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

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.

DISINFORMATION: RISKS FOR LEGAL PROTECTION OBJECTIVES, REGULATORY GAPS AND APPROPRIATE APPROACHES TO CLOSE THEM

Legal Study commissioned by the State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM)

EUROPEAN MEDIA PLATFORMS: ASSESSING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES FOR EUROPEAN CULTURE

The role of media platforms like YouTube, Netflix or NewsFeed in fostering or dismantling European identity is the key question of the EU-project EUMEPLAT.

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News, new research projects and publications from the Institute

Working mainly from home

Library and Office Secretariat Open on Tuesdays - by Appointment Only

Please note that the library of the HBI is open on Tuesdays only. After registering at bibliothek@leibniz-hbi.de, time slots will be allocated during which you can work in the library while respecting the distance regulations and wearing a mouth and nose mask. If you have any questions, please conta...

Buchbeitrag

EU Digital Services Act: The White Hope of Intermediary Regulation

Über den Digital Services Act (DSA) und die möglichen Folgen seines Inkrafttretens in derzeitiger Form schreibt Amélie Heldt im Band Digital Platform Regulation — Global Perspectives on Internet Governance. Herausgegeben wurde der Band von Terry Flew und Fiona R. Martin. Er is...

Digitalkonferenz

HBI-Forscherinnen bei re:publica 2022

Christina Dinar und Anna von Garmissen nehmen Teil an der re:publica, einer der wichtigsten Digitalkonferenzen Deutschlands. Sie findet von 8. bis 10. Juni 2022 unter dem Thema Any Way The Wind Blows in Berlin statt. Anna von Garmissen wird das Panel „Public value broadcasting: Any Way...

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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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 "...

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...

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...

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...

Project funded by Stiftung Mercator

Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders

How can platform councils ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account when setting and implementing private platform rules? An inquiry into the meaning and limits of democracy online.

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...

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.

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?

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Open Access!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Blog-Artikel im Corona-Dossier

Kommunikation in Krisen: die Hamburger 2G-Option

Wie die in der Covid-19-Krise relevanten Akteure kommunizieren, welche Ziele und kommunikative Praktiken sich zeigen, hat ein HBI-Team im Projekt „Kommunikation in Krisen“ untersucht. Am Beispiel der Hamburger 2G-Option erläutert Corinna Endreß einige Studienergebnisse. Von Co...

Interdisciplinary BMBF Project

Security for Children in the Digital World

As part of the project "Security for Children in the Digital World", funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research, the HBI is researching the legal framework concerning online risks for children. It will develop ways of optimally interlinking actors and measures and investigate...

Tribute to Uwe Hasebrink

Medienumgebungen: Auf den Spuren von Uwe Hasebrink

Uwe Hasebrink retired at the end of September 2021. For more than 35 years, he worked at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut; first as a research consultant, then for many years as a scientific director and a member of the Board of Directors. The brochure "Media Env...

Federal Election 2021

Platform Governance in the Super Election Year 2021

In the run-up to the 2021 federal election, a team from the HBI collected real-time data on how platforms govern online speech, how laws and local standards interact, and how platform practices changed in the shadow of EU regulation in the heated atmosphere of the run-up to the German federal electi...

We will miss him dearly!

Uwe Hasebrink Retired

On 1 October 2021, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink, Director of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI), retired early for private reasons. Having been at the Institute since 1986, and a member of the Board of Directors from 1998, he put the Institute on a stable footing for th...

Extension of DFG Project

Qualitative Panel Study on Media Socialisation Funded for Another Three Years

How family life changes over time and what significance the use of (digital) media has for shaping the relationships between family members is being researched by a team at the HBI led by Dr. Claudia Lampert together with the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kammerl). The joint project &quo...

Blogpost zum Superwahljahr 2021

Es war einmal ein Tweet: Wie transparent soll Wahlkampf sein?

Eine HBI-Studie zum Superwahljahr 2021 zeigt: Tweets von Politiker:innen einzelner im Bundestag vertretener Parteien verschwinden überdurchschnittlich häufig. Grund genug, genauer hinzuschauen. Aber die Nutzungsbedingungen von Twitter machen das riskant. von Felix Victor Münch ...

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Private Grenzen für öffentliches Querdenken

Bislang war es für Plattformen leichter, gegen Fake Accounts vorzugehen, als gegen Accounts von „authentischen Personen“. Nun hat Facebook neue Richtlinien gegen schädliche Netzwerke echter Accounts eingeführt und zahlreiche Konten und Seiten der Querdenker-Bewegung gel&ou...

Blog-Dossier Superwahljahr 2021

Recht und Macht der App Stores

Neben Sozialen Netzwerken beeinflussen App Stores maßgeblich, welche Inhalte online verfügbar sind. Ebenso wie bei Sozialen Netzwerken wirft das Verhalten von App Stores die Frage auf, welche Akteur:innen jenseits des Staats demokratisch legitimiert sind zu entscheiden, wer (wie) im Inter...

