Hans-Bredow-Institut - Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung

DIGITAL DISINFORMATION HUB

This new Digital Disinformation Hub bundles the Institute's research and cooperation activities in the field of digital disinformation.

75 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING IN GERMANY

75 years ago, on 1 January 1948, the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR, forerunner of NDR and WDR) became Germany's first "public service" broadcaster. SWR2 Archivradio has put Hans Bredow's speech on the new legal form of organisation of broadcasting in Germany online.

ANIMATED FILM EXPLAINS THE TOPIC OF RESEARCH ETHICS TO CHILDREN

Children and adolescents who participate in research projects must give their free and informed consent to this. But do they understand what is meant by this? An animated short film playfully explains to children why it is important for them to participate in research projects and what rights they have as participants.

Latest News

News, new research projects and publications from the Institute

Working mainly from home

Library and Office Secretariat Open Tuesdays to Thursdays - by Appointment Only

The library of the HBI is open Tuesdays to Thursdays, but only by prior appointment. After registering at bibliothek@leibniz-hbi.de, time slots will be allocated during which you can work in the library. If you have any questions, please contact our library team by e-mail at bibliothek@leibniz-hbi.d...

Podcast!

Medical Controversies Online

Magdalena Góralska ist Gastwissenschaftlerin am HBI und erforscht, wie digitale Kommunikation medizinische Debatten beeinflusst. Im BredowCast gibt sie einen Einblick in den Zwischenstand ihrer Forschungsarbeit. Im Rahmen ihres Promotionsprojektes an der Universität Warschau beo...

Jugendmedienschutz-Report 6/22

Folgen der sich wandelnden Regulierungsansätze im Jugendmedienschutz

Im aktuellen Jugendmedienschutz-Report haben Dr. Stephan Dreyer, Sünje Andresen und Neda Wysocki einen Artikel veröffentlicht. Darin behandeln sie die systematischen Veränderungen im gesetzlichen Jugendmedienschutz und die mit ihnen einhergehenden Steuerungsvorteile bei Interaktions-...

Blog: Kinder, wie die Zeit vergeht!

Das HBI gratuliert der Sesamstraße zum 50. Geburtstag

50 Jahre Sesamstraße – eine Kindersendung feiert Geburtstag. Das HBI gratuliert aufs Herzlichste, hat es doch die Sendung gerade in ihren Anfängen intensiv und forschend begleitet. Claudia Lampert und Hans-Ulrich Wagner haben einen Blick in das Institutsarchiv geworfen. Am 8. Januar...

Hans Bredow Explains the System

75 Years of Public Service Broadcasting in Germany

75 years ago, on 1 January 1948, the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR, forerunner of NDR and WDR) became Germany's first "public service" broadcaster. A few days earlier, Hans Bredow had explained to the Germans what that meant and why broadcasting should be organised federally. SWR2 A...

An Obituary

In Memory of Dieter Roß

We mourn the death of Prof. Dr. Dieter Roß, who was a researcher and highly esteemed and popular colleague at the Hans-Bredow-Institut from 1965 to 1983 and then a professor at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Hamburg. When Dieter Roß became emeritus professor in...

Overview

Overview Study Digital Methods

This comprehensive and compact overview of methodological approaches in Computational Social Science (CSS) seeks to broaden the spectrum of methods in technology assessment.

Blog: Plattformregulierung

Nein, Elon Musk, so geht Plattformdemokratie nicht

Nach einer Online-Abstimmung hat Elon Musk den Twitter-Account von Donald Trump wieder freigeschaltet mit den Worten: „The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei”. Plattformdemokratie funktioniere anders, meint Matthias C. Kettemann. Dieser Beitrag ersch...

Blog: Plattformregulierung

Digitale Demokratie by Design: Was Habermas Stört und Elon Musk freut

Die Regeln für Plattformen sind vorhanden und auch in Geltung. Angesichts der Eigengesetzlichkeiten der Plattformwirtschaft fehlt es jedoch an der effektiven Anwendung und Durchsetzung dieser Regeln. Matthias C. Kettemann diskutiert den Zusammenhang und gibt Einblicke in den aktuellen Stand der...

Twitter-Alternative mit Problemen

Was bei Mastodon besser laufen muss

Seit Elon Musk Twitter übernommen hat, schauen sich viele User:innen nach Alternativen um. Mastodon tritt als Gewinner auf. Die Plattform hätte nun die Chance, neue Wege nachhaltiger Content-Governance zu pilotieren und zum Experimentierraum für demokratische Diskurse zu werden, finde...

Options for Actions for the Federal Government

Menschenrechte im Digitalen

How can human rights be protected online? For example, by expanding transparency in the digital space, by reviewing existing legal norms on human rights protection in the digital sphere more effectively, by carrying out a mandatory human rights impact assessment before using algorithmic decision-mak...

Blog: Donald Trump wieder auf Twitter

„Auf Twitter ließ er Medien nach seiner Pfeife tanzen“

Donald Trump darf wieder twittern. Welchen Einfluss der ehemalige US-Präsident nun auf der Plattform erlangt, hänge weniger von Trump selbst ab, als von journalistischen Medien und wie sie mit seinen Tweets umgehen, sagt PD. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt. Obwohl er angekündigt hatte, weitre...

Handbook

Methods in Practice: Studying Children and Youth Online

A new online handbook from the project CO:RE – Children Online: Research and Evidence explains how to conduct research on the online use of children and adolescents and which ethical aspects need to be considered. go to the Online Handbook Kotilainen, S. (Hrsg.). (2022). Methods in...

Anthology

100 Jahre Radio in Deutschland

Dr Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes about radio personalities and their careers in his contribution to the anthology "100 Years of Radio in Germany", which has been published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb). The book is available in the online shop of the bpb. About the Boo...

Podcast!

Elon Musks Twitterübernahme: Folgen für die Wissenschaft

In this BredowCast, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt talks about Elon Musk's Twitter takeover and what this could mean for academics and media research. Only 10 percent of Germans use Twitter regularly, yet the takeover of the platform by entrepreneur Elon Musk is making waves. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt explains...

