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

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.

COVID-19 TRACING APPS

How do individual design decisions affect the effectiveness of Covid-19 tracing apps and what influence do legal framework settings have? This is what the German-Israeli project "Developing the Socio-Technical Architecture Method to Inform Policy Choices in the Shaping of COVID-19 Digital Infrastructure", funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, is looking into.

EUROPEAN MEDIA PLATFORMS: ASSESSING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES FOR EUROPEAN CULTURE

The role of media platforms like YouTube, Netflix or NewsFeed in fostering or dismantling European identity is the key question of the EU-project EUMEPLAT.

Latest News

News, new research projects and publications from the Institute

Working mainly in home offices

Library and Office Secretariat Open on Tuesdays - by Appointment Only

The library of the HBI is openon Tuesdays 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 contact our library tea...

Podcast!

Intermediäre in der Wissenschaftskommunikation

Mit dem Science Media Center Germany hat Deutschland ein Expertisezentrum, das Journalist*innen bei der Berichterstattung über wissenschaftliche Themen unterstützt. Irene Broer und Louisa Pröschel haben es erforscht und erzählen davon im BredowCast. Das Science Media Cent...

Working Paper for Download

Das Science Media Center Germany [The 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 results of their ethnographic study are now available for download as No. 57 in the series "Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Instituts [Working Papers of th...

Blog-Beitrag 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...

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...

Project Findings Available for Download

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...

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...

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...

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...

Podcast!

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...

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.

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...

Frisch erschienen!

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...

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 selects real-time data on how platforms govern online speech, how laws and local standards interact, and how platform practices change in the shadow of EU regulation in the heated atmosphere of the run-up to the German elections

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...

Dissertation Project

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.

All Contributions Available as Open Access!

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...

Article on JuWissBlog

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...

Podcast!

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...

EU-H2020-Project

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

Blog: Polarization in the US

Democracy at Stake: The Capitol Siege as a Digital Crisis?

The attack on the institutional heart of one of the oldest democracies of the world was a major shock, for the United States and democracies all over the world. How were social media conducive to the Capitol siege and what should we learn from it? January 6, 2021 offered a dramatic start to t...

Blogbeitrag: Coding Public Value

Public Service-Onlineangebote und „internetspezifische Gestaltungsmittel“

Die gesetzliche Forderung nach "internetspezifischen Gestaltungsmitteln“ für neue öffentlich-rechtliche Angebote führt zu einem Paradigmenwechsel bei der Konkretisierung des Programmauftrags im Netz: Neben programminhaltlichen Anforderungen müssen nun auch softwarebasi...

New International Project

Private Ordering Observatory

In order to study how online platforms decide what can be said online, the Leibniz Institute for Media Research sets up a "Private Ordering Observatory".

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? By reviewing relevant studies and conducting expert interviews, we provide answers to these questions.

#UseTheNews

„Was brenzlig ist, kriegt man so oder so mit“ – Wie junge Leute Nachrichten konsumieren

Leonie Wunderlich writes about young people's news consumption in dpa's Innovation Blog. The article is based on results from our #UseTheNews project. The project is a cooperation between the HBI and the dpa and provides knowledge on the topic of news literacy. You can read the...

How to improve one's research impact

Technology, (Media) Economy and Transformation: Research Impact Sprints

TETRIS is a program that aims to enhance researchers’ abilities to measure and increase the impact of their work through a combination of strategic frameworks and hands-on experiences.

Legal Study commissioned by the LfM

Legal Study on Disinformation

The legal study commissioned by the State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM) identifies risks for individuals and society that can arise through various forms of disinformation and discusses ways to counter them legally.

The Role of Communicative Robots

The Use of Automation Tools in German Newsrooms

In a pilot study, the Institute examines the use of journalistic automation tools in Germany and analyses the role of “communicative robots” (ComRobs) in the fulfilment of journalistic activities and functions, from an interdisciplinary perspective of journalism research and law.

Article in Telemedicus

Landesmedienanstalt gegen gesundheitsbezogene Google Knowledge-Panels

In an article for Telemedicus, Martin Fertmann, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Dr. Stephan Dreyer discuss whether cooperation between health authorities and internet intermediaries is illegal. Read the entire article here (in German) Abstract Along with the pre-Christmas canon...

Thank you!

Thank You for All the Good Things This Year!

In addition to all the efforts required this year, it has also opened up some new worlds for us. Stimulating digital event formats (Leibniz Media Lunch Talks and Leibniz Media Lectures) have emerged, highly exciting projects have started, first and foremost our Hamburg branch of the "Research I...

