You can find a selection of the events we have organized and in which we participated recently here.
Last update: 17.07.2024
Events archive
Informational Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy
27. March 2025Prof. Dr. Matthias Kettemann has been invited by the Association for Media Education and Communication Culture (GMK) to speak about the role of mis- and disinformation in the age of artificial intelligence. He will present current research findings and derive regulatory, civil society and educational measures to strengthen information integrity and democratic resilience.
Did Algorithms and Fake News Decide the Election?
25. March 2025In a public lecture as part of Hamburg's Week of Science Communication, Prof. Dr. Judith Möller will discuss the extent to which algorithms and fake news in social media influence political voting behavior.
Access Permitted Only with Proof of Age?
25. March 2025Dr. Stephan Dreyer will speak about the current legal framework for age verification and age verification in digital spaces at the medien impuls symposium. He will then take part in a final discussion with other experts on the question “Which risks are minimized by age checks – and which remain or arise?”
Annual Conference of the DGPuK 2025
21. March 2025The 70th annual conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) will be held between March 19 and 21, 2025 and is organized by the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. The conference topic is Public Spheres and Their Values. Several HBI researchers will be at the venue with their own presentations or participating in panels.
Forming Opinions in Digital Spaces
28. February 2025Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt will give the opening presentation for the event series "Net Shapes Politics". He will discuss how digital media is changing our public debates and social cohesion.
Envisioning the Future in the Digital Age
26. February 2025The next event of the series “Digitaler Salon” hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) will focus on how we think about the future and the role of digitalisation in it. How much room for manoeuvre do we have, and how can we think about the future in such a way that it is not just a threat or an ideal, but something that we can consciously influence?
Do We Overestimate Disinformation?
19. February 2025In this Lunchtalk, Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann talks about platform regulation, the normative order of the internet and the current challenges and ways to an informed public. How does disinformation affect our democracy - and is all the talk about it perhaps the bigger problem?
Defending Democracy Online
13. February 2025Jan Rau will give a keynote speech on “Digital Turbulence: Challenges for a Democratic Society in Times of Digital Upheaval” at the symposium of the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry for Family Affairs, Women, Culture and Integration, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Between the Promise of Participation and the Power of Algorithms
12. February 2025At an event organized by the Regional Youth Council of Hamburg, Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt explains how social media shape our opinion-forming, our participation and social cohesion.
What Can AI Do, and What Cannot It Do?
11. February 2025How do discriminatory structures persist in the digital world? Katharina Mosene will be discussing this at the conference “What Can AI Do, and What Cannot It Do?” at the Junge Akademie Loccum.
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Smartphones in Research
4. February 2025The next Leibniz Media Lunch Talk will be hosted by the Hamburg office of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) and will be led by Dr. Mareike Wieland. She will present paradigms of mobile research and use case studies to show how the GESIS AppKit can be used to implement mobile research designs independently.
Siegfried Lenz and the Radio
2. February 2025As part of the “Lenz on Stage” series of events, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner will speak at the matinee “Literature on the Microphone – Siegfried Lenz and the Radio” at the Hamburg Kammerspiele.
How Much Internet Can Our Democracy Tolerate?
29. January 2025The next event in the “Digitaler Salon” series hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) will start at 7 p.m. and will focus on the change in the climate of our discussions, what social media might have to do with it, and how we can protect ourselves from tipping the point of democratic opinion-forming.
What Is Missing without Public Broadcasting?
23. January 2025What would the abolition of public broadcasting mean for the media system and for society? Anna von Garmissen will discuss this topic at the opening event of the “Media for People” series at the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing.
Community Notes instead of Fact Checking
16. January 2025The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) invites you to the launch of the new online format “Spotlight”. In the first edition, Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann and Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann take a look at Mark Zuckerberg's decision to end all meta-platforms' collaboration with external fact-checkers in the US.
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From Alternative Conceptions of Honesty to Alternative Facts
3. December 2024The next Leibniz Media Lecture will be hosted by the Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC). Prof. Dr. Jana Lasser, University of Graz, talks about the spread of online misinformation on social media as a problem for societal cohesion and democracy.
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What do News Audiences Want from AI?
19. November 2024For this Leibniz Media Lunch Talk we welcome Dr. T.J. Thomson, RMIT University, Melbourne. He will present a study that explores how news users experience AI-generated or AI-edited content in journalism.
Labeling of Edited (Influencer) Photos
12. November 2024Must, should or may digitally manipulated photos be labelled as such in social media? This question is the focus of an expert opinion presented by Dr. Stephan Dreyer at the KJM in Dialogue 2024.
Political Narratives in Public Discourse
12. November 2024Dr Felix Muench will take part in the conference "Political Narratives in Public Discourse: Theory, Recognition, and Impact" at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.
Jewish Breslau and Broadcasting
7. November 2024On the occasion of the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner will talk about his book chapter "Media Sites and Cultural Spaces. Jewish Breslau and Broadcasting", published in the collection Breslau / Wrocław 1933-1949. Studies in the Topography of the Shoah.
Workshop on Digitalization
14. October 2024PhD students and postdocs are invited to present their work at the joint research and network meeting on digitalization called DigiMeet.
Artificial Intelligence in a Global Context
18. July 2024International experts from science, economy and politics will discuss the latest developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and their impact on various areas of society.
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Living in Different Worlds? Social Networks and Societal Cohesion in Germany
2. July 2024The next Leibniz Media Lecture will be hosted by the Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC). Dr. Jean-Yves Gerlitz and Dr. Nils Teichler, researchers at the RISC's section in Bremen, will present the RISC's first cohesion report.
Safety for Children in the Digital World: Research Findings and Fields of Action
24. June 2024At the final conference of the Project “Safety for Children in the Digital World” (SIKID), Dr. Claudia Lampert, Dr. Stephan Dreyer, Kira Thiel and Sünje Andresen will present research findings and fields of action as well as options for increasing the safety and empowerment of children and young people in the digital world.
Resonance Instead of Dissonance: On the Pacemakers of the Social Dialogue
18. June 2024The 14th Hamburg Media Symposium was held on June, 18, 2024 and discussed possibilities to counteract the slipping public discourse with experts from law, journalism and science.
Navigating Freedom – How Do We Protect Academic Freedom, Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Opinion?
13. June 2024On deck of the MS Wissenschaft in Hamburg, together with journalists and academics from the fields of media and political science, we will take a look at three fundamental values of our society: freedom of the press, freedom of expression and academic freedom.