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

COHERENT MEDIA ORDER: ACCOMPANYING THE EU MEDIA CONFERENCE 2020

The institute will provide scientific support for the media conference in the context of Germany's 2020 EU Council Presidency and is analysing in advance the requirements of a modern European information order.

RESEARCH INSTITUTE SOCIAL COHESION FGZ

Eleven German research institutions form the FGZ to investigate current social challenges from different perspectives. The HBI examines the role of the media concerning social cohesion.

THE ETHICS OF DIGITALISATION – FROM PRINCIPLES TO PRACTICES

How can digital products and platforms be designed to protect individual freedoms and promote social cohesion? A project under the patronage of the German Federal President is developing answers for political dialogue in an international context.

Latest News

News, new research projects and publications from the Institute

Corona Pandemic

Library and Office Secretariat Open Again on Tuesdays - by Appointment Only

The library of the HBI is open again on Tuesdays since 1 September 2020. 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. The secretariat is open on Tues...

Human Rights Online

Freedom of Expression And the Internet

In this book PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benedek discuss the importance of human rights on the Internet - especially the right to freedom of opinion. Abstract Human rights matter on the internet. Without freedom of expression, people cannot participate in everything that th...

Podcast Episode!

Ethnographic Media Research

To find out how science journalists do their job, Irene Broer became one herself. Applying the research method ethnography, she spent several weeks amidst a team of science journalists. In this BredowCast episode, she explains what this endeavour entailed and why ethnography is a useful method to...

Accompanying Text to Paul Celan

Unerhörte Töne. Vom merkwürdigen Celan-Sound und einer Kunst erschaffenden Lyrikstimme: Paul Celans Rezitationen

Paul Celan is one of the most important German-speaking poets and had a very special way of reciting his poems. In this compilation, the original recordings can be heard for the first time. For this occasion, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner has written a detailed accompanying text with background information...

Report for Download

Die Europäische Kommunikations-(Un)Ordnung. Mapping der medienrelevanten EU-Rechtsakte und Identifikation von Abhängigkeiten, Schnittbereichen und Widersprüchen [The European Communication (Dis)Order. Mapping the Media-Relevant European Legislative Acts and Identification of Dependencies, Interface Areas and Conflicts]

In advance of Germany’s presidency of the European Council in the second half of 2020, the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) prepared a number of reports and investigative studies intended to serve as a basis for discussions for the EU Media Conference in July 2...

Health Communication

Digitale Gesundheitsangebote für Kinder

Claudia Lampert writes about digital health services for children in the journal "Kinder- und Jugendmedizin [Child and Youth Medicine]". The issue focuses on "Neue Medien und Gesundheit [New Media and Health]". The entire issue and individual articles can be downloaded here for...

Book a Scientist!

Speed Dating with Science

The longing for directions is great when the world is upside down. In the Leibniz Association, around 20,000 people are working to explore the issues facing mankind - and in doing so are pointing the way to new perspectives and ways forward. At »Book a Scienstist« on 18 August 2020, more...

Worldwide Research Project under the Patronage of the Federal President of Germany

Global Dialogue on the Ethics of Digitalisation

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier launched the two-year project "Ethics of Digitalisation - from Principles to Practices" on 17 August 2020 in Schloss Bellevue with a kick-off event. Under the umbrella of the NoC (Global Network of Internet and Society Research Center), the HBI and...

Special Issue Gender

M&K-Themenheft „Technik – Medien – Geschlecht revisited. Gender im Kontext von Datafizierung, Algorithmen und digitalen Medientechnologien“

Issue 3/2020 M&K is published as a special issue "Technik – Medien – Geschlecht revisited. Gender im Kontext von Datafizierung, Algorithmen und digitalen Medientechnologien [Technology - Media - Gender Revisited. Gender in the Context of Datafication, Algorithms and Digital Medi...

Article in Specialist Journal

‘X Journalism’. Exploring Journalism’s Diverse Meanings Through the Names We Give It

In this article, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Julius Reimer and Paul-Philip Solbach, together with their co-authors Laura Ahva, Mark Deuze and Lorenz Matzat, present the concept of "X Journalism": a tool for observing the development of journalism by analysing the constantly changing concepts...

Podcast!

BredowCast 56: Europäische Medienordnung

In this episode of the BredowCast, media lawyers Theresa Josephine Seipp and Dr. Stephan Dreyer explain why the European media need a coherent order and why this is so difficult to achieve. Within the framework of the German EU Council Presidency, the Federal Government Commissioner for Cultu...

Contribution to Anthology

Taking Ingolf Pernice Seriously

In the anthology Don't Give Up, Stay Idealistic and Try to Make the World a Better Place. Liber Amicorum for Ingolf Pernice, Matthias C. Kettemann describes how the legal scholar Ingolf Pernice has influenced his research on normative order and what normative order on the Internet is all about....

Editorial in Medienkorrespondenz

„Zivilisatorische Grundnahrungsmittel“. Preis für „Audio.Space.Machine“ : Aus der Jury des Hörspielpreises der Kriegsblinden

In his article in Medienkorrespondenz, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner, as a member of the jury of the 69th Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden [War Blinded Audio Play Prize], describes the challenges the jury faced in making its decision and how they ultimately determined the winners. To the article (in G...

Book Contribution

Was ist Euer Problem? Onlineerfahrungen aus Kinder- und Elternsicht

In the volume Familienkultur smart und digital. Ergebnisse, Konzepte und Strategien der Medienpädagogik [Family culture smart and digital. Results, Concepts and Strategies in Media Education], Dr. Claudia Lampert, Kira Thiel and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink write about online experiences from the pe...

