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

VALORISING THE PAST: PRACTICES OF APPROPRIATING THE PAST

The Research Lab "Practices of Appropriation" looks at historical memes and TikTok videos as well as historical Instagram and Twitter accounts.

CORE-EVIDENCE.EU – THE NEW KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM ON CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S ONLINE EXPERIENCES

Everything we know about solid scientific findings on the diverse online experiences of children and young people in Europe can now be found on the new knowledge platform Core-evidence.eu.

THE VALUE OF NEWS: THE HISTORY OF THE GERMAN PRESS AGENCY (DPA)

The project compiles a comprehensive history of the German Press Agency from 1949 to the present.

Latest News

News, new research projects and publications from the Institute

Working mainly from home

Library and Office Secretariat Open on Tuesdays - by Appointment Only

Please note that the library of the HBI is open on Tuesdays only. After registering at [email protected], 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. If you have any questions, please conta...

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...

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...

International Journal for Press/Politics

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

Leonie Wunderlich, Dr. Sascha Hölig und Prof. em. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink schreiben in ihrem kürzlich erschienen Beitrag im The International Journal for Press/Politics über journalistische und nicht-journalistische Quellen im Nachrichtenkonsum junger Menschen. Der Artikel basiert au...

Juristische Auswertung

Pressekodex der Polizei Baden-Württemberg

In den Verwaltungsblättern für Baden-Württemberg (VBlBW) hat Dr. Tobias Mast den Pressekodex der Polizei Baden-Württemberg juristisch ausgewertet. Mit diesem eigenen "Pressekodex" hat das Innenministerium Baden-Württemberg den deutschlandweit ersten Versuch...

Interaktives Verzeichnis

Website macht journalistische Pioniere sichtbar

Gemeinsam mit dem Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI) hat das HBI eine Website veröffentlicht, die innovative journalistische Projekte sichtbar macht. Auf einer interaktiven Deutschlandkarte lassen sich Daten zu diversen Redaktionen, journalistisch...

Open Access!

Cybersecurity and Extraterritorial Obligations of States

Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann und Anna Sophia Tiedeke argumentieren in ihrem Beitrag im "Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations", dass der Schutz der Cybersicherheit im Interesse aller Staaten liegt und kommen zu dem Schluss, dass sich unser Verst&...

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...

Politiker*innen auf Social Media

Facebook- und Twitter-Nutzung der Kandidierenden zur Bundestagswahl 2021

Wie die Kandidierenden zur Bundestagswahl 2021 Social Media genutzt haben, beschreibt PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt in seinem Beitrag in der aktuellen Ausgabe von "Media Perspektiven". Wichtigste Erkenntnisse Bei der Bundestagswahl 2021 bauten die Kandidierenden...

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...

Project in the Leibniz Research Network "Value of the Past”

Practices of Appropriating the Past

Various actors negotiate the past and make it relevant for the present in new communicative practices. The Research Lab "Practices of Appropriation" takes a closer look at historical memes and TikTok videos as well as historical Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Project for Volkswagen Foundation

STEAM – The Socio-Technical Ecosystem Architecture Method

Which technical and social factors determine whether and how content enters the individual media repertoire and can become part of the public conversation? The project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and located between media law and computer science, wants to make this visible with a new method...

Buchbeitrag

Rechtliche Anforderungen an KI-Entscheidungen in Verwaltung und Justiz

Johannes Schmees und Dr. Stephan Dreyer beschreiben im Sammelband „Arbeitswelt und KI 2030“, welche Vorgaben für den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in Verwaltung und Justiz aktuell gelten und stellen vorsichtige Überlegungen an, in welche Richtung sich der Einsat...

Buchbeitrag

Back up: Can Users Sue Platforms to Reinstate Deleted Content? (Übersetzung)

Unter dem Titel "Backup: Podem os Usuários Processar as Plataformas para Restabelecer Conteúdo Removido?" haben Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann und Anna Sophia Tiedeke einen Artikel zu einer brasilianisch-deutschen Veröffentlichung zum Thema &quo...

Open Access!

Pandemocracy in Europe. Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19

Muss die Demokratie konzeptionell als Pandemokratie neu gedacht werden? Hat die europäische Multi-Level-Governance die Mitgliedsstaaten in der Gesundheitskrise ausreichend unterstützt? Welche Rolle haben die Internetplattformen übernommen? Werden auch Demokratien unter Long-COVID...

Hintergrundartikel

Gearing up for the Digital Decade? Assessing the Enforcement Mechanisms of the EU’s Platform Regulation Bills

Die EU hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, ein "globales Vorbild für die digitale Wirtschaft" zu werden und ihr Regulierungsmodell über die Grenzen der EU hinaus zu verbreiten. In einem Hintergrundartikel für die Heinrich Böll Stiftung bewertet Amélie Heldt ...

Article in Journal

Mediennutzung und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

Is there a connection between media use practices and feelings of connectedness to local, national, regional or global communities? Hannah Immler and Dr. Sascha Hölig provide answers in Communicatio Socialis based on secondary data analyses. Immler, Hannah; Hölig, Sascha (2021)...

Launch on 15 December 2021

Core-evidence.eu – The New Knowledge Platform on Children's and Young People's Online Experiences

An international research team led by the HBI is making scientific evidence on the diverse online experiences of children and young people in Europe visible and usable. Within the framework of the evidence-based project CO:RE - Children Online: Research and Evidence coordinated by the HBI, researche...

Call for Papers!

"The East in the West“

A workshop on 22/23 March 2022 at the German Broadcasting Archive in Frankfurt will be dedicated to the radio work of German-speaking authors from Eastern Europe who fled to Germany's four occupation zones after the end of the Second World War and became active in radio after their arrival. The...

Anthology with Audio-Visual Quotations

Echt inszeniert: Historische Authentizität und Medien in der Moderne

How is historical authenticity produced and which media strategies come into play? How is history evoked, legitimised and authorised by the media? Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner, Dr. Christoph Classen and Dr. Achim Saupe (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam) together with 14 researchers addresse...

