Handbook of Political Communication", Dr. Sascha Hölig writes about news repertoires, the relevance of established brands, social media, participation possibilities and preferred modes of use. As an open access publication, the article is available free of charge. You c...

Article in Grimme Prize Publication

Mit besten Empfehlungen. Grundprinzipien algorithmischer Empfehlungssysteme für öffentlich-rechtliche Medienangebote

In the 56th edition of the publication "Grimme-Preis", Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt writes about algorithmic recommendation systems in public media and the issues involved. To the publication (pdf) Abstract Algorithmic recommendation systems characterise our everyday use of the Internet. Be it...

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?

Human Rights Online

Global Digital Human Rights Network (GDHRNet)

The Global Digital Human Rights Network (GDHRNet) will systematically explore the theoretical and practical challenges posed by the online context to the protection of human rights.

Article Online

Gehirnwäsche der Deutschen durch Hörspiele?

Was the radio play used for political propaganda? Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner looks into this in his article in the journal 'Medienkorrespondenz' [Media Correspondence]. You can read the article here. Abstract So much for the heyday of the radio play! All the beloved, award-winning and cherishe...

Book Chapter

Gesundheitskommunikation

Dr. Claudia Lampert, Eva Baumann and Bettina Fromm have written a chapter on "Health Communication" which has been published in the latest edition of the Handbook on Health Sciences. About the Handbook Health sciences analyse determinants of health and illness. They derive concepts for im...

Blogpost

Who is Zoom To Judge?

Why Engaging in Content Governance is Not a Good Idea for the Successful Video Conferencing Platform. It's everyone's favorite online video communication tool these days. We cannot count the times we attended Zoom-based workshops in the last months, organized Zoom-based lectures or spoke at...

Human Rights Online

Freedom of Expression and the Internet

In this book PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benedek discuss the importance of human rights on the Internet - especially the right to freedom of opinion. Abstract Human rights matter on the internet. Without freedom of expression, people cannot participate in everything that th...

Podcast Episode!

Ethnographic Media Research

To find out how science journalists do their job, Irene Broer became one herself. Applying the research method ethnography, she spent several weeks amidst a team of science journalists. In this BredowCast episode, she explains what this endeavour entailed and why ethnography is a useful method to...

Accompanying Text to Paul Celan

Unerhörte Töne. Vom merkwürdigen Celan-Sound und einer Kunst erschaffenden Lyrikstimme: Paul Celans Rezitationen

Paul Celan is one of the most important German-speaking poets and had a very special way of reciting his poems. In this compilation, the original recordings can be heard for the first time. For this occasion, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner has written a detailed accompanying text with background information...

Report for Download

The European Communication (Dis)Order. Mapping the Media-Relevant European Legislative Acts and Identification of Dependencies, Interface Areas and Conflicts

In advance of Germany’s presidency of the European Council in the second half of 2020, the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) prepared a number of reports and investigative studies intended to serve as a basis for discussions for the EU Media Conference in July 2...

Platform Regulation and Freedom of Expression

Como regular a moderação privada de conteúdo nos novos espaços públicos?

On the legal blog Consultor Judrídíco PD Dr. Matthias Kettemann, Juliana Abrusio, Ricardo Campos and Juliano Maranhão address the international debate on content regulation on the Internet as well as what needs to be kept in mind. They also raise the question of how the removal...

Health Communication

Digitale Gesundheitsangebote für Kinder

Claudia Lampert writes about digital health services for children in the journal "Kinder- und Jugendmedizin [Child and Youth Medicine]". The issue focuses on "Neue Medien und Gesundheit [New Media and Health]". The entire issue and individual articles can be downloaded here for...

Book a Scientist!

Speed Dating with Science

The longing for directions is great when the world is upside down. In the Leibniz Association, around 20,000 people are working to explore the issues facing mankind - and in doing so are pointing the way to new perspectives and ways forward. At »Book a Scienstist« on 18 August 2020, more...

Worldwide Research Project under the Patronage of the Federal President of Germany

Global Dialogue on the Ethics of Digitalisation

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier launched the two-year project "Ethics of Digitalisation - from Principles to Practices" on 17 August 2020 in Schloss Bellevue with a kick-off event. Under the umbrella of the NoC (Global Network of Internet and Society Research Center), the HBI and...

Special Issue Gender

M&K-Themenheft „Technik – Medien – Geschlecht revisited. Gender im Kontext von Datafizierung, Algorithmen und digitalen Medientechnologien“

Issue 3/2020 M&K is published as a special issue "Technik – Medien – Geschlecht revisited. Gender im Kontext von Datafizierung, Algorithmen und digitalen Medientechnologien [Technology - Media - Gender Revisited. Gender in the Context of Datafication, Algorithms and Digital Medi...