Blogbeitrag

„Wer die 'vierte Gewalt' ernst nimmt, muss alle Medien gleichbehandeln“

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht teilt vor seinen offiziellen Urteilsverkündungen Exklusivinformationen mit ausgewählten Journalist*innen. Darf es das? Der Medienjurist Matthias K. Klatt erklärt im Interview, wie es um die Beziehung von Justiz und Medien bestellt und wie diese g...

Blog Article

Vigilância em massa ou combate à desinformação: o dilema do rastreamento

In their blog article, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Florian Wittner, together with Juliana Abrusio and Ricardo Campos, take a close look at a draft law which is primarily aimed at combating "fake news", but which also has similarities to the NetzDG. Some of the problematic aspects, suc...

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Stellungnahme zum Diskussionsentwurf eines Zweiten Gesetzes zur Anpassung des Urheberrechts an die Erfordernisse des digitalen Binnenmarktes

On 24 June 2020, the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection published a discussion draft for a Second Act on the Adaptation of the Copyright Act to the Requirements of the Digital Single Market and invited comments on this discussion draft until 31 July 2020. The HBI has taken this oppo...

Commentary in Tagesspiegel Background

Diskriminierung vorprogrammiert?

In Tagesspiegel Background, Katharina Mosene writes about inequalities in digital space. Abstract Technology is never neutral. And even if the Internet as a medium initially invited us to deconstruct established, fixed role models and identities in supposedly new public spheres, to break up traditi...

New Podcast Episode!

Die Normative Ordnung des Internets

Matthias C. Kettemann writes about the emergence and nature of the normative order of the Internet in his new book "The Normative Order of the Internet", which can be downloaded for free. In this BredowCast he gives a first insight into the topic. There are rules on the Internet. That mu...

Available as Open Access

The Normative Order of the Internet: A Theory of Rule and Regulation Online

In his new book, Matthias C. Kettemann writes in detail about the emergence and nature of the normative order of the Internet. It is published by Oxford University Press at the end of July 2020 and is available as Open Access. Abstract “There is order on the internet, but how has this o...

Book Contribution

Zum Zusammenhang von Digitalisierung, Cybersecurity und Demokratisierung

In a publication of the Austrian Armed Forces PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann writes about the connection between digitisation, cybersecurity and democratisation. He argues that free Internet communication is as essential as it is decisive for an open debate that is a prerequisite for a functioning de...

EU Study

Kids’ Digital Lives in Corona Times

What effects does the corona crisis have on families, children and their use of digital media? The HBI participates with a German partial survey in a European comparative study of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC).

Contribution to Anthology

Internet Governance

In his article for the anthology "IT-Recht [IT Law]", PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann describes the instruments and actors of Internet Governance. You can order the anthology (in German) here Summary Of particular relevance to Internet governance are international law and the human rights...

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Navigating Normative Orders

PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann has published the book Navigating Normative Orders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives within the series Normative Orders. It will be published by Campus Verlag in July 2020. You can order the book here About the book Whether Kant or conservatives, on the Internet, in envi...

Blogbeitrag zur Plattformregulierung

Wer sagt, was wir online sagen können?

Welche Macht haben Social-Media-Plattformen über nutzergenerierte Inhalte und warum ist diese Macht problematisch? Dürfen sie ohne Weiteres entscheiden, was Nutzer*innen sagen dürfen und was nicht? Drei Medienjurist*innen, die am HBI die Rollen von Online-Plattformen erforschen, geben...

Article in Textbook

Hamburger Medienrecht

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Keno Potthast have written an article on media law for the Nomos textbook "Landesrecht Hamburg [Hamburg State Law]". You can order the textbook here. About the Textbook Experienced university lecturers and administrative practitioners of the Free and H...

Interview with Blog of the Sciences Po

Plattformen und ihre Verantwortung für Moderation von Inhalten

In an interview with the blog of the Chair of Digital, Governance and Sovereignty at the Sciences Po in Paris, Amélie Pia Heldt explains the responsibility of platforms in moderating the content published on them. You can read the entire article here. Extract How do you think content modera...

Kick-Off for the EU Medien Conference

"Pluralism and Responsibility. Media in the Digital Society"

The digital conference series "Pluralism and Responsibility. Media in the Digital Society" - on the occasion of Germany's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 - offers an overview of current challenges for the European media landscape and poses central questions about its f...

Podcast

Even on the Internet We Are Not Equal

Political scientist Katharina Mosene explores the Internet from an intersectional feminist perspective. In the BredowCast she talks about how inequality and discrimination arise on the Internet, how they are researched and what can be done about them. In the early 2000s, the Internet was still th...

Apply until 15 July 2020!

Call for Research Sprint "AI and Platform Governance"

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) invites you to a research sprint on "AI and Platform Governance“ for the project "The Ethics of Digitalisation". Doctoral students and post-docs from IT, law, political science or similar fields can apply. The...

Conference within the Framework of the German EU Council Presidency

Coherent Media Order: Accompanying the EU Media Conference 2020

Social Cohesion in the MDR Broadcasting Area

Feeling of Cohesion Has Increased during Corona

More than 65 percent of the population in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia think that the MDR sets topics that are important for society and makes sure that people are not excluded and treated with disrespect. This is one of the results of a representative study conducted by the MDR in cooperatio...

Article in US Journal

Merging the Social and the Public: How Social Media Platforms Could Be a New Public Forum

Amélie Pia Heldt has published an article in the US law journal Mitchell Hamline Law Review on the question of how social media platforms could provide a new public forum. You can read the article here. Abstract When Facebook and other social media sites announced in August 2018 that...