News Usage in Germany

Aktuelle Entwicklungen bei der Nachrichtennutzung in Deutschland. Befunde aus dem Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2021

In the current issue of Media Perspektiven, Dr. Sascha Hölig and Julia Behre present current developments in news consumption in Germany. The article is based on data from the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2021. You can download the article here (PDF, in German) Hölig, S.; B...

Working Paper Available for Download

Plattformregulierung im Superwahljahr 2021

In the run-up to the 2021 federal election, a team from the HBI collected real-time data in the project "Platform Governance in the Super Election Year 2021". It looked at how online platforms regulate the communication that takes place on them, how laws and local standards interact and ho...

Handbook Computational Social Science

From Frequency Counts to Contextualized Word Embeddings: The Saussurean Turn in Automatic Content Analysis

Dr. Gregor Wiedemann and Cornelia Fedtke illustrate in their contribution to the "Handbook of Computational Social Science" the semantic shift of the term "gold pieces" in the context of hate speech in the German Facebook discourse. The Handbook is published by Routledge a...

Publication

Prozedurale Vermessung: Das Kuratieren kommunikativer Räume durch soziale Netzwerke

In the journal Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht - ZUM, Amélie Heldt and Prof. Dr. Moritz Hennemann (University of Passau) write about the Facebook rulings of the Federal Court of Justice. Heldt, A.; Hennemann, M. (2021): Prozedurale Vermessung: Das Kuratieren kommunikative...

Dealing with Corona Fake News

Germany: Much Ado about Little

In their contribution to a collection of papers by The Hague Program for Cyber Norms and Leiden University, Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Martin Fertmann explain how disinformation about COVID-19 is addressed in Germany and what legal questions arise in this context. Download the collection h...

Project for the European Commission

BIK Policy Map

The study, commissioned by the EU Commission, examines how the EU strategy Better Internet for Kids (BIK) is being implemented in the individual Member States and draws up a BIK Policy Map III on this basis.

Expert Workshop

Maintaining a Public Sphere in Society as an Objective of Article 5 of the Basic Law?

At the end of September, the first expert workshop for the sub-project 3 of the Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) took place. The workshop's goal was to discuss from a constitutional law perspective which preconditions German constitutional law on communication ass...

Blog zum Rechtsgutachten

Desinformations-Governance ist komplex, einfache Lösungen riskant

Im Auftrag der Landesanstalt für Medien NRW hat das Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung ein Rechtsgutachten über Risiken und Regulierungslücken im Zusammenhang mit Desinformation verfasst. Co-Autor Dr. Stephan Dreyer gibt einen Überblick über die aus seiner Sicht...

Podcast!

Social Media-Nutzung der Kandidierenden zur BTW 2021

PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt and a team of young researchers analysed the social media presence of all 6,211 candidates in the run-up to the 2021 federal elections. Honestly, is it not a bit old-fashioned to research the use of social media in election campaigns? No, says Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, because...

Published open access

M&K 4/2021

The articles in issue 4/2021 of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" (Media & Communication Studies) focus on questions such as "On the Way to Postfactual Politics?" (Olaf Hoffjann / Lucas Seeber), "Mediatised Lifestyles and Their Change through Everyday...

Expert Opinion

DESINFORMATION – RISIKEN, REGULIERUNGSLÜCKEN UND ADÄQUATE GEGENMASSNAHMEN

This expert opinion, commissioned by the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW, provides a differentiated understanding of various forms of disinformation and their risk potential. It provides an overview of current laws against the targeted dissemination of false information and shows concrete approach...

Call for Papers

New Software Reviews Section in M&K

Following up on our thematic issue "Research Software in Communication and Media Research" in M&K 1/2021, we are planning to introduce a new section for reviews of research software. For this purpose, we are asking for expressions of interest and submissions. The importance of softwar...

HBI Expert Opinion on Disinformation

Expert Opinion on Measures against Disinformation Published

The HBI expert legal opinion "Disinformation - Risks, Regulatory Gaps and Adequate Countermeasures", commissioned by the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW [Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia], provides a differentiated understanding of various forms of disinformation and their risk...

Blog Superwahljahr 2021

(Nischen-) Plattformen als Experimentierräume für Content Moderation

Social-Media-Plattformen unterliegen in Deutschland wenig gesetzlichen Regeln in Bezug auf nutzer:innengenerierte Inhalte. Regeln geben sie sich aber oft selbst. Wie genau sie dies tun, hat ein Forscher:innen-Team des HBI beobachtet. Im Rahmen unseres Forschungsprojektes „Platform...

The Value of News: The History of the German Press Agency (dpa)

The project compiles a comprehensive history of the German Press Agency from 1949 to the present. To do so, the dpa will be presented in the light of the changing society of the Federal Republic of Germany and the developments in the media landscape. The specific role and significance of the dpa as...

Article on Verfassungsblog

Wahlkampf ohne Diskurs?

Keno C. Potthast writes about constitutional concerns with the use of political microtargeting on the Verfassungsblog. Read the full article here Excerpt The Digital Services Act (DSA) is currently being negotiated in Brussels. Political microtargeting (PMT), a technique by which data of pla...

Journal Article

Don’t Shoot the Message: Regulating Disinformation Beyond Content

In the Brazilian journal for public law "Revista Direito Público", Dr Clara Iglesias Keller writes about the regulation of disinformation. The article is published as open access. Download article (PDF) Iglesias Keller, C. (2021): Don’t Shoot the Message: Regulating D...

FGZ-Blog

„Zusammenhaltssensibler Journalismus“ – Wie geht das?

Man konnte es beim Brexit beobachten, während der so genannten „Flüchtlingskrise“ und nun im Zuge von Corona: Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt rückt vor allem dann in den Fokus, wenn er gefährdet erscheint – auch in den Medien. Aber wie hängen Journalismus u...

Discussion Paper

Zusammenhaltssensibler Journalismus

A research group at the HBI discussed the role of journalism in social cohesion with experts from journalism, science, integration work and NGOs. Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Julius Reimer and Verena Albert present the findings in this impulse paper. Loosen, Wiebke; Reimer, Julius; & Al...

