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Funding for the HBI Continues
The joint funding of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) by the federal government and the Länder is to be continued. This was recommended to the federal government and the Länder by the Senate of the Leibniz Association on 26 November 2020.
Broadcasting Pieces by Siegfried Lenz
Hans-Ulrich Wagner spent five years researching in archives and now presents in three volumes everything the famous author Siegfried Lenz wrote for radio, mostly for NDR, between the 1950s and 1970s.
HBI Receives Extensive Funding from Federal And State Governments
The HBI will receive additional funding of 10.3 million euros for the funding period 2026 to 2029. In addition, the institute's basic budget will be permanently increased by 3.3 million euros from 2030. This was decided by the Joint Science Conference (GWK) in Cologne on November 22.
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.