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

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 age of 30.

FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT GESELLSCHAFTLICHER ZUSAMMENHALT (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.

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.

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Corona Pandemic

HBI closed until 8 June 2020

Due to the coronavirus in Germany, the Institute and its library will be closed until 8 June 2020. In order to protect the health of our staff and guests, we will work from home. This measure recommended by the German government is intended to help slow down the spreading of the coronavirus. Contact...

Available as Open Access from July

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 will be published by Oxford University Press at the end of July and will then be available as Open Access. Abstract “There is order on the internet, but how has t...

Project about News Literacy

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

Doppelnummer erscheint in Kürze

M&K 1-2/2020

In der Doppelnummer widmet sich Anna Sophie Kümpel der „Nachrichtennutzung und dem -verständnis von jungen Erwachsenen“; Maria Löblich und Carlotta Nietzke untersuchen das Verhältnis zwischen der "deutschen Presse und Google“; während sich Monika Taddi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

FGZ’s Main Phase Starts on 1 July 2020

Forschungsinstitut gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (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.

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...

Conference within the Framework of the German EU Council Presidency

Coherent Media Order: Accompanying the EU Media Conference 2020

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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).

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...

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....

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Podcast

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...

Apply until 9 February 2020!

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.

Podcast!

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...

Apply until 31 January 2020!

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...

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]. &...

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...

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....

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Just published!

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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 the Austrian daily newspaper "Der Standard" and the question-answer portal "gutefrage.net". For this purpose, a dataset o...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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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...

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...

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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...

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...

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”...

"Memory" in Journalistic Practice

Non-Commemorative Memory in News Production: Discovering Underlying Motivations for Journalists’ Memory Work

Irene Broer and first-time author Dr. Stefanie Trümper have published this paper in the journal Memory Studies, which explores how media professionals incorporate memories of historical events into their journalistic work. The study was funded by the interdisciplinary excellence cluster Climate...

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Schriftliche Stellungnahme zum zweiten Diskussionsentwurf eines Medienstaatsvertrages der Länder

The new Interstate Media Treaty (MStV) is supposed to modernise media regulation and adapt it to new forms of offerings and usage. Like the first version, the core of the revised draft aims to include new media actors in the scope of application of the State Treaty. The media law experts Prof. Dr. W...

How Incidental Is "Incidental"?

Incidental News Exposure on Social Media

In addition to children's photos of our friends and cat videos, we also casually encounter news content on social networks. Dr. Anna Sophie Kümpel and Lisa Merten examine how this happens by chance and what this news contact means. You know it: A friend posts a link on Facebook. You...

Welcome to the Institute

Researches Journalist-Audience-Relationships

Since August 2019, Louise Sprengelmeyer has been working as a junior researcher in research programme 1 "Transformation of Public Communication: Journalistic and Intermediary Functions in the Process of Opinion Formation". She is particularly involved in the changing relationship between j...

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EU Kids Online Got Reinforced

Since August 2019, Kira Thiel has been a junior researcher in the competence area of Growing Up in Digital Media Environments at the institute. Welcome! Currently, she works mainly in the project "EU Kids Online". Her research interests include (negative) emotions in the use of media by...

Uses of the Past in Refugee Documentaries in Sweden and Germany

The article by Dr. Hans-Urlich Wagner and guest researcher Philipp Seuferling in the journal Media History focuses on the memory culture of migration in the media on a theoretical and empirical level. Migration not only entangles people, cultures and societies but also histories and memories of div...

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CfP M&K Special Issue 'Research Software'

The thematic issue aims to bring together contributions that deal with overarching questions of the development, methodology, application or sustainability of research software in the field of media and communication science. Publishers: Andreas Hepp, Wiebke Loosen, Uwe Hasebrink With the digitalis...