Podcast!

Plattformregulierung: Von den Kleinen lernen

Debates about platform regulation often revolve around the big players like Google, Facebook and Twitter. However, it is worth looking at smaller and medium-sized platforms, says Christina Dinar in the BredowCast. According to Christina Dinar's definition, a platform is considered smal...

Blog Platform Governance

Can Platforms Cancel Politicians?

An international study led by the HBI provides a first comparative overview of how societies and governments in 15 countries react to private power over political actors. by Martin Fertmann, Matthias C. Kettemann and Mara Barthelmes Private power over public speech is often contested, but the...

Findings of the UNESCO Internet Universality Indicators

Study on State of the Internet in Germany Published

The overall state of the internet is good. This is one outcome of a study to assess internet development conducted by an HBI team led by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann on behalf of the German Commission for UNESCO. For the study, the team applied the UNESCO Internet Un...

DFG Project Media Socialisation

Connected Kids: Socialisation in a Changing Media Environment

Children and young people use media to establish their position within their respective social groups and contexts. The role their media repertoires and communicative practices play in this and how these change over time is being examined in a qualitative longitudinal study with colleagues from the...

International Collaboration

Cooperation with the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory of the University of Queensland

The Media Research Methods Lab (MRML), which was launched at the HBI a year ago, has agreed to work closely with the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Australia. LADAL's mission is to teach and...

Book Contribution

Mehrebenensystem: Digitalpolitik von technischen Standards über staatliche Normen bis zum digitalen Völkerrecht

In this contribution for an anthology on digital policy, Matthias C. Kettemann analyses how norms emerge at different levels that influence the shaping of online communication worlds. Using examples such as the setting of rules through technical standards, through soft law, through national and inte...

Project for the BMBF

Communication in Times of Crisis

How do communications change in a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic? What role do actors from science, politics and the media take over? How do they deal with uncertainty from this situation? A project that reviewed existing studies and interviewed experts provided answers to this question.

Working Paper

Kommunikation in Krisen

This working paper shows communicative processes in the current COVID-19 crisis based on systematic literature research and interviews with experts from different stakeholder areas. It was compiled within the framework of the project "Communication in Crises" funded by the Federal Ministry...

Open Access Publication!

M&K 3/2021

The articles in issue 3/2021 of M&K focus on everyday practices of digital participation in neighbourhoods and cities (Nitschke/Schweiger), the digitalisation of lifestyle politics (Leißner) and the use of scientists as opportune witnesses (Anter). Since 2021, M&K has been publi...

Congratulations!

Matthias C. Kettemann Appointed Professor at the University of Innsbruck

Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann took up the professorship for Innovation, Theory and Philosophy of Law at the Department of Legal Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck on 1 September 2021. At the same time, he will remain with the HBI as spokesperson for Research Programme 2 "...

Blog: Call For Better Online Governance

Twitter, Trump and the Taliban

How come the Taliban have access to social media while former President Trump does not? The short answer is that Trump has deliberately violated the internal speech rules of social media companies before being banned while certain Taliban and Taliban-affiliated accounts have not done so recentl...

Blog zum Super-Wahljahr 2021

Leitfaden für einen fairen Online-Wahlkampf

Für wahlberechtigte Nutzer*innen und Wahlkämpfer*innen aller Parteien hat ein Team um Prof. Matthias C. Kettemann gemeinsam mit der Beratungsstelle für Betroffene digitaler Gewalt, HateAid, einen Leitfaden zum Wahl-Watching entwickelt. Besonders im Superwahljahr sind alle gefragt, in...

Article in Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik

Anspruch und Wirklichkeit der Plattformregulierung

In the journal Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik, PD Matthias C. Kettemann, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Martin Fertmann ask whether the digital legal acts planned by the European Commission can live up to their claims. Kettemann, M. C.; Schulz, W.; Fertmann, M. (2021): Anspruch und Wirklichkeit...

Platform Regulation

Can Platforms Cancel Politicians?

This working paper examines how private online platforms in 15 European countries deal with political actors. It was published by Martin Fertmann and PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann as part of the GDHRNet Working Paper Series and is available free of charge as an open access publication. Fertman...

Podcast!

Literatur im Radio

Literature and radio share a special relationship - from the earliest days of radio to the present. Senior Researcher Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner talks to Johanna Sebauer about the development of a real "symbiosis". Shortly after the first radio broadcast in Germany in October 1923, wri...

Blog zum Superwahljahr 2021

Wahl-Watching

Mit Blick auf die Bundestagswahl 2021 hat ein Forscher*innenteam des HBI mit den sechs Parlamentsparteien gesprochen und anhand eines Fragebogens ausgewertet, wie sie ihren Online-Wahlkampf organisieren. von Mara Barthelmes, Vivienne Gold, Lena Hinrichs, Vincent Hofmann, Matthias C. Kettemann...

