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Stephan Dreyer is Senior Researcher in Media Law\u00a0and Media Governance at the\u00a0Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut<\/span> (HBI).\u00a0His research focuses on regulatory issues of mediated communication in a datafied society. He looks into challenges that regulation is facing in the light of new technologies, services and changing media use.<\/p>\n

Currently he is working on legal issues of AI-based communication and automated decision-making systems, (social) bot communication and the limitations of transparency\/disclosure as a regulatory resource.<\/p>\n

He’s a legal expert in regulatory questions at the intersection of protection of minors, privacy and data protection. He also conducts\u00a0legal and comparative analyses of systems in the area of media-related governance.<\/p>\n

In the context of his PhD thesis, he has investigated the margins of appreciation as well as the determinants of legal decisions under uncertainty, with a specific focus on the protection of minors. His thesis also focused on the different scope for decision-making by legislators, supervisory authorities and self-regulatory bodies and their relevance for dealing with uncertainty.<\/p>\n

After having studied Law at Universit\u00e4t Hamburg<\/span> with a focus on Information and Communication Law, he has been member of staff at the Hans-Bredow-Institut<\/span> since 2002.<\/p>\n

Activities Outside of the Institute<\/h2>\n

Stephan Dreyer is spokesperson for the Complaint Committee as well as the Expert Committee of the “Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Digital Media Service Providers” (FSM)<\/a>; he is a Surveyor for Child Protection at the Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body (USK.online<\/a>) as well as member of the USK Appeal Commission.\u00a0He is\u00a0member of the board of trustees\u00a0of the\u00a0German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Television (FSF)<\/a>\u00a0and member of the Advisory Board at\u00a0klicksafe.de<\/a>.\u00a0In the context of the European\u00a0CEO Coalition<\/a>\u00a0(2011-2014)\u00a0he has chaired the “Technical Task Force on Interoperability and Machine-Readability”, who has analysed opportunities and specifications of technical interoperability of electronic age classification information. From 2014 to 2016 he has been leading project co-ordinator of the international, EC co-funded technical pilot\u00a0MIRACLE (Machine-redable and interoperable age label classifications in Europe)<\/a>, a project that has shown\u00a0that interoperable age classifications are technically feasible, consumer-friendly and that ratings interoperability can strengthen the Digital Single Market to a significant degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1181,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","hbi-employee","type-hbi-employee","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nStephan Dreyer - Leibniz Institut f\u00fcr Medienforschung | Leibniz Institute for Media Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stephan Dreyer is Senior Researcher for Media Law and Media Governance at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/stephan-dreyer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stephan Dreyer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stephan Dreyer is Senior Researcher for Media Law and Media Governance at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/stephan-dreyer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Leibniz Institut f\u00fcr Medienforschung | Leibniz Institute for Media Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-31T11:09:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Stephan-Dreyer-Header.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1380\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leibniz-hbi.de\\\/en\\\/employee\\\/stephan-dreyer\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leibniz-hbi.de\\\/en\\\/employee\\\/stephan-dreyer\\\/\",\"name\":\"Stephan Dreyer - 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