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

THE HBI AT THE ICA 2023 IN TORONTO

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

OUR JOURNAL M&K BECOMES MORE ENGLISH

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

JUDITH MÖLLER IS NEW PROFESSOR AT HBI

Judith Möller, internationally highly renowned communication scientist from the University of Amsterdam, has accepted the call to the professorship "Empirical Communication Research" at the University of Hamburg in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research.

Latest News

News, new research projects and publications from the Institute

Working mainly from home

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

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

Projektergebnisse veröffentlicht

Mediennutzung und politische Kultur in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

In der Studie "Mediennutzung und politische Kultur in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" wurde untersucht, wie sich Menschen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern über Politik und andere gesellschaftlich relevante Themen in ihrem Bundesland informieren und welche generellen Einstellungen sie zur Politik hab...

Rechtliche Bedenken und Fragen der Effektivität

Stellungnahme: Eckpunkte des BMJ zum Gesetz gegen digitale Gewalt

Eine Reihe von HBI-Expert*innen aus den Bereichen Medienrecht, Jugendmedienschutz, Plattformregulierung und Internetforschung haben in einer Stellungnahme ihre Einschätzung zu einem Eckpunktepapier des Bundesministeriums für Justiz (BMJ) zu einem Gesetz für digitale Gewalt abgegeben....

First Place!

DGPuK Journal Article Award 2023 for Our Researchers

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

Podcast!

Bessere Regeln für Zugang zu Plattformdaten?

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

Publication!

Exploring the Interrelation between Journalism and Social Cohesion

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

Qualitative Study

Wahrnehmung, Bewertung und Bewältigung belastender Online-Erfahrungen von Jugendlichen

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

73rd Annual Conference

The HBI at the ICA 2023 in Toronto

Fourth Edition

Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Policy Map 2023

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

Scientific Publishing

Our Journal M&K Becomes More English

Recently Published!

M&K 1-2/2023

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

Project Findings

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

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

Blog: Research Data Access

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

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

Doctoral Thesis Published

Das Sondervotum beim Bundesverfassungsgericht

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

Blog zum Tag Pressefreiheit

Pressefreiheit weltweit: Deutschland rutscht auf Platz 21 ab

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

Podcast!

Medienmosaik Schweiz

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

A New Form of Regulated Self-Regulation

AGB-Recht als Regulierungsrecht

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

Student Assistant Published Article

„Schadensersatz ohne Schaden“ nach der DSGVO?

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

A Classic Celebrates Its Birthday

60 Years "Psychology of Mass Communication"

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

Cooperation project for German Cancer Aid

Fertility and Ethics in Oncology

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

Podcast!

Mit Influencer*innen Nachrichtenmuffel erreichen?

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

"Platform Governance"

Summer School in Delhi 2023

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

BMBF Project Document Collection

Repository for Policy Documents (REPOD)

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

BMBF Project Local News App

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

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

Dissertation Published

Intensivere Drittwirkung

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

Blog: Digital Law

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

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

Guest Researcher

Manuel Puppis for 2 months at HBI

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

Im Blog: #UseTheNews-Forschungsüberblick

Familienangehörige sind wichtige Nachrichtenquelle

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

Editorship

Transparency or Opacity

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

Blog: Öffentlich-Rechtliche auf Social Media

Löschen für die Vielfalt

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

Public Service Broadcasting

Sascha Hölig Advises ZDF Television Council on Quality Measurement

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

Study Launch

Political Media Use in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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

We are thrilled!

Judith Möller Is New Professor at HBI

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

Complete Study as Brochure

Jugendmedienschutzindex 2022

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

Media Use in a Federal State

Media Use and Political Culture in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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

Podcast!

Medical Controversies Online

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

Jugendmedienschutz-Report 6/22

Folgen der sich wandelnden Regulierungsansätze im Jugendmedienschutz

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

Blog: Kinder, wie die Zeit vergeht!

Das HBI gratuliert der Sesamstraße zum 50. Geburtstag

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

Hans Bredow Explains the System

75 Years of Public Service Broadcasting in Germany

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

An Obituary

In Memory of Dieter Roß

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

Overview

Overview Study Digital Methods

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

Blog: Plattformregulierung

Nein, Elon Musk, so geht Plattformdemokratie nicht

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

Blog: Plattformregulierung

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

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

Twitter-Alternative mit Problemen

Was bei Mastodon besser laufen muss

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

Options for Actions for the Federal Government

Menschenrechte im Digitalen

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

Blog: Donald Trump wieder auf Twitter

„Auf Twitter ließ er Medien nach seiner Pfeife tanzen“

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

Handbook

Methods in Practice: Studying Children and Youth Online

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

Anthology

100 Jahre Radio in Deutschland

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

Podcast!

