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Sommer des Wissens 2019

The Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut is participating in the Sommer des Wissens [Summer of Knowledge] with five events from 20 to 23 June 2019. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Universität Hamburg, Hamburg's universities and research institutions are transforming...

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Symposium: Media, Profession and Society

Prof. Dr. Wiebe Loosen attends the Symposium on Media, Professions and Society in Volda, Norway. On 19 June 2019, she will give a presentation on Molo.news: Experimenting with a Platform for Local Jounalism, in which she will present the cooperation project molo.news.

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Long Night of the Sciences

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) opens its doors to the Long Night of Science. Interested parties can learn about interdisciplinary research on data protection, AI, platforms and digital knowledge for a night.   How can we understand and shape the digital society?...

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AI Traps: Automating Discrimination

The Disruption Network Lab invites you to its 16th conference together with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). This time the topic will be: To What Extent Do Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms Promote Prejudice and Discrimination?   The event is curated by...

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Online-Werbung aus Kindersicht

As part of the lecture series "Digital Literacy 2019" at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), Dr. Claudia Lampert will give the lecture "Online Werbung – Wie sie uns und unsere Kinder beeinflusst [Online Advertising - How It Influences Us and Our Children]."   In...

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Medienwissenschaftliches Kolloquium des Nordverbundes

Hans-Ulrich Wagner will give the following lecture at the 19th Media Science Colloquium of the Nordverbund: "Der Schriftsteller als Medienarbeiter: Siegfried Lenz (1926-2014) [How the Author Uses the Media]."   The event will take place at the Institute for Media and Communication at Überseering...

Invitation to the 10th Hamburg Media Symposium

Die Grenzen des Sagbaren: Wer bestimmt die Regeln des öffentlichen Diskurses im Netz?

What rules structure our online world? How it is decided what is allowed online? And how do social actors behave? These questions will be discussed at the 10th Hamburg Media Symposium of MA HSH, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research on 6 June 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in the...

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José van Dijck: Europe and Responsible Platform Societies

The growing pains of digitisation involve intense struggles between competing ideological systems and contesting societal actors – market, government and civil society — raising important questions about responsibility and accountability. Two large ecosystems rule the global online world:...

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Menschenrechte und Digitalisierung

The United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN) would like to examine the effects of digitisation on human rights within the framework of the annual theme "UN and Digital Transformations". The realisation of human rights within the digital world is to be discussed in the form of a lunchtime...

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Digitale Meinungsbildung

Things have changed. In the past, traditional media such as Der Spiegel and Tagesschau played a central role in shaping public opinion. Today, however, we are additionally presented with selected news on Facebook via algorithms, read the tweets of the US president or watch YouTube news videos that were...

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Digitalisierung und Datafizierung in der Gesundheitsförderung

In the lecture series "Gesundheit verstehen – Digital Humanities im Dialog [Understanding Health - Digital Humanities in Dialogue]" of Universität Hamburg in summer semester 2019, Dr. Claudia Lampert will talk about digitisation and datafication in health promotion.   The lecture...

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Das Ende der Kreidezeit

Thanks to digital tools and new school concepts, learning is becoming more and more individual. How does this change the roles of teachers and learners? The host Katja Weber discusses with exciting guests the influence of digitisation on teaching and learning. The guests will be announced shortly. The...

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69th Annual Conference of the ICA

The International Communication Association (ICA) invites participants to its annual conference in Washington, D.C., from 24 to 28 May 2019. Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut will also be there to present their work in various panels.   The Contributions...

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1st JF:TEC Workshop

The first workshop of the Junges Forum: Technikwissenschaften JF:TEC took place on 23 May 2019 at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut. The programme included the discussion of disciplinary perspectives on the topic of decisions, the presentation of current projects, publications...

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Pint of Science

Media law expert Dr. Matthias Kettemann speaks in a relaxed atmosphere at the Pint of Science in the Malto brewpub in Hamburg about freedom of information and opinion on the Internet. Who determines what we read online? Social media platforms, governments, courts or users? The regulation of online discourses...

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Entangled Media Histories Forum

The members of the research network Entangled Media Histories come together in Wales for the 8th EMHIS Forum and dedicate three days to the topic "Challenges".   In this context, Hans-Ulrich Wagner presents a study on writers and their connection to radio and talks about a platform for...