Findings from Germany

Onlinenutzung von Kindern und Jugendlichen in der Pandemie

How young people shaped their online activities in the first phase of the Corona pandemic and how their parents dealt with the situation was researched by Dr Claudia Lampert and Kira Thiel. They wrote about it in the journal Kinder- und Jugendschutz in Wissenschaft und Praxis. Their research...

M&K Special Issue

Call for Papers: "Telegram in the Political Public Sphere"

With more than 700 million monthly active users, the messenger service Telegram is one of the largest social media services in the world. Yet there is little research on this platform and its impact on the political public sphere. Therefore, the journal M&K is calling for proposals for a specia...

For a Secure Data Exchange

Data Portal Right-Wing Extremism

For the "Data Portal for Research on Racism and Right-Wing Extremism", the HBI is developing a research data infrastructure for the secure exchange of social media account lists in compliance with data protection regulations.

Cooperation Project with University of Hamburg

New Methods in Automated Content Analysis

The cooperation project applies two methods developed in computer science to the field of empirical communication science, which enable semi-automated content analyses to examine even huge amounts of data.

Peer-reviewed Paper

Boundary Detection and Categorization of Argument Aspects via Supervised Learning

In this conference paper, Mattes Ruckdeschel and Dr. Gregor Wiedemann describe analysis options for the automatic recognition of argument aspects, which are used to categorise pro/con arguments in terms of content. Based on the paper, argumentation patterns and their changes in public disc...

Out Now!

M&K 4/2022

The articles in issue 4/2022 of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" address, among other things, the self-perception of constructive journalists (Steinigeweg), virtual stakeholder dialogues (Ziegele, Kurtze & Zerfaß), the sports journalistic coverage of the Tage...

Best Practices

How Platforms Respond to Human Rights Conflicts Online

A new working paper edited by Prof. Matthias C. Kettemann collects best practices of various internet platforms in dealing with human rights violations online. It has been published as open access in the context of the Global Digital Human Rights Network. You can download the article here (PDF) &n...

Open Access Available for Download

Social Media Content Creators aus Sicht ihrer jungen Follower

Teenagers and young adults specifically follow influencers and other accounts on social media to be entertained, informed or to participate in the conversation. Social media content creators on Instagram, TikTok and other platforms fulfil different functions for different motives of use and contribu...

Podcast!

Influencer: Ihr Erfolg bei jungen Menschen

Adolescents and young adults follow influencers and other accounts for different motives. Leonie Wunderlich researched them. What an "Influencer" is, is not yet agreed upon by science. In the "Use-the-News" study, Leonie Wunderlich wanted to find out, among other things, how y...

Youth Media Protection Index 2022

Growing Parental Concerns about the Online Safety of Their Children

77 percent of parents in Germany are concerned about the online safety of their children. Parents of 11- to 14-year-olds are particularly concerned. The focus lies on risks of interaction, frightening content and how long they use the internet. Children and young people are particularly concern...

Open Acces!

Digital Transformations in Public International Law

Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg have published a book on the digital transformation of international law. It is an open access publication by Nomos. About the Book While the birth of international law is often da...

Communication Governance as Democracy Protection

Perspektiven auf die Plattform- und KI-Regulierung der Demokratien

In an article in the series "Frankfurter Studien zum Datenschutz" [Frankfurt Studies on Data Protection}, Prof. Dr. Matthias Kettemann discusses perspectives on the regulation of platforms and AI regarding the protection of democracy. The article and the entire issue in which it appeared a...

We are thrilled!

Judith Möller becomes new professor at HBI

Judith Möller, internationally highly renowned communication scientist from the University of Amsterdam, has accepted the call to the professorship "Empirical Communication Research, especially Media Use and Social Media Effects" at the University of Hamburg in cooperation with the Le...

Kritisch und nah dran

Lokaljournalismus, wie er sein sollte

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2041. Irgendwo in Deutschland lebt Chris, der ideale Lokaljournalist. Sechs Praktiker:innen haben sich auf dieses Gedankenspiel eingelassen und Geschichten über Chris geschrieben. Welche Metaphoriken verwenden sie dabei und was lässt sich daraus für die Zukunft...

Livestream Discussion

Talks on the Implementation of the DSA in Germany

Dr. Tobias Schmid, Director of the State Media Authority NRW, and Dr. Wilhelm Eschweiler, Vice President of the Federal Network Agency, discuss what they think about the national implementation of the Digital Service Act in a conversation with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz on 22 and 29 Septemb...

Exam

Zeig mir, wie du heißt und ich sag dir, wer du bist!

In his contribution to the methodology section of the journal JURA - Juristische Ausbildung [Legal Education], Dr. Tobias Mast develops an advanced public law exam on fundamental rights and administrative procedural law. The exam deals with exam-relevant problems of the identification obligation for...

Book Chapter

Fraktionen und Abgeordnete

Dr. Tobias Mast writes in his contribution to the new Handbook of the Law of State Expression about the legal competencies and boundaries for parliamentary groups and members of parliament when communicating publicly in their official role. This area of law is gaining in importance due to new ways...

Project Findings Open Access

Sozialisation in einer sich wandelnden Medienumgebung [Socialisation in a Changing Media Environment]

In the DFG project "Connected Kids: Socialisation in a Changing Media Environment", Rudolf Kammerl, Claudia Lampert and Jane Müller investigated how media developments and the increasing use of media in families, peer groups, schools, etc. affect the actor constellations and communica...

Podcast!

Beziehungspflege: Journalismus und sein Publikum

Louise Sprengelmeyer and Julius Reimer explore the relationships that journalists have with their audiences. They identified eleven different types of relationships. The relationship of journalism to its audience has changed a lot through digital media. While journalists and other media professio...

Journalism under Duress

World's Largest Survey of Journalists Has Started

The academic study "Journalism under Pressure: Risks and Uncertainties in a Changing Media World" aims to find out how much journalistic work has changed due to digital transformation and which professional challenges journalists currently find particularly pressing. It has started on 1 Se...