Women and News

Germany

In Women and News: An Overview of Audience Behaviour in 11 Countries, Julia Behre and Dr. Sascha Hölig share their findings from the 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News Report on women's news consumption in Germany. Abstract Even in a wealthy and democratic society like Germany, there are...

Viral Information

How States and Platforms Deal with COVID-19-Related Disinformation

This study explores how online platforms and different states dealt with Covid-19-related disinformation. It was edited by PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Martin Fertmann as part of the GDHRNet Working Paper Series and is available as open access. Download Working Paper (pdf)...

Open Access Gold for M&K

M&K Published Open Access as of 2021

Starting in 2021, our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft [Media & Communication Studies]" will be published open access! All future issues as well as all issues published since 2000 can then be accessed free of charge via the eLibrary of Nomos Verlag at https://www.m-und-...

Recommendations for Parents

Recommendations for Action to Handle Child Influences

Cologne/Hamburg, 14.12.2020. Children are more and more active as influencers on social platforms like YouTube, TikTok or Instagram. They present themselves and their everyday life to a large number of people - often completely without reflection regarding the information they reveal about themselve...

Annual Report 2019 Available for Download

Our 1st Year in the Leibniz Association: Annual Report 2019

2019 - Our first research year as the "Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI)"! The evaluation for this admission demanded a lot from us, but afterwards we were welcomed with open arms into the community of the Leibniz Institutes. Our annual report for 2019 shows...

Podcast!

Wie wird man Medienrechts-Forscher*in?

Dr. Stephan Dreyer is a researcher in media law. In this BredowCast episode, he tells us how he became one. Even as a young student, it was clear to Stephan that he would not become a sly lawyer later on. During his first internship in a law firm, he had to find out that "lawyers are there to...

Blog: Methodeninnovation

„Liebes Publikum …“ – Arts-Based Research in der Journalismusforschung

Zeichnen oder kreatives Schreiben sind als wissenschaftliche Erhebungsmethoden zwischen den klassischen Befragungen und Inhaltsanalysen eher die Ausnahme. Einige Forscher:innen fordern jedoch mehr Methodeninnovation. Warum diese gerade für die Journalismusforschung wertvoll sein kann, wissen Fr...

EU Study

Third Better Internet for Kids Policy Map

On 30 November 2020, the third edition of the study "Better Internet for Kids" Policy Map was presented at the Safer Internet Forum. The HBI and the TU Dublin were involved in this study. It was commissioned by the EU Commission. The study provides an overview of policy design and i...

Book Chapter

Hass- und Gegenrede in der Kommentierung massenmedialer Berichterstattung

In a contribution to the anthology "Social Media", Dr. Gregor Wiedemann and Cornelia Fedtke examine the interplay between hate speech and counter speech on social networks. The authors propose a model for computer-aided critical discourse analysis. Download the article here (fee required)...

Research Sprint Overview

When Scholars Sprint, Bad Algorithms Are on the Run

In the first research sprint of the project "Ethics of Digitalisation", funded by the Mercator Foundation, international researchers looked at the use of AI in the moderation of online content. PD Dr. Matthias Kettemann and Alexander Pirang provide an overview of the key findings in this b...

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.

Youth Protection in Messenger Services

Nutzung von Stickern in Messenger-Diensten und ihre Jugendschutzrelevanz

In the Jugend Medien Schutz-Report (Youth Media Protection Report), Kira Thiel and Dr. Stephan Dreyer give an overview of sticker use practices by children and young people in messenger services and address the associated risks. To the article (fee required) Abstract Happy teacups, cute dog...

Blog: Die Rolle der digitalen Medien

Die digitale Gegenöffentlichkeit der AfD

Im Jahr 2015 ist die AfD innerhalb weniger Monate von einer kleinen, von vielen Expert:innen bereits abgeschriebenen Partei zu einer der lautesten Stimmen in der Flüchtlingsdebatte geworden. Jan Rau erklärt anhand dieses Beispiels, welch entscheidende Rolle digitale Medien in den gese...

Facebook's Deletion Obligations in the Glawischnig Case

No “Censor for the World”

In an article on the Verfassungsblog [Constitutional Blog], PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and his co-authors clarify misunderstandings in connection with the "Glawischnig ruling" of the Austrian Supreme Court. The legal dispute had attracted attention last year. Former Green politician Eva...

Article on Verfassungsblog

Why Platforms Struggle with Ensuring Data Access for Academics

In their article on the Verfassungsblog, Amélie Heldt, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Paddy Leerssen write about the difficulties of gaining access to platform data as researchers. Über die Schwierigkeiten, als Forscher*in Zugang zu Plattformdaten zu bekommen, schreiben gemeinsam mit...