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8th Annual Conference of the Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC)

At the Annual Conference of the Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) on 11 May 2019, our PhD student Amélie Pia Heldt will give the lecture "Merging Free Speech and Content Moderation: a Public Social Forum?"   The conference is...

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Verantwortung in digitalen Kulturen – Privatheit im Geflecht von Medien, Recht und Gesellschaft

Conference of the DFG Research Training Group 1681/2 "Privacy and Digitisation" with contributions by Dr. Stephan Dreyer and Florian Wittner. Participation is free of charge, please register here until 06 May 2019. Current debates such as the EU-GDPR or the social responsibility of large Internet...

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64. Jahrestagung der DGPuK

The annual conference of the German Communication Association will take place in Münster this time. The conference will focus on the current topic "Integration durch Kommunikation in digitalisierten Öffentlichkeiten [Integration through Communication in Digitalised Public Spheres]."...

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Matthias Kettemann at the re:publica19

The re:publica Berlin is the largest Internet conference in Europe and will take place for the thirteenth time this year. This time, it focuses on the long form, the small print, the footnotes, the power of research, the power of controversy and the urgency NOT to simplify the issues that divide (or...

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Digitaler Salon – E-dentifiziert?

Hardly anyone in Europe can imagine a life without democracy, and yet it stands on shaky legs. #FridaysForFuture, Save the Internet and the Yellow Vests: many citizens carry their dissatisfaction with political decisions on the one hand and demands for more say on the other into the Net and onto the...

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Using Algorithms and AI in Public Administration

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz is part of the opening round of the discussion series "Data Ethics" of the Representation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to the Federal Government. Together with other guests from science and practice, he will discuss the use of algorithms and Al in public...

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Dirk Baecker: Digitalisation and the Next Society

A new era in human society is beginning with digital media. While language, writing and book printing had been the hallmarks of this era, machines are now taking part in communication for the first time. Will society in the future be decisively determined by networks and artificial intelligences? At...

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Public Service Media for Algorithmed Public Spheres – Mission, Organisation, Platforms

Intensive Workshop at the institute, bringing together HBI researchers, APS fellows, and other guests, to discuss current and possible future research & transfer activities around the Future of Public Service Media Format: 2x .5 days; no typical conference format (i.e. no 30 minute presentation...

You Have One Hour: Are 60 Minutes Enough to Protect Human Rights Online When Fighting Illegal Content?

60 minutes discussion about how to protect human rights online by private actors, aided by AI and under tight time constraints, with human rights experts Martin Scheinin and Matthias C. Kettemann, 15.00-16.00, joint event with the HIIG. Is one hour enough to protect human rights online? The EU seems...

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Arbiters of Speech

A Workshop at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University with a contribution by Amélie Pia Heldt, currently Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School. Social media platforms have become the de facto arbiters of freedom of speech online. As corporate...

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(Im)Perfect Enforcement Conference

“(Im)Perfect Enforcement”: an Information Society Project conference with a contribution by Amélie Pia Heldt at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut on April 6-7, 2019. Recent technological advancements enable an unprecedented level of algorithmic decision-making processes and...

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Workshop & Discussion: Thinking about Robots

When you think about robots, killing machines like the legendary Terminator or lovable companions like the service robot Pepper often come to mind. These notions of seemingly intelligent and autonomous machines influence many of the expectations that exist around this technology, but do not necessarily...

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fern. sehen. Zukunftsvisionen

The Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen (FSF) (Voluntary Television Self-Regulation Body) takes its 25th anniversary as an opportunity to discuss with experts from media policy, media economics and media science how television will develop or reinvent itself in the light of digitalisation and the emergence...

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Die normative Ordnung des Internets

The Internet is not a space free of law: But what can constitutional law, European law, international law and non-governmental, transnational and hybrid regulatory arrangements achieve in the face of political polarisation between Internet freedom and cyber security? Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann talks about...

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Profit from User Data

What would it be like to operate – and own – our own platforms according to the cooperative model? In the Digital Salon of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), host Katja Weber discusses the business of Uber, Insta & Co. with exciting guests. The guests...

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How Do Intermediaries Shape Information Management and Opinion Formation Online?

Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt speaks at the Department of Communication and Media Science at the University of Zurich about how online intermediaries such as Google, YouTube or Facebook influence information management and the opinion-forming process.   Online intermediaries want to be seen as "platforms"...