Podcast!

Zusammenhaltssensibler Journalismus

Is journalism responsible for social cohesion? Verena Albert talks about a project of the HBI that looks into this question. A research group of the HBI discussed the role of journalism in social cohesion with experts from journalism, science, integration work and NGOs. In four online group...

Interview

Spokesperson Changes at the RISC Section Hamburg

Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt is the new spokesperson of the Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) based at the HBI. His predecessor Prof. em. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink retired at the end of September 2021 after 35 years of research at the HBI. In an interview with Wiebke Schoon and Rom...

Blog-Interview: Journalismus und sein Publikum

„Unsere Leserschaft ist ein essenzieller Bestandteil“

Gefährliche Medizin-Fakes im Netz aufspüren und über unseriöse Heilsversprechen aufklären: Das ist die Mission des Online-Magazins MedWatch. Im Interview spricht Gründerin und Chefredakteurin Nicola Kuhrt über die ersten Jahre des Projekts, die Bedeutung ihres Publ...

BMBF Project

NOTORIOUS: The Role of Celebrities in Disinformation Campaigns

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...

Interdisciplinary BMBF Project

Security for Children in the Digital World

As part of the project "Security for Children in the Digital World", funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research, the HBI is researching the legal framework concerning online risks for children. It will develop ways of optimally interlinking actors and measures and investigate...

Blog-Artikel im Corona-Dossier

Kommunikation in Krisen: die Hamburger 2G-Option

Wie die in der Covid-19-Krise relevanten Akteure kommunizieren, welche Ziele und kommunikative Praktiken sich zeigen, hat ein HBI-Team im Projekt „Kommunikation in Krisen“ untersucht. Am Beispiel der Hamburger 2G-Option erläutert Corinna Endreß einige Studienergebnisse. Von Co...

Tribute to Uwe Hasebrink

Medienumgebungen: Auf den Spuren von Uwe Hasebrink

Uwe Hasebrink retired at the end of September 2021. For more than 35 years, he worked at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut; first as a research consultant, then for many years as a scientific director and a member of the Board of Directors. The brochure "Media Env...

Federal Election 2021

Platform Governance in the Super Election Year 2021

In the run-up to the 2021 federal election, a team from the HBI collected real-time data on how platforms govern online speech, how laws and local standards interact, and how platform practices changed in the shadow of EU regulation in the heated atmosphere of the run-up to the German federal electi...

We will miss him dearly!

Uwe Hasebrink Retired

On 1 October 2021, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink, Director of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI), retired early for private reasons. Having been at the Institute since 1986, and a member of the Board of Directors from 1998, he put the Institute on a stable footing for th...

Extension of DFG Project

Qualitative Panel Study on Media Socialisation Funded for Another Three Years

How family life changes over time and what significance the use of (digital) media has for shaping the relationships between family members is being researched by a team at the HBI led by Dr. Claudia Lampert together with the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kammerl). The joint project &quo...

Blogpost zum Superwahljahr 2021

Es war einmal ein Tweet: Wie transparent soll Wahlkampf sein?

Eine HBI-Studie zum Superwahljahr 2021 zeigt: Tweets von Politiker:innen einzelner im Bundestag vertretener Parteien verschwinden überdurchschnittlich häufig. Grund genug, genauer hinzuschauen. Aber die Nutzungsbedingungen von Twitter machen das riskant. von Felix Victor Münch ...

Blogpost: Facbook löscht Querdenker-Seiten

Private Grenzen für öffentliches Querdenken

Bislang war es für Plattformen leichter, gegen Fake Accounts vorzugehen, als gegen Accounts von „authentischen Personen“. Nun hat Facebook neue Richtlinien gegen schädliche Netzwerke echter Accounts eingeführt und zahlreiche Konten und Seiten der Querdenker-Bewegung gel&ou...

Blog-Dossier Superwahljahr 2021

Recht und Macht der App Stores

Neben Sozialen Netzwerken beeinflussen App Stores maßgeblich, welche Inhalte online verfügbar sind. Ebenso wie bei Sozialen Netzwerken wirft das Verhalten von App Stores die Frage auf, welche Akteur:innen jenseits des Staats demokratisch legitimiert sind zu entscheiden, wer (wie) im Inter...

Podcast!

Plattformregulierung: Von den Kleinen lernen

Debates about platform regulation often revolve around the big players like Google, Facebook and Twitter. However, it is worth looking at smaller and medium-sized platforms, says Christina Dinar in the BredowCast. According to Christina Dinar's definition, a platform is considered smal...

Blog Platform Governance

Can Platforms Cancel Politicians?

An international study led by the HBI provides a first comparative overview of how societies and governments in 15 countries react to private power over political actors. by Martin Fertmann, Matthias C. Kettemann and Mara Barthelmes Private power over public speech is often contested, but the...

Findings of the UNESCO Internet Universality Indicators

Study on State of the Internet in Germany Published

The overall state of the internet is good. This is one outcome of a study to assess internet development conducted by an HBI team led by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann on behalf of the German Commission for UNESCO. For the study, the team applied the UNESCO Internet Un...

DFG Project Media Socialisation

Connected Kids: Socialisation in a Changing Media Environment

Children and young people use media to establish their position within their respective social groups and contexts. The role their media repertoires and communicative practices play in this and how these change over time is being examined in a qualitative longitudinal study with colleagues from the...

International Collaboration

Cooperation with the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory of the University of Queensland

The Media Research Methods Lab (MRML), which was launched at the HBI a year ago, has agreed to work closely with the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Australia. LADAL's mission is to teach and...

Project for the BMBF

Communication in Times of Crisis

How do communications change in a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic? What role do actors from science, politics and the media take over? How do they deal with uncertainty from this situation? A project that reviewed existing studies and interviewed experts provided answers to this question.