Blog: Geschichtspolitische Kommunikationspraktiken

#janaauskassel-Memes und historische Vergleiche in der aktuellen Netzdebatte

Die Autor*innen erforschen die Kommunikation über Vergangenheit und die kommunikativen geschichtspolitischen Praktiken der Neuen Rechten. In diesem Beitrag greifen sie den medialen Aufreger der zurückliegenden Woche auf und nehmen die Meme-Kommunikation zu “Jana aus Kassel” und...

Intermediaries and Democracy

Die kooperative Stoßrichtung ist vielversprechend

In "Wer regiert das Internet? [Who rules the internet?]" PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann answers three questions on the topics of information intermediaries as well as whether disinformation and hate speech are a danger to democracy. To the Publication (pdf) Abstract There is no empir...

Podcast

Regulierung von Telegram und Zoom?

Contents on Telegram and Zoom are hardly subject to legal control or platform internal moderation. Should it stay that way? The media law experts Amélie Heldt and Martin Fertmann are weighing up the options. At least since Corona we know the platforms Zoom and Telegram a little bette...

Just Published

M&K 4/2020

The articles in issue 4/2020 M&K focus on journalistic ethics of responsibility and sexual abuse (Philip Baugut / Katharina Neumann), on Netflix and disruptive innovations in the age of digitalization (Hendrik Michael / Sophie Reitmeier / Miriam Czichon), on media coverage of autonomous driving...

Hate Speech Online

Giving the Law a “Like”? Comments on Austria's Draft Communications Platform Law

On the Sustainable Computing Lab Blog, PD Dr. Matthias Kettemann analyses Austria's new Communication Platform Act. Although the Austrian legislator is already many things right with this "milestone" for more online protection but it still has a few edges. Zum vollständigen Artik...

Video Recordings Online!

Internet Governance Forum 2020

Several colleagues from the HBI took part in the 15th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which ended yesterday. From 2 - 17 November 2020, actors from politics, science and civil society discussed our digital future and related policy issues under the topic "Internet for Human Resilience a...

Podcast!

Das HBI auf der Europäischen Medienkonferenz

The media legal experts Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Amélie Heldt report on the EU media conference and explain the complex interaction between science and politics. For four months, from July to October 2020, our Institute provided scientific support for the EU media conference. The...

Open Access Article

Block, Hide or Follow – Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media

In this paper, Lisa Merten analyses how users curate their news consumption on social media by specifically following or blocking news accounts. She draws on the data set collected by the Reuters Digital News Survey, which includes information on the online news usage behaviour of over 70,000 respo...

Austria's Communications Platforms Act

Così fan tutte: Some Comments on Austria’s Draft Communications Platforms Act

Dr. Matthias Kettemann, Gregor Fischer and Felicitas Rachinger analyse the draft of the new Austrian Communications Platforms Act in the latest Graz Law Working Paper. To the paper (PDF) Abstract Austria’s Communications Platforms Act (KoPl-G) provides for a multi-stage procedure for conten...

Corona im Wissenschaftsjournalismus

„Es gab nur noch ein Thema“

Irene Broer erforschte gerade das Science Media Center Germany, als erste Nachrichten über eine „mysteriöse Lungenkrankheit“ in China die Redakteur*innen erreichten. In den folgenden Wochen wurde sie Zeugin einer journalistischen Ausnahmesituation. Im Media Research Blog-I...

Content Regulation and Freedom of Expression

Borderline Speech: Caught in a Free Speech Limbo?

In her article in the open access journal Internet Policy Review, Amélie Heldt looks at the regulation of content in social media, which is not so easy to grasp. "Borderline content" is neither legal nor illegal and shows how problematic content regulation can be with regard to our...

Blog Article

AfD gegen Seehofer: Neues Urteil- alte Störgefühle

The Federal Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of the AfD in its dispute with Horst Seehofer. In his article on JuWissBlog, Keno Potthast analyses this ruling with regard to the neutrality requirement. Read the full article here Excerpt With the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court of...

Open Access

How Document Sampling and Vocabulary Pruning Affect the Results of Topic Models

In the new issue of the journal Computational Communication Research, Dr. Gregor Wiedemann writes together with three other authors about how Topic Modeling could be simplified. Topic Modeling is an increasingly popular method for analyzing texts in the social sciences. However, for particularly lar...

Open Access

Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt: Ein interdisziplinärer Dialog

The Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC), in which the HBI is involved with five projects, has published its first publication. The anthology presents contributions on issues of social cohesion from all eleven German institutes and thus offers a first interdisciplinary look at this highly topic...