Welcome to the Institute!

Ericka Menchen-Trevino at HBI

Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Ass. Professor at the School of Communication at the American University in Washington, DC, visited the HBI in August 2022. Among other things, she is supporting the HBI project "Tracking Political Polarization" with her expertise. Ericka also met with Lisa M...

Findings of Use the News Study

Types of Information Orientation and Information Levels Among Young and Old News Audiences

Leonie Wunderlich and Dr. Sascha Hölig present the results of the surveys conducted within the framework of the project Use the News in their article recently published in the journal Media and Communication. Users can be characterised by a certain pattern of news-related attitudes,...

Podcast!

Medien im Gefängnis

Anne Kaun, professor at Södertörn University and visiting researcher at the HBI, explores how media works in prisons Anne Kaun's initial research idea was to investigate places where there is very limited access to media. She quickly landed with this idea in prison as a research loca...

To be published soon open access

M&K 3/2022

The articles in issue 3/2022 of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" [Media & Communication Studies] deal with the question of "How Election Communication Mobilizes" (Winfried Schulz), with "Structural Differences between Journalists’ Perceptions o...

Call for Papers!

Contemporary Methods of Child and Youth Media Research

This fall, the HBI will host the annual conference of the DGPuK division of media education. 6 - 7 October 2022, Hamburg Call for Papers In the run-up to the conference, we are looking for innovative contributions that address, for example, one of the following issues - preferably using the...

Video 12th Hamburg Media Symposium

On Disinformation and the Possibilities and Limits of Existing Tools to Fight It

The 12th Hamburg Media Symposium took place on 5 July 2022 under the title "Anything but "Sweet Little Lies" ... - On Disinformation and the Possibilities and Limits of Existing Tools to Fight It". In front of around 100 guests, experts discussed disinformation as a social proble...

Anthology

The Law of Global Digitality

A new anthology, co-edited by Matthias C. Kettemann, explores how law regulates our digital future and how digital developments influence law. It is available as an open access publication from Routledge. Abstract The anthology is the first serious attempt to describe the interplay of la...

Podcast!

Praktiken der Aneignung von Vergangenheiten

As part of the Leibniz Research Network "Value of the Past", Barbara Christophe and Hans-Ulrich Wagner are interested in how people create references to the past. To this end, they observe history lessons at school, but also memes and social media projects. “Practices of Appropriati...

Dossier: "Human Rights Online"

When unconsent is no option

Digital identity systems must not be mandatory until they are human rights-compliant by Rosanna Fanni As states ramp up their digital policy strategies to curb the power of dominant technology platforms, they also seize greater control over digital infrastructures. While the past decade favou...

Dossier: "Human Rights Online"

The need for research on GDPR codes of conduct

While many aspects of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been thoroughly investigated, codes of conduct remain under-researched. As corporate actors and regulatory authorities ramp up their usage, this academic lacuna needs to be urgently addressed. By Carl Van...

Dossier: "Human Rights Online"

European Views On The Privatization Of The "Online Public Space"

Should a large-scale social media platform decide to block legal content? Should a platform with more than three billion users be able to restrict the access to protected speech, to decide that criticism on Covid-19 policy is misinformation, or that euthanasia equals suicide – on a worldwide...

Potentials and Limitations

Potenziale spielerischer Gesundheitsanwendungen (g-Health) für die Förderung von Gesundheitskompetenz

In their contribution to the anthology "Gesundheitskompetenz" [Health Literacy], Dr. Claudia Lampert and Daniel Tolks write about the potential of game-based offerings in the health sector. It was published in the Springer series "Pflege – Therapie – Gesundheit" [Nurs...

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Diskussionsentwurf zur Novellierung des Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrages: Schriftliche Stellungsnahme des HBI

Wolfgang Schulz and Stephan Dreyer are very critical of the draft discussion paper for a new Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media. The concept of a "youth protection device" at the operating system level presented in the draft, a kind of child protection mode that can...

Findings for Germany Published

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022 – Ergebnisse für Deutschland

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022 on news consumption in international comparison was carried out simultaneously in 46 countries in order to identify general trends as well as national peculiarities. The HBI is responsible for the German part of the study; it is supported by the state m...

Experiences of People over 60

Healthy Digital – Fit for Apps and the Internet

What experiences do older people have with digital health programmes and services, and how can their digital health literacy be improved? As part of a transdisciplinary project, the HBI investigates the experiences with and attitudes towards digital health programmes of over-60-year-olds.

Podcast!

Argument Mining

Gregor Wiedemann and his team analyse large quantities of text with automated methods. Is this the future of media research? What once had to be laboriously coded by hand in content analyses, Gregor Wiedemann does in a fraction of the time. Together with his team, he is developing procedures that...

Open Access Series

Article Series on the Governance of Desinformation

How can the challenges in the governance of disinformation be addressed on a conceptual, empirical and institutional level? A three-part open access article series on this topic has been published in the online journal Internet Policy Review. The articles are based on an expert workshop organised by...

Understanding Digital Corporations as States?

Self-Statification of Corporate Actors?: Tracing Modes of Corporate Engagements with Public International Law

In order to understand the role of large digital corporations in international lawmaking on the internet from a jurisprudential perspective, Anna Sophia Tiedeke applies Michel Foucault's model of "stateification" (Étatisation). This article is published as an open access paper b...

Book Chapter

EU Digital Services Act: The White Hope of Intermediary Regulation

Amélie Heldt writes about the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the possible consequences of its enactment in its current form in the book Digital Platform Regulation - Global Perspectives on Internet Governance. The volume was edited by Terry Flew and Fiona R. Martin and is available...

Digital Conference

HBI Researchers at re:publica 2022

Christina Dinar and Anna von Garmissen will be part of re:publica, one of the most important digital conferences in Germany. It will take place in Berlin from 8 to 10 June 2022 with the title Any Way The Wind Blows. Anna von Garmissen will moderate the panel "Public value broadc...

