The academic profile of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) is shaped by it’s research programs: program-related research is based on basic research question that usually cover a period of several years and that are processed by successive in-house and third-party-funded research.
The Institute’s task of researching the development of public communication in the media society is the basis for its four current research programs, which run across the disciplinary pillars:
- Research program 1 “Transformation of Public Communication: Journalistic and Intermediary Functions in the Process of Opinion Formation”
- Research program 2 “Regulatory Structures and the Emergence of Rules in Online Spaces“
- Research program 3 “Knowledge for the Media Society“
- Media Research Methods Lab
The Institute productively combines the processing of long-term basic scientific questions with practice-oriented expertise for politics, business and civil society. The work is always committed to the standards of scientific excellence and the principle of research independence.