Open Access!

Audio-Podcasts als Instrument der Rechtswissenschaftskommunikation

In the article, Matthias K. Klatt, Keno C. Potthast and Alina Funk (University of Hamburg) give an overview of podcasts in legal communication. The article was published in the journal RuZ - Recht und Zugang as an open access publication. Download the article here (pdf, in German) Abstr...

Blog zum Superwahljahr 2021

Werbung auf Social Media

Rechtliche Aspekte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Bundestagswahlkampfs von Vincent Hofmann Dieser Artikel ist Teil einer Serie zur Platform-Governance im Superwahljahr 2021. Zusammenfassung Werbung hat neben der enormen wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung eine besondere Rolle i...

Blog zum Superwahljahr 2021

Komplementär oder konkurrierend: NetzDG und DSA

Die Zukunft des deutschen Sonderwegs im Lichte europäischer Plattformregulierung von Linda Schleif und Matthias C. Kettemann Dieser Artikel ist Teil einer Serie zur Platform-Governance im Superwahljahr 2021. 1. Einleitung Zwar sieht der Digital Services Act (DAS) keine a...

Blog zum Superwahljahr 2021

Von den Kleinen (Plattformen) lernen?

In Debatten über Plattformregulierung geht es oft nur um die ganz großen Player – Facebook, Google, Twitter. Im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2021 nimmt ein interdisziplinäres Team des HBI nun auch kleinere und mittlere Online-Plattformen in den Focus und untersucht deren Umgang m...

Participants Wanted!

Survey on Stressful Online Experiences

As part of her doctoral project, Kira Thiel wants to find out what stressful experiences adolescents and young adults have on the internet and how they deal with them. She is currently looking for young people between the ages of 12 and 17 who want to take part in a survey about their online...

Summa cum laude for Dissertation

Congratulations, Matthias Klatt!

We cannot stop celebrating: Matthias K. Klatt successfully defended his dissertation on “Sondervoten am Bundesverfassungericht [Dissenting Opinions at the Federal Constitutional Court]" (summa cum laude) on 4 August 2021. Congratulations, Matthias! Matthias K. Klatt has been a rese...

Congratulations!

Florian Wittner: summa cum laude!

Florian Wittner successfully defended his dissertation on the topic of "Die datenschutzrechtlichen Verantwortlichkeit im Kontext der verteilten Verarbeitungsrealität – Versuch einer Weiterentwicklung und Neukonzeption [Data Protection Accountability in the Context of Distributed Proc...

New Article

Keeping on Top of the World: Online News Usage in China, the United States and Five European Countries

In their article, Dr. Sascha Hölig, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Julia Behre provide insights into the use of online news in seven countries with different media systems, such as China and the USA. Read more about where the differences and similarities in news use are and what influences it in t...

Open Access!

Content Analyses of User Comments in Online Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review Spanning Communication Studies and Computer Science

In their article, Julius Reimer, Wiebke Loosen and Lisa Merten, together with Marlo Häring and Walid Maalej, present a systematic literature review on content analysis of user comments in a journalistic context. The article has been published as an open access publication in the journal Digital...

Open Access!

Algorithmische Selektion und Privatheit. Aufmerksamkeitssteuerung durch Social Media-Plattformen als Autonomieeingriff?

In this chapter, Stephan Dreyer und Amélie Heldt focus on privacy and the general right of personality in relation to algorithmic selection procedures. They point out where gaps exist and how these could be closed. Their chapter as well as the anthology have been published in the Nomos eLibra...

Interview

"It is important to build a bond of trust"

In an interview with wissenschaftskommunikation.de, Irene Broer talks about her ethnographic study of editorial offices at the Science Media Center Germany (SMC). The questions were asked by Inga Dreyer. Ms Broer, how did you get the idea to get involved with the Science Media Center i...

Podcast!

BredowCast67 - Porno-Plattformen und das Problem ihrer Regulierung

The regulatory discourse has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to porn platforms, say legal experts Valerie Rhein and Martin Fertmann. Among the most visited websites worldwide are numerous porn sites. That is hardly surprising. However, what is surprising is that these highly frequented si...

Interview: Journalismus und sein Publikum

„Ohne das Publikum würde ich nicht das machen, was ich mache“

Mit dem Projekt WasmitWirtschaft möchte Maximilian Nowroth jungen Menschen Wirtschaftsthemen näherbringen. Im Interview erzählt er, wo er sein Publikum findet und wie die Corona-Pandemie ihm persönlich geholfen hat. von Tim van Olphen Bevor der gebürtige Düsseldo...

Article Available for Download

Informationsorientierung und Informiertheit bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen in Deutschland: