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In his thesis, Lennart Ziebarth examines the criteria to which data is transported via the internet and to what extent network providers should be allowed to intervene in data transport.
Social media is contributing to a change in the structure of the public sphere. It has an effect on how information is distributed or how the private and the public sphere behave to one another. The project, “Social Media and Networked Public Spheres” is uniting numerous publications and...
Nowadays, digital media play a significant role in public participation. What features of software systems influence the actions of users and in what way? And what communicative figurations of providers, developers and users decide on the design of these features?
The more time people spend online, the more important the code that controls their behaviour on digital platforms will become. This factor especially competes with regulation by law and poses new challenges to it.
Due to the high dynamic of the Internet, the Ministry for Generations, Family, Women and Integration of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia considers it necessary to regularly evaluate its online services and commissioned the Hans-Bredow-Institut to provide a report.
The international cooperation project investigates how the Internet has changed and will continue to change societies in the USA, Europe and China.
570 internet researchers from all over the world met at the conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR2016)in Berlin. According to the theme “Internet Rules!”, they discussed regulations of the Internet, how power structures as well as making and breaking rules work onli...
On 5 October 2017, Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt has published the second edition of his book ‘Social Media’ at Springer Fachmedien Verlag. It is not a guidebook but a fundamental scientific book for everyone who wants to understand how digital social media works and how it is used. Hamburg 5 O...
For the first time in the history of the Hans-Bredow-Instituts, there were three disputations in one day. On Monday, 30 April 2018, Stephan Dreyer, Markus Oermann and Florian Seitz successfully defended their doctoral theses, which they wrote at the institute. The Hans-Bredow-Institut is happy for y...
PD Dr. Wiebke Loosen will discuss the question "Internetboom: Welche Zukunft haben Radio und Fernsehen? [Internet Boom: What Future Do Radio and Television Have?] in the Deutschlandfunk radio programme 'Lebenszeit' on 7 July 2017 starting at 10:10 a.m.
We are very happy to welcome Mag. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard) as a new senior researcher at our institute. As of today (15 January 2019), he is head of the research programme "Regulatory Structures and the Emergence of Rules in Online Spaces.” In line with his previous work...
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Schulz, W. et al. (2014f.): Internet und Gesellschaft [Internet and Society]. Berlin: Mohr.
Lampert, C. (2014): Kinder und Internet [Children and Internet]. In: A. Tillmann, K.-U. Hugger, S. Fleischer (eds.), Handbuch Kinder und Medien [Handbook on Children and Media]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 429-440.
Schmidt, J.-H. (2014): Leitmedium Internet – Persistenz und Flüchtigkeit [Leading Medium Internet - Persistence and Fleetingness]. In: M. Hollmann, A. Schüller-Zwierlein (eds.), Diachrone Zugänglichkeit als Prozess. Kulturelle Überlieferung in systematischer Sicht [Diachron...
Schmidt, , J.-H. (2016): Internet. In: J. Heesen (ed.), Handbuch Informations- und Medienethik [Handbook Information Ethics and Media Ethics] (in print)
Schulz, W.; Staben, J. (2016): 13. Kapitel. Regulierungsradar: Recht und Internet [Chapter 13th Regulatory Radar: Law and the Internet]. In: Gassmann, O.; Sutter, P. (eds.), Digitale Transformation im Unternehmen gestalten [Shaping Digital Transformation in Business Enterprises]. Munich: Carl H...
Lampert, C. (ed.) (2016): Werbung und Internet [Advertising and Internet]. Special Issue 104 of Computer+Unterricht [Computer+Education], 4th Quarter. Seelze: Friedrich Verlag.
Schmidt, J.-H. (2015): Politische Sozialisation und Partizipation von Jugendlichen im Internet [Political Socialisation and Participation of Youth Online]. In: Forschungsverbund Deutsches Jugendinstitut e.V., Technische Universität Dortmund (eds.), Politische Partizipation Jugendlicher im Web 2...