Elon Musks Twitterübernahme: Folgen für die Wissenschaft

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

Findings from Germany

Onlinenutzung von Kindern und Jugendlichen in der Pandemie

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

M&K Special Issue

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

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

For a Secure Data Exchange

Data Portal Right-Wing Extremism

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

Cooperation Project with University of Hamburg

New Methods in Automated Content Analysis

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

Peer-reviewed Paper

Boundary Detection and Categorization of Argument Aspects via Supervised Learning

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

Open Access Available for Download

Social Media Content Creators aus Sicht ihrer jungen Follower

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

Best Practices

How Platforms Respond to Human Rights Conflicts Online

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

Podcast!

Influencer: Ihr Erfolg bei jungen Menschen

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

Out Now!

M&K 4/2022

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

Youth Media Protection Index 2022

Growing Parental Concerns about the Online Safety of Their Children

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

Open Acces!

Digital Transformations in Public International Law

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

Communication Governance as Democracy Protection

Perspektiven auf die Plattform- und KI-Regulierung der Demokratien

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

Kritisch und nah dran

Lokaljournalismus, wie er sein sollte

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

Exam

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

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

Book Chapter

Fraktionen und Abgeordnete

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

Livestream Discussion

Talks on the Implementation of the DSA in Germany

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

Project Findings Open Access

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

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

Podcast!

Beziehungspflege: Journalismus und sein Publikum

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

Journalism under Duress

World's Largest Survey of Journalists Has Started

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

Welcome to the Institute!

Ericka Menchen-Trevino at HBI

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

Findings of Use the News Study

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

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

Podcast!

Medien im Gefängnis

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

To be published soon open access

M&K 3/2022

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

Call for Papers!

Contemporary Methods of Child and Youth Media Research

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

Video 12th Hamburg Media Symposium

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

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

Anthology

The Law of Global Digitality

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

Podcast!

Praktiken der Aneignung von Vergangenheiten

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

Dossier: "Human Rights Online"

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

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

Dossier: "Human Rights Online"

The need for research on GDPR codes of conduct

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

Dossier: "Human Rights Online"

When unconsent is no option

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

Potentials and Limitations

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

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

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

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

Findings for Germany Published

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022 – Ergebnisse für Deutschland

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

Experiences of People over 60

Healthy Digital – Fit for Apps and the Internet

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

Podcast!

Argument Mining

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

Open Access Series

Article Series on the Governance of Desinformation

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

Understanding Digital Corporations as States?

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

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

Book Chapter

EU Digital Services Act: The White Hope of Intermediary Regulation

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

Digital Conference

HBI Researchers at re:publica 2022

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

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Gesetzessammlung: Information, Kommunikation, Medien, 19. Auflage

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

Available for Download

Risk Atlas Growing Up in a Digital World

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

Legal Assessment of EU Proposal

Chat Control to Fight Depiction of Abuse

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

Blog-Artikel zum Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden

Von Stimmkünsten und Hörprozessen

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

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Mit Twitterdaten forschen

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

Importance of Broadcasting Archives

Arbeit am Medien-Gedächtnis der Gesellschaft

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

All Contributions of the Institute at a Glance

ICA's Annual Conference 2022 in Paris

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

International Expert Workshop at HBI

Linking survey data and digital traces

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

Welcome!

Torben Klausa is Research Fellow at the HBI

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

World Press Freedom Day

Sacrificing Freedoms to Protect Them?

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

Project funded by Stiftung Mercator

Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders

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

Volkswagen Foundation Funds Joint Project

STEAM – The Socio-Technical Ecosystem Architecture Method

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

Einschätzung des Gesetzentwurfs

Was ist vom neuen Digital Services Act DSA zu halten?

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

Blog-Interview: Journalismus und sein Publikum

Der Tagesspiegel Checkpoint-Newsletter

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

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Not All Who Are Bots Are Evil

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

Publication of the Global Digital Human Rights Network

Governing Information Flows During War

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

Blogbeitrag zum MStV-E

Öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk als Pionier?

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

Congrats to this great Success!

Lisa Merten Winner of the 2021 Digital Journalism Outstanding Article Award

Lisa Merten wins the award for the best article of 2021 in the top-class journal Digital Journalism! She is also one of the top 3 nominees for the Bob Franklin Award, the joint award of Digital Journalism, Journalism and Journalism Practice for the best article of the year. The award-winning articl...

