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Schmidt, J.-H. (2013): Social Media. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
2013
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.
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.
The spread of disinformation through "celebrity" communication in social media increasingly devalues the gatekeeper function of professional journalism. This BMBF-funded cooperation project is looking for underlying mechanisms to better understand the role of celebrities in disinformation...
This project develops methods for the automatic recognition of arguments or argument components with the help of Natural Language Processing technologies. The goal is to use these methods to enable logical evaluation and content-analytical measurement of the use of arguments in large collections of...
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.
In 2021/22, the Instagram project @ichbinsophiescholl of the public broadcasters SWR and BR let users participate in the last 10 months of the life of a remediated Sophie Scholl, played by Luna Wedler. A new anthology now examines this project from different academic perspectives and asks how histor...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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