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Leibniz-Konvent: Künstliche Intelligenz

At the Leibniz Convention for Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Cornelius Puschman presents a research area of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans- Bredow-Institut dealing with AI: The influence of algorithms in public opinion formation.   At the annual Leibniz Convention the members of the...

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Open Science Conference 2019

The Open Science Conference 2019 is the 6th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. It is dedicated to the Open Science movement and provides a unique forum for researchers, librarians, practitioners, infrastructure provider, policy makers, and other important stakeholders...

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DACH-Meteorologentagung

At the symposium of the meteorological societies of the DACH region, which takes place on 18 March 2019, Dr. Sascha Hölig will give the lecture "Extreme Weather Events in the Media. Between Science Communication and Journalistic Sensation.” The conference offers a broad spectrum of topics...

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Kölner Kongress 2019: Erzählen. Sound. Öffentlichkeit

For the third time, Deutschlandfunk invites you to the Kölner Kongress. This year's theme focuses on the interaction between the media and the public. On 16 March, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner will give a lecture on radio cultures in times of media change.   The lecture examines the consequences...

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Datafied, Data-Driven, Data-Critical: Data Journalism Within Broader Processes of Datafication

How can data journalism be understood and studied in the context of broader processes of datafication in society? Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen will give the answers with her talk "Datafied, Data-Driven, Data-Critical: Data Journalism Within Broader Processes of Datafication" at the Department for...

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Verdeckte externe Einflussnahme über soziale Medien

The Development and Peace Foundation is dedicating an evening to the topic "Verdeckte externe Einflussnahme über soziale Medien: Ein Thema für die Vereinten Nationen [Hidden External Influence via Social Media: A Topic for the United Nations]" at the German Parliamentary Society....

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Mittagsgespräch #Road2IGF - Globale Internetpolitik 2019: Themen, Foren, Akteure

At the end of 2019, 3000 participants will gather in Berlin for the XIV UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to discuss the framework conditions of global Internet policy. At a preparatory lunch talk of the United Nations Association of Germany (DGNV), some relevant questions will be discussed in advance....

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Reconceptualising Early Childhood Literacies

How digital technologies can influence early childhood development is the topic of the international conference in Manchester. For two days, researchers will present creative approaches to the educational and developmental psychological challenges of our time in the form of lectures and discussions....

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The Normative Order of the Internet: Norms, Actors and Normative Figurations

Matthias C. Kettemann will discuss and defend his concept of a coherent normative order of the Internet at an open Brown-Bag Lunch at the Alexander Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), that includes international law, national law, and transnational normative arrangements. He will show...

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Eva Illouz: Capitalist Subjectivity and the Internet

In her lecture, Eva Illouz takes a closer look at the dating app Tinder. In regards to how people interact with the app, she will address the notion of scopic capitalism, a form of exploitation of the (woman’s) body that is based on the gaze. The circulation of images on Tinder resonates with the...

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MTM Extra

Dr. Matthias Kettemann is part of the panel "Meinungsmächtige Intermediäre [Opinion Power Intermediaries]" at MTM Extra. He is contributing a lecture that focuses on the following questions: Are intermediaries such as Facebook, Twitter or Snapchat a danger to the diversity of opinions?...

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Symposium: Paediatric Research Leipzig

This year's symposium Paediatric Research Leipzig is focusing on the topic of "Neue Medien und Kindergesundheit [New Media and Children's Health]." The central question here is whether and to what extent the use of new media influences children's health. Dr. Claudia Lampert will...

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Jugendschutz – Praxis und Zukunft

The members’ meeting of the Entertainment Software Self-Regulation (USK) will focus for a whole day on the protection of minors from the entrepreneur's perspective. Topics include: e-sports, the identification of unconstitutional organisations, technical media protection for young people, the...

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The Business with eSport

Forget about LAN parties – eSport is filling entire arenas. What began as a hobby is now a profession. Are gamers on their way to the Olympics soon? At the 'Digitaler Salon' of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), host Katja Weber will discuss the eSport...

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Panel Discussion "Reden wir über die Meinungsfreiheit"

In the event series #Ortsgespräch, which is organised by the district association GRÜNE Eimsbüttel on 26 February 2019, the Network Enforcement Act will be discussed. Hamburg's Minister of Justice, Dr. Till Steffen, will lead through the evening and discuss the changes that the NetzDG...

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Was bedeutet der "Fall Relotius" für freie Journalisten?