Regulation of Intermediaries

Governance von Informations-Intermediären - Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Dr. Stephan Dreyer have written a report on information intermediaries for the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), in which they identify challenges and possible solutions in the area of governance. To the full report (PDF) Abstract In the context of...

RISC Team Complete

Meet the Newest Members of Our FGZ Team!

In the next years, we will realise five projects at the HBI in Hamburg as part of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC). We are happy to welcome a few new colleagues into the team, which is now complete. The RISC has a decentralised structure and is supported by ten other research institutio...

Protection of Minors from Harmful Media

Nichts für schwache Nerven?! Wie Bund und Länder den Jugendmedienschutz modernisieren wollen

The Law on the Protection of Minors from Harmful Media is too old and calls for modernisation. In the current issue of the journal Kinder- und Jugendschutz in Wissenschaft und Praxis [Protection of Minors in Science and Practice], Dr. Stephan Dreyer gives an overview of the planned changes, their po...

Review in M&K

Rezension zu Bonfadelli, H.; Friemel, T. (2020). Kommunikationskampagnen im Gesundheitsbereich. 3., völlig überarbeite Auflage

Dr. Claudia Lampert has written a review of "Bonfadelli, H.; Friemel, T. (2020). Kommunikationskampagnen im Gesundheitsbereich. 3., völlig überarbeite Auflage [Communication Campaigns in the Health Sector. 3., Completely Revised Edition]", which can be read in the current issue o...

Accompanying Text to Wolfgang Borchert

„Auf dieses Stück haben wir gewartet“ – Wie Wolfgang Borcherts „Draußen vor der Tür“ zum Rundfunk kam

Wolfgang Borchert's " Draußen vor der Tür [Outside the Door]" is a protest cry against the destructive power of war. After its first broadcast in 1947, it became the radio's biggest audience success in the post-war era. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner contributed to the extensive...

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Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Journalism Research - Journalism Interdisciplinary

For a planned thematic issue of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft [Media & Communication Studies]" (M&K) we are looking for contributions that deal with forms of interdisciplinary journalism research, interdisciplinary questions about journalism as well as with t...

Journalistic Response to COVID-19

Rapid Reaction: Ethnographic Insights into the Science Media Center and Its Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak

Irene Broer writes about the editorial response of the Science Media Center Germany (SMC) to the outbreak of the pandemic in a special issue of the Journal of Science Communication, which focuses exclusively on communication in connection with COVID-19. Irene Broer was part of the editorial t...

Hate Speech Online

Loi Avia: Frankreichs Verfassungsrat kippt Gesetz gegen Hass im Netz

In her blog article on JuWissBlog, Amélie Heldt gives an insight into the French counterpart of the Network Enforcement Act, why it is partly unconstitutional and what consequences this could have. You can download the article here (pdf) Abstract "Non conformité partielle...

Journalism Studies

What Journalists Want and What They Ought to Do. (In)Congruences Between Journalists’ Role Conceptions and Audiences’ Expectations

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Julius Reimer and Dr. Sascha Hölig analyze the self-image of journalists in their article published in the journal Journalism Studies. The focus is not only on their own role perception, but also on the expectations of their audience - in other words, what journalists w...

Open Access Article

The President and Free Speech: Consequences of Twitter's Fact-Checking Indication

In her article in the open access journal Internet Policy Review, Amélie Heldt writes about freedom of expression in the United States and the consequences of the US President's executive order on preventing online censorship. You can read the entire article here Abstract While we consi...

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Identifying Tipping Point(s): Wendepunkte bei der Verabschiedung der DSM-Richtlinie

In the conference volume "Tipping Points", Amélie Heldt writes about the concept of tipping points and the possible impact of the debate about upload filters on the copyright directive. The interdisciplinary symposium "Tipping Points. On the Relationship between Freedom and th...

Media Repertoires of Internet Users

Combining Old and New: Patterns of Media Use across Legacy and Online Media in Germany

Julia Behre, Dr. Sascha Hölig and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink have published an article in the journal Comunicazioni Soziali about media repertoires of adult internet users in Germany. In their article, they analyse which age group tends to use "new" media and which group prefers to use &...

Platform Regulation

Stellungnahme zu Kommunikationsplattformengesetz in Österreich

Together with other legal experts in the field of platform regulation, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann issued a statement on the ministerial draft of the Communications Platform Act (KoPI-G), an Austrian federal law on measures to protect users on communications platforms. This statement can be...

