Events
- Conferences & Congresses; scientific symposiums regarding media research
- Workshops: results-oriented meetings with experts
- Colloquiums of Media Science: 2-hour events with a short lecture and a debate including all participants afterwards
- Compact Seminars: theoretical and practical introduction to specific issues, presented to particular participant groups.
- Hamburger Gespräche zum Medien- und Telekommunikationsrecht [Hamburg Colloquia on Media and Telecommunications Law]
Upcoming Events
Games Convention Online 2010 Business Talks
From 8 to 11 July 2010, business representatives as well as users of browser, client and mobile games met at the second Games Convention Online in Leipzig. In the context of the convention, practice-oriented questions were discussed from different perspectives during business talks. The Hans Bredow Institute was the academic partner for all business talks.
Summer School | 2010: MEDIA CONVERGENCE: Concepts, Forms, Consequences
26 to 30 July 2010, hosted by the Institute for Media and Communications, the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, the Research Center for Media & Communication (RCMC), and the Graduate School Media & Communication (GMaC), programme (PDF, German)
Avatars and Humans. Representing Users in Digital Games
The pre-conference to the ECREA 2010 in Hamburg on Oct. 12, 2010, organzied by the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, the Hamburg Media School, and the Ilmenau University of Technology, will discuss and analyze the complex relationships between users and “avatars” – computer generated visual representations of users. Further information about the topic & questions, the Call for Papers, the deadline, timeline and venue can be found here. »»
ECREA 2010 in Hamburg
From 12 to 15 October 2010, the Hans Bredow Institute will host the third conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in cooperation with the University of Hamburg and Hamburg Media School. The conference focuses on the topic of “Transcultural Communication – Intercultural Comparisons”. Further information is available at the conference website www.ecrea2010hamburg.eu »»
Former Events
Social Games Studies: What Do We Know, What Might We Learn?
Scientific Workshop at the Games Comvention Online 2010, Friday, July 9th, 2010, 2:00-6:30 pm in Leipzig »»
New Public Spheres – New Cultures? Key Media in Times of the Internet
A conference hosted by the Hans Bredow Institute and the Alcatel Lucent Foundation on 9 June 2010 in Hamburg.
Who Earns by What Right? Digital Challenges for Authors, Commercializers and Users
Symposium hosted by the Hans Bredow Institute, the Media Authority Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (MA HSH) and the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce on 3 June 2010 in Hamburg.
CO-REACH-Workshop on IP Enforcement on the Internet
In the context of its project “Intellectual Property Rights in the New Media”, which is funded by the CO-REACH programme, the Hans Bredow Institute, together with its partners, hosted a workshop on IP enforcement on the internet from 17 to 19 May 2010. »»
Europe from Inside – Europe from Outside
Contributions from communication and media research and media practice. Lecture series and discussions in the context of the Hamburg European Week on 4 May 2010.
Inauguration of the Research Center Media and Communications (RCMC)
at the main building of the University of Hamburg on 21 April 2010.
Language Governance in Digital Culture
Lecture and discussion with Thomas Petzold at the Hans Bredow Institute on 13 April 2010.
Innovation Workshop – Workshop I on Intellectual Property Right for Content Providers
First workshop in the context of the Innovation Workshop "Creativity and Copyright on the Internet" with representatives of the economy on the issue of "Intellectual Property Right for Content Providers" in Hamburg on 19 March 2010.
GAMES CONVENTION ONLINE Conference 2009
Dialogue Conference on Browser-, Client- and Mobile-Games on 31 July/1 August 2009 in Leipzig
About 100 national and international speakers and panelists from business, research and politics participated in the first international dialogue conference “Games Convention Online Conference” which took place in Leipzig on 31 July and 1 August in the context of the “Games Convention Online 2009”. The conference on status and future of the online and mobile games industry was designed by the Hans Bredow Institute and looked at topics ranging from business, usage and society in three parallel sections from different perspectives. Through an exchange of views, insights and self-conceptions, the Hans Bredow Institute aimed at a fruitful dialogue between different protagonists and a better understanding of system peculiarities, decision-making processes and backlashes. ... more
Internet Governance
Lecture by W. Schulz at the Asia Pacific Insitute for Cyber Law Studies in Beijing, May, 22nd 2009 »»
Cultural Identity and Diversity
Lecture by W. Schulz at the Communication University of China (CUC) in Beijing, May, 22nd 2009 »»
Media and their Sciences – Media Research in Hamburg
Lecture Series of the Research Center for Media and Communications, a joint initiative of the University of Hamburg, Hans Bredow Institute and Hamburg Media School in summer semester 2009.
Regina McCombs: How US Companies are Using Social Media Tools Like Twitter, Facebook and Digg in News Gathering
We grabbed the chance of her visiting Hamburg and at very short notice were able to win over Regina McCombs, renowned US-expert for online journalism, for a lecture plus discussion. The joint event of the Akademie für Publizistik, the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies and the Hans Bredow Institute took place at the University of Hamburg, Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies on Monday, 18 May 2009. »»
Talking about Europe - Gespräche über Europa
Lecture series of the Research Centre ”European Media and Public Spheres” (EuroMaPS) during Wintersemester 2008/9 with lecturers from London, Bruxelles, Barcelona and Vienna. Allende Platz 1, room 250, Start: 05. November 2008, 4.00 - 6.00 pm, no registration, no fee. »»
Sexy Media? Gender - Mediality - Culturality
A lecture series of the University of Hamburg in the Winter Semester 2008/09 with the support of the Hans-Bredow-Institute, starting on Monday, 27.10.08, 6.00 - 8.00 pm. »»
Current Developments in Web 2.0
The Hans-Bredow-Institute is presenting this series of lectures at the University of Hamburg, Hörsaal C, ESA 1, starting on Monday, 20.10.08, 6.00-8.00 pm, entry is free and you don’t need to register. »»
Linked-up with the World. Children and Adolescents in Virtual Environments
German symposium at the Französischer Dom in Berlin on 9 and 10 October 2008. Programme »»
Media Repertoires of Social Milieux and Changes in the Media – Perspectives for Research into Usage across Media
Symposium of the Hans-Bredow-Institute on september 11th & 12th, 2008 in Hamburg. »»
More Fun, More Risk? Digital Games as a Challenge for the Protection of Minors
An Interdisciplinary European Symposium on october 16th & 17th, 2008 in Berlin; more information available here. »»