Blog-Artikel

Das Internet: Eine Diskriminierungstechnologie

Sprechen wir über das Internet, so assoziiert jede*r einen anderen ersten Impuls: die Möglichkeit zu Kommunikation außerhalb der Schranken von Zeit und Raum, eine Tür zu neuen Begegnungen, neuem Wissen, ein Ort, an dem man Gleichgesinnte trifft und – gerade in diesen Zeite...

Congratulations!

Johanna Sebauer Receives Residency Scholarship at the mare-Künstlerhaus

The Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media and the Roger Willemsen Foundation enable five Hamburg artists, including Johanna Sebauer, to spend four weeks at Roger Willemsen's former villa in Wentorf working on their projects. Out of approximately 30 applications, the Board of Trustees of the Roge...

Article on BBC History

Emerging from the siege

Visitors to Hamburg cannot help but be impressed by the magnificent Elbphilharmonie concert hall situated on the banks of the river Elbe. Referred to affectionally as the ‘Elphi’ by locals, this landmark building opened its doors in 2017. However, the Elphi’s resident ensemble, the...

Trends in News Usage

German Findings of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 Published

The latest Reuters Institute Digital News Report shows slowly changing usage habits of online users in Germany when they want to keep up with the latest news. It is true that television is still the news source with the greatest reach and also the resource that is considered most relevant. However,...

Expert Opinion

Menschenrechte und politische Teilhabe im digitalen Zeitalter

At the invitation of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag, PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann addresses in this statement twelve questions of the Bundestag factions concerning human rights and political participation. The background to this statement is the public h...

News Use in Germany

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020: Ergebnisse für Deutschland

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report on news usage in an international comparison was published for the nineth time in a row. The German part of the study was conducted by Dr. Sascha Hölig and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink with the assistance of Julia Behre. You can download the full report her...

Interview with Media Researchers

BredowCast 53: Lokaljournalismus digital

How can local journalism make attractive and contemporary content available to younger people? Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen have not only conducted extensive research on the topic of local journalism, but also developed the app "molo.news" - a digital platform for l...

Transparency in Data Protection

Design Goals for Consent at Scale in Digital Service Ecosystems

Florian Wittner and his co-authors write about the difficulties arising from the multitude of actors involved with regard to transparency in data protection consent on websites and in apps. The article shows possibilities for the user-friendly design of legally binding notices. It will be presented...

What Rights Do Users Have?

Back Up: Can Users Sue Platforms To Reinstate Deleted Content?

In their article published in Internet Policy Review, Matthias C. Kettemann and Anna Sophia Tiedeke ask under what conditions users can sue providers to reinstate deleted content on social media platforms. To the article You can download the article here (pdf) Abstract A private order of p...

Project for UNESCO

The State of the Internet in Germany

What is the state of the Internet and Germany? Upon a request from the German Commission for UNESCO, the HBI will apply 130 indicators to see how digital policy-making can be improved.

Researching News Use

Contextualized Repertoire Maps: Exploring the Role of Social Media in News-Related Media Repertoires

In this paper, Lisa Merten presents a qualitative method for researching the patterns of news use: the Contextualized Repertoire Maps. To the article Abstract In this article, I introduce contextualized repertoire maps as a qualitative approach to the study of news-related media use. With their o...

Kommentar

Rezo-Video: Eine ganz besondere Form der Journalismusbeobachtung

Der YouTuber Rezo seziert in seinem Video „Die Zerstörung der Presse“ den deutschen Journalismus. Mit einigen Medienhäusern und deren Praktiken geht er dabei hart ins Gericht. Die Journalismusforscherin Wiebke Loosen hat es sich angesehen. Was macht eigentlich eine Journ...

Podcast!

Was Journalisten sollen und wollen

A new study by the HBI examines what the German population expects from journalism and compares it with the expectations journalists have of themselves. The result: There is a broad consensus between the two groups about what journalism should achieve. The representative population survey wa...

Working Paper Available for Download

Was Journalisten sollen und wollen

In this working paper, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Julius Reimer and Dr. Sascha Hölig discuss the connection between the self-perception of journalistic roles and which expectations citizens have of journalists in Germany. The findings show that what journalists themselves want to do is also what...

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.

Subproject Research Institute for Social Cohesion

Transfer Office “Media and Social Cohesion”

The transfer office “Media and Social Cohesion” is coordinating all transfer and research acitivities of the projects, which the HBI contributes to the “Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt” (FGZ; Research Institute Social Cohesion).

Subproject Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

Integration-Related Remit and Functions of Public Service Media

Are public service media legally obliged to create social cohesion? And how is the integration-related performance of these media perceived?

Subproject Research Institute for Social Cohesion

What Journalists Want and What They Ought to Do

In the light of “fake news” accusations against established media and declining subscription numbers: what does the public expect from journalists, and how do they view their own role in terms of social cohesion?

Subproject Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

(Social) Media Observatory

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.

Happy Birthday!

70 Years Hans-Bredow-Institut

The institute is 70 years old today! And yet we are only just getting off to a good start: for about 1.5 years in the Leibniz Association, with great projects such as the new Use The News, and from tomorrow in the Forschungsinstitut gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ, Research Institute Social C...

Einschätzung von Dreyer und Kettemann

Trumps Gesetz gegen soziale Medien

Donald Trump hat am Donnerstag, den 28. Mai 2020, eine Executive Order unterzeichnet, die den Schutz von sozialen Medien in den USA einschränken soll. Die Juristen Dr. Stephan Dreyer und PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann haben dem Science Media Center die Rechtslage und mögl...