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Gesetzessammlung: Information, Kommunikation, Medien, 19. Auflage

The legal basis in the field of information, communication and media is changing so rapidly that the traditional book form often seems inappropriate for practitioners of the law as well as for publishers. A collection of laws is hardly on the market when, in all likelihood, the media treaty has alre...

Available for Download

Risk Atlas Growing Up in a Digital World

The updated and expanded 2nd edition of the risk atlas “Digitales Aufwachsen. Vom Kind aus denken. Zukunftssicher handeln” [Growing Up in a Digital World. Taking a Child's Perspective. Acting Future-Proof]. The atlas is published by the Federal Centre for Child and Youth Media Protec...

Legal Assessment of EU Proposal

Chat Control to Fight Depiction of Abuse

Dr Stephan Dreyer has given the Science Media Center Germany (SMC) a legal assessment of the EU Commission's proposal for a regulation to identify and report depictions of child sexual abuse. The legislative proposal contains many improvements in the fight against depictions of abuse on the inte...

Blog-Artikel zum Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden

Von Stimmkünsten und Hörprozessen

Ob man es nun Hörspiel oder Podcast nennt: Serielles Erzählen liegt auch im Audio-Bereich im Trend. Das und andere Entwicklungen zeigen sich in der diesjährigen Auswahl für den Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden - Preis für Radiokunst, berichtet Jury-Mitglied Hans-Ulrich W...

Podcast!

Mit Twitterdaten forschen

The Twitter platform has been giving researchers access to its archive for about a year now. Philipp Kessling collects huge amounts of data from there for his research. In this episode of the BredowCast, he explains what exactly he does and what it's all about. In a selection process that req...

International Expert Workshop at HBI

Linking survey data and digital traces

Twenty-five international experts attended a HBI-organized workshop this week to discuss the benefits, challenges and best practices of combining survey data with digital tracking data in social research. The main focus was on how academia can gain new insights into media use and opinion formation a...

Importance of Broadcasting Archives

Arbeit am Medien-Gedächtnis der Gesellschaft

In his article published in info7 – Das Magazin für Medien, Archive und Information, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes about the situation of public broadcasting archives and their importance for users as well as for authors working for broadcasters. Abstract There was talk of a "...

All Contributions of the Institute at a Glance

ICA's Annual Conference 2022 in Paris

At the end of May, some HBI staff members will travel to Paris, where the International Communication Association (ICA) will hold its annual conference from 26 to 30 May. It is the world's largest conference for communication studies. After two years of online conferences due to the pandemic, it...

Welcome!

Torben Klausa is Research Fellow at the HBI

Torben Klausa is a Research Fellow at the Institute in May 2022. The question "Does the state have a duty to regulate digital platforms?" is at the centre of his research. In his doctoral thesis with the title "The Serving Freedom of Social Networks" at Bielefeld University, he...

Project funded by Stiftung Mercator

Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders

How could "platform councils" or other institutions for integrating public interests into platform rule-making processes ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account? A new project is embarking on a search for global best practice models.

World Press Freedom Day

Sacrificing Freedoms to Protect Them?

The Russian TV network RT as well as Sputnik have been banned by the Council of the European Union (EU). In an op-ed on Legal Tribune Online, Wolfgang Schulz examines the legal situation and analyses whether the EU has overstepped its authority in the process, leaving communications freedoms to fall...

Volkswagen Foundation Funds Joint Project

STEAM – The Socio-Technical Ecosystem Architecture Method

Why do digital media feed us certain messages and not others? Which technical service providers and algorithms play a role when messages reach us? Which of these functions are socially acceptable and which, on the other hand, constitute manipulation? The project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation a...

Einschätzung des Gesetzentwurfs

Was ist vom neuen Digital Services Act DSA zu halten?

Mit dem Digital Services Act DSA steht auf EU-Ebene nun ein bedeutsames neues Gesetz kurz vor der Verabschiedung. Für das Science Media Center Germany hat Matthias C. Kettemann den Gesetzentwurf beurteilt. Am 22. April 2022 haben das Europäische Parlament und der Rat eine vorl&aum...

Blog-Interview: Journalismus und sein Publikum

Der Tagesspiegel Checkpoint-Newsletter

Jeden Morgen ab 6 Uhr informiert der preisgekrönte Tagesspiegel Checkpoint-Newsletter nicht nur Berlinerinnen und Berliner per E-Mail über das tagesaktuelle Geschehen in der Hauptstadt. Im Interview spricht die verantwortliche Redakteurin Ann-Kathrin Hipp über die Idee hinter dem erfo...

Open Access available

Not All Who Are Bots Are Evil

In their article in new media & society, the authors examine how bots are regulated on 9 platforms and develop an analytical scheme to develop a generalisable normative framework for agent governance. Makhortykh, Mykola; Urman, Aleksandra; Münch, Felix Victor; Heldt, Amélie; Dreye...

Publication of the Global Digital Human Rights Network

Governing Information Flows During War

"A Comparative Study of Content Governance and Media Policy Responses After Russia’s Attack on Ukraine" is the subtitle of #4 in the Working Paper Series of the Global Digital Human Rights Network, published by Mart Susi, Wolfgang Benedek, Gregor Fischer-Lessiak, Matthias C. Ketteman...

Blogbeitrag zum MStV-E

Öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk als Pionier?

Kann eine Reform des Medienstaatsvertrages den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk zukunftsfest für die Online-Welt machen? Valerie Rhein und Stephan Dreyer bewerten ausgewählte Aspekte des Reformentwurfs der Rundfunkkommission der Länder. Von Valerie Rhein und Stephan Dreyer...

Congrats to this great Success!

Lisa Merten Winner of the 2021 Digital Journalism Outstanding Article Award

Lisa Merten wins the award for the best article of 2021 in the top-class journal Digital Journalism! She is also one of the top 3 nominees for the Bob Franklin Award, the joint award of Digital Journalism, Journalism and Journalism Practice for the best article of the year. The award-winning articl...

