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Reports, Publications, Projects, Blog Posts & Podcasts from the Institute
Private Ordering of Media
In a handbook article, Tobias Mast, Matthias C. Kettemann and Wolfgang Schulz address the question of how media organizations and platform operators setprivate law through, for example, their terms and conditions.
Matthias C. Kettemann Advises BMDV
Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann has been appointed to the Internet Governance Task Force by the German Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV). The task force has six months to develop future scenarios for the development of German digital policy up to the year 2040.
Coding Public Value
How can we develop software that is not only oriented towards business models, but also towards the common good, user interests, and media regulation? Coding Public Value (CPV) translates questions on media law into approaches and methods for a responsible software engineering.
Journalistic Use of Information Environments Influenced by Algorithms
The pilot project in the field of computational social science used browser data donations to investigate how relevant the offerings of individual search engines and social media are in the everyday work of journalists.
Communication in Times of Crisis
How do communications change in a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic? What role do actors from science, politics and the media take over? How do they deal with uncertainty from this situation? A project that reviewed existing studies and interviewed experts provided answers to this question.
Platform Democracy
How could "platform councils" or other institutions for integrating public interests into platform rule-making processes ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account? A new project is embarking on a search for global best practice models.
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?
Global Media and Internet Concentration
The international Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMICP) analyses communication, internet and media markets in nearly 40 countries. The HBI is responsible for collecting and reporting the data for Germany.
Labeling of Edited (Influencer) Photos
Must, should, may digitally edited photos in social media be labeled? On behalf of the Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM), the HBI is investigating the necessity of a legal labeling requirement for edited photos and videos.
Event dates
#LeibnizMediaLecture
From Alternative Conceptions of Honesty to Alternative Facts
3. December 2024The next Leibniz Media Lecture will be hosted by the Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC). Prof. Dr. Jana Lasser, University of Graz, talks about the spread of online misinformation on social media as a problem for societal cohesion and democracy.