Pro and Cons

Spielerische Ansätze in Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung: Serious Games und Gamification

Claudia Lampert, Daniel Tolks, Kevin Dadaczynski and their colleagues write about how playful approaches like "serious games" and "gamification" are used to distribute health-related information. The article examines the effects and the current state of studies as well as the adv...

Double Issue Coming Soon

M&K 1-2/2020

In the double issue, Anna Sophie Kümpel focuses on the "use and understanding of news by young adults"; Maria Löblich and Carlotta Nietzke examine the relationship between the "German press and Google" while Monika Taddicken, Nina Wicke and Katharina Willems look at the...

Project about News Literacy

Use the News – News Usage and News Literacy in the Digital Age

How do people in Germany keep themselves informed in the digital age - and what does actually stick with them? In a long-term project, the HBI, together with the dpa and other partners from the media, public institutions and civil society, is researching the news literacy of the population under the...

Podcast "Forschergeist"

Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt in an Interview on the Media and Opinion Formation

Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt joined the podcast Forschergeist, a podcast of the Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in cooperation with Metaebene Personal Media. He spoke with host Tim Pritlove about the focus of his research - the Internet. More specifically, he talked about the emergence...

One of 20,000: At Home

"I recommend you listen to the radio more (often)!”

How do researchers live during the corona crisis - and what advice do they have for working from home? The online magazine "Leibniz" provides an insight into the everyday life of researchers working in one of the current 96 member institutes of the Leibniz Association. Under the title &quo...

Kettemann in Sustainable Computing Lab

Towards a People-Oriented Internet with Better Online Rules

PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann has been elected to the Management Board of the Sustainable Computing Lab at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He will be the head of the research group Platform and Content Governance. The research group focuses on a better understanding of the developme...

This Time It's Virtual

70th Annual Conference of the ICA 2020

The meeting rooms of the world's largest conference for communication science will remain empty this year. The International Communication Association (ICA) had to cancel its annual conference on the occasion of its 70th anniversary due to the coronavirus. The Gold Coast in Australia should have...

In Podcast "Tonspur Wissen"

Right to the Internet is a Human Right

"How can a person today see itself as a social being if this person is not able to use the Internet?" In episode 34 of the podcast "Tonspur Wissen – Corona-Fragen" of the Leibniz Association, PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann calls for a rapid implementation of the right to t...

Im Blog

Stellungnahme zu Facebooks Oversight Board

Ein neues Gremium bei Facebook, das “Oversight Board”, wird in den kommenden Monaten seine Arbeit aufnehmen. Es soll Entscheidungen von Facebook anfechten und Policy-Empfehlungen aussprechen können. Internetrechtsexperte PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann kommentiert für das Science...

Interview

"Platform Providers Should Not Become Judges"

To let social media decide on deleting content in the sensitive area of opinion formation is not a good idea, says Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt in an interview with medienpolitik.net. "Within the limits of freedom of opinion, there is a wide spectrum of 'fake news' - the conscious or unconsci...

75 Years NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Wie ein "Wunschtraum-Orchester" Wirklichkeit wurde

In the brochure on the 75th anniversary of the NDR Elbphilhamonie Orchestra, media historian Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner wrote a guest contribution on the foundation of this "German-British dream orchestra." You can download the brochure (in German) here Abstract (in German) Von einem...

Blog zum Tag der Pressefreiheit

Die Positionierung der Medien in Zeiten von Krisen

Zum internationalen Tag der Pressefreiheit am 3. Mai betont Wolfgang Schulz die große Bedeutung des Journalismus in Zeiten von Krisen und fordert, institutionell zu lernen, wie die Rolle und Verantwortung von Journalist*innen und Anbieter*innen von Kommunikationsplattformen in der Krise ausges...

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Kommunikative Figurationen – ein theoretisches Konzept zur Beschreibung von Sozialisationsprozessen und deren Wandel in mediatisierten Gesellschaften?

In this contribution, Dr. Claudia Lampert and Marcel Rechlitz introduce the approach of communicative figurations as an analytical framework for researching transformed socialisation processes. The article has been published in Bewegungen: Beiträge zum 26. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft f&...

Video online!

Fighting Corona Digitally in China and Europe. Leibniz Media Lunch Talk on Zoom

In our first digital Lunch Talk we discussed the use of digital tracking technology in the fight against the corona virus in China and Europe. The event was recorded and is now available on YouTube. Please note that the Lunch Talk was held in German. The panel included China experts Kai von Carnap...

Blogbeitrag: Künstliche Intelligenz

Medienrechtliche Verantwortlichkeiten bei Roboterjournalismus

Immer öfter setzen journalistische Medien automatisierte Systeme zur Texterstellung ein. Macht ein “Journalismusroboter” einen Fehler, stellt sich die Frage, wer dafür verantwortlich gemacht werden kann. Stephan Dreyer und Amélie Heldt erklären, wie der medienrechtl...

Webinar Recording Online!

Webinar: Psychological Challenges for Doctoral Researchers during the Corona Pandemic

Irene Broer, doctoral researcher at the HBI, has organised a virtual workshop on Mental Health and Corona together with her colleagues from the Leibniz-PhD Networks. The current crisis poses particular mental challenges for young academics. In the almost two-hour webinar, three international expert...

Blog-Dossier "Mediennutzung in Zeiten von Corona"

Was hilft Kindern und Jugendlichen, mit Sorgen und Ängsten umzugehen?

Die Berichterstattung über das Coronavirus kann Kinder und Jugendliche enorm beunruhigen. Nicht zuletzt, weil sich die Krise durch Schulschließungen, Ausgangsbeschränkungen und Kontaktverbote direkt auf ihren Alltag auswirkt. Was kann ihnen dabei helfen, den derzeitigen Ausnahmezusta...