Article in Specialist Journal

‘X Journalism’. Exploring Journalism’s Diverse Meanings Through the Names We Give It

In this article, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Julius Reimer and Paul-Philip Solbach, together with their co-authors Laura Ahva, Mark Deuze and Lorenz Matzat, present the concept of "X Journalism": a tool for observing the development of journalism by analysing the constantly changing concepts...

Podcast!

BredowCast 56: Europäische Medienordnung

In this episode of the BredowCast, media lawyers Theresa Josephine Seipp and Dr. Stephan Dreyer explain why the European media need a coherent order and why this is so difficult to achieve. Within the framework of the German EU Council Presidency, the Federal Government Commissioner for Cultu...

Editorial in Medienkorrespondenz

„Zivilisatorische Grundnahrungsmittel“. Preis für „Audio.Space.Machine“ : Aus der Jury des Hörspielpreises der Kriegsblinden

In his article in Medienkorrespondenz, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner, as a member of the jury of the 69th Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden [War Blinded Audio Play Prize], describes the challenges the jury faced in making its decision and how they ultimately determined the winners. To the article (in G...

Contribution to Anthology

Taking Ingolf Pernice Seriously

In the anthology Don't Give Up, Stay Idealistic and Try to Make the World a Better Place. Liber Amicorum for Ingolf Pernice, Matthias C. Kettemann describes how the legal scholar Ingolf Pernice has influenced his research on normative order and what normative order on the Internet is all about....

Book Contribution

Was ist Euer Problem? Onlineerfahrungen aus Kinder- und Elternsicht

In the volume Familienkultur smart und digital. Ergebnisse, Konzepte und Strategien der Medienpädagogik [Family culture smart and digital. Results, Concepts and Strategies in Media Education], Dr. Claudia Lampert, Kira Thiel and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink write about online experiences from the pe...

Blogbeitrag

„Wer die 'vierte Gewalt' ernst nimmt, muss alle Medien gleichbehandeln“

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht teilt vor seinen offiziellen Urteilsverkündungen Exklusivinformationen mit ausgewählten Journalist*innen. Darf es das? Der Medienjurist Matthias K. Klatt erklärt im Interview, wie es um die Beziehung von Justiz und Medien bestellt und wie diese g...

Blog Article

Vigilância em massa ou combate à desinformação: o dilema do rastreamento

In their blog article, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Florian Wittner, together with Juliana Abrusio and Ricardo Campos, take a close look at a draft law which is primarily aimed at combating "fake news", but which also has similarities to the NetzDG. Some of the problematic aspects, suc...

Available Online

Stellungnahme zum Diskussionsentwurf eines Zweiten Gesetzes zur Anpassung des Urheberrechts an die Erfordernisse des digitalen Binnenmarktes

On 24 June 2020, the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection published a discussion draft for a Second Act on the Adaptation of the Copyright Act to the Requirements of the Digital Single Market and invited comments on this discussion draft until 31 July 2020. The HBI has taken this oppo...

Commentary in Tagesspiegel Background

Diskriminierung vorprogrammiert?

In Tagesspiegel Background, Katharina Mosene writes about inequalities in digital space. Abstract Technology is never neutral. And even if the Internet as a medium initially invited us to deconstruct established, fixed role models and identities in supposedly new public spheres, to break up traditi...

Available as Open Access

The Normative Order of the Internet: A Theory of Rule and Regulation Online

In his new book, Matthias C. Kettemann writes in detail about the emergence and nature of the normative order of the Internet. It is published by Oxford University Press at the end of July 2020 and is available as Open Access. Abstract “There is order on the internet, but how has this o...

New Podcast Episode!

Die Normative Ordnung des Internets

Matthias C. Kettemann writes about the emergence and nature of the normative order of the Internet in his new book "The Normative Order of the Internet", which can be downloaded for free. In this BredowCast he gives a first insight into the topic. There are rules on the Internet. That mu...

Book Contribution

Zum Zusammenhang von Digitalisierung, Cybersecurity und Demokratisierung

In a publication of the Austrian Armed Forces PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann writes about the connection between digitisation, cybersecurity and democratisation. He argues that free Internet communication is as essential as it is decisive for an open debate that is a prerequisite for a functioning de...

EU Study

Kids’ Digital Lives in Corona Times

What effects does the corona crisis have on families, children and their use of digital media? The HBI participates with a German partial survey in a European comparative study of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC).

Contribution to Anthology

Internet Governance

In his article for the anthology "IT-Recht [IT Law]", PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann describes the instruments and actors of Internet Governance. You can order the anthology (in German) here Summary Of particular relevance to Internet governance are international law and the human rights...

Available Now!

