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Matthias C. Kettemann
Meldung Appointed to Task Force “Internet Governance”

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.

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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.

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Projekt Pilot Project Computational Social Science

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.

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Projekt BMBF Project

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.

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Projekt Funded by Stiftung Mercator

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.

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Projekt 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?

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Projekt International Cooperation Project

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.

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Projekt Expert Opinion for the KJM

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.

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Meldung Call for Papers

M&K Special Issue “Datafication of Communication”

For a special issue on "The Datafication of Communication – New Methodological Approaches and Challenges" in our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" (Media & Communication Studies), we invite submissions in German and English. Guest editors are Julia Niemann-Lenz, Tim Schatto-Eckrodt, Emese Domahidi and Merja Mahrt.

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Veranstaltung

Workshop on Digitalization

14. October 2024

PhD students and postdocs are invited to present their work at the joint research and network meeting on digitalization called DigiMeet.

Verantstaltungsort Bochum
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