Stellungnahme

Alternativmedien und „Pandemischer Populismus“

In der Woche vor Ostern veröffentlichte ein vierköpfiges Team von Kommunikationswissenschaftler*innen der Universität Münster auf der Preprint-Plattform arxiv.org das Arbeitspapier „Pandemic Populism: Facebook Pages of Alternative News Media and the Corona Crisis – a...

Blog-Dossier "Medienutzung in Zeiten von Corona"

Trackingtechniken und Rechtsfragen

Als Instrumente zur Begegnung der Coronavirus-Pandemie werden Tracking-Ansätze heiß diskutiert. Was hinter der Technik der massenweisen Ortung von Smartphones steckt, was sie für die Bekämpfung der Ausbreitung des Virus verspricht und welche rechtlichen Herausforderungen es beim...

Fünf Jahre Haft für kritische Berichte?

Ungarns Demokratie als Opfer von Corona

Während der Bundestag zeigt, wie effektiv (und überraschend digital) er in Krisenzeiten arbeiten kann, hat sich das ungarische Parlament selbst entmachtet. Besonders auf die Medien kommen schwierige Zeiten zu. Auf „Fake News“ zu Corona stehen bis zu fünf Jahre Haft. Jetzt...

Subproject Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

Media Use and Social Cohesion

How do people in different social situations use different kind of media? And how do they contribute to the creation of public spheres and social cohesion?

Interview

Wie informieren wir uns in der Coronakrise?

Das Informationsbedürfnis in der Coronakrise ist enorm. Es gibt viele Fragen, aber wenig klare Antworten. Wie sich Menschen in der aktuellen Krisensituation informieren und warum es gerade ein Podcast zu beachtlicher Bekanntheit geschafft hat, weiß Mediennutzungsforscher Dr. Sascha Hö...

Funding Approved

Research Institute for Social Cohesion Can Get Started

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the main phase of the "Research Institute for Social Cohesion" (FGZ) for four years starting in summer 2020. The HBI, together with ten other German research institutions, had developed the research programme of the FGZ in a o...

Submissions until 15 April 2020!

CfP Interdisciplinary Journalism Resarch – Journalism Interdisciplinary

For the annual conference of the DGPuK division group journalism/journalism research on the topic "Interdisziplinäre Journalismusforschung – Journalismus interdisziplinär [Interdisciplinary Journalism Research - Journalism Interdisciplinary]", we are asking for numerous off...

Bredows on Tour

DGPuK- Jahrestagung 2020 in München

On the topic of "#Medien #Mensch #Gesellschaft. Fragen und Antworten der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft in Zeiten rapiden Medienwandels [#Media #People #Society. Questions and Answers of Communication and Media Studies in Times of Rapid Media Change]", the German Communication Asso...

Blog-Serie: Promovieren am HBI

Anne-Kristin Polster: "Anfangs herrschte interdisziplinäre Sprachverwirrung"

In ihrer Dissertation untersucht Anne-Kristin Polster inwiefern der Jugendmedienschutz "Medienfiguren" abdeckt. Damit sind "medial vermittelte Bezugspunkte" gemeint, zu denen Kinder und Jugendliche eine Beziehung aufbauen. Zum Beispiel YouTuber oder Charaktere aus Fernsehserien....

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Stellungnahme zum Entwurf eines Zweiten Gesetzes zur Änderung des Jugendschutzgesetzes

On 11 February 2020, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) submitted a draft of a second law amending the Youth Protection Act (JuSchG). Dr. Stephan Dreyer and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz the current hearing of associations as an opportunity to comment on t...

Representative Survey

Social Cohesion in the MDR Broadcasting Area

The HBI advises and supports the MDR in a study on the relationship between media use and the perception of social cohesion in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.

Welcome, Marta!

Guest Researcher from Galicia

In March and April 2020 Marta Rodríguez-Castro will be a guest researcher at HBI. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her thesis examines the development of public value tests in European public media o...

Podcast!

Watchdog Journalism in Mexico

Mexican journalist and media researcher Veronica Sánchez researches watchdog journalism in her country. In the BredowCast, she talks to Johanna Sebauer about the late development of critical reporting in Mexico, its current challenges and why she, while working as a journalist, would never...

Philipp Seuferling, 19.02.2020

Mediennutzung auf der Flucht

In Flüchtlingsunterkünften herrschen spezielle Informationsbedürfnisse. Philipp Seuferling erforscht Mediennutzungspraktiken von historischen Geflüchteten in Deutschland von 1945-2000. Seine Erkenntnisse sind auch für die Gestaltung aktueller Medien- und Migrationspolitik re...

Audio Is In!

World Radio Day 2020: Our Recommendations

The 13th of February is World Radio Day. The day is intended to commemorate the founding of United Nations Radio on 13 February 1946 and has been celebrated worldwide since 2012. We have a reading and two listening tips for this. In his 2014 audio essay, Uwe Hasebrink continues to reflect on...

Study on Digital Participation

Children and Young People Are Also Interested in Political Information

As they grow older, children and young people also use online services that allow them to participate in political discussions and to network strategically. 83 percent of 9 to 17-year-olds have heard of "Fridays for Future". 46 percent of them have looked for further information on the Int...

Study with Children and Young People in 19 Countries

Europe's Children Need More Tips for Safe Surfing

The majority of European children and young people between the ages of 9 and 16 use their smartphone "every day" or "almost all the time." This means that both the proportion of smartphone users and the length of time they use the Internet have increased significantly compared to...

Interviews on Media Use

Study Participants Wanted in the Hamburg Area

Netflix, podcasts, Tagesschau - in a qualitative study, we want to find out how people connect with the world through the media and how they inform themselves about it. For this purpose, we are looking for participants in the Hamburg area in the following age groups: between 18 and 25, 35 and 45 or...

Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, 05.02.2020

Medien und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

Filterblasen, Echokammern und Hassrede: Zerstört das Internet den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt? Oder fördert es im Zusammenspiel mit anderen Medien die Verständigung über geteilte Werte? Die Frage nach Bedingungen und Gefährdungen des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts ist...

Internet Myths Put to the Test

Busted! The Truth about the 50 Most Common Internet Myths

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...

Visions for a Non-Discriminatory Internet Governance

Many Worlds, Many Nets, Many Visions – Critical Voices, Visions and Vectors for Internet Governance

In the new issue of the research magazine encore, Katharina Mosene and PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann present five visions for a discrimination-free Internet. These five visions are taken from the collective volume published by Mosene and Kettemann in the run-up to the 14th Internet Governance Forum 2...

Freedom of Expression on Social Networks

#NSFW? Be Yourself but Don’t Undress

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...

TV, Radio or App?

Use and Understanding of (Severe) Weather Forecasts

A representative online survey wants to find out how people inform themselves about weather forecasts, how they understand the information and to what extent they trust the communicated scientific findings.

New Cooperation Project

Coding Public Value

The interdisciplinary project "Coding Public Value" investigates the possibility of shaping media policy by means of software development. The core of the project is to develop software for public media platforms that not only serves business models but is also oriented towards the common...

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How Facebook Develops Rules for 2.7 Billion People

For the first time, Facebook has given scientists direct access to its internal decision-making bodies. Researchers from the Hamburg-based Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) have investigated how Facebook develops communication rules for its platform. On the BredowCa...

Development of a Research Training Group

State Research Funding for Project with HBI Participation

The HBI is participating in the third round of research funding by the State of Hamburg with a project in cooperation with Universität Hamburg and the Institute of Technical Education and University Didactics at the TU Hamburg. The aim is to develop a research-training group that will focus on...

Research at Facebook for the First Time

Setting Rules for 2.7 Billion. A (First) Look into Facebook’s Norm-Making System

For the first time, Facebook has given scientists direct access to internal decision-making bodies. PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz from HBI have investigated how Facebook develops communication rules for its platform. The results of this pilot study have now been publishe...

Law and Politics

Über die personelle und inhaltliche Verzahnung von Politik und Verfassungsrecht

Matthias K. Klatt writes about politicians at the Constitutional Court in the JuWissBlog. Stephan Harbarth has been a judge at the BVerfG for over a year, having previously been an important figure in the CDU/CSU faction and a successful lawyer. There was a dispute about his appointment to th...

Literature and Broadcasting

Writers and Radio: How Literary Authors Have Made Use of the Medium over a Century

In his article in the Journal for Media History, Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes about the interaction between literary authors and the medium radio. Literary authors have made use of the radio as a political, technological, cultural, and social medium from its infancy. A wide range of complex rela...

Clearing up the Data Jungle

Children Online: Research and Evidence (CORE)

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...

Interviewing Capital City Journalists

Twitter im Politikjournalismus

Together with Christian Nuernbergk, Jan-Hinrik Schmidtt analyses the importance of Twitter in the work of political journalists in an article in the journal Publizistik. As journalists and politicians increasingly use social media, the "communicative figuration" of political journal...

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Research & Impact Workshop

The Young Researcher Event of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in cooperation with the EU Hub of the Network of Centers (NoC) aims at linking young researchers and their research interests as well as reflecting and developing positions and de...

Article in Anthology

Hassrede und Katzenbilder: Ausgewählte menschenrechtliche Aspekte der Governance von Meinungsäußerungen im Internet

Matthias C. Kettemann and Katharina Mosene describe in their contribution to the anthology "Hass im Netz - Grenzen digitaler Freiheit [Hate Online – Limits of Digital Freedom]" how effective the governance of freedom of expression on the Internet is in the fight against hate speech....

Local Journalism Reloaded

Molo.news: Experimentally Developing a Relational Platform for Local Journalism

Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen) and Wiebke Loosen present the project molo.news in an article in the journal Media and Communication. They developed an online platform for local journalism based on the findings of previous interviews, group discussions and surveys. What is presente...

Representative Survey

What Journalists Should Do – and What They Want to Do

A population survey collects representative data for the first time on the tasks assigned to journalists by the German population. These will then be compared with existing data on the self-perception of journalistic roles.

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BredowCast 49: Was Kinder online machen

Children and young people in Germany spend up to three hours per day online. In the BredowCast episode 49, Claudia Lampert and Kira Thiel talk about what children and adolescents do online, what risks they face and how their parents feel about the whole thing. As part of the transnational...

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International Summer School in India

Students with a focus on Media Law as well as European and International Law have the opportunity to participate in an international summer school on “Law, Internet and Democracy” being held from 02 to 08 March 2020 in Delhi, India. The summer school brings together a diverse group of s...

Growing Up Digitally. Thinking from a Child's Perspective.

Gefährdungsatlas der Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien

The "Gefährdungsatlas [Risk Atlas]" of the Federal Review Board for Media Harmful to Minors helps to navigate through new media phenomena and the associated challenges. Stephan Dreyer is one of the authors. Also involved were authors from the JFF - Institute for Media Education in Res...

Pilot Study Investigates Integration Performance of the Media

Media Use and Social Integration

Social integration is one of the essential functions of the media. Accordingly, the question arises as to how the integration performance of the media as a whole or of individual media can be empirically analysed. In cooperation with the ZDF and mindline media, the following criteria were defined, b...