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Soziale Medien, Falschinformationen und ihr Einfluss auf die Meinungsbildung. Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien und die USA im Vergleich

In the Diversity Report 2020 of die medienanstalten, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Dr. Sascha Hölig write about social media, misinformation and its influence on opinion formation, comparing Germany, France, Great Britain and the USA. You can download the complete Diversity Report 2020 free of c...

Media Research Methods Lab

HBI founds "Methods Lab"

In the recently founded Media Research Methods Lab (MRML), the HBI bundles its methodological expertise in one organisational unit. What is new is the combination of established social science methods with novel digital procedures. The HBI is pleased to welcome Dr. Gregor Wiedemann, who holds...

Interview in "Frag Leibniz"

Do Print Media Still Exist in the Future?

After professional journals, newspapers will be the next print medium to disappear, says Hermann-Dieter Schröder in his contribution to "Frag Leibniz [Ask Leibniz]", a campaign by the Leibniz Association. In the long run, print media will largely disappear. They will be replaced by el...

ICA Online

Tagungen in Zeiten der Pandemie

In the journal Aviso, published by the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen and Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp report on the challenges that they faced with online conferences during the Corona pandemic. To the issue Loosen, W.; Hepp, A. (2020): Tagungen in Zeiten der Pandemie...

Podcast Episode!

Wie wird man Medienforscher*in?

Wiebke Loosen is one of the best-known journalism researchers in Germany. In this BredowCast she talks to Johanna Sebauer about how her professional career has developed. In the end, it might have been her aversion to chemistry, which made Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen a journalism researcher. After all...

Video: First Findings from UNESCO Study

Almost All Germans Use (Comparatively Slow) Internet

95 per cent of all households in Germany have Internet access. 86 per cent use it, in the age group of 16-54 years it is 99 per cent. However, fast Internet access is still unequally distributed. These are initial findings from the study "The State of the Internet in Germany" presen...

Online Article

Gering ausgeprägtes Interesse? Verständnis von Nachrichten und Journalismus im Wandel

In an article on the innovation.dpa.com, Leonie Wunderlich writes about the first results of our project "Use The News" on news usage in the digital age. You can read the complete article here. Abstract Population-representative studies on news usage, such as the recent...

Book Contribution

Nachrichtenrezeption in crossmedialen Medienumgebungen

In the "Handbook of Political Communication", Dr. Sascha Hölig writes about news repertoires, the relevance of established brands, social media, participation possibilities and preferred modes of use. As an open access publication, the article is available free of charge. You c...

Article in Grimme Prize Publication

Mit besten Empfehlungen. Grundprinzipien algorithmischer Empfehlungssysteme für öffentlich-rechtliche Medienangebote

In the 56th edition of the publication "Grimme-Preis", Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt writes about algorithmic recommendation systems in public media and the issues involved. To the publication (pdf) Abstract Algorithmic recommendation systems characterise our everyday use of the Internet. Be it...

BMBF Project

Media and Science Communication

How do scientific findings about journalistic media and social media get into the world? What criteria do science editors use to select topics? And what impact can scientific content have with it?

Human Rights Online

Global Digital Human Rights Network (GDHRNet)

The Global Digital Human Rights Network (GDHRNet) will systematically explore the theoretical and practical challenges posed by the online context to the protection of human rights.

Article Online

Gehirnwäsche der Deutschen durch Hörspiele?

Was the radio play used for political propaganda? Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner looks into this in his article in the journal 'Medienkorrespondenz' [Media Correspondence]. You can read the article here. Abstract So much for the heyday of the radio play! All the beloved, award-winning and cherishe...

Book Chapter

Gesundheitskommunikation

Dr. Claudia Lampert, Eva Baumann and Bettina Fromm have written a chapter on "Health Communication" which has been published in the latest edition of the Handbook on Health Sciences. About the Handbook Health sciences analyse determinants of health and illness. They derive concepts for im...

Blogpost

Who is Zoom To Judge?

Why Engaging in Content Governance is Not a Good Idea for the Successful Video Conferencing Platform. It's everyone's favorite online video communication tool these days. We cannot count the times we attended Zoom-based workshops in the last months, organized Zoom-based lectures or spoke at...

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

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...

Platform Regulation and Freedom of Expression

Como regular a moderação privada de conteúdo nos novos espaços públicos?

On the legal blog Consultor Judrídíco PD Dr. Matthias Kettemann, Juliana Abrusio, Ricardo Campos and Juliano Maranhão address the international debate on content regulation on the Internet as well as what needs to be kept in mind. They also raise the question of how the removal...

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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

Conference within the Framework of the German EU Council Presidency

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.

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...

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