Book Contribution

Mehrebenensystem: Digitalpolitik von technischen Standards über staatliche Normen bis zum digitalen Völkerrecht

In this contribution for an anthology on digital policy, Matthias C. Kettemann analyses how norms emerge at different levels that influence the shaping of online communication worlds. Using examples such as the setting of rules through technical standards, through soft law, through national and inte...

Working Paper

Kommunikation in Krisen

This working paper shows communicative processes in the current COVID-19 crisis based on systematic literature research and interviews with experts from different stakeholder areas. It was compiled within the framework of the project "Communication in Crises" funded by the Federal Ministry...

Congratulations!

Matthias C. Kettemann Appointed Professor at the University of Innsbruck

Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann took up the professorship for Innovation, Theory and Philosophy of Law at the Department of Legal Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck on 1 September 2021. At the same time, he will remain with the HBI as spokesperson for Research Programme 2 "...

Open Access Publication!

M&K 3/2021

The articles in issue 3/2021 of M&K focus on everyday practices of digital participation in neighbourhoods and cities (Nitschke/Schweiger), the digitalisation of lifestyle politics (Leißner) and the use of scientists as opportune witnesses (Anter). Since 2021, M&K has been publi...

Blog: Call For Better Online Governance

Twitter, Trump and the Taliban

How come the Taliban have access to social media while former President Trump does not? The short answer is that Trump has deliberately violated the internal speech rules of social media companies before being banned while certain Taliban and Taliban-affiliated accounts have not done so recentl...

Blog zum Super-Wahljahr 2021

Leitfaden für einen fairen Online-Wahlkampf

Für wahlberechtigte Nutzer*innen und Wahlkämpfer*innen aller Parteien hat ein Team um Prof. Matthias C. Kettemann gemeinsam mit der Beratungsstelle für Betroffene digitaler Gewalt, HateAid, einen Leitfaden zum Wahl-Watching entwickelt. Besonders im Superwahljahr sind alle gefragt, in...

Platform Regulation

Can Platforms Cancel Politicians?

This working paper examines how private online platforms in 15 European countries deal with political actors. It was published by Martin Fertmann and PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann as part of the GDHRNet Working Paper Series and is available free of charge as an open access publication. Fertman...

Article in Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik

Anspruch und Wirklichkeit der Plattformregulierung

In the journal Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik, PD Matthias C. Kettemann, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Martin Fertmann ask whether the digital legal acts planned by the European Commission can live up to their claims. Kettemann, M. C.; Schulz, W.; Fertmann, M. (2021): Anspruch und Wirklichkeit...

Podcast!

Literatur im Radio

Literature and radio share a special relationship - from the earliest days of radio to the present. Senior Researcher Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner talks to Johanna Sebauer about the development of a real "symbiosis". Shortly after the first radio broadcast in Germany in October 1923, wri...

Blog zum Superwahljahr 2021

Wahl-Watching

Mit Blick auf die Bundestagswahl 2021 hat ein Forscher*innenteam des HBI mit den sechs Parlamentsparteien gesprochen und anhand eines Fragebogens ausgewertet, wie sie ihren Online-Wahlkampf organisieren. von Mara Barthelmes, Vivienne Gold, Lena Hinrichs, Vincent Hofmann, Matthias C. Kettemann...

Open Access!

Audio-Podcasts als Instrument der Rechtswissenschaftskommunikation

In the article, Matthias K. Klatt, Keno C. Potthast and Alina Funk (University of Hamburg) give an overview of podcasts in legal communication. The article was published in the journal RuZ - Recht und Zugang as an open access publication. Download the article here (pdf, in German) Abstr...

Blog zum Superwahljahr 2021

Werbung auf Social Media

Rechtliche Aspekte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Bundestagswahlkampfs von Vincent Hofmann Dieser Artikel ist Teil einer Serie zur Platform-Governance im Superwahljahr 2021. Zusammenfassung Werbung hat neben der enormen wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung eine besondere Rolle i...

Blog zum Superwahljahr 2021

Komplementär oder konkurrierend: NetzDG und DSA

Die Zukunft des deutschen Sonderwegs im Lichte europäischer Plattformregulierung von Linda Schleif und Matthias C. Kettemann Dieser Artikel ist Teil einer Serie zur Platform-Governance im Superwahljahr 2021. 1. Einleitung Zwar sieht der Digital Services Act (DAS) keine a...

Blog zum Superwahljahr 2021

Von den Kleinen (Plattformen) lernen?

In Debatten über Plattformregulierung geht es oft nur um die ganz großen Player – Facebook, Google, Twitter. Im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2021 nimmt ein interdisziplinäres Team des HBI nun auch kleinere und mittlere Online-Plattformen in den Focus und untersucht deren Umgang m...

Participants Wanted!

Survey on Stressful Online Experiences

As part of her doctoral project, Kira Thiel wants to find out what stressful experiences adolescents and young adults have on the internet and how they deal with them. She is currently looking for young people between the ages of 12 and 17 who want to take part in a survey about their online...

Summa cum laude for Dissertation

Congratulations, Matthias Klatt!

We cannot stop celebrating: Matthias K. Klatt successfully defended his dissertation on “Sondervoten am Bundesverfassungericht [Dissenting Opinions at the Federal Constitutional Court]" (summa cum laude) on 4 August 2021. Congratulations, Matthias! Matthias K. Klatt has been a rese...

Congratulations!

Florian Wittner: summa cum laude!

Florian Wittner successfully defended his dissertation on the topic of "Die datenschutzrechtlichen Verantwortlichkeit im Kontext der verteilten Verarbeitungsrealität – Versuch einer Weiterentwicklung und Neukonzeption [Data Protection Accountability in the Context of Distributed Proc...

New Article

Keeping on Top of the World: Online News Usage in China, the United States and Five European Countries

In their article, Dr. Sascha Hölig, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Julia Behre provide insights into the use of online news in seven countries with different media systems, such as China and the USA. Read more about where the differences and similarities in news use are and what influences it in t...

Open Access!

Content Analyses of User Comments in Online Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review Spanning Communication Studies and Computer Science

In their article, Julius Reimer, Wiebke Loosen and Lisa Merten, together with Marlo Häring and Walid Maalej, present a systematic literature review on content analysis of user comments in a journalistic context. The article has been published as an open access publication in the journal Digital...