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CfP M&K special issue 'Technik – Medien – Geschlecht revisited'

Current questions and findings on the relationships between the construction of gender and digital media technology (devices and applications) will be presented in theoretical and empirical articles in the thematic issue of M&K. Guest editors are Corinna Peil, Kathrin Müller, Ricarda Dr&uu...

Book Chapter

Medien und Medienpolitik in Schleswig-Holstein

In the anthology "Politik und Regieren in Schleswig-Holstein [Politics and Governance in Schleswig-Holstein]", edited by Wilhelm Knelangen and Friedhelm Boyken, Dipl.-Soz. Hermann-Dieter Schröder writes about the design of the media system in Schleswig-Holstein. In the first part, t...

New at the Institute

Welcome, Paul Solbach!

Since July 2019, Paul Solbach has been a doctoral candidate at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research HBI, and has been working on the DFG project "Pioneer Journalism: The Re-Figuration of Journalism's Organizational Foundations." His work focuses on the research of start-ups, incuba...

Best Social Science Article

Sascha Hölig Receives Fritz Thyssen Foundation Award

The second place of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation Award for Social Science Essays of 2018, endowed with 1000 EUR, goes to Dr. Sascha Hölig for his article "Eine meinungsstarke Minderheit als Stimmungsbarometer?! Über die Persönlichkeitseigenschaften aktiver Twitterer [Sensing the...

Blog Article

Proteste in Hongkong: Vom Octopus zur Datenkrake?

Amélie Pia Heldt writes in her article on the blog of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) about the current protests in Hong Kong and the risks of the smart city. The ideal vision of a Smart City is that services and objects are connected to the public...

Podcast

Media Use in German Refugee Camps 1945-2000

There are specific information needs and media use practices in refugee shelters. Philipp Seuferling explores them and talks about it in the new episode of the BredowCast. To the Podcast Over the past decades, Germany has experienced a number of refugee movements. People from various countries fou...

Delicious Media Research

Leibniz Media Lunch Talks

Our new event series Leibniz Media Lunch Talks brings media research to the lunch table. Researchers from our institute or guests from outside present their projects in a relaxed atmosphere. You are welcome to bring your own lunch. Please register briefly at [email protected] Freedom...

New at the Institute

Katharina Mosene Is New Research Coordinator

Katharina Mosene joined the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans-Bredow-Institut in July 2019. She is a political scientist (M.A.) and is responsible for the research and event cooperation at the HBI, especially in the context of the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and the Network...

All Presentations Available as Video

Review: 10th Hamburg Media Symposium

All presentations of the 10th Hamburg Media Symposium are now available online as video. What rules structure our online world? How it is decided what is allowed online? And how do social actors behave? These questions were the focus of the event, which was organised on 6 June 2019 by the Leibniz In...

Three in One Fell Swoop

Awards for M&K Articles

The three best communication science articles of the year 2018 can all be found in our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" [Media & Communication Studies], according to the German Communication Association (DGPuK) at their annual meeting. Among the awards for outstanding...

New at the Institute

New Junior Researcher Johannes Schmees

With Johannes Schmees, we have another junior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │Hans-Bredow-Institut. Since July 2019 he has been responsible for the interdisciplinary project of the Volkswagen Foundation “Deciding About, By and Together with Algorithmic Decision Making S...

Media Practices Among Refugees

“We Demand Better Ways to Communicate”: Pre-Digital Media Practices in Refugee Camps

The article by Philipp Seuferling deals with the media use of refugees in Germany between 1945 and 2000. It was published in the open access journal "Media and Communication". This article provides a historical perspective on media practices in refugee camps. Through an analysis of...

New Publication

Freedom of Expression Online

In their contribution to the volume Human Rights, Digital Society and the Law, Matthias Kettemann and Wolfgang Benedek show that freedom of expression is a central right of the information society and that states and companies have certain obligations to protect it. States have a duty to prot...

A Warm Welcome!