Recommendation: Educational Training Programme

Propaganda and Disinformation in the War against Ukraine

The training portal for educational professionals "Medienbildung jetzt!" [Media Education Now!] offers the Sondermodul: "Q&A – Expert:innen zu Propaganda und Desinformation im Krieg gegen die Ukraine" [special module: Q&A - Experts on Propaganda and Disinformation i...

Cooperation between Science and Politics

Neue Mechanismen für den Ernstfall

A new "Crisis Science Hub (CSH)" is supposed to facilitate rapid and structured cooperation between science and politics in future crisis. This is the recommendation of the developers of the Crisis Science Project (CRISP) initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)....

Project Computational Social Science

Tracking Political Polarization

What is the interplay between the diversity of our information exposure online and the polarization of our political opinions towards certain issues or groups over time?

Co-Operation Project for the FSM

Index for Youth Media Protection 2022

A representative survey of parents and children identifies risks of online use by children and young people as well as ways of dealing with them in order to create an up-to-date, knowledge-based foundation for the further development of youth media protection.

Congratulations!

Lisa Merten and Amélie Heldt Obtained Their Doctorates

On March 21st, Lisa Merten successfully defended her dissertation on "Praktiken der Nachrichtennutzung auf sozialen Netzwerkplattformen" [Practices of News Usage on Social Networking Platforms]. Amélie Pia Heldt followed on April 4th with her disputation on "Intensivere Drittw...

Article in Journal for Legislation

Gesetzespublizität im Zeitalter der Vernetzung

Tobias Mast has published the article "Gesetzespublizität im Zeitalter der Vernetzung" [Publicity of Laws in the Age of Networking] in No. 1/2022 of the Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung (ZG). The article looks at the plans on the federal level to create a uniform legal information p...

Open Access in IJoC

News Won’t Find Me? Exploring Inequalities in Social Media News Use With Tracking Data

Lisa Merten and an international team of authors have published the article "News Won't Find Me? Exploring Inequalities in Social Media News Use With Tracking Data" open access in the International Journal Of Communication. The authors use a combination of tracking and survey data to...

Podcast Recommendation

Why Is Fake News Rampant on the Internet?

In the new episode of "Tonspur Wissen - dem Wissens-Podcast von Rheinischer Post und Leibniz-Gemeinschaft" [Tonspur Wissen - the Knowledge Podcast by Rheinischer Post and the Leibniz Association], Jan-Hinrik Schmidt answers questions from Ursula Weidenfeld. Lying, cheating, manipulating....

New Book

Zwischen Partizipationsversprechen und Algorithmenmacht. Wie soziale Medien politisches Handeln prägen

How does social media change opinion-forming and political engagement? How do politicians use social media? PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt addresses these questions in the newly published book "Zwischen Partizipationsversprechen und Algorithmenmacht. Wie soziale Medien politisches Handeln präge...

Overview of Studies

Studiensynopse: Nachrichtenkompetenz bei Jugendlichen

As commissioned by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung), Leonie Wunderlich and Dr. Sascha Hölig have published an overview of studies on the news literacy of adolescents and young adults in Germany, which has its origin in the #UseTheNews project....

Working Paper Available for Download

Rechtsextreme Online-Kommunikation in Krisenzeiten

Rau, Jan; Kero, Sandra; Hofmann, Vincent; Dinar, Christina; Heldt, Amélie Pia (2022): Rechtsextreme Online-Kommunikation in Krisenzeiten. Herausforderungen und Interventionsmöglichkeiten aus Sicht der Rechtsextremismus- und Platform-Governance-Forschung [Online-Communication of the Extre...

Speed Dating with Science

Book a Scientist

The HBI is once again part of the Leibniz initiative "Book a Scientist". It offers interested parties the opportunity to exchange ideas with researchers from the Leibniz Association in one-on-one meetings. Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann will be available for the HBI. His topic: &qu...

Blogpost zum Jugendangebot von ARD & ZDF

Was ist "funk" – und wenn ja, wie viele?

Stell dir vor, es ist Rundfunk und keiner schaut hin. Ganz so dramatisch ist die Situation zwar noch nicht, aber insbesondere dem öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk fehlt es an Nachwuchspublikum. Doch wie erreicht man eigentlich eine Zielgruppe, die sich – anders als vorherige Generationen &...

Study on Community-Based Content Moderation

Truth and Knowledge on Wikipedia

How do community-based contents on the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia emerge and what procedures are used to negotiate what is regarded as “truth”?

Digital Media Environment

Nachrichtennutzung junger Menschen

In their article in BPJMAKTUELL, Dr. Sascha Hölig and Leonie Wunderlich write about news use, opinion formation and the orientation of young people towards information in digital media environments. BPJMAKTUELL is a publication of Bundeszentrale für Kinder- und Jugendmedienschutz [t...

Welcome to the Institute!

New Research Fellow Anne Kaun

For five months, Anne Kaun, professor at Södertörn University in Stockholm, will conduct research with us as a fellow at the HBI. We are delighted about this international cooperation! Her research interests include media theory, mediated temporalities, algorithmic culture, automati...

Enforcement of Rules on Small Platforms

User Courts on Social Media Platforms

Using the example of user courts from the 2000s of the internet as well as the Wikipedia arbitration court, the Seed Money project investigates how communities on small and niche platforms actively shape the enforcement of rules.

EU-Project about Media Ownership Concentration

Euromedia Ownership Monitor

Who owns the media in Europe? The EU-funded project will create a central database for information on media ownership in 15 European union member states.

DGPuK Journal Article Award

Award for M&K Article

The first place of the DGPuK journal award this year goes to Dr. Mario Haim. The prize was awarded for his essay in the M&K issue "Forschungssoftware in der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung [Research Software in Communication and Media Research]" on quality criteria and recommendati...

Survey on Media Usage

"News Junkies“ Wanted for Study

As part of our research project Public Connection, we are looking for news-savvy people between the ages of 18 and 29 for a scientific survey on their media usage behaviour. We are particularly interested in people who are intensively involved with journalism and news, share news, comment on news,...