Article in Professional Journal

Kulturelles Erbe. Das Online-Angebot “SWR Retro” setzt einen Trend

Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes in the media journal of the Evangelischer Pressedienst epd medien about the new service of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) - SWR Retro. SWR is the first public broadcaster to make historical archive material available to the public in the ARD Mediathek [ARD media library]. &...

Open Access Article

Let's Meet Halfway: Sharing New Responsibilities in a Digital Age

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...

Interview with Matthias C. Kettemann

"Hate speech cannot be stopped by the mere regulation of algorithms."

In his interview with the magazine of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Matthias C. Kettemann gives all-clear signals to all those who see our democracy in danger through phenomena such as fake news or hate speech saying that "there is no empirical evidence that disinformation and hate speech pose...

Blog Article

Political Microtargeting

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...

Blog Article

Cyber-Security als Rechtsstaatspflicht

Matthias K. Klatt writes in his article on the JuWissBlog about the security of IT systems as "a fundamental precondition for a functioning constitutional state." Questions of data security and the security of infrastructures in the digital age are of particular importance for indiv...

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Busted! The Truth about the 50 Most Common Internet Myths

This anthology clears up misconceptions about the Internet and summarises what we really know about the online world. The editors Matthias C. Kettemann and Stephan Dreyer have embarked on a search for the 50 most common Internet myths and asked Internet experts from Africa, America, Asia and Europe...

Pretty International!

Guests from Austria, Brazil, China, and Estonia Conduct Research at the HBI

Pretty international! Four guest researchers from Asia, Latin America and Europe are currently working on their research projects at the HBI: Clara Iglesias Keller from Brazil, Chen Xinsheng from China, Anu Masso from Estonia and Herwig Mitter from Austria. Clara Iglesias Keller is a lawyer....

Journal Contribution

Künstliche Intelligenz als Richter

Dr. Stephan Dreyer and Johannes Schmees examine the challenges and problems that arise in the automation of complex (state) decisions in their article in Computer und Recht using the example of court decisions. They argue for a reasonable consideration of the algorithmisation of legal processes in v...

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Towards a Global Framework for Cyber Peace and Digital Cooperation

Matthias C. Kettemann, together with Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Max Senges and Katharina Mosene, has published an anthology in which central perspectives on the future of Internet regulation can be found. With prefaces by Vint Cerf, the "Father of the Internet" and UN Secretary-General An...

Podcast

Internetmythen auf dem Prüfstand

Although the Internet is already several decades old, numerous myths entwine around the abstract space "cyberspace". Internet experts Matthias C. Kettemann and Stephan Dreyer have published a book that scientifically disenchants the 50 most common myths. For the 200-page anthology...

Visions for an Inclusive Internet Governance

Many World. Many Nets. Many Visions

This collection presents 30 critical visions for a non-discriminatory internet governance. The editors Katharina Mosene and Matthias C. Kettemann want to broaden the debates regarding the design of future network policies with perspectives beyond the mainstream. For example, feminist, queer or migra...

Working Paper Available as Download

Problems and Potentials of the NetzDG – a Reader with Five HBI Expert Opinions

The HBI participated in the discussion on the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) with five expert reports, some in German and some in English. A working paper available for download now gathers these texts by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, PD Dr. Matthias C Kettemann and Amélie Pia Heldt. Th...

Students Inform Themselves at the Institute

Was man im Netz darf und kann – und was nicht

On 8 November 2019, students of the Hamburg Gymnasium Altona discussed with Matthias K. Klatt and Keno Christoffer Potthast what you can and may do on the Internet from a legal perspective - and what you cannot. There was also a great deal of interest in the question of how to get to research at all...

Guest Researcher from Tallin

Anu Masso as Guest Researcher at the Postdoc Kolleg "Algorithmed Public Spheres"

From November 2019 to January 2020, Ass. Prof. Dr. Anu Masso from Tallinn is a guest at our postdoc network "Algorithmed Public Spheres." Anu Masso is Associate Professor of Big Data in Social Sciences at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance in Tallinn and Senio...

The Most Interesting Events at the IGF2019

A Guide to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2019

At the end of November, the United Nations Global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) comes to Germany for the first time. Following the motto “One World. One Net. One Vision”, researchers and politicians from all over the world will discuss the central legal, political, social and technolog...

Welcome, Enjoy Your Stay!

Herwig Mitter as Guest Researcher at the Institute

Fom October until December 2019, Mag. Herwig Mitter from the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna will investigate how media freedom within the ECHR relates to Internet intermediaries, in particular whether and to what extent they are protected or obliged b...

With Federal President Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Harvard University

Livestream Stream: Ethics of the Digital Transformation

As part of the delegation of Federal President Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz will discuss ethical issues of digital transformation at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University on November 1. The event will be broadcasted live here (local time...

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M&K 4/2019

As "Between Wanting and Having to" Elena Link, Axel Haverich, Christoph Klimmt and Tobias Schilling describe the motivation and commitment for communication in life science research alliances. Stefan Gürtler, Ruedi Käch and Ruedi Niederer investigated the "Presumed Influence...

New Guest Researcher

A Warm Welcome, Clara Iglesias Keller!

We welcome Clara Iglesias Keller at the HBI. From October 2019 to April 2020, she will be a guest researcher at our institute focusing on regulatory strategies for disinformation. She completed her PhD (2019) and Master degree (2011) in Public Law at the University of the State of Rio de Jane...

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Gesetzessammlung Information, Kommunikation, Medien, Auflage 18

Die rechtlichen Grundlagen im Bereich Information, Kommunikation und Medien ändern sich so rasch, dass die traditionelle Buchform für die Rechtsanwender – und auch für die Herausgeber – häufig unzweckmäßig erscheint. Kaum ist die Gesetzessammlung auf dem Ma...