Recommendation: Educational Training Programme

Propaganda and Disinformation in the War against Ukraine

The training portal for educational professionals "Medienbildung jetzt!" [Media Education Now!] offers the Sondermodul: "Q&A – Expert:innen zu Propaganda und Desinformation im Krieg gegen die Ukraine" [special module: Q&A - Experts on Propaganda and Disinformation i...

Co-Operation Project for the FSM

Index for Youth Media Protection 2022

A representative survey of parents and children identifies risks of online use by children and young people as well as ways of dealing with them in order to create an up-to-date, knowledge-based foundation for the further development of youth media protection.

Project Computational Social Science

Tracking Political Polarization

What is the interplay between the diversity of our information exposure online and the polarization of our political opinions towards certain issues or groups over time?

Cooperation between Science and Politics

Neue Mechanismen für den Ernstfall

A new "Crisis Science Hub (CSH)" is supposed to facilitate rapid and structured cooperation between science and politics in future crisis. This is the recommendation of the developers of the Crisis Science Project (CRISP) initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)....

Congratulations!

Lisa Merten and Amélie Heldt Obtained Their Doctorates

On March 21st, Lisa Merten successfully defended her dissertation on "Praktiken der Nachrichtennutzung auf sozialen Netzwerkplattformen" [Practices of News Usage on Social Networking Platforms]. Amélie Pia Heldt followed on April 4th with her disputation on "Intensivere Drittw...

Article in Journal for Legislation

Gesetzespublizität im Zeitalter der Vernetzung

Tobias Mast has published the article "Gesetzespublizität im Zeitalter der Vernetzung" [Publicity of Laws in the Age of Networking] in No. 1/2022 of the Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung (ZG). The article looks at the plans on the federal level to create a uniform legal information p...

Open Access in IJoC

News Won’t Find Me? Exploring Inequalities in Social Media News Use With Tracking Data

Lisa Merten and an international team of authors have published the article "News Won't Find Me? Exploring Inequalities in Social Media News Use With Tracking Data" open access in the International Journal Of Communication. The authors use a combination of tracking and survey data to...

New Book

Zwischen Partizipationsversprechen und Algorithmenmacht. Wie soziale Medien politisches Handeln prägen

How does social media change opinion-forming and political engagement? How do politicians use social media? PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt addresses these questions in the newly published book "Zwischen Partizipationsversprechen und Algorithmenmacht. Wie soziale Medien politisches Handeln präge...

Podcast Recommendation

Why Is Fake News Rampant on the Internet?

In the new episode of "Tonspur Wissen - dem Wissens-Podcast von Rheinischer Post und Leibniz-Gemeinschaft" [Tonspur Wissen - the Knowledge Podcast by Rheinischer Post and the Leibniz Association], Jan-Hinrik Schmidt answers questions from Ursula Weidenfeld. Lying, cheating, manipulating....

Overview of Studies

Studiensynopse: Nachrichtenkompetenz bei Jugendlichen

As commissioned by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung), Leonie Wunderlich and Dr. Sascha Hölig have published an overview of studies on the news literacy of adolescents and young adults in Germany, which has its origin in the #UseTheNews project....

Working Paper Available for Download

Rechtsextreme Online-Kommunikation in Krisenzeiten

Rau, Jan; Kero, Sandra; Hofmann, Vincent; Dinar, Christina; Heldt, Amélie Pia (2022): Rechtsextreme Online-Kommunikation in Krisenzeiten. Herausforderungen und Interventionsmöglichkeiten aus Sicht der Rechtsextremismus- und Platform-Governance-Forschung [Online-Communication of the Extre...

Speed Dating with Science

Book a Scientist

The HBI is once again part of the Leibniz initiative "Book a Scientist". It offers interested parties the opportunity to exchange ideas with researchers from the Leibniz Association in one-on-one meetings. Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann will be available for the HBI. His topic: &qu...

Blogpost zum Jugendangebot von ARD & ZDF

Was ist "funk" – und wenn ja, wie viele?

Stell dir vor, es ist Rundfunk und keiner schaut hin. Ganz so dramatisch ist die Situation zwar noch nicht, aber insbesondere dem öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk fehlt es an Nachwuchspublikum. Doch wie erreicht man eigentlich eine Zielgruppe, die sich – anders als vorherige Generationen &...

Study on Community-Based Content Moderation

Truth and Knowledge on Wikipedia

How do community-based contents on the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia emerge and what procedures are used to negotiate what is regarded as “truth”?

Digital Media Environment

Nachrichtennutzung junger Menschen

In their article in BPJMAKTUELL, Dr. Sascha Hölig and Leonie Wunderlich write about news use, opinion formation and the orientation of young people towards information in digital media environments. BPJMAKTUELL is a publication of Bundeszentrale für Kinder- und Jugendmedienschutz [t...