Navigating Normative Orders

PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann has published the book Navigating Normative Orders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives within the series Normative Orders. It will be published by Campus Verlag in July 2020. You can order the book here About the book Whether Kant or conservatives, on the Internet, in envi...

Blogbeitrag zur Plattformregulierung

Wer sagt, was wir online sagen können?

Welche Macht haben Social-Media-Plattformen über nutzergenerierte Inhalte und warum ist diese Macht problematisch? Dürfen sie ohne Weiteres entscheiden, was Nutzer*innen sagen dürfen und was nicht? Drei Medienjurist*innen, die am HBI die Rollen von Online-Plattformen erforschen, geben...

Article in Textbook

Hamburger Medienrecht

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Keno Potthast have written an article on media law for the Nomos textbook "Landesrecht Hamburg [Hamburg State Law]". You can order the textbook here. About the Textbook Experienced university lecturers and administrative practitioners of the Free and H...

Interview with Blog of the Sciences Po

Plattformen und ihre Verantwortung für Moderation von Inhalten

In an interview with the blog of the Chair of Digital, Governance and Sovereignty at the Sciences Po in Paris, Amélie Pia Heldt explains the responsibility of platforms in moderating the content published on them. You can read the entire article here. Extract How do you think content modera...

Kick-Off for the EU Medien Conference

"Pluralism and Responsibility. Media in the Digital Society"

The digital conference series "Pluralism and Responsibility. Media in the Digital Society" - on the occasion of Germany's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 - offers an overview of current challenges for the European media landscape and poses central questions about its f...

Apply until 15 July 2020!

Call for Research Sprint "AI and Platform Governance"

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) invites you to a research sprint on "AI and Platform Governance“ for the project "The Ethics of Digitalisation". Doctoral students and post-docs from IT, law, political science or similar fields can apply. The...

Podcast

Even on the Internet We Are Not Equal

Political scientist Katharina Mosene explores the Internet from an intersectional feminist perspective. In the BredowCast she talks about how inequality and discrimination arise on the Internet, how they are researched and what can be done about them. In the early 2000s, the Internet was still th...

Social Cohesion in the MDR Broadcasting Area

Feeling of Cohesion Has Increased during Corona

More than 65 percent of the population in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia think that the MDR sets topics that are important for society and makes sure that people are not excluded and treated with disrespect. This is one of the results of a representative study conducted by the MDR in cooperatio...

Conference within the Framework of the German EU Council Presidency

Coherent Media Order: Accompanying the EU Media Conference 2020

The institute will provide scientific support for the media conference in the context of Germany's 2020 EU Council Presidency and is analysing in advance the requirements of a modern European information order.

Article in US Journal

Merging the Social and the Public: How Social Media Platforms Could Be a New Public Forum

Amélie Pia Heldt has published an article in the US law journal Mitchell Hamline Law Review on the question of how social media platforms could provide a new public forum. You can read the article here. Abstract When Facebook and other social media sites announced in August 2018 that...

Blog-Artikel

Das Internet: Eine Diskriminierungstechnologie

Sprechen wir über das Internet, so assoziiert jede*r einen anderen ersten Impuls: die Möglichkeit zu Kommunikation außerhalb der Schranken von Zeit und Raum, eine Tür zu neuen Begegnungen, neuem Wissen, ein Ort, an dem man Gleichgesinnte trifft und – gerade in diesen Zeite...

Congratulations!

Johanna Sebauer Receives Residency Scholarship at the mare-Künstlerhaus

The Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media and the Roger Willemsen Foundation enable five Hamburg artists, including Johanna Sebauer, to spend four weeks at Roger Willemsen's former villa in Wentorf working on their projects. Out of approximately 30 applications, the Board of Trustees of the Roge...

Article on BBC History

Emerging from the siege

Visitors to Hamburg cannot help but be impressed by the magnificent Elbphilharmonie concert hall situated on the banks of the river Elbe. Referred to affectionally as the ‘Elphi’ by locals, this landmark building opened its doors in 2017. However, the Elphi’s resident ensemble, the...

Trends in News Usage

German Findings of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 Published

The latest Reuters Institute Digital News Report shows slowly changing usage habits of online users in Germany when they want to keep up with the latest news. It is true that television is still the news source with the greatest reach and also the resource that is considered most relevant. However,...

Expert Opinion

Menschenrechte und politische Teilhabe im digitalen Zeitalter

At the invitation of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag, PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann addresses in this statement twelve questions of the Bundestag factions concerning human rights and political participation. The background to this statement is the public h...

News Use in Germany

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020: Ergebnisse für Deutschland

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report on news usage in an international comparison was published for the nineth time in a row. The German part of the study was conducted by Dr. Sascha Hölig and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink with the assistance of Julia Behre. You can download the full report her...

