Research Report 2009/2010 in English available

The report documents the academic work in the fields science, transfer and service of the past year elaborately. Download als pdf-file

Research Report 2009/2010 published in English

On 30 May 2010, the Hans Bredow Institute turned 60. This anniversary falls at a time of fundamental reconfiguration in its research organisation; the current research report, now also published in English language, reflects this realignment. The institute is planning to expand its activities in the areas of research, transfer and service progressively. In the medium term, the perspective on our goal means making an application for federal and state support and seeking membership of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Leibniz Association/ WGL); in this way, we are taking up a recommendation from the latest appraisal by the German Council for Science and Humanities pertaining to the position of media and communications research.

The first part of this research report presents the guidelines governing the orientation of the planned extension (Section A). In the first instance, the Institute’s fundamental goals and working methods are sketched out, which underpin its special character on the German research landscape. The special emphases the Institute will set in the next few years will then be outlined to indicate what makes up the social and scientific relevance of these topics as well as the forms of working the Institute will employ to reach its goals.

In the following sections, the Institute’s activities, as performed in the period covered by the report, will be documented. As in previous years, our particular emphasis lies in presenting the projects performed (Section B). The following sections align themselves with the criteria the Insti-tute wishes to see used in having its work appraised: fostering of new generation researchers (Section C), cooperative projects and networks (Section D), transfer and service performance (Section E), publications and lectures (Section F) as well as events (Section G). In conclusion, the report offers a short survey of the Institute’s history and organisation  (Section H), as well as staff research profiles (Section I).

To present our structures more cogently, we are now deliberately dividing the account of our work between the present report and the website: comprehensive information on talks, publications and taught courses, as well as individual projects and persons can be viewed on the website and accessed by the short addresses given in the report (http://hbi.to/...).

Coming soon: M&K 3/2010

Among others with several articles investigating the field of "Media and Migration" ... Contents

Perspektives on Europe - Contributions from Communications, Media Politics and Media Practice

Conference of the Research Centre European Media and Public Spheres (EuroMaPS) in the context of the Hamburg Eueopean Week at the University of Hamburg on 5 May 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. 

EU Kids Online Conference

With an international conference in London on 11 June 2009 the European research association "EU Kids Online" with the Hans Bredow Institute as German partner was brought to a close. Unanimously the conference marked the starting signal for the project "EU Kids Online II", which is supported in the context of the EU's Safer Internet Programme.

Summer School "Film, Television, Internet - Reception Research in Cultural Studies"

From 27 to  31 July 2009 a week-long Summer School took place in the guesthouse of the University of Hamburg, hosted by the Institute for Media and Communications in cooperation with the Hans Bredow Institute.

Games Convention Online Conference 2009

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 2009 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.

Governance in Social Media

In order to prepare an application for a research project on "Governance in Social Media" a joint workshop took place with researchers of the University of Haifa in Haifa, Israel, on 14 and 15 September 2009.

"I Spy with my Little Eye": Babies – Television – Brain Development

Discussion on 7 October 2009, hosted by the Hamburg Authority of Social Affairs, Family, Health and Consumer Protection, Department of Health Reporting and Health Promotion, and the Hans Bredow Institute, supported by the Hamburg Committee for Health Promotion e.V. and TIDE TV. 

EU Kids Online

From 16 to 18 October 2009 the Institute hosted the first meeting of the entire EU Kids Online network, to which researchers from currently 24 European countries belong, who jointly execute a comparative survey on the online use of children and adolescents and the associated risks.

Kick-off Workshop CO-REACH

Kick-off workshop of the CO-REACH project in Bejing on 13 November 2009. The main objective of the project is to foster the exchange of knowledge about regulatory concepts with regard to copyright and intellectual property for the Information Society and their implementation, as well as jointly work on concepts of regulatory choice to meet new challenges that are brought about through social and technological change in new media environments.

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.

Book Presentation "Medienpädagogik – ein Studienbuch zur Einführung"

Presentation of the book "Medienpädagogik - ein Studienbuch zur Einführung" [Media Education – Introductory Study Book] in the presence of the authors Daniel Süss, Claudia Lampert and Christine W. Wijnen at the library of the Hans Bredow Institute on 9 April 2010.

Language Governance in Digital Culture

Lecture and discussion with Thomas Petzold at the Hans Bredow Institute on 13 April 2010.

Inauguration of the Research Center Media and Communications (RCMC)

at the main building of the University of Hamburg on 21 April 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.

Creativity and Copyright in the Net Economy – Practice Workshop on Law Enforcement on the Internet

Second practice workshop in the context of the Innovation workshop "Creativity and Copyright in the Net Economy" on the issue of "Law Enforcement on the Internet" with representatives of copyright owners, the Internet economy, providers as well as the Internet community on 18 May 2010.

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.

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.