Cornelius Puschmann

Professor at the University of Bremen

Cornelius Puschmann is Professor at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen with a focus on “Digital Communication” and Associate Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI). From October 2016 to September 2019, he was a senior researcher at the institute and coordinated the postdoctoral research network Algorithmed Public Spheres (APS). Until October 2016 he worked as project manager at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin. There, he was involved in the “Networks of Outrage” project, which the Volkswagen Foundation supported as part of the “Science and Data Journalism” program. His areas of interest include hate speech, the role of algorithms in the selection of media content, and methodological aspects of computational social science.

Cornelius Puschmann completed his PhD at the University in Düsseldorf in 2009 with a corpus-based study on US-American corporate blogs and was subsequently a member of the junior research group “Science and Internet” (2010-2012). From 2012, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Information and Library Science (IBI) at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he was responsible for the DFG project “Vernetzung, Sichtbarkeit, Information? Nutzungsmotive informeller digitaler Kommunikationsgenres unter Wissenschaftlern [Networking, Visibility, Information? Motives for Using Informal Digital Communication Genres among Scientists].” From January to July 2013, Cornelius Puschmann was a visiting scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University and, from September 2013 to August 2014, a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Media Studies at Amsterdam University. At the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, he represented the Chair of Digital Communication in 2015/2016. From fall 2015 to fall 2016, he was Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Cornelius Puschmann is co-editor of the 2014 volume “Twitter and Society” (Peter Lang) and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.

His personal website is available at cbpuschmann.net.

Veröffentlicht am: 05.07.2024

Works by Cornelius Puschmann

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Publikation Available Open Access

Law of Digitalization

Can the right legal framework meet the central challenges of digitization? This volume, edited by Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann, explores important new areas of law, the regulation of AI, the role of digital services, and the characteristics of effective technology policy and sensible innovation law.

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Publikation Article on Verfassungsblog

DSA Enforcement by the EU Commission

The problematic role of the European Commission in enforcing the Digital Services Act (DSA) and possible alternatives are the focus of a blog post published by Jan-Ole Harfst, Dr. Tobias Mast, and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz on 16 July 2025 on the Verfassungblog.

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Publikation Recently Published

Community Data Trust for Sensitive Data

Jan Rau, Moritz Fürneisen, and Gregor Wiedemann co-developed the concept of community data stewardship to facilitate the collaborative creation and utilization of sensitive data in communication science. By using the example of research into right-wing extremist online communication, they demonstrate how community data stewardship can be structured.

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Publikation Recently Published

On the Public Value of Public Service Media

"What Can Audience Research findings tell us about the public value of public service media?" This question explored by Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, who published their insights in the issue 2/2024 of the journal UFITA.

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Publikation Brochure Available for Download

Facets of 75 Years Hans-Bredow-Institut

With this brochure. we take a look at the institute's development since 1950. While we do not claim to provide a complete history, we aim to highlight some of the institute's unique characteristics, showcasing moments in the past when these features were particularly evident.

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Beitrag HBI 75: Founding History

How the Institute Got Its Name

On May 30, 1950, the Hans Bredow Institute was founded by the former Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation (the predecessor of NDR and WDR) and the University of Hamburg. This blog post describes the history of its founding and explains how the institute got its name.

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Publikation Recently Published

M&K 2/2025 Special Issue “Media Structures Revisited”

Issue 2/2025 of Media & Communication Science has been published as a special issue entitled “Media Structures Revisited,” edited by Josef Seethaler, Marlis Prinzing, Petra Herczeg, and Mark Eisenegger. The entire issue is available open access via the Nomos eLibrary.

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Publikation Research Project on Misinformation and Disinformation

Destructive Discourses

The final research report, jointly written as part of the NOTORIOUS research project, looks at how climate-related misinformation and disinformation spreads across different platforms. At the HBI, Philipp Keßling, Dr. Felix Victor Münch, Dr. Gregor Wiedemann, and Mattes Ruckdeschel worked on the report.

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Publikation The most comprehensive HBI publication ever!

DSA DMA Commentary

It is the most extensive publication the HBI has ever produced: the 1600-page commentary on the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), edited by Tobias Mast, Matthias C. Kettemann, Stephan Dreyer and Wolfgang Schulz. In addition to several current and former researchers from the institute, almost 30 other experts from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were recruited for the commentary project.

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Publikation Brief Expert Opinion

State Treaty on the Reform of the Procedure for Setting the Broadcasting License Fee

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Dr. Tobias Mast have provided their expert opinion on the State Treaty on the Reform of the Procedure for Setting the Broadcasting Fee (RFinÄStV). At the end of 2004, the federal states had decided to separate the pillars of the reform of public broadcasting and to adopt the draft reform first and to continue the process of reforming the procedure for setting the licence fee separately.

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The Protection of Freedom of Expression in the Digital Services Act

The publication "Der Schutz der Meinungsäusserungsfreiheit im Digital Services Act" [The Protection of Freedom of Expression in the Digital Services Act], to which Matthias C. Kettemann contributed significantly, is the first in a series of KommAustria publications on the DSA, which are intended to provide a basis for understanding the DSA and contribute to a more differentiated discussion.

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Publikation Project Findings Available for Download

Between Curiosity and Skepticism: Use and Perception of Generative AI for Information Search in Germany

The research project "Generative Artificial Intelligence for Information Navigation", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), investigated to what extent, for what purposes and for what reasons the German population uses generative artificial intelligence in applications such as ChatGPT or Google Gemini. The findings can be downloaded as a working paper.

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