Welcome to the Institute!

New Research Fellow Anne Kaun

For five months, Anne Kaun, professor at Södertörn University in Stockholm, will conduct research with us as a fellow at the HBI. We are delighted about this international cooperation! Her research interests include media theory, mediated temporalities, algorithmic culture, automati...

Enforcement of Rules on Small Platforms

User Courts on Social Media Platforms

Using the example of user courts from the 2000s of the internet as well as the Wikipedia arbitration court, the Seed Money project investigates how communities on small and niche platforms actively shape the enforcement of rules.

EU-Project about Media Ownership Concentration

Euromedia Ownership Monitor

Who owns the media in Europe? The EU-funded project will create a central database for information on media ownership in 15 European union member states.

DGPuK Journal Article Award

Award for M&K Article

The first place of the DGPuK journal award this year goes to Dr. Mario Haim. The prize was awarded for his essay in the M&K issue "Forschungssoftware in der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung [Research Software in Communication and Media Research]" on quality criteria and recommendati...

Survey on Media Usage

"News Junkies“ Wanted for Study

As part of our research project Public Connection, we are looking for news-savvy people between the ages of 18 and 29 for a scientific survey on their media usage behaviour. We are particularly interested in people who are intensively involved with journalism and news, share news, comment on news,...

Media Education

Gesundheit und Medien

Together with Dipl.-Psych. Christa Gebel, Dr Claudia Lampert edited issue 2022/01 of the journal merz | medien + erziehung on "Media and Health". Claudia Lampert's article "Digitale Gesundheitspraktiken von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Mehrwert oder Risiko? [Digital Health Practices...

Discussion via Livestream

CEO of YouTube in Conversation with Wolfgang Schulz

She rarely gives interviews, so this was a rare opportunity to meet YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and learn more about her understanding of good content governance and the strategic direction of the video platform. On Thursday, 10 February, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz spoke with Susan Wojcicki about the...

Saving the Digital World?

Machtkritische Perspektiven auf digitale Emanzipationsgewinne

In the Global Media Journal, Katharina Mosene and Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann look at the norms that could make the distribution of digital power more equitable. You can download the article here (PDF, in German) Abstract The internet has long ceased to be a utopian counter-draft t...

Blogartikel zum Safer Internet Day 2022

Mehr digitale Teilhabe ermöglichen

Beim Safer Internet Day am 08.02.2022 steht das Thema digitale Teilhabe #fitfordemocracy im Fokus. Die Medien bieten hierfür zahlreiche Möglichkeiten. Doch werden diese von Kindern und Jugendlichen auch genutzt? Kira Thiel und Claudia Lampert diskutieren diese Frage anhand von Daten aus de...

Welcome to the Institute!

New as Senior Researcher at the Institute: Tobias Mast

Dr. Tobias Mast is head of the research programme "Regulatory Structures and the Emergence of Rules in Online Spaces" at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut since January 2022. Prior to this, he worked as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court....

Project Conclusion

Presenting the Findings at Schloss Bellevue

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and HBI Director Prof Dr Wolfgang Schulz discussed strategies for overcoming the ethical challenges of digitalisation. The event marked the end of the two-year project "Ethics of Digitalisation". Monday, 07.02.2022, from 10:30 a.m. Schloss Bellevu...

Use the News

Was junge Menschen von Influencern erwarten. Und von Journalisten

Young people are quite critical of influencers when it comes to their subjective presentation of newsworthy information. They expect journalists to be neutral above all. This is what the #UseTheNews study found out during group discussions with teenagers and young adults. Leonie Wunderlich, c...

Podcast!

Vom Medienjournalismus in die Medienforschung

As editor-in-chief of the industry magazine journalist, Anna von Garmissen has reported on the media business in Germany for many years. Now she is researching it from a research perspective. In this BredowCast, she talks about how she experienced the change from practice to research, and what sep...

Final Report

Ethics of Digitalization – From Principles to Practices

After two years of research on the ethical challenges of digitalisation and strategies on how to overcome them, the international and interdisciplinary team of researchers has now published the final report. The HBI researchers Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann,...

Successful Model with a Future?

Die »Europäische Strategie für ein besseres Internet für Kinder«

Dr. Stephan Dreyer looks at the impact of the BIK strategy in the Member States and the political framing of children's online safety in Europe before focusing on the future of the EU's plans in this area. This article has been published in the current issue (1/2022) of the journal Kinder- u...