Interview with Media Researchers

BredowCast 53: Lokaljournalismus digital

How can local journalism make attractive and contemporary content available to younger people? Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen have not only conducted extensive research on the topic of local journalism, but also developed the app "molo.news" - a digital platform for l...

Transparency in Data Protection

Design Goals for Consent at Scale in Digital Service Ecosystems

Florian Wittner and his co-authors write about the difficulties arising from the multitude of actors involved with regard to transparency in data protection consent on websites and in apps. The article shows possibilities for the user-friendly design of legally binding notices. It will be presented...

Project for UNESCO

The State of the Internet in Germany

What is the state of the Internet and Germany? Upon a request from the German Commission for UNESCO, the HBI will apply 130 indicators to see how digital policy-making can be improved.

Researching News Use

Contextualized Repertoire Maps: Exploring the Role of Social Media in News-Related Media Repertoires

In this paper, Lisa Merten presents a qualitative method for researching the patterns of news use: the Contextualized Repertoire Maps. To the article Abstract In this article, I introduce contextualized repertoire maps as a qualitative approach to the study of news-related media use. With their o...

What Rights Do Users Have?

Back Up: Can Users Sue Platforms To Reinstate Deleted Content?

In their article published in Internet Policy Review, Matthias C. Kettemann and Anna Sophia Tiedeke ask under what conditions users can sue providers to reinstate deleted content on social media platforms. To the article You can download the article here (pdf) Abstract A private order of p...

Podcast!

Was Journalisten sollen und wollen

A new study by the HBI examines what the German population expects from journalism and compares it with the expectations journalists have of themselves. The result: There is a broad consensus between the two groups about what journalism should achieve. The representative population survey wa...

Kommentar

Rezo-Video: Eine ganz besondere Form der Journalismusbeobachtung

Der YouTuber Rezo seziert in seinem Video „Die Zerstörung der Presse“ den deutschen Journalismus. Mit einigen Medienhäusern und deren Praktiken geht er dabei hart ins Gericht. Die Journalismusforscherin Wiebke Loosen hat es sich angesehen. Was macht eigentlich eine Journ...

Working Paper Available for Download

Was Journalisten sollen und wollen

In this working paper, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Julius Reimer and Dr. Sascha Hölig discuss the connection between the self-perception of journalistic roles and which expectations citizens have of journalists in Germany. The findings show that what journalists themselves want to do is also what...

Subproject Research Institute for Social Cohesion

Transfer Office “Media and Social Cohesion”

The transfer office “Media and Social Cohesion” is coordinating all transfer and research acitivities of the projects, which the HBI contributes to the “Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt” (FGZ; Research Institute Social Cohesion).

Subproject Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

(Social) Media Observatory

The (Social) Media Observatory is creating a knowledge base, competency cluster, and data hub for the systematic observation of media-based publics, to support other projects within and beyond the FGZ.

Subproject Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

Integration-Related Remit and Functions of Public Service Media

Are public service media legally obliged to create social cohesion? And how is the integration-related performance of these media perceived?

Subproject Research Institute for Social Cohesion

What Journalists Want and What They Ought to Do

In the light of “fake news” accusations against established media and declining subscription numbers: what does the public expect from journalists, and how do they view their own role in terms of social cohesion?

FGZ’s Main Phase Started on 1 July 2020

Research Institute Social Cohesion FGZ

Eleven German research institutions form the Research Institute Social Cohesion to investigate current social challenges from different perspectives. The HBI examines the role of the media concerning social cohesion.

Happy Birthday!

70 Years Hans-Bredow-Institut

The institute is 70 years old today! And yet we are only just getting off to a good start: for about 1.5 years in the Leibniz Association, with great projects such as the new Use The News, and from tomorrow in the Forschungsinstitut gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ, Research Institute Social C...

Einschätzung von Dreyer und Kettemann

Trumps Gesetz gegen soziale Medien

Donald Trump hat am Donnerstag, den 28. Mai 2020, eine Executive Order unterzeichnet, die den Schutz von sozialen Medien in den USA einschränken soll. Die Juristen Dr. Stephan Dreyer und PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann haben dem Science Media Center die Rechtslage und mögl...

Pro and Cons

Spielerische Ansätze in Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung: Serious Games und Gamification

Claudia Lampert, Daniel Tolks, Kevin Dadaczynski and their colleagues write about how playful approaches like "serious games" and "gamification" are used to distribute health-related information. The article examines the effects and the current state of studies as well as the adv...

Project about News Literacy

Use the News – News Usage and News Literacy in the Digital Age

How do people in Germany keep themselves informed in the digital age - and what does actually stick with them? In a long-term project, the HBI, together with the dpa and other partners from the media, public institutions and civil society, is researching the news literacy of the population under the...