Linguistic Creativity and Narrative Skills

Literary Prize for Johanna Sebauer

In the Landesmuseum in Eisenstadt, Austria, Johanna Sebauer was awarded the Literature Prize 2019 of the Province of Burgenland on the evening of 17 October 2019. She was honoured for her prose text "Nincshof." The jury awarded her "prize-worthy literature" for her ability to com...

Financially Strong Collaborative Research Centre

Cooperation with New ADM Research Centre in Australia

A new centre for research into automated decision-making systems is being established in Australia. It is funded with a total of 71.1 million Australian dollars. The HBI will be an international cooperation partner. How automated decision making (ADM) systems can be applied in an ethically re...

Guest Researcher from Shanghai

We Welcome Chen Xinsheng

Chen Xinsheng from Fudan University (Shanghai, China) will be a guest researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut from 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2020. Chen Xinsheng is a PhD student at the Center of Information and Communication Studies at Fudan Universit...

Facebook Must Delete Hate Postings

Glawischnig-Piesczek und die Gefahren nationaler Jurisdiktionskonflikte im Internet

Facebook can be forced to delete hate postings worldwide. This is the ruling of the European Court of Justice in the Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland Limited (C-18/18) case. Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, former spokeswoman for the Austrian Green Party, had sued the US company after it refused to...

Podcast with Guest Researcher

Freedom of speech on US college campuses

Republicans are more likely to tolerate speakers with political views different from their own on US college campuses than Democrats and liberals, a new study finds. The results seem surprising since in previous studies on political tolerance Democrats had always turned out to be more tolerant. So...

The HBI in the Leibniz PhD Network

Irene Broer Elected Section's Spokesperson

At this year's General Assembly of the Leibniz PhD Network in Potsdam, Germany, Irene Broer, junior researcher at the HBI, was elected speaker of the PhD students in Section B. Thus, she represents the doctoral candidates in the Leibniz Institutes in the fields of economics, social sciences and...

Diversity Report 2019

Nachrichteninteresse und Nachrichtennutzung in der digitalen Medienumgebung

In the Diversity Report 2019 of the Media Authorities, Uwe Hasebrink and Sascha Hölig write about the news usage habits of Internet users. Overall, the examination of the connection between news interest and news usage shows that the interest people show in news is a decisive category fo...

Deletion Practices in Online Communication Rooms

T-REx – Taxonomy of Rights and Expressions for Freedom of Expression Governance Research

This project aims to gain insights into deletion practices in online communication spaces and creates a taxonomy of deleted postings from the online forums of a large Austrian daily newspaper and a German question-answer portal.

Educational Leave at the Institute

The Media, Media Change and Digital Media Practices

Participants of the educational leave "Medienstadt Hamburg" informed themselves about social media and social cohesion in changing media environments at the Institute on 26. September 2019. The topics included the role of the media, media change and digital media practices in the context o...

Global Communication vs. Local Legal Order

The Law of Digitality

The project investigates various fields of law in the area of conflict between global digital communication and local legal systems.

Visiting the Institute

Leibniz Trainee Visits the HBI

Since mid-September, Mareike-Vic Schreiber has supported the public relations team at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut as an intern. The internship is part of a two-year traineeship that Mareike-Vic is currently completing at the Leibniz Association's headquarters...

Research Findings Published

Online-Erfahrungen von 9- bis 17-Jährigen

In this study, Uwe Hasebrink, Claudia Lampert and Kira Thiel explain how children and young people in Germany use the Internet, what negative experiences they have online and how they deal with these experiences. These are the findings of a representative survey conducted in 33 countries by the Euro...

Presentation of Results

EU Kids Online

How do children and adolescents in Europe use the Internet; which risks do they encounter and how do they handle them? The project EU Kids Online has been dealing with these questions since 2006.

Exchange with High-Tech Country

Delegation Trip to Israel

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen travels to Israel today with a delegation of 70 representatives from politics, business and science. The aim of the three-day trip is to expand the exchange and cooperation in the fields of science, education, business and innovation with the high-tech country of Israel. &nbs...

Sascha Hölig in Oxford

As Guest Researcher at the Reuters Institute

Dr. Sascha Hölig begins his stay in Oxford today. He will spend the coming months as a visiting scholar at the renowned Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. During this time, he will focus intensively on international news repertoires. Sascha Hö...

Contribution to Handbook

Talking to People I: Survey

In their contribution to the Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Dr. Sascha Hölig write about one of the most important tools in communication science: the survey. „Within the broad repertoire of communication research methods, 's...

Interview with Claudia Lampert

Transparent Health Apps for Children

Health apps for children and adolescents are entering the market. They differ enormously in quality. In the Tutzinger Diskurs, Dr. Claudia Lampert explains how to make the App Store more transparent. excerpt: You also criticise the fact that the range of health apps is currently very confusing. Fo...

Dissertation Successfully Defended

Congratulations Tobias Mast!

Tobias Mast successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut on 16 August 2019. The topic of his thesis was "Staatsinformationsqualität [Quality of State Information]." Congratulations on your well-deserved success! Tobias M...

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Issue 3/2019 M&K

In "Heimat - das ist ein Gefühl [Home – It’s a Feeling]", Holger Schramm and Nicole Lieber explain concepts and formulate desiderata and perspectives for communication research on 'home' in the media. Other articles deal with the influence of media use during the 2...

Blog Article

Mit Normen gegen Internet-Fragmentierung

Matthias C. Kettemann writes about the normative change on the Internet in his curent article on the blog of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Recently, Daniel Lambach argued here that cyberspace was not right now “in danger of breaking apart”...

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