Media Education

Gesundheit und Medien

Together with Dipl.-Psych. Christa Gebel, Dr Claudia Lampert edited issue 2022/01 of the journal merz | medien + erziehung on "Media and Health". Claudia Lampert's article "Digitale Gesundheitspraktiken von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Mehrwert oder Risiko? [Digital Health Practices...

Discussion via Livestream

CEO of YouTube in Conversation with Wolfgang Schulz

She rarely gives interviews, so this was a rare opportunity to meet YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and learn more about her understanding of good content governance and the strategic direction of the video platform. On Thursday, 10 February, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz spoke with Susan Wojcicki about the...

Saving the Digital World?

Machtkritische Perspektiven auf digitale Emanzipationsgewinne

In the Global Media Journal, Katharina Mosene and Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann look at the norms that could make the distribution of digital power more equitable. You can download the article here (PDF, in German) Abstract The internet has long ceased to be a utopian counter-draft t...

Blogartikel zum Safer Internet Day 2022

Mehr digitale Teilhabe ermöglichen

Beim Safer Internet Day am 08.02.2022 steht das Thema digitale Teilhabe #fitfordemocracy im Fokus. Die Medien bieten hierfür zahlreiche Möglichkeiten. Doch werden diese von Kindern und Jugendlichen auch genutzt? Kira Thiel und Claudia Lampert diskutieren diese Frage anhand von Daten aus de...

Welcome to the Institute!

New as Senior Researcher at the Institute: Tobias Mast

Dr. Tobias Mast is head of the research programme "Regulatory Structures and the Emergence of Rules in Online Spaces" at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut since January 2022. Prior to this, he worked as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court....

Project Conclusion

Presenting the Findings at Schloss Bellevue

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and HBI Director Prof Dr Wolfgang Schulz discussed strategies for overcoming the ethical challenges of digitalisation. The event marked the end of the two-year project "Ethics of Digitalisation". Monday, 07.02.2022, from 10:30 a.m. Schloss Bellevu...

Use the News

Was junge Menschen von Influencern erwarten. Und von Journalisten

Young people are quite critical of influencers when it comes to their subjective presentation of newsworthy information. They expect journalists to be neutral above all. This is what the #UseTheNews study found out during group discussions with teenagers and young adults. Leonie Wunderlich, c...

Podcast!

Vom Medienjournalismus in die Medienforschung

As editor-in-chief of the industry magazine journalist, Anna von Garmissen has reported on the media business in Germany for many years. Now she is researching it from a research perspective. In this BredowCast, she talks about how she experienced the change from practice to research, and what sep...

Final Report

Ethics of Digitalization – From Principles to Practices

After two years of research on the ethical challenges of digitalisation and strategies on how to overcome them, the international and interdisciplinary team of researchers has now published the final report. The HBI researchers Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann,...

Successful Model with a Future?

Die »Europäische Strategie für ein besseres Internet für Kinder«

Dr. Stephan Dreyer looks at the impact of the BIK strategy in the Member States and the political framing of children's online safety in Europe before focusing on the future of the EU's plans in this area. This article has been published in the current issue (1/2022) of the journal Kinder- u...

Distance Learning

Eine figurationsanalytische Betrachtung von Familien während der ersten Phase der Covid-19-Pandemie

Dr Claudia Lampert, Paul Petschner, Andreas Dertinger and Jane Müller describe how families dealt with the challenges of distance learning during the corona-induced lockdown in the journal MedienPädagogik. The article is available as an open access publication. To the article ...

Instagram instead of Tagesschau?

Die Rolle Sozialer Medien in der Nachrichtennutzung. Über Chancen und Risiken

An article by Dr. Sascha Hölig and Leonie Wunderlich highlights the role of social media regarding the use of news in an anthology on journalism and Instagram. Abstract Social media have become an important resource for news content to be noticed. The consequences of this are assessed very dif...

All Articles Are Open Access!

M&K-Themenheft "Interdisziplinäre Journalismusforschung – Journalismus interdisziplinär"

Media change and digitalisation have changed the way journalism researchers look at their field. Disciplines such as computer science are increasingly being included. What interdisciplinarity means for journalism research and practice is discussed in the articles in M&K 1-2/202, available as an...

Looking beyond the Horizon

Online-Erfahrungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen aus 19 europäischen Ländern

In the journal "Kinder- und Jugendschutz" (Protection of Children and Young People), Dr Claudia Lampert describes the negative experiences children and young people have online and how they can be enabled to use digital media in a self-determined way. The article is based on finding...

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Schriftliche Stellungnahme zu dem Diskussionsentwurf zu Auftrag und Strukturoptimierung des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks

Valerie Rhein, Dr. Stephan Dreyer and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz have published an opinion on the discussion draft of the Länder regarding the mandate and structural optimisation of public service broadcasting. In their expert opinion, they welcome the draft amendment to the State Medi...

Assessing Criminal Law and Youth Protection Law

Sexualisierte Belästigung online

Sünje Andresen and Dr. Stephan Dreyer have published a jurisprudential article in the professional journal for youth media protection "JMS-Report". From the perspective of criminal law and youth protection law, the authors addressed forms of imposed sexuality and sexualised harassment...

Blog: Soziale Medien und Wohlbefinden

Soziale Vergleiche auf Instagram

Die Nutzung von Instagram kann das Wohlbefinden von Jugendlichen, insbesondere von Mädchen und jungen Frauen, stark beeinträchtigen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kam eine nunmehr geleakte, interne Facebook-Studie. Was hilft Jugendlichen im Umgang mit vergleichsbasiertem Social-Media-Stress? Und was...

International Journal for Press/Politics

The Role of Journalistic and non-Journalistic Sources in Young Peoples’ News Related Practices

Leonie Wunderlich, Dr. Sascha Hölig and Prof. em. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink write about journalistic and non-journalistic sources in young people's news consumption in their recently published article in The International Journal for Press/Politics. The article is based on data collected as...

Legal Evaluation

Pressekodex der Polizei Baden-Württemberg

In the journal Verwaltungsblätter für Baden-Württemberg (VBlBW), Dr. Tobias Mast has analysed the press code of the Baden-Württemberg police from a legal point of view. With this individual "press code", the Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg has...