Double Issue Coming Soon

M&K 1-2/2020

In the double issue, Anna Sophie Kümpel focuses on the "use and understanding of news by young adults"; Maria Löblich and Carlotta Nietzke examine the relationship between the "German press and Google" while Monika Taddicken, Nina Wicke and Katharina Willems look at the...

Podcast "Forschergeist"

Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt in an Interview on the Media and Opinion Formation

Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt joined the podcast Forschergeist, a podcast of the Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in cooperation with Metaebene Personal Media. He spoke with host Tim Pritlove about the focus of his research - the Internet. More specifically, he talked about the emergence...

One of 20,000: At Home

"I recommend you listen to the radio more (often)!”

How do researchers live during the corona crisis - and what advice do they have for working from home? The online magazine "Leibniz" provides an insight into the everyday life of researchers working in one of the current 96 member institutes of the Leibniz Association. Under the title &quo...

Kettemann in Sustainable Computing Lab

Towards a People-Oriented Internet with Better Online Rules

PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann has been elected to the Management Board of the Sustainable Computing Lab at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He will be the head of the research group Platform and Content Governance. The research group focuses on a better understanding of the developme...

This Time It's Virtual

70th Annual Conference of the ICA 2020

The meeting rooms of the world's largest conference for communication science will remain empty this year. The International Communication Association (ICA) had to cancel its annual conference on the occasion of its 70th anniversary due to the coronavirus. The Gold Coast in Australia should have...

In Podcast "Tonspur Wissen"

Right to the Internet is a Human Right

"How can a person today see itself as a social being if this person is not able to use the Internet?" In episode 34 of the podcast "Tonspur Wissen – Corona-Fragen" of the Leibniz Association, PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann calls for a rapid implementation of the right to t...

Im Blog

Stellungnahme zu Facebooks Oversight Board

Ein neues Gremium bei Facebook, das “Oversight Board”, wird in den kommenden Monaten seine Arbeit aufnehmen. Es soll Entscheidungen von Facebook anfechten und Policy-Empfehlungen aussprechen können. Internetrechtsexperte PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann kommentiert für das Science...

Interview

"Platform Providers Should Not Become Judges"

To let social media decide on deleting content in the sensitive area of opinion formation is not a good idea, says Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt in an interview with medienpolitik.net. "Within the limits of freedom of opinion, there is a wide spectrum of 'fake news' - the conscious or unconsci...

75 Years NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Wie ein "Wunschtraum-Orchester" Wirklichkeit wurde

In the brochure on the 75th anniversary of the NDR Elbphilhamonie Orchestra, media historian Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner wrote a guest contribution on the foundation of this "German-British dream orchestra." You can download the brochure (in German) here Abstract (in German) Von einem...

Blog zum Tag der Pressefreiheit

Die Positionierung der Medien in Zeiten von Krisen

Zum internationalen Tag der Pressefreiheit am 3. Mai betont Wolfgang Schulz die große Bedeutung des Journalismus in Zeiten von Krisen und fordert, institutionell zu lernen, wie die Rolle und Verantwortung von Journalist*innen und Anbieter*innen von Kommunikationsplattformen in der Krise ausges...

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Kommunikative Figurationen – ein theoretisches Konzept zur Beschreibung von Sozialisationsprozessen und deren Wandel in mediatisierten Gesellschaften?

In this contribution, Dr. Claudia Lampert and Marcel Rechlitz introduce the approach of communicative figurations as an analytical framework for researching transformed socialisation processes. The article has been published in Bewegungen: Beiträge zum 26. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft f&...

Blogbeitrag: Künstliche Intelligenz

Medienrechtliche Verantwortlichkeiten bei Roboterjournalismus

Immer öfter setzen journalistische Medien automatisierte Systeme zur Texterstellung ein. Macht ein “Journalismusroboter” einen Fehler, stellt sich die Frage, wer dafür verantwortlich gemacht werden kann. Stephan Dreyer und Amélie Heldt erklären, wie der medienrechtl...

Video online!

Fighting Corona Digitally in China and Europe. Leibniz Media Lunch Talk on Zoom

In our first digital Lunch Talk we discussed the use of digital tracking technology in the fight against the corona virus in China and Europe. The event was recorded and is now available on YouTube. Please note that the Lunch Talk was held in German. The panel included China experts Kai von Carnap...

Webinar Recording Online!

Webinar: Psychological Challenges for Doctoral Researchers during the Corona Pandemic

Irene Broer, doctoral researcher at the HBI, has organised a virtual workshop on Mental Health and Corona together with her colleagues from the Leibniz-PhD Networks. The current crisis poses particular mental challenges for young academics. In the almost two-hour webinar, three international expert...

Blog-Dossier "Mediennutzung in Zeiten von Corona"

Was hilft Kindern und Jugendlichen, mit Sorgen und Ängsten umzugehen?