Open Access!

Algorithmische Selektion und Privatheit. Aufmerksamkeitssteuerung durch Social Media-Plattformen als Autonomieeingriff?

In this chapter, Stephan Dreyer und Amélie Heldt focus on privacy and the general right of personality in relation to algorithmic selection procedures. They point out where gaps exist and how these could be closed. Their chapter as well as the anthology have been published in the Nomos eLibra...

Interview

"It is important to build a bond of trust"

In an interview with wissenschaftskommunikation.de, Irene Broer talks about her ethnographic study of editorial offices at the Science Media Center Germany (SMC). The questions were asked by Inga Dreyer. Ms Broer, how did you get the idea to get involved with the Science Media Center i...

Podcast!

BredowCast67 - Porno-Plattformen und das Problem ihrer Regulierung

The regulatory discourse has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to porn platforms, say legal experts Valerie Rhein and Martin Fertmann. Among the most visited websites worldwide are numerous porn sites. That is hardly surprising. However, what is surprising is that these highly frequented si...

Interview: Journalismus und sein Publikum

„Ohne das Publikum würde ich nicht das machen, was ich mache“

Mit dem Projekt WasmitWirtschaft möchte Maximilian Nowroth jungen Menschen Wirtschaftsthemen näherbringen. Im Interview erzählt er, wo er sein Publikum findet und wie die Corona-Pandemie ihm persönlich geholfen hat. von Tim van Olphen Bevor der gebürtige Düsseldo...

Article Available for Download

Informationsorientierung und Informiertheit bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen in Deutschland: Ergebnisse aus dem #UseTheNews-Projekt

A summary of the study #UseTheNews, written by Dr. Sascha Hölig, Leonie Wunderlich and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink, has been published in issue 6/21 of the journal Media Perspektiven: Download the full text (2 MB, PDF, in German). Hölig, S., Wunderlich, L., & Hasebrink, U. (2021). I...

Tips and Tools

Praxisbuch Digitale Zusammenarbeit in der Kommunalpolitik

Together with editor Anne Haller and co-author Dennis Eighteen, Katharina Mosene writes about tools and tips for digital cooperation in local politics. It was written during the Corona crisis, and one year later the authors are convinced that many of the tools presented will survive the pandemic. Th...

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BredowCast 66 - Nachrichtennutzung in Deutschland

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021 surveyed news usage behaviour in 46 countries worldwide. The findings for Germany were provided by the HBI. Co-author Julia Behre explains the findings in this BredowCast. Germans still prefer to get their news from linear television. Although its cr...

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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021 Published

The German findings of the "Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021" on news usage in international comparison show that almost half of internet users receive misinformation about the coronavirus. The greatest concerns about encountering false information about the coronavirus are towar...

Humans and Technology

10 Thesen zu Zukunftsthemen der Technikwissenschaften für eine nachhaltige Technologieentwicklung mit dem Menschen im Mittelpunkt

Matthias C. Kettemann, Martin Fertmann, Vincent Hofmann and Mesut Bayraktar, together with Sissy-Ve Basmer-Birkenfeld, Regina Schönherr and Anna Engelhardt, have written 10 theses on people and sustainable technology development. Available at Junge Forum: Technikwissenschaften [Young Forum: Sci...

News Usage in Germany 2021

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021: Ergebnisse für Deutschland

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021: Findings for Germany The Reuters Institute Digital News Report on news usage in international comparison is published for the tenth time in a row. The German part of the study published here was conducted by Dr. Sascha Hölig, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hase...

Blog Article

One Council to Rule Them All: Can Social Media Become More Democratic?

In their article on the Digital Society Blog, Martin Fertmann and Matthias C. Kettemann explain how social media councils can contribute to making platforms more democratic. Read the article here (online) Fertmann, M.; Kettemann, M. C. (2021): One Council to Rule Them All: Can Social Media Become...

Article in Journal of Information Policy

Competent Third Parties and Content Moderation on Platforms: Potentials of Independent Decision-Making Bodies from a Governance Structure Perspective

Amélie Heldt and Stephan Dreyer write about content moderation and the potential of independent decision-making bodies on online platforms. Their article is published as open access in the Journal of Information Policy. You can download the article here (pdf) Heldt, A., & Dreyer,...

Intermediaries vs. States or Intermediaries and States: Democracy in the Post-Intermediation Age

In their conference paper, Martin Fertmann and Matthias C. Kettemann write about intermediaries and freedom of expression. The conference paper is available as an open access publication. Artikel available for download (pdf) Abstract Humans are social beings. We experience ourselves through...

Working Paper Available for Download

Das Science Media Center Germany

Irene Broer and Louisa Pröschel took a closer look at the Science Media Center Germany and its role between science and journalism. The findings of their ethnographic study are now available for download as No. 57 in the series "Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Instituts [Working Papers of t...

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Intermediäre in der Wissenschaftskommunikation

With the Science Media Center Germany, Germany has a centre of expertise that supports journalists in reporting on scientific topics. Irene Broer and Louisa Pröschel examined the centre and talk about it in the BredowCast. The Science Media Center Germany (SMC) works at the interface wh...

Blog Article

Siegfried Lenz: Der Schriftsteller als Medienarbeiter

On the blog of the Historical Commission of the ARD, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes about how the author Siegfried Lenz used the media. To the article (online, in German) Abstract There are "treasures" in the archives of the public broadcasters that need to be unearthed. This or something...

Media Regulation in India

Fighting Platforms and the People, Not the Pandemic: #ResignModi and Disinformation Governance in India – An Update

On the Verfassungsblog, Matthias C. Kettemann, Maximilian Beyer and Sangeeta Mahapatra give us an update about the state of Twitter in India. In their follow-up, they write about how the Indian government's new regulations may affect social media platforms. You can read the article here (online...