Interactive Mapping

Website Makes Journalistic Pioneers Visible

Together with the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), the HBI has launched a website that makes innovative journalistic projects visible. An interactive map of Germany provides data on various editorial offices, journalistic start-ups and projects that are develo...

Blog-Interview: Journalismus und sein Publikum

„Wir machen Journalismus mit Haltung und dazu stehen wir“

Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement findet oft im Kleinen statt. Das Magazin Veto will engagierten Menschen eine Stimme geben und auf ihre tägliche Arbeit aufmerksam machen. Im Interview spricht Textchefin Dr. Susanne Kailitz-Kunz über Engagement, ihr Publikum und Journalismus mit Halt...

Politicians on Social Media

Facebook- und Twitter-Nutzung der Kandidierenden zur Bundestagswahl 2021

In the current issue of "Media Perspektiven", PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt describes how the candidates for the 2021 Bundestag election used social media. Most important findings In the 2021 federal election, candidates significantly expanded their social media activities compared to the...

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Cybersecurity and Extraterritorial Obligations of States

In their article in the "Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations", Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Anna Sophia Tiedeke argue that the protection of cybersecurity is in the interest of all states and conclude that our understanding of extraterritorial obliga...

Blog Dossier

Sophie Scholl on Instagram: A Communication and Historical Study

The Instagram account "@ichbinsophiescholl" of the public broadcasters Südwestrundfunk [Southwest Broadcasting] (SWR) and Bayerischer Rundfunk [Bavarian Broadcasting] (BR) is a spectacular social media meme project. By having Sophie Scholl, a historical figure from the National Social...

Project in the Leibniz Research Network "Value of the Past”

Practices of Appropriating the Past

Various actors negotiate the past and make it relevant for the present in new communicative practices. The Research Lab "Practices of Appropriation" takes a closer look at historical memes and TikTok videos as well as historical Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Legal Requirements for AI Decisions

Rechtliche Anforderungen an KI-Entscheidungen in Verwaltung und Justiz

In the anthology "Arbeitswelt und KI 2030" [Working World and AI 2030], Johannes Schmees and Dr. Stephan Dreyer describe the current guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in administration and justice. They also offer cautious considerations on concerning the direction in...

Book Contribution

Back up: Can Users Sue Platforms to Reinstate Deleted Content? (Übersetzung)

Under the title "Backup: Podem os Usuários Processar as Plataformas para Restabelecer Conteúdo Removido?", Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Anna Sophia Tiedeke contributed an article to a Brazilian-German publication on "Regulating Disinformation". It i...

Background Article

Gearing up for the Digital Decade? Assessing the Enforcement Mechanisms of the EU’s Platform Regulation Bills

The EU is dedicated to becoming a "global role model for the digital economy" and to spreading its regulatory model beyond the EU's borders. In a background article for the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Amélie Heldt assesses the enforcement mechanisms of EU laws on platform reg...

Open Access!

Pandemocracy in Europe. Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19

Do we need to reconceptualise democracy as a pandemocracy? Has European multi-level governance sufficiently supported member states in the health crisis? What role have internet platforms taken on? Will democracies also suffer from long COVID? Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Konrad L...

Article in Journal

Mediennutzung und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

Is there a connection between media use practices and feelings of connectedness to local, national, regional or global communities? Hannah Immler and Dr. Sascha Hölig provide answers in Communicatio Socialis based on secondary data analyses. Immler, Hannah; Hölig, Sascha (2021)...

Launch on 15 December 2021

Core-evidence.eu – The New Knowledge Platform on Children's and Young People's Online Experiences

An international research team led by the HBI is making scientific evidence on the diverse online experiences of children and young people in Europe visible and usable. Within the framework of the evidence-based project CO:RE - Children Online: Research and Evidence coordinated by the HBI, researche...

Call for Papers!

"The East in the West“

A workshop on 22/23 March 2022 at the German Broadcasting Archive in Frankfurt will be dedicated to the radio work of German-speaking authors from Eastern Europe who fled to Germany's four occupation zones after the end of the Second World War and became active in radio after their arrival. The...

Anthology with Audio-Visual Quotations

Echt inszeniert: Historische Authentizität und Medien in der Moderne

How is historical authenticity produced and which media strategies come into play? How is history evoked, legitimised and authorised by the media? Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner, Dr. Christoph Classen and Dr. Achim Saupe (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam) together with 14 researchers addresse...

News Usage in Germany

Aktuelle Entwicklungen bei der Nachrichtennutzung in Deutschland. Befunde aus dem Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2021

In the current issue of Media Perspektiven, Dr. Sascha Hölig and Julia Behre present current developments in news consumption in Germany. The article is based on data from the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2021. You can download the article here (PDF, in German) Hölig, S.; B...

Working Paper Available for Download

Plattformregulierung im Superwahljahr 2021

In the run-up to the 2021 federal election, a team from the HBI collected real-time data in the project "Platform Governance in the Super Election Year 2021". It looked at how online platforms regulate the communication that takes place on them, how laws and local standards interact and ho...

Handbook Computational Social Science

From Frequency Counts to Contextualized Word Embeddings: The Saussurean Turn in Automatic Content Analysis

Dr. Gregor Wiedemann and Cornelia Fedtke illustrate in their contribution to the "Handbook of Computational Social Science" the semantic shift of the term "gold pieces" in the context of hate speech in the German Facebook discourse. The Handbook is published by Routledge a...

Publication

Prozedurale Vermessung: Das Kuratieren kommunikativer Räume durch soziale Netzwerke

In the journal Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht - ZUM, Amélie Heldt and Prof. Dr. Moritz Hennemann (University of Passau) write about the Facebook rulings of the Federal Court of Justice. Heldt, A.; Hennemann, M. (2021): Prozedurale Vermessung: Das Kuratieren kommunikative...

