Rose-Sky Davis has been working as an office manager at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research since March 2026.
Before, she completed her training as a medical assistant.
Last update: 24.09.2026
Rose-Sky Davis has been working as an office manager at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research since March 2026.
Before, she completed her training as a medical assistant.
Last update: 24.09.2026
In the latest issue of KJug, Claudia Lampert presents the EU Kids Online research consortium's findings on how children and adolescents view a potential social media ban. Kira Thiel shares insights from her dissertation, which examines how adolescents cope with problematic online experiences and the strategies they use to manage them.
In his nonfiction book, Stephan Dreyer analyzes the complex field of youth media protection. Through his examination of legal regulations, actual usage, and technological developments, he offers valuable insights for individuals involved in this topic in the realms of practice, administration, politics, and academia.
The interdisciplinary DFG project, “SETA: Protecting the Epistemic Trust of Adolescents: Conceptual Approaches and Policy Options,” conducted in collaboration with the Weizenbaum Institute, examines the state’s obligation to protect the epistemic trust of 13- to 17-year-olds without infringing on freedom of expression and information.
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report, which provides an international comparison of news consumption, is being published for the tenth consecutive year.
The latest issue of the Leibniz Association’s magazine, which is part of the Science Year 2026, focuses on the topic of “Medicine.” Claudia Lampert, head of the Health Communication research group at the HBI, is interviewed about health influencers.
In a current project by Leonie Alatassi, students explore what political participation means to them, how it can be encouraged, and what barriers stand in the way. The first workshops show that many young people are eager to get involved. However, they need not only information, but also concrete support and opportunities to try things out and gain experience.
Public debates about AI often oscillate between technological utopianism and dystopian visions of the future. How can journalists report on a topic that is both ubiquitous and difficult to grasp in a nuanced and balanced way? A Research Clinic at the HBI explored the challenges of reporting on AI and discussed possible ways to address them.
In her Friedrich Ebert Foundation publication project, Magdalena Stratmann describes how public service broadcasting in Germany addresses the challenge of fulfilling its legal mandate amid drastically changed conditions in the digital information ecosystem.
The study by Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen et al. examines how large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can reflect journalistic value systems. To this end, the GPT-4o model was asked to answer questions from the “Worlds of Journalism Study,” which explores perceptions of journalistic roles, theories of knowledge, and ethical principles.
In January 2029, the Regional Public Broadcasting Corporation of the Federal State of Hesse (Hessischer Rundfunk) will celebrate its 80th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner is conducting scholarly research on its origins. His research focuses specifically on corporate history, personnel decisions, and programming policy in the postwar period.
Stephan Dreyer, Claudia Lampert, and Kira Thiel published an English summary of their study on babies and toddlers in family-influencing content. They present their findings on how babies and toddlers (ages 0–5) are depicted in German-language, commercially oriented social media profiles on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
In their article in a journal on artificial intelligence and law, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Moritz Wiechert analyze the first German case law on automatically generated content. In doing so, they highlight the fundamental challenges facing traditional freedom of expression law in the age of AI.
