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Schmidt, J.-H. (2013): Social Media. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
2013
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.
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...
This book project, drawn up in the run-up to the Internet Governance Forum organised by Germany in November 2019, clears up misconceptions about the impact and reality of the Internet and explains fact-based, vividly and practically what science knows about Internet-based communication.
For the first time in history, Facebook grants science access to its data records. As part of the SHARENEWS project, Dr. Cornelius Puschmann is investigating the criteria according to which Facebook users share messages on the platform.
The international cooperation project investigates how the Internet has changed and will continue to change societies in the USA, Europe and China.
In his new book, Matthias C. Kettemann writes in detail about the emergence and nature of the normative order of the Internet. It will be published by Oxford University Press at the end of July and will then be available as Open Access. Abstract “There is order on the internet, but how has t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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