Journalists from SPIEGEL and ZEIT discuss the consequences of the Relotius case for freelance colleagues in an informal talk. Wiebke Loosen will moderate this discussion. The evening will be organised by Freischreiber, the professional association for freelance journalists.   The organisers ask...

Live onDeutschlandfunk (7:15 p.m.)

Medienquartett: Welche Art von JournalistInnen brauchen wir?

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen is a guest in the upcoming Medienquartett of Deutschlandfunk. Together with the other guests, she will discuss the current demands on journalists in the course of digitisation. The live broadcast will begin at 7:15 pm.   Journalists today are no longer the sole guardians...

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​re:claim public discourse!

Europe votes in May 2019. The campaign organisation of the right-wing populists is running at full speed. How should journalists deal with this? The Rudolf Augstein Foundation invites journalists and academics to a symposium to discuss what journalists and representatives of liberal democracy can do...

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Clicks, Likes und Waffen: Die deutsche „Like Economy"

Patrick Vonderau is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. During a visit to the Leibniz Institute for Media Research, he will give a lecture on his current research project: "Clicks, Likes and Guns: The German 'Like Economy'"   Reports...

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ECREA Journalism Studies Conference

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen and Julius Reimer are guests at the conference "Breaking Binaries: Exploring the Diverse Meanings of Journalism in Contemporary Societies" of the ECREA Journalism Studies Section. On 14 February 2019, they will give the lecture "X Journalism: Exploring Journalism's...

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StoryDay#19

Der SPIEGEL and Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) invite you to ‘StoryDay#19‘, a conference on the topic of “digital storytelling.” Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen from the Leibniz Institute for Media Research will also be part of this event. Multimedia and data journalists...

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​Utopie Safer Internet

The international Safer Internet Day 2019 will take place on 5 February. Under the motto “Together for a better Internet”, the initiative of the European Commission is calling for events and actions on the topic of ‘Internet Safety’ around the world. On the evening of the Safer...

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Digitaler Familienalltag: Mediennutzung und frühe Kindheit

Dr. Claudia Lampert gives the lecture "Kinder brauchen medienkompetente Vorbilder – Herausforderungen für den Medienumgang in der Familie [Children Need Role Models in Media Literacy – Challenges for Using Media in the Family]" at the symposium "Auf dem Spielplatz...

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Wandel und Stabilität von Mediennutzungsmustern

In the keynote panel "Wandel und Stabilität der Mediennutzungsforschung unter digitalisierten Bedingungen [Change and Stability of Research on Media Use under Digitised Conditions]" on 1 February, Dr. Sascha Hölig discusses with an applied media researcher how reception research can...

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Artificial Intelligence and Art

Numbers that paint. AI can do art. Are programmers the new artists? Who can be called creative in this process: man or machine? Computers calculate faster than humans and they beat us in chess. They could - according to the promise of artificial intelligence - also conquer the supposedly last human...

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CPDP Conference 2019

CPDP (Computers, Privacy & Data Protection) it is a leading multidisciplinary conference on data protection. Our researcher Florian Wittner will present the paper “Modeling and Verification in GDPR’s Data Protection Impact Assessment” together with Kai Bavendiek from the Technical...

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The Audience Turn in Journalism

The international conference “The Audience Turn in Journalism” focuses on audience research. Specifically, it addresses the question of how the digitalisation of journalism has changed and continues to shape news user practices and experiences. For this purpose, the hosts (the University...

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Animation, Politics & Digital Media

An international workshop at the Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies (ZeM) focuses on the topic of animation and politics. Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt will give the lecture "The Communicative Architecture of Social Media. Basic Principles and Their Consequences for the Circulation of Political Information“...

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Forschungsdatenmanagement und die Herausforderungen des Datenschutzes

Dr. Cornelius Puschmann (HBI) and Annette Strauch (University Library Hildesheim) discuss data protection challenges in research data management within the event series „Digitale Lebenswelten: Politik – Medien – Kommunikation [Digital Living Environments: Politics – Media –...

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Die Digitalisierung verändert alles – auch unsere ästhetische Praxis?

Digitisation is making its way into institutions such as museums and theatres. At the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, Matthias C. Kettemann, Verena Kuni (Goethe University Frankfurt on the Main), Kay Voges (Schauspiel Dortmund) and Grit Weber (Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt)...