Anna Boch Guest Researcher at the Institute

Anna Boch, PhD candidate in Sociology at Stanford University, is guest researcher at the institue from June to August, She is researching public opinion on online hate speech and content moderation, using approaches from sociology, communication studies, and law. Anna Boch’s dissertation proj...

Congratulations!

Matthias Kettemann Habilitated in New Subject Internet Law

On 26 June 2019, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann obtained the first lectureship in Internet Law in Germany. His inaugural lecture with the title "Asymmetrische Kommunikation als Herausforderung für das Recht [Asymmetrical Communication as a Challenge for Law]" marked the conclusion of th...

Project for the European Commission

BIK Policy Map

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

For Reading and Listening!

Fritz Bauer and the Radio

Fritz Bauer's plea against the vilification of the resistance fighters of 1952 is only one of the audio documents that Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner included in his article "Fritz Bauer und das Radio [Fritz Bauer and the Radio]" in contemporary historical research. Wagner, Hans-Ulrich...

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Analysis of the First NetzDG Reports

Amélie Pia Heldt's article "Reading Between the Lines and the Numbers: An Analysis of the First NetzDG Reports" in Internet Policy Review examines the activity reports that platforms, which receive more than 100 complaints a year, must publish under the NetzDG. The article is av...

In Tagesspiegel Background

One Internet for All People

"We don't need new basic and human rights for the 'internet age'. The rules already in force are sufficient. They only have to be applied in a technology-sensitive way," argues Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann in the section 'Standpunkt' of the Tagesspiegel Background Digitali...

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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019: Ergebnisse für Deutschland

The international report on news usage will be published on 12 June 2019. The findings for Germany were again compiled by the HBI and can then be downloaded as a pdf file. Around 2,000 people per country were interviewed in 2019. In total, the study is based on 75,749 respondents from 38 countries i...

Book Contribution

Medienerziehung aus der Perspektive der Verfassung

In the volume Medienerziehung in der digitalen Welt. Grundlagen und Konzepte für Familie, Kita, Schule und Soziale Arbeit [Media Education in the Digital World. Foundations and Concepts for Family, Kita, School and Social Work], Dr. Stephan Dreyer writes about media education from a constitutio...

Contribution to the Völkerrechtsblog

The GDPR and Algorithmic Decision-Making

Dr. Stephan Dreyer and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz ask the following question in their contribution to the Völkerrechtsblog [international law blog]: To what extent can the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) protect the interests of individuals, groups and society as a whole that appea...

First Podcast in English

Igor, Gabriela and Their YouTube Journey

Igor and Gabriela are fictional characters created by media researcher Dr. Jonathon Hutchinson. In his current project, Jonathon tries to uncover patterns in YouTube’s recommender system. For that purpose he created individual YouTube accounts for five different fictional characters and observ...

Radio Remains Popular

Zur Relevanz des Rundfunks

In their contribution to the Content Report 2018 of the State Media Authorities, Dr. Sascha Hölig and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink explain the relevance of broadcasting in various information repertoires. [...] Nachrichteninhalte des Rundfunks [haben] offline wie online eine sehr hohe Reichwe...

Guest from Australia

Dr. Karen Pearlman as Guest Researcher in Hamburg

From 6 to 17 June 2019, Dr. Karen Pearlman from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) will be a guest at the Institute for Media and Communication (IMK) at Universität Hamburg. Dr. Pearlman is an accomplished film scholar and an impressive filmmaker/documentary filmmaker. Together with Dr. H...

Workshop at the HBI

JF:TEC Researches Technological Change

The Junges Forum: Technikwissenschaften JF:TEC met on 23 May 2019 for a first workshop at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut. The programme included the discussion of disciplinary perspectives on the topic of decisions, the presentation of current projects, publications...

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Summer School "Governance Technologies" at HBI

From 16 to 19 September 2019, the interdisciplinary summer school "Governance Technologies: Privacy, Fairness & Transparency" will take place in Hamburg. It is aimed at young PhD students as well as post-docs interested in the interface between computer science, law and philosophy. You...