Blog zum Superwahljahr 2021

Rechtlicher Rahmen des Online-Bundestagswahlkampfs

Der Normenkatalog für den Online-Wahlkampf nimmt auch die Betreiber*innen der großen Online-Plattformen in die Pflicht. Dieser Text gibt einen Überblick über die rechtlichen Verpflichtungen von Parteien und Plattformen. Von Matthias C. Kettemann, Vincent Hofmann, Mara Barthelme...

100 Years Wolfgang Borchert

So viel Borchert war nie. Eine persönliche Zeitreise zu ausgewählten Ereignissen anlässlich von Borcherts 100. Geburtstag

At the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Hamburg writer Wolfgang Borchert, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner has arranged a personal collection of literary events about the author. To the collection (online, in German) Wagner, H.-U. (2021): So viel Borchert war nie. Eine persönliche Zeitreise zu aus...

11 th Hamburg Media Symposium Available as Video

Can Media Law Promote Social Cohesion?

How do rules for (better) digital communication for tomorrow's society emerge? On 27 May 2021, PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Amélie Pia Heldt and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz explored this question from the perspective of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (Sub-Institute Hamburg) as well as...

Bredows on Tour

ICA 2021: Contributions of the HBI at a Glance

This year’s theme of the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), the world's largest conference for communication studies, is "Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice." As in the previous year, the...

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Rechtliche Vorgaben für die Gestaltung von Software öffentlich-rechtlicher Medienplattformen

This working paper presents the current legal situation for software-based offerings by public service media providers in Germany. It identifies concrete legal requirements for software design. Rhein, Valerie; Dreyer, Stephan; Schulz, Wolfgang (2021): Rechtliche Vorgaben für die Gestaltung von...

Interview: Journalismus und sein Publikum

„Die Community ist der Motor im Hintergrund“

Dario Nassal ist Mitgründer des Medien-Start-Ups Buzzard. Seine Idee: die Vielfalt der Perspektiven öffentlicher Debatten aufzeigen und alte Denkmuster aufbrechen. Im Interview spricht er von seiner Arbeit, der Bedeutung der Buzzard-Community und seinen Hoffnungen, die er mit den Nutzer*in...

Plattformregulierung im Superwahljahr '21

Superwahljahr 2021: Gesellschaftlicher, medialer und rechtlicher Rahmen

Plattformen werden für die politische Willensbildung immer wichtiger. Auch deshalb werden die Betreiber von Internetplattformen durch aktuelle Gesetzesvorhaben auf Bundes und EU-Ebene in neuem Maße in die Pflicht genommen. Dies wirkt sich nicht nur auf das Verhalten der Plattformen selbst...

Online Article

"Supreme Court" or Fig Leaf?

In the "Pros and Cons" section of the online magazine leibniz leibniz published by the Leibniz Association, PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Julian C. York discuss the topic of "Self-Regulation on Facebook". Matthias C. Kettemann will start the discussion. According to him, Face...

Point of View

Private Macht und Private Gewaltenteilung

In their article in Tagesspiegel Background, Martin Fertmann and PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann discuss who should determine what could be said on platforms, how institutions can be designed for this and the role of the Facebook Oversight Board. Abstract Few court decisions are as eagerly awai...

Brief Report

Die Demokratie plattformfest machen

In their brief report published by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Martin Fertmann describe how social media councils can function as a tool for social reconnection of the private orders of digital platforms. You can download the report here (pdf, in G...

Platform Regulation

Private Macht und private Gewaltenteilung

Who should determine what could be said on digital platforms? Martin Fertmann and Matthias Kettemann write on Tagesspiegel Background about how institutions can be designed for this purpose, where the risks lie and which role the Facebook Oversight Board plays. To the article (online, in Germ...

Online Learning Space

Why, AI? – A New Online Learning Space, Unraveling Myths about Automation, Algorithms, Society and Ourselves

Matthias C. Kettemann and Daniela Dicks have set up an online learning space to unravel myths surrounding artificial intelligence. It is designed as a free educational resource, all materials are provided with a CC-BY licence. This space is intended to address questions such as "How can AI be u...

Call for Participation!

Virtual Research Sprint: “Toward an African Narrative on Digital Sovereignty”

A virtual research sprint within the framework of our project "Ethics of Digitalisation" will focus on the African perspective on the topic of digital sovereignty from 7 June to 30 July 2021. It is hosted by the University of Johannesburg as part of the "Ethics of Digitalisatio...

Study Published

How Do Young People Inform Themselves?

Four very different types of news use by young people have been revealed in a recent study by the HBI, which provides new insights for media companies and media education. The study "#UseTheNews - News Usage and News Literacy in the Digital Age" found out that there are great differences i...

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Wie informieren sich junge Menschen?

For the first time, a scientific study examined the news consumption of young people in detail. Author Leonie Wunderlich talks about the study in the BredowCast. The common prejudice that adolescents and young adults are not interested in news and only hang out with their favourite YouTubers...

Who Rules the Internet?

Normfare: Norm Entrepreneurship in Internet Governance

Matthias C. Kettemann, Roxana Radu, Trisha Meyer and Jamal Shahin write about norm-setting actors in internet governance in this special issue of the journal Telecommunications Policy. They bring together contributions from different theoretical perspectives to analyse the influence of platforms, st...

Article on Tagesspiegel Background

Jugendschutzgesetz: Neu, aber auch besser?

The Youth Protection Act presents itself with some innovations in its reform, but are they really better than before? On Tagesspiegel Background, Dr. Stephan Dreyer writes what he thinks of these changes. To the article (online, in German) Abstract When the Bundesrat refrained from invoking...

Blog: Platform Governance

Making Courts Count in Global Content Governance

Technology creates societal fractures. Courts have traditionally been responsible to apply the law to fill fractures, ease normative tensions, develop social mores. But courts are uneasy rulers in times of technological change, even as platforms seek to recreate private quasi-courts. Yet their power...

German-Israeli project for the VW Foundation

Covid-19 Tracing Apps

In the course of fighting the Corona crisis, new digital infrastructures were developed worldwide, which have numerous other components besides tracing apps. How do individual design decisions affect the effectiveness of such an infrastructure, and what influence do legal frameworks have?