Die Berichterstattung über das Coronavirus kann Kinder und Jugendliche enorm beunruhigen. Nicht zuletzt, weil sich die Krise durch Schulschließungen, Ausgangsbeschränkungen und Kontaktverbote direkt auf ihren Alltag auswirkt. Was kann ihnen dabei helfen, den derzeitigen Ausnahmezusta...

Data Protection on Facebook

Datenschutz- und AGB-widrige Kontovoreinstellungen von Facebook. Urteilsanm. zu KG, Urt. v. 20.12.2019 - 5 U 9/18 (LG Berlin)

A comment on a judgement by Amélie Heldt on Facebook's account settings that are contrary to data protection and general terms and conditions was published in the journal Multimedia und Recht. Heldt, Amélie (2020): Datenschutz- und AGB-widrige Kontovoreinstellungen von Face...

Stellungnahme

Alternativmedien und „Pandemischer Populismus“

In der Woche vor Ostern veröffentlichte ein vierköpfiges Team von Kommunikationswissenschaftler*innen der Universität Münster auf der Preprint-Plattform arxiv.org das Arbeitspapier „Pandemic Populism: Facebook Pages of Alternative News Media and the Corona Crisis – a...

Blog-Dossier "Medienutzung in Zeiten von Corona"

Trackingtechniken und Rechtsfragen

Als Instrumente zur Begegnung der Coronavirus-Pandemie werden Tracking-Ansätze heiß diskutiert. Was hinter der Technik der massenweisen Ortung von Smartphones steckt, was sie für die Bekämpfung der Ausbreitung des Virus verspricht und welche rechtlichen Herausforderungen es beim...

Fünf Jahre Haft für kritische Berichte?

Ungarns Demokratie als Opfer von Corona

Während der Bundestag zeigt, wie effektiv (und überraschend digital) er in Krisenzeiten arbeiten kann, hat sich das ungarische Parlament selbst entmachtet. Besonders auf die Medien kommen schwierige Zeiten zu. Auf „Fake News“ zu Corona stehen bis zu fünf Jahre Haft. Jetzt...

Subproject Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

Media Use and Social Cohesion

How do people in different social situations use different kind of media? And how do they contribute to the creation of public spheres and social cohesion?

Interview

Wie informieren wir uns in der Coronakrise?

Das Informationsbedürfnis in der Coronakrise ist enorm. Es gibt viele Fragen, aber wenig klare Antworten. Wie sich Menschen in der aktuellen Krisensituation informieren und warum es gerade ein Podcast zu beachtlicher Bekanntheit geschafft hat, weiß Mediennutzungsforscher Dr. Sascha Hö...

Funding Approved

Research Institute for Social Cohesion Can Get Started

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the main phase of the "Research Institute for Social Cohesion" (FGZ) for four years starting in summer 2020. The HBI, together with ten other German research institutions, had developed the research programme of the FGZ in a o...

Submissions until 15 April 2020!

CfP Interdisciplinary Journalism Resarch – Journalism Interdisciplinary

For the annual conference of the DGPuK division group journalism/journalism research on the topic "Interdisziplinäre Journalismusforschung – Journalismus interdisziplinär [Interdisciplinary Journalism Research - Journalism Interdisciplinary]", we are asking for numerous off...

Bredows on Tour

DGPuK- Jahrestagung 2020 in München

On the topic of "#Medien #Mensch #Gesellschaft. Fragen und Antworten der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft in Zeiten rapiden Medienwandels [#Media #People #Society. Questions and Answers of Communication and Media Studies in Times of Rapid Media Change]", the German Communication Asso...

Blog-Serie: Promovieren am HBI

Anne-Kristin Polster: "Anfangs herrschte interdisziplinäre Sprachverwirrung"

In ihrer Dissertation untersucht Anne-Kristin Polster inwiefern der Jugendmedienschutz "Medienfiguren" abdeckt. Damit sind "medial vermittelte Bezugspunkte" gemeint, zu denen Kinder und Jugendliche eine Beziehung aufbauen. Zum Beispiel YouTuber oder Charaktere aus Fernsehserien....

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Stellungnahme zum Entwurf eines Zweiten Gesetzes zur Änderung des Jugendschutzgesetzes

On 11 February 2020, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) submitted a draft of a second law amending the Youth Protection Act (JuSchG). Dr. Stephan Dreyer and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz the current hearing of associations as an opportunity to comment on t...

Representative Survey

Social Cohesion in the MDR Broadcasting Area

The HBI advises and supports the MDR in a study on the relationship between media use and the perception of social cohesion in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.

Welcome, Marta!

Guest Researcher from Galicia

In March and April 2020 Marta Rodríguez-Castro will be a guest researcher at HBI. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her thesis examines the development of public value tests in European public media o...