Dealing with Corona Fake News

Germany: Much Ado about Little

In their contribution to a collection of papers by The Hague Program for Cyber Norms and Leiden University, Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Martin Fertmann explain how disinformation about COVID-19 is addressed in Germany and what legal questions arise in this context. Download the collection h...

Data Recovery

Migrating the Pluragraph Project to MRML

After the end of the Pluragraph platform in November 2020, we will make data from the the project further available for research via the MRML.

Project for the European Commission

BIK Policy Map

The study, commissioned by the EU Commission, examines how the EU strategy Better Internet for Kids (BIK) is being implemented in the individual Member States and draws up a BIK Policy Map III on this basis.

Expert Workshop

Maintaining a Public Sphere in Society as an Objective of Article 5 of the Basic Law?

At the end of September, the first expert workshop for the sub-project 3 of the Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) took place. The workshop's goal was to discuss from a constitutional law perspective which preconditions German constitutional law on communication ass...

Blog zum Rechtsgutachten

Desinformations-Governance ist komplex, einfache Lösungen riskant

Im Auftrag der Landesanstalt für Medien NRW hat das Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung ein Rechtsgutachten über Risiken und Regulierungslücken im Zusammenhang mit Desinformation verfasst. Co-Autor Dr. Stephan Dreyer gibt einen Überblick über die aus seiner Sicht...

Podcast!

Social Media-Nutzung der Kandidierenden zur BTW 2021

PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt and a team of young researchers analysed the social media presence of all 6,211 candidates in the run-up to the 2021 federal elections. Honestly, is it not a bit old-fashioned to research the use of social media in election campaigns? No, says Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, because...

Published open access

M&K 4/2021

The articles in issue 4/2021 of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" (Media & Communication Studies) focus on questions such as "On the Way to Postfactual Politics?" (Olaf Hoffjann / Lucas Seeber), "Mediatised Lifestyles and Their Change through Everyday...

Expert Opinion

DESINFORMATION – RISIKEN, REGULIERUNGSLÜCKEN UND ADÄQUATE GEGENMASSNAHMEN

This expert opinion, commissioned by the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW, provides a differentiated understanding of various forms of disinformation and their risk potential. It provides an overview of current laws against the targeted dissemination of false information and shows concrete approach...

Call for Papers

New Software Reviews Section in M&K

Following up on our thematic issue "Research Software in Communication and Media Research" in M&K 1/2021, we are planning to introduce a new section for reviews of research software. For this purpose, we are asking for expressions of interest and submissions. The importance of softwar...

Blog Superwahljahr 2021

(Nischen-) Plattformen als Experimentierräume für Content Moderation

Social-Media-Plattformen unterliegen in Deutschland wenig gesetzlichen Regeln in Bezug auf nutzer:innengenerierte Inhalte. Regeln geben sie sich aber oft selbst. Wie genau sie dies tun, hat ein Forscher:innen-Team des HBI beobachtet. Im Rahmen unseres Forschungsprojektes „Platform...

HBI Expert Opinion on Disinformation

Expert Opinion on Measures against Disinformation Published

The HBI expert legal opinion "Disinformation - Risks, Regulatory Gaps and Adequate Countermeasures", commissioned by the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW [Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia], provides a differentiated understanding of various forms of disinformation and their risk...

The Value of News: The History of the German Press Agency (dpa)

The project compiles a comprehensive history of the German Press Agency from 1949 to the present. To do so, the dpa will be presented in the light of the changing society of the Federal Republic of Germany and the developments in the media landscape. The specific role and significance of the dpa as...

Article on Verfassungsblog

Wahlkampf ohne Diskurs?

Keno C. Potthast writes about constitutional concerns with the use of political microtargeting on the Verfassungsblog. Read the full article here Excerpt The Digital Services Act (DSA) is currently being negotiated in Brussels. Political microtargeting (PMT), a technique by which data of pla...

Journal Article

Don’t Shoot the Message: Regulating Disinformation Beyond Content

In the Brazilian journal for public law "Revista Direito Público", Dr Clara Iglesias Keller writes about the regulation of disinformation. The article is published as open access. Download article (PDF) Iglesias Keller, C. (2021): Don’t Shoot the Message: Regulating D...

FGZ-Blog

„Zusammenhaltssensibler Journalismus“ – Wie geht das?

Man konnte es beim Brexit beobachten, während der so genannten „Flüchtlingskrise“ und nun im Zuge von Corona: Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt rückt vor allem dann in den Fokus, wenn er gefährdet erscheint – auch in den Medien. Aber wie hängen Journalismus u...

Discussion Paper

Zusammenhaltssensibler Journalismus

A research group at the HBI discussed the role of journalism in social cohesion with experts from journalism, science, integration work and NGOs. Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Julius Reimer and Verena Albert present the findings in this impulse paper. Loosen, Wiebke; Reimer, Julius; & Al...

Podcast!

Zusammenhaltssensibler Journalismus

Is journalism responsible for social cohesion? Verena Albert talks about a project of the HBI that looks into this question. A research group of the HBI discussed the role of journalism in social cohesion with experts from journalism, science, integration work and NGOs. In four online group...

Interview

Spokesperson Changes at the RISC Section Hamburg

Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt is the new spokesperson of the Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) based at the HBI. His predecessor Prof. em. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink retired at the end of September 2021 after 35 years of research at the HBI. In an interview with Wiebke Schoon and Rom...

Blog-Interview: Journalismus und sein Publikum

„Unsere Leserschaft ist ein essenzieller Bestandteil“

Gefährliche Medizin-Fakes im Netz aufspüren und über unseriöse Heilsversprechen aufklären: Das ist die Mission des Online-Magazins MedWatch. Im Interview spricht Gründerin und Chefredakteurin Nicola Kuhrt über die ersten Jahre des Projekts, die Bedeutung ihres Publ...

BMBF Project

NOTORIOUS: The Role of Celebrities in Disinformation Campaigns

The spread of disinformation through "celebrity" communication in social media increasingly devalues the gatekeeper function of professional journalism. This BMBF-funded cooperation project is looking for underlying mechanisms to better understand the role of celebrities in disinformation...

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