Hasebrink, U.; Lampert, C. (2012): Onlinenutzung von Kindern und Jugendlichen im europäischen Vergleich. Ergebnisse der 25-Länder-Studie "EU Kids Online" [A European Comparison of Childrens' Online Use. Results of "EU Kids Online" a Study of 25 Countries]....
Mast, T.; Oermann, M.; Schulz, W. (2016): Doing Internet Governance: Constructing Normative Structures Inside and Outside of Intermediary Organisations. In: GigaNet Symposium 2016 Conference Proceedings. (online)
Stapel-Schulz, C.; Eifert, M. (2002): Organisationsformen kommunaler Interent-Portale [Organisational Structures of Municipal Internet Portals]. In: Kommune 21, 2(7), pp. 16-17.
Schmidt, J.-H. (2013): Social Media. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
Schmidt, J.-H. (2013): Vielfalt im Internet [Diversity on the Internet]. In: M. J. Eumann, F. Gerlach, T. Rößner, M. Stadelmaier (eds.), Medien, Netz und Öffentlichkeit. Impulse für die digitale Gesellschaft [Media, Network and Public. Stimuli for the Digital Society]. Esse...
Heldt, A. P. (2017): Anonyme Äußerungen im Netz: Der Fall 4chan [Anonymous Remarks on the Internet: The Case 4chan]. In: Science Blog of the HIIG. Website. Berlin: Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. (online).
Hölig, S. (2012): Informationsorientierte Kommunikationsmodi im Internet. Eine Differenzierung gratifikationsbestimmter kommunikativer Handlungen zwischen Massen- und interpersonaler Kommunikation [Information-Oriented Communication Modes on the Internet. A Differentiation of Gratification-Dete...
Is there a "basic right to Internet access" in Germany? Dr. Markus Oermann pursued this question in his jurisprudential dissertation "Gewährleistung der Möglichkeit internetbasierter Kommunikation. Eine Vermessung des grundgesetzlichen Schutzkonzepts [Ensuring the Possibilit...
Heldt, A. (2018): Internationales Abkommen über das Internet als Raum des Gemeinwohls [International Agreement on the Internet as a Space of Public Interest]. In: JuWiss Blog: Junge Wissenschaft im Öffentlichen Recht No. 92/2018. Website. Hamburg: Bucerius Law School.
Kühn, J.; Lampert, C. (in cooperation with L. Christof, A.-M. Jarmula & S. Maaß) (2015): Mobile Internetnutzung von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Eine qualitative Studie zur Smartphone- und Tablet-Nutzung von Zwei- bis 14-Jährigen [Mobile Internet Usage by Children and Young Adults....
"25 Jahre Internet, hat sich das Netz bewährt?", keynote by W. Schulz at the reception of "25 Jahre Internet Society in Deutschland (German Chapter) - 25 Jahre offenes Internet und sichere Kommunikation [25 Years Internet Society in Germany (German Chapter) - 25 Years Open Intern...
„Wie öffentlich ist das Internet eigentlich? Praktiken, Prinzipien und Paradoxien des Internet [How Public is the Internet really? Practices, Principles, and Paradoxes of the Internet]“, lecture by J-H. Schmidt at Gymnasium Hochrad on 23 February 2017 in Hamburg.
"Human Rights and Encryption: UNESCO Internet Freedom Series", lecture by W. Schulz and J. van Hoboken at the Internet Governance Forum on 9 December 2016 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
"Report on the Work of the Sub-Committee on Intermediary Governance of the Council of Europe", lecture by W. Schulz at the Internet Governance Forum on 9 December 2016 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
"Übertragung rundfunkrechtlicher Denkmuster auf die Internetregulierung [The Transmission of Thinking Patterns from Public Service Broadcasting to Internet Regulation]", lecture by W. Schulz at the event "Medien und Meer [Media and the Sea]" at the State Chancellery of Schle...