Podcast!

Watchdog Journalism in Mexico

Mexican journalist and media researcher Veronica Sánchez researches watchdog journalism in her country. In the BredowCast, she talks to Johanna Sebauer about the late development of critical reporting in Mexico, its current challenges and why she, while working as a journalist, would never...

Philipp Seuferling, 19.02.2020

Mediennutzung auf der Flucht

In Flüchtlingsunterkünften herrschen spezielle Informationsbedürfnisse. Philipp Seuferling erforscht Mediennutzungspraktiken von historischen Geflüchteten in Deutschland von 1945-2000. Seine Erkenntnisse sind auch für die Gestaltung aktueller Medien- und Migrationspolitik re...

Audio Is In!

World Radio Day 2020: Our Recommendations

The 13th of February is World Radio Day. The day is intended to commemorate the founding of United Nations Radio on 13 February 1946 and has been celebrated worldwide since 2012. We have a reading and two listening tips for this. In his 2014 audio essay, Uwe Hasebrink continues to reflect on...

Study with Children and Young People in 19 Countries

Europe's Children Need More Tips for Safe Surfing

The majority of European children and young people between the ages of 9 and 16 use their smartphone "every day" or "almost all the time." This means that both the proportion of smartphone users and the length of time they use the Internet have increased significantly compared to...

Study on Digital Participation

Children and Young People Are Also Interested in Political Information

As they grow older, children and young people also use online services that allow them to participate in political discussions and to network strategically. 83 percent of 9 to 17-year-olds have heard of "Fridays for Future". 46 percent of them have looked for further information on the Int...

Interviews on Media Use

Study Participants Wanted in the Hamburg Area

Netflix, podcasts, Tagesschau - in a qualitative study, we want to find out how people connect with the world through the media and how they inform themselves about it. For this purpose, we are looking for participants in the Hamburg area in the following age groups: between 18 and 25, 35 and 45 or...

Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, 05.02.2020

Medien und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

Filterblasen, Echokammern und Hassrede: Zerstört das Internet den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt? Oder fördert es im Zusammenspiel mit anderen Medien die Verständigung über geteilte Werte? Die Frage nach Bedingungen und Gefährdungen des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts ist...

Freedom of Expression on Social Networks

#NSFW? Be Yourself but Don’t Undress

Facebook also wants to launch a dating app now. In the latest issue of the research magazine encore, Amélie Pia Heldt explains what this means for the freedom of expression and personal development of users. Abstract “The world’s biggest social network plans to launch a new dati...

Visions for a Non-Discriminatory Internet Governance

Many Worlds, Many Nets, Many Visions – Critical Voices, Visions and Vectors for Internet Governance

In the new issue of the research magazine encore, Katharina Mosene and PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann present five visions for a discrimination-free Internet. These five visions are taken from the collective volume published by Mosene and Kettemann in the run-up to the 14th Internet Governance Forum 2...

Internet Myths Put to the Test

Busted! The Truth about the 50 Most Common Internet Myths

In this volume, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Dr. Stephan Dreyer clear up misconceptions about the Internet. In the latest issue of the research magazine encore they present some of the 50 most powerful Internet myths. Abstract "Myths are seductive. Cybercriminals don’t get caught. D...

TV, Radio or App?

Use and Understanding of (Severe) Weather Forecasts

A representative online survey wants to find out how people inform themselves about weather forecasts, how they understand the information and to what extent they trust the communicated scientific findings.

New Cooperation Project

Coding Public Value

The interdisciplinary project "Coding Public Value" investigates the possibility of shaping media policy by means of software development. The core of the project is to develop software for public media platforms that not only serves business models but is also oriented towards the common...

Podcast

How Facebook Develops Rules for 2.7 Billion People

For the first time, Facebook has given scientists direct access to its internal decision-making bodies. Researchers from the Hamburg-based Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) have investigated how Facebook develops communication rules for its platform. On the BredowCa...

Development of a Research Training Group

State Research Funding for Project with HBI Participation

The HBI is participating in the third round of research funding by the State of Hamburg with a project in cooperation with Universität Hamburg and the Institute of Technical Education and University Didactics at the TU Hamburg. The aim is to develop a research-training group that will focus on...

Research at Facebook for the First Time

Setting Rules for 2.7 Billion. A (First) Look into Facebook’s Norm-Making System

For the first time, Facebook has given scientists direct access to internal decision-making bodies. PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz from HBI have investigated how Facebook develops communication rules for its platform. The results of this pilot study have now been publishe...

Law and Politics

Über die personelle und inhaltliche Verzahnung von Politik und Verfassungsrecht

Matthias K. Klatt writes about politicians at the Constitutional Court in the JuWissBlog. Stephan Harbarth has been a judge at the BVerfG for over a year, having previously been an important figure in the CDU/CSU faction and a successful lawyer. There was a dispute about his appointment to th...