Transnational DFG-Project

Journalism under Duress

This DFG-funded project investigates risks and uncertainties journalists are facing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as around the globe to better understand the ways in which journalism adapts to and copes with these duresses.

Platform Regulation

Weltweite Löschpflichten für rechtswidrige Inhalte auf digitalen Plattformen vor dem österreichischen OGH

In the journal Computer und Recht, Matthias C. Kettemann, Anna Sophia Tiedeke, Georg Kraml, Felicitas Rachinger and Clara Rauchegger write about the geographical scope of deletion obligations on digital platforms and show whether the criticism of censorship of online content is justified. To...

Findings from the Virtual Clinic

(Un-)Sichtbare Stellenanzeigen: Wie Werbung auf Online-Plattformen fairer werden kann

On the Digital Society Blog of the HIIG, Matthias C. Kettemann and Alexander Pirang show how job advertisements on online platforms can be made fairer. Twelve international fellows developed these approaches at the virtual clinic of the HIIG. Read the blog article here (online) Abstract Who gets t...

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Recht auf mein Selbst – Schutzräume kindlicher Entwicklungsphasen in der digitalen Gesellschaft

Dr. Stephan Dreyer writes about protective spaces for the developmental phases of children within the digital society in "Aufwachsen in überwachten Umgebungen [Growing Up in Monitored Environments]", which has been recently published by Nomos. About the book Digital technologies are...

Science Policy in Dialogue

Wissenschaftskommunikation und ihre Förderung aus verfassungsrechtlicher Perspektive

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Keno C. Potthast write about science communication in between legal protection and the need for regulation in their contribution to "Wissenschaftspolitik im Dialog [Science Policy in Dialogue]", the publication series of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of...

Blog: Trump’s Social Media Ban

Reviewing the constitutionality of capital digital punishment

Trump’s ban from social media, while gaining significant media attention, does not represent an isolated case. Preventing individuals from accessing social media platforms or parts of them is a common phenomenon today. I term it ‘social media exclusion’ and I argue that it is possi...

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Coping with Stressful Online Experiences

Some children and adolescents may experience stressful situations online. In the context of her dissertation project, Kira Thiel investigates how adolescents deal with such online experiences and which coping strategies they use.

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M&K-Themenheft "Forschungssoftware in der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung"

Issue 1/2021 of our journal M&K is dedicated to the thematic focus "Forschungssoftware in der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung [Research Software in Communication and Media Studies]". With contributions by Andreas Hepp, Wiebke Loosen & Uwe Hasebrink, Richard Rogers, Karin van Es...

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Zensur oder Selbstverteidigung? Zur Sperrung oppositioneller Medien in der Ukraine

On JuWissBlog, Martin Fertmann and Leif Thorian Schmied write about the blocking of three pro-Russian TV channels in Ukraine. The channels were banned without trial by decree, through the collusion of President Selenskyj and the National Security and Defence Council. Based on a Ukrainian sanctions l...

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Mit Memes Geschichte kommunizieren

Memes have become a language of the internet. Those who do not master them miss some statements and punchlines. Media historians Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner and Hermann Breitenborn explain why it is worth examining memes from a communication science perspective and how history is communicated via...

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Rezension von Julien Steinbach: Souveränitätsfragmente – Ein Beitrag zur Literaturgeschichte der Souveränität und gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen der Rechtswissenschaft im Spiegel der Digitalisierung

Anna Sophia Tiedeke wrote a review of Julien Steinbach's "Souveränitätsfragmente – Ein Beitrag zur Literaturgeschichte der Souveränität und gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen der Rechtswissenschaft im Spiegel der Digitalisierung [Sovereignty Fragments - A Contrib...

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European Media Platforms

Are new platforms – YouTube, Netflix, NewsFeed – making European culture more European or not? The role of media platforms in fostering or dismantling European identity is the key question of the EU-H2020-Project EuMePlat.

Speed Dating with Science

Book A Scientist

Speed dating with science - at "Book a Scientist" on 18 March, Leibniz researchers will once again answer questions on topics that touch our everyday lives. HBI researcher PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann will be taking part as an expert. His topic will be "Who says what you can say onli...

Twitter in India

Twitter’s Modi Operandi: Lessons from India on Social Media’s Challenges in Reconciling Terms of Service, National Law and Human Rights Law

In their article on the Verfassungsblog, Dr Sangeeta Mahapatra, Martin Fertmann and PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann write about the recent dispute between Twitter and the Indian government and what this means for human rights in India. You can read the article here Abstract “The Internet is sp...

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Mediatisierte Sozialisationsprozesse erforschen. Methodologische Implikationen

In their article, Claudia Lampert and Marcel Rechlitz, together with Rudolf Kammerl, Jane Müller and Katrin Potzel, discuss the methodological demands that the increasing mediatisation of children's environments places on socialisation research. It has been published open access in Jahrbuch...

Blog: Journalismus und sein Publikum

„Glaubt nicht jeden Mist“ – Was Journalist:innen ihrem Publikum gern sagen würden

Ohne Publikum geht es nicht im Journalismus. Das Verhältnis der beiden hat sich durch den Medienwandel jedoch grundlegend gewandelt, je aktiver das Publikum wurde. Ein Projekt am HBI untersucht dieses Verhältnis und hat Journalist:innen als erstes mal gefragt, wie sie ihr Publikum eigentli...

Guest Editor Blog Series

Introduction ‘Harbour Cities’

In their blog article on Space and Culture, the two guest editors Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner and Justin Lloyd introduce their new blog series "Harbour Cities". It originated from the international network "Transnational Media Histories", a cooperation network of universities in Shang...

Research on Platform Regulation

First Annual Conference of the Platform Governance Research Network

The newly founded Platform Governance Research Network aims to advance research on platform regulation and promote international cooperation in this field. The first annual conference of the network will take place from 24 to 26 March 2021. The first two days of the conference will be focused...