"Leitmedium Internet? [Leading Medium Internet?]", lecture by U. Hasebrink at "TechFutures: Zukunftslabor Digital [Future Lab Digital]" of the bpb 2018: "Welche Zukunft ist wahrscheinlich, welche Utopie? [What Future Is Likely, What Is Utopia?]" on 17 April 2018 in Sank...
"Weizenbaum meets Matthias C. Kettemann: Die normative Ordnung des Internets [The Normative Order of the Internet]", lecture by M. C. Kettemann at the Weizenbaum Institute for Networked Society on 2 April 2019 in Berlin. The Internet is not a legal-free space. But what can constitutional...
"Sie haben eine Stunde: Reichen 60 Minuten zur Bekämpfung illegaler Inhalte und den Schutz der Menschenrechte im Internet? [You Have One Hour: Will 60 Minutes Be Enough to Fight Illegal Content and Protect Human Rights on the Internet?]", M. C. Kettemann participated in a discussion a...
"The Normative Order of the Internet: Norms, Actors and Normative Figurations", lecture by M. Kettemann within the Lunch Talk Series at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society on 7 March 2019 in Berlin.
"Hate Speech im Netz" [Hate Speech on the Internet], workshop by C. Lampert at the summer university 2017 "Kreativität und Dialog. Sich einmischen in gespaltenen Gesellschaften" [Creativity and Dialogue. Getting Involved in Divided Societies] of the initiative Peacebuilding at...
The topic digital colonialism will be in the focus of the Digital Salon, organised by the HIIG and the Kooperative Berlin on the last Wednesday in September, starting at 7 pm. Lisa Gutermuth, programme manager at Ranking Digital Rights and guest researcher for internet policy & governance at the...
LANgelegt [Incapacitated]: The Internet is gone and nothing works anymore: How protected are our data networks from blackout? And are we prepared for an emergency?
How can national laws be reconciled with Internet content? What is perfectly legal in one country can be illegal in another. So, what does this mean for Internet users in their daily and professional life with regard to privacy, freedom of expression or cybercrime? More than 250 international participants...
At the warm polar. I don't want to be a polar bear. What was once about climate change and who saves the whales on the Internet? Activists and scientists call for the active rescue of our planet. Because the polar caps are melting, forests are disappearing and island peoples have to migrate....
Newspaper commentary columns have long since become the nation's punching bag. More and more disinhibited, indignant people write their hate speech on Facebook and even death threats on Twitter. Even if we cannot look behind every façade of the authors, we should nonetheless try to understand...
LOL was yesterday: Cat falls from sofa: Roflmao, epic fail! How does humour work on the web, and what goes viral? Dumbness prevails, deal with it! Soon AI and robots are going to make everybody laugh... The Digitaler Salon of the HIIG is going on an expedition through the funny spheres of the web in...
All around the topic of digitisation, there is an abundance of buzzwords – from AR and VR or the autonomous car, big data, blockchain or broadband via cloud, digital transformation and disruption to e-health, Internet of things, AI, robotics, online security and wearables. What could be the real...
The Hans-Bredow-Institut and the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society will organize the 17th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. The AoIR 2016 is a transdisciplinary gathering of scholars interested in the importance of networked technologies in social...
The Internet is not a space free of law: But what can constitutional law, European law, international law and non-governmental, transnational and hybrid regulatory arrangements achieve in the face of political polarisation between Internet freedom and cyber security? Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann talks about...
Patrick Vonderau is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. During a visit to the Leibniz Institute for Media Research, he will give a lecture on his current research project: "Clicks, Likes and Guns: The German 'Like Economy'" Reports...
At the end of 2019, 3000 participants will gather in Berlin for the XIV UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to discuss the framework conditions of global Internet policy. At a preparatory lunch talk of the United Nations Association of Germany (DGNV), some relevant questions will be discussed in advance....
Matthias C. Kettemann will discuss and defend his concept of a coherent normative order of the Internet at an open Brown-Bag Lunch at the Alexander Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), that includes international law, national law, and transnational normative arrangements. He will show...
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