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Cross-Disciplinary Methodologies: When Communication and History Come Together

"Transnationally entangled Media History" is the title of the lecture by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner at the workshop "Cross-Disciplinary Methodologies: When Communication and History Come Together" in Lissboa. Programme

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Hawai’i International Conference on System Science

Florian Wittner, doctoral candidate at the Hans-Bredow-Institut, and his collegue Christian Kurtz from Universität Hamburg present the paper “The Unlikely Siblings in the GDPR Family: A Techno-Legal Analysis of Major Platforms in the Diffusion of Personal Data in Service Ecosystems”...

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Regelungsstrukturen und Regelbildung in digitalen Kommunikationsräumen

Together with the research focus “Internet and Society” within the cluster of excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” at the Goethe University in Frankfurt on the Main, the Hans-Bredow-Institut organises a special format of the ‘Frankfurter Kolloquium für Internetforschung...

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Digitalisation and Society of Singularities

The Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) invite you to a lecture by Andreas Reckwitz at the Jazz Institute Berlin. The lecture addresses the question of to what extent digitisation creates social singularisation. It is part of the lecture...

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"Du willst es! Du kriegst es!"

“Aufwachsen in kommerzialisierten Lebenswelten [Growing Up in Commercialised Living Environments]“ is the focus of Dr. Claudia Lampert’s lecture at the annual conference "Du willst es! Du kriegst es! [You Want It! You Get It!]" of the Landesstelle Jugendschutz Niedersachsen...

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Wenn Algorithmen Meinungen bilden

Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt gives the lecture "Wenn Algorithmen Meinungen bilden [When Algorithms Form Opinions]“ within the lecture series "Digitalisierung der Demokratie - Politische Kommunikation im digitalen Zeitalter [Digitisation of Democracy – Political Communication in the Digital...

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The Temptation of Social Media

At the symposium “Bildung im Ausland [Education Abroad]”, which is organised by the Deutsche Fachverband ‘High School’, Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt gives a lecture on the topic of "Was ist der Reiz der sozialen Medien? Wie das Internet Selbstdarstellung, Beziehungspflege und Informationsverhalten...

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Kinder Rechte Medien

In his lecture “Schmutz, Schutz und Teilhabe [Rubbish, Protection and Participation]”, Dr. Stephan Dreyer gives a jurisprudential assessment of well-understood interests and the right to participation of children. The 14th interdisciplinary conference on growing up in mediatised living environments,...

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YouTube, Snapchat & Co

Dr. Stephan Dreyer talks about the relation of digital media and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in his keynote "Artikel 17 der UN-Kinderrechtskonvention und die digitalen Medien – Über das Spannungsfeld von Teilhabe und Schutz aus der Kinderrechte-Perspektive [Article 17 of...

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Datenschutz und Medienbildung – (k)eine Utopie?

"Medienpädagogischer Küchentalk" organised by FSM and GMK with Dr. Stephen Dreyer and other guests in the Museum for Communication in Berlin, beginning at 6:30 p.m.   We want to bring media education, politics and society in a relaxed atmosphere into the discussion and debate...

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Alles nur gefakt?

Just as quickly as the Internet provides us with important information, so quickly wrong information is shot into the digital orbit. Fake news and fake images and voices falsified with the help of algorithms, so called deepfakes, have been on everyone's lips for a long time and, last but not least,...

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Nick Couldry: Colonised by Data

The HIIG and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb present an academic lecture series on Making Sense of the Digital Society, this time with Nick Couldry talking about Colonised by data – the hollowing out of digital society.

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Journalistentag DJV-NRW 2018

On 17 November, 600 colleagues will discuss the trends in the industry at the Journalists’ Day of the DJV under the title “Kollege Algorithmus, Claudia Roth und die Zukunft des Radiomarktes in NRW [Colleague Algorithm, Claudia Roth and the Future of the Radio Market in North Rhine-Westphalia].”...

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Discussion: The Future of Social Media

Lisa Merten from the Hans-Bredow-Institut and Andreas Hedrich from Universität Hamburg will discuss the future of social media within the event series „Science-Fiction Kino [Science Fiction Cinema]” at the main auditorium of the Hamburg University of Technology. The panel discussion...

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Medienkompetenztag MA HSH

Dr. Claudia Lampert represents the Hans-Bredow-Institut at the Medienkompetenztag [Media Literacy Day] of the Media Authority Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (MA HSH) in Kiel-Gaarden with the topic "Creator, Influencer & Co. – Wer beeinflusst die Kinder [Who Influences the Children]"   You...