Literature and Broadcasting

Writers and Radio: How Literary Authors Have Made Use of the Medium over a Century

In his article in the Journal for Media History, Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes about the interaction between literary authors and the medium radio. Literary authors have made use of the radio as a political, technological, cultural, and social medium from its infancy. A wide range of complex rela...

Clearing up the Data Jungle

Children Online: Research and Evidence (CORE)

International data on children and online media is extensive, heterogeneous and partly contradictory. The CO:RE project seeks to create a comprehensive pan-European knowledge platform with the participation of international researchers and relevant interest groups, providing an overview of the resea...

Interviewing Capital City Journalists

Twitter im Politikjournalismus

Together with Christian Nuernbergk, Jan-Hinrik Schmidtt analyses the importance of Twitter in the work of political journalists in an article in the journal Publizistik. As journalists and politicians increasingly use social media, the "communicative figuration" of political journal...

Apply until 9 February 2020!

Research & Impact Workshop

The Young Researcher Event of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in cooperation with the EU Hub of the Network of Centers (NoC) aims at linking young researchers and their research interests as well as reflecting and developing positions and de...

Article in Anthology

Hassrede und Katzenbilder: Ausgewählte menschenrechtliche Aspekte der Governance von Meinungsäußerungen im Internet

Matthias C. Kettemann and Katharina Mosene describe in their contribution to the anthology "Hass im Netz - Grenzen digitaler Freiheit [Hate Online – Limits of Digital Freedom]" how effective the governance of freedom of expression on the Internet is in the fight against hate speech....

Local Journalism Reloaded

Molo.news: Experimentally Developing a Relational Platform for Local Journalism

Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen) and Wiebke Loosen present the project molo.news in an article in the journal Media and Communication. They developed an online platform for local journalism based on the findings of previous interviews, group discussions and surveys. What is presente...

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.

Podcast!

BredowCast 49: Was Kinder online machen

Children and young people in Germany spend up to three hours per day online. In the BredowCast episode 49, Claudia Lampert and Kira Thiel talk about what children and adolescents do online, what risks they face and how their parents feel about the whole thing. As part of the transnational...

Apply until 31 January 2020!

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 02 to 08 March 2020 in Delhi, India. The summer school brings together a diverse group of s...

Growing Up Digitally. Thinking from a Child's Perspective.

Gefährdungsatlas der Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien

The "Gefährdungsatlas [Risk Atlas]" of the Federal Review Board for Media Harmful to Minors helps to navigate through new media phenomena and the associated challenges. Stephan Dreyer is one of the authors. Also involved were authors from the JFF - Institute for Media Education in Res...

Pilot Study Investigates Integration Performance of the Media

Media Use and Social Integration

Social integration is one of the essential functions of the media. Accordingly, the question arises as to how the integration performance of the media as a whole or of individual media can be empirically analysed. In cooperation with the ZDF and mindline media, the following criteria were defined, b...

Article in Professional Journal

Kulturelles Erbe. Das Online-Angebot “SWR Retro” setzt einen Trend

Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes in the media journal of the Evangelischer Pressedienst epd medien about the new service of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) - SWR Retro. SWR is the first public broadcaster to make historical archive material available to the public in the ARD Mediathek [ARD media library]. &...

Open Access Article

Let's Meet Halfway: Sharing New Responsibilities in a Digital Age

The lawyer Amélie Heldt writes in her essay in the Journal of Information Policy about responsibilities in the age of online communication. States often delegate responsibility for problems in online communication (disinformation, hate speech, etc.) to online platforms. At the same time, the...

Interview with Matthias C. Kettemann

"Hate speech cannot be stopped by the mere regulation of algorithms."

In his interview with the magazine of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Matthias C. Kettemann gives all-clear signals to all those who see our democracy in danger through phenomena such as fake news or hate speech saying that "there is no empirical evidence that disinformation and hate speech pose...

Blog Article

Political Microtargeting

On the JuWissBlog Keno C. Potthast has written an article about political microtargeting – “addressing personalised voters based on evaluations of personal data.” "We've made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally." This is the begin...

Blog Article

Cyber-Security als Rechtsstaatspflicht

Matthias K. Klatt writes in his article on the JuWissBlog about the security of IT systems as "a fundamental precondition for a functioning constitutional state." Questions of data security and the security of infrastructures in the digital age are of particular importance for indiv...

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Busted! The Truth about the 50 Most Common Internet Myths

This anthology clears up misconceptions about the Internet and summarises what we really know about the online world. The editors Matthias C. Kettemann and Stephan Dreyer have embarked on a search for the 50 most common Internet myths and asked Internet experts from Africa, America, Asia and Europe...

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