Die Sozialpflichtigkeit der Herrschaft über Daten: Warum die EU die großen Plattformen regulieren kann

In an interview for the Meinungsbarometer, Matthias C. Kettemann took a closer look at the EU regulation of large platforms. To the interview (in German) Abstract "For a very long time, politics has stood by while platforms accumulated huge amounts of data. For far too long," says Dr....

Interview

Wer die Macht hat: Ein Interview über Meinungsfreiheit, Regeln und Verantwortung auf Online-Plattformen

In pro | Christliches Medienmagazin, Matthias C. Kettemann talks about freedom of opinion, rules and responsibility and about the power of Facebook and Co. over communication on the internet. Download the article here (pdf, in German) Abstract Under German law, a Twitter chancellor like Trum...

Results Report

Missions Publiques: Mini Publics – Maximum Insights. Insights from the Evaluation Team

Together with a team from the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Network of Internet and Society Research Centers (NoC), PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann conducted a review of Missions Publiques and its activities on Internet governance in the last year. "WE, THE INTERNET&qu...

Cyber Diplomacy in the EU

Revisiting the EU Cybersecurity Strategy: A Call for EU Cyber Diplomacy.

In the latest issue of SWP Comment, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Annegret Bendiek explain why the new EU cybersecurity strategy is too one-sided. The focus should not only be on deterrence and defence, but also on trust and security. They advocate for promoting cyber diplomacy in the European Un...

Blogbeitrag zum Safer Internet Day

Was die EU-Staaten für mehr Sicherheit für Kinder im Internet tun

Am 9. Februar ist Safer Internet Day. Zeit, um auf aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zu schauen. Auf EU-Ebene bildet die „Europäische Strategie für ein besseres Internet für Kinder“ („Better Internet for Kids Strategy“) einen zentralen Rahmen für politische Ma...

Legal Study for Download

Normative Leitbilder der Europäischen Medienordnung. Leitvorstellungen und rechtliche Anforderungen an die Governance für eine demokratische Öffentlichkeit

Accompanying Germany's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020, the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) has prepared several legal studies and research reports that will serve as a basis for discussion for the events of the EU Media Conference in the secon...

EU Study

Stephan Dreyer Expert on Germany for EU Study

On 1 February 2021, the EU Commission published a comprehensive assessment of current market developments, technical approaches and regulatory trends with regard to the three topics of video-sharing platforms, media ownership and signal integrity in audio-visual media services. It analyses the situa...

Child Data Protection

Besondere Datenschutzanforderungen bei der Onlineberatung von Kindern und Jugendlichen

Dr. Stephan Dreyer writes about data protection requirements for online counselling of minors in an article in the online brochure "Online Counselling for Sexualised Violence in Childhood and Adolescence", published by the BKSF (Bundeskoordinierung Spezialisierter Fachberatung gegen sexuel...

#UseTheNews

Liken, posten, teilen – Wie interagieren junge Leute online mit nachrichtlichen Inhalten?

Leonie Wunderlich explains in the dpa Innovation Blog how young users are exposed to news content on social media and to what extent this contact goes beyond mere "casual" consumption. To the full article As part of our #UseTheNews project, we examined the different practices and s...

Disinformation in Election Campaigns

Don’t Über-Blame the Algorithms – Lessons from Europe

In her essay, Amélie Heldt argues that we should not focus on technology only when it comes to fixing the information disorder. Over the past four years, there was no evidence of successful disinformation campaigns against elections in Europe. Instead, we are witnessing a global rise of popul...

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.

Blog Article

The Far-Right on the Rise – What Germany Needs to Learn from the Capitol Siege

On his blog, Jan Rau writes about the storming of the Capitol in the USA. He also explains what Germany should learn from it. Auf seinem Blog schreibt über den Sturm auf das Kapitol in den USA und was Deutschland daraus lernen sollte. To the article (online) Abstract January 6, 2021 offered...

Method Innovation Pilot

Journalistic Use of Algorithmic Information Environments

In this computational social science project, we will use browser data donations to determine how relevant individual search engines and social media platforms are in journalists’ everyday work.

Research Focus Disinformation

Digital Disinformation Hub

The Digital Disinformation Hub of the HBI bundles the Institute's research and cooperation activities in the field of digital disinformation.

Working Paper

Mediennutzung und Schule zur Zeit des ersten Lockdowns während der Covid-19-Pandemie 2020

This report by Dr. Claudia Lampert and Kira Thiel provides an overview of how families in Germany experienced the lockdown phase - in particular, the switch from face-to-face to distance learning - and to what extent this has changed their media use. It is part of the Kids' Digital Lives...

Podcast!

Sturm aufs Kapitol, Trump und Twitter

After the "Storming of the Capitol" on 6 January 2021 in Washington D.C., political scientist Jan Rau and media lawyer Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann discuss what role the media play in this – and whether something like this could happen in Germany as well. The society in the USA...

Anthology

Wenn KI, dann feministisch. Impulse aus Wissenschaft und Aktivismus

This anthology opens up feminist perspectives on the topic of artificial intelligence. It was published by netzforma*, an association for feminist net politics. Katharina Mosene and Valerie Rhein were members of the editorial team. Download the PDF file free of charge (in German) Order a printed co...

Homeschooling im Frühjahr 2020

Fernunterricht oder fern von Unterricht?

Das Coronavirus hat den Alltag von Kindern und Jugendlichen weltweit auf den Kopf gestellt und viele alltägliche Aktivitäten ins Netz verlagert – so auch den Schulunterricht. Das länderübergreifende Forschungsprojekt „Kids‘ Digital Lives in COVID-19 Times“...

Is Twitter Allowed to Block Trump?

Digitale time-outs für Trump: Der Anfang vom Ende der privilegierten Behandlung von Amtsinhaber*innen durch soziale Netzwerke?

In their contribution to JuWiss, media lawyers Martin Fertmann and Keno Potthast discuss whether Donald Trump's Twitter ban heralds a change in the previously privileged treatment of public officials on digital platforms. Read the article here (in German) Abstract After soon-to-be...

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