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KJM im Dialog – Jugendschutz ex Machina: Neue Möglichkeiten im technischen Jugendmedienschutz

Dr. Stephan Dreyer will talk about "Mythos Jugendschutzmaschinen: Reichweite, Grenzen und Fragen automatisierter Inhaltsbewertungen durch Software [Myth of Machines for the Protection of Minors: Scope, Boundaries and Questions of Automated Content Assessments Using Software" at the event "KJM...

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Jugendmedienschutzindex: Vorstellung der Ergebnisse der Befragung von Lehr- und pädagogischen Fachkräften

How protection against online risks is implemented and promoted in schools and in out-of-school youth work and education will be the subject of the second presentation showing the results of our cooperation project with fsm and jff.

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Blockchain for Science Conference 2018

The future of research will be decentralised! As one of the official event partners, we cordially invite you to the 1st international Conference on Blockchain for Science, Research and Knowledge Creation, taking place during the Berlin Science Week. Early bird tickets are available until 1 October 2018:...

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7th European Communication Conference in Lugano

The 7th European Communication Conference (ECC) of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) will take place from 31 October 2018 to 3 November 2018 in Lugano in Switzerland. Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen and Julius Reimer from the Hans-Bredow-Institut will also be at this international...

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Digitaler Salon – LANgelegt

LANgelegt [Incapacitated]: The Internet is gone and nothing works anymore: How protected are our data networks from blackout? And are we prepared for an emergency?  

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Empfehlungen für faires Verbraucher-Scoring

After handing over its expert opinion on fair consumer scoring to Federal Minister for Consumer Protection Dr. Katarina Barley, the Council of Experts for Consumer Issues is holding a roundtable with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz on the subject of "Läuft das Recht der Technik hinterher? Algorithmen...

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Was ist uns der Beitrag des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks zur freien Meinungsbildung und zur Meinungsvielfalt wert?

As part of the series "Medienpolitischer Dialog [Media Political Dialogue]", the SPD parliamentary group invites to a discussion forum, which will be attended by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz (Director of the Hans-Baredow-Institut), Dr. Susanne Pfab (Secretary General of the ARD), Heike Raab (State...

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Growing Up in Digital Societies – Supporting and Protecting Children Online

This lecture by Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink combines two discursive contexts: On the one hand, it takes up the topic of the lecture series on “Communicative Challenges in Digital Societies” organised by the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich. On the other hand, it is part...

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Algorithmen und künstliche Intelligenz in der Verwaltung

Joint event of the Forum Future of Administrative Jurisdiction, the Hans-Bredow-Institut, the Department of Computer Science of Universität Hamburg, of Rechtsstandort Hamburg e.V. and the Senate Chancellery Hamburg at 10 a.m. in the City Hall of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

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Internet-Plattformen und Algorithmen

Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt is a participant in the interdisciplinary conference on the topic of Internet platforms, their social influence, the associated risks and the resulting legal and regulatory issues.

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#ganzohr2018 - Podcast-Konferenz

The annual meeting of the science podcasters takes place for the 6th time now. This year it will be held from 28 to 30 September in cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. At this event, the significance and the potential of podcasts in science communication will be discussed. BredowCast...

Symposium at the #INFORMATIK2018

Information Governance algorithmischer Entscheidungssysteme

The symposium brings together expertise from computer science, law and ethics in order to find new solutions for questions of responsibility and transparency of gathering and using information in digital systems.

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Digitaler Salon Spezial – Gewissensbytes

Für Ethik gibt es noch keinen Algorithmus. Wie viel Macht haben InformatikerInnen und wie können die ethischen Leitlinien mit der informatischen Praxis in Einklang gebracht werden? Im Rahmen der INFORMATIK 2018 diskutiert die Moderatorin Katja Weber mit spannenden Gästen über...

International Conference

Journalism across Borders

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen will chair the roundtable on 27 September at the journalism conference "Journalism across Borders". The conference will take place at the TU Ilmenau from 26 to 29 September 2018. At the conference, international experts will discuss the question "How does the era...

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The Politics of Urban Digital Infrastructures

Already more than half of the world’s population lives in cities – and this number is growing. Modern cities depend largely on invisible infrastructures that usually only become noticeable when they cease functioning. Similarly, the internet is also a material infrastructure, although it...