Distance Learning

Eine figurationsanalytische Betrachtung von Familien während der ersten Phase der Covid-19-Pandemie

Dr Claudia Lampert, Paul Petschner, Andreas Dertinger and Jane Müller describe how families dealt with the challenges of distance learning during the corona-induced lockdown in the journal MedienPädagogik. The article is available as an open access publication. To the article ...

Instagram instead of Tagesschau?

Die Rolle Sozialer Medien in der Nachrichtennutzung. Über Chancen und Risiken

An article by Dr. Sascha Hölig and Leonie Wunderlich highlights the role of social media regarding the use of news in an anthology on journalism and Instagram. Abstract Social media have become an important resource for news content to be noticed. The consequences of this are assessed very dif...

All Articles Are Open Access!

M&K-Themenheft "Interdisziplinäre Journalismusforschung – Journalismus interdisziplinär"

Media change and digitalisation have changed the way journalism researchers look at their field. Disciplines such as computer science are increasingly being included. What interdisciplinarity means for journalism research and practice is discussed in the articles in M&K 1-2/202, available as an...

Looking beyond the Horizon

Online-Erfahrungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen aus 19 europäischen Ländern

In the journal "Kinder- und Jugendschutz" (Protection of Children and Young People), Dr Claudia Lampert describes the negative experiences children and young people have online and how they can be enabled to use digital media in a self-determined way. The article is based on finding...

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Schriftliche Stellungnahme zu dem Diskussionsentwurf zu Auftrag und Strukturoptimierung des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks

Valerie Rhein, Dr. Stephan Dreyer and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz have published an opinion on the discussion draft of the Länder regarding the mandate and structural optimisation of public service broadcasting. In their expert opinion, they welcome the draft amendment to the State Medi...

Blog: Soziale Medien und Wohlbefinden

Soziale Vergleiche auf Instagram

Die Nutzung von Instagram kann das Wohlbefinden von Jugendlichen, insbesondere von Mädchen und jungen Frauen, stark beeinträchtigen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kam eine nunmehr geleakte, interne Facebook-Studie. Was hilft Jugendlichen im Umgang mit vergleichsbasiertem Social-Media-Stress? Und was...

Assessing Criminal Law and Youth Protection Law

Sexualisierte Belästigung online

Sünje Andresen and Dr. Stephan Dreyer have published a jurisprudential article in the professional journal for youth media protection "JMS-Report". From the perspective of criminal law and youth protection law, the authors addressed forms of imposed sexuality and sexualised harassment...

International Journal for Press/Politics

The Role of Journalistic and non-Journalistic Sources in Young Peoples’ News Related Practices

Leonie Wunderlich, Dr. Sascha Hölig and Prof. em. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink write about journalistic and non-journalistic sources in young people's news consumption in their recently published article in The International Journal for Press/Politics. The article is based on data collected as...

Legal Evaluation

Pressekodex der Polizei Baden-Württemberg

In the journal Verwaltungsblätter für Baden-Württemberg (VBlBW), Dr. Tobias Mast has analysed the press code of the Baden-Württemberg police from a legal point of view. With this individual "press code", the Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg has...

Interactive Mapping

Website Makes Journalistic Pioneers Visible

Together with the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), the HBI has launched a website that makes innovative journalistic projects visible. An interactive map of Germany provides data on various editorial offices, journalistic start-ups and projects that are develo...

Politicians on Social Media

Facebook- und Twitter-Nutzung der Kandidierenden zur Bundestagswahl 2021

In the current issue of "Media Perspektiven", PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt describes how the candidates for the 2021 Bundestag election used social media. Most important findings In the 2021 federal election, candidates significantly expanded their social media activities compared to the...

Blog-Interview: Journalismus und sein Publikum

„Wir machen Journalismus mit Haltung und dazu stehen wir“

Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement findet oft im Kleinen statt. Das Magazin Veto will engagierten Menschen eine Stimme geben und auf ihre tägliche Arbeit aufmerksam machen. Im Interview spricht Textchefin Dr. Susanne Kailitz-Kunz über Engagement, ihr Publikum und Journalismus mit Halt...

Open Access!

Cybersecurity and Extraterritorial Obligations of States

In their article in the "Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations", Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Anna Sophia Tiedeke argue that the protection of cybersecurity is in the interest of all states and conclude that our understanding of extraterritorial obliga...

Blog Dossier

Sophie Scholl on Instagram: A Communication and Historical Study

The Instagram account "@ichbinsophiescholl" of the public broadcasters Südwestrundfunk [Southwest Broadcasting] (SWR) and Bayerischer Rundfunk [Bavarian Broadcasting] (BR) is a spectacular social media meme project. By having Sophie Scholl, a historical figure from the National Social...

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