All Contributions from the HBI at a Glance

Annual Conference of the ICA 2019 in Washington

The International Communication Association (ICA) invites participants to its annual conference in Washington, D.C., from 24 to 28 May 2019. Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut will also be there to present their work in various panels. The Contrib...

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M&K 2/2019

Philip Baugut and Katharina Neumann write about the relations between journalists and right-wing extremists (Beziehungen zwischen JournalistInnen und Rechtsextremisten) in the new issue of M&K. Further articles deal with the digital change of the knowledge order (Neuberger et al.), research ethi...

How to Proceed with the Controversial Law?

Expert Opinion on the Network Enforcement Act

Expert opinion by Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann as expert for the public hearing on the Network Enforcement Act at the invitation of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection of the German Bundestag on 15 May 2019. the entire expert opinion as pdf Central Statements The process of a...

Invitation to the 10th Hamburg Media Symposium

The Limitations of What Can Be Said: Who Determines the Rules of Public Discourse Online?

What rules structure our online world? How it is decided what is allowed online? And how do social actors behave? These questions will be discussed at the 10th Hamburg Media Symposium of MA HSH, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research on 6 June 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in t...

Online Dossier

Die Medienlogik der Informationsintermediäre und ihre Bedeutung für Meinungsbildung

In a dossier of the Federal Agency for Civic Education on the subject of "Digital Disinformation", Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt writes about the media logic of information intermediaries such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. "Mit dem Internet, und speziell mit den sozialen Medien,...

Podcast

Legal Steps against Disinformation on the Net

The European Union elects its Parliament at the end of May. Could fake news affect the result? How can we take legal action against this? Is that even supposed to happen? Johanna Sebauer asked the media law expert Dr. Matthias Kettemann. Lies are not forbidden. Who lies has to bear in most cases...

Journal Article

Upload-Filters: Bypassing Classical Concepts of Censorship?

Amélie Pia Heldt published in the anniversary edition of JIPITEC (Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law) "10 Years of JIPITEC" the article "Upload-Filters: Bypassing Classical Concepts of Censorship?" Protecting human r...

Integration through Communication

64th Annual Conference of the DGPuK

The 64th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) attracted about 500 participants from the scientific and practical fields of communication science. This topic this year was "Integration durch Kommunikation in digitalisierten Öffentlichkeiten [Integration through...

SHARENEWS Project Launched

Research with Facebook Data for the First Time

For the first time in history, Facebook grants science access to its data records. As part of the SHARENEWS project, Dr. Cornelius Puschmann is investigating the criteria according to which Facebook users share messages on the platform. Facebook, with its approximately two billion users worldwide,...

Online Dossier

Von der Schwierigkeit, Fake News zu regulieren: Frankreichs Gesetzgebung gegen die Verbreitung von Falschnachrichten im Wahlkampf

Amélie Heldt writes about the difficulty of regulating fake news in a dossier on the subject of "digital disinformation" published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Der Begriff "Fake News" ist seit einigen Jahren omnipräsent. Im engeren Sinne sind dam...

Blog Article

News Website, Search Engine or Social Media? Explaining Different Pathways to News Online

On the Internet, we reach news via a wide variety of channels. For example, via search engines, social media or via the news sites directly. The authors Judith Möller, Robbert Nicolai van de Velde, Lisa Merten and Cornelius Puschmann trace these paths in a guest article on the blog of the...

We Are In!

Sommer des Wissens

The Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut is participating in Sommer des Wissens [Summer of Knowledge] with five events from 20 to 23 June 2019. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Universität Hamburg, Hamburg's universities and research institutions are transf...

Blog Article

The EU’s Struggle To Protect Copyright and Freedom of Speech

Our PhD student Amélie Heldt is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She wrote a guest article on EU copyright reform for the blog of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). "On March 26, 2019, the European Union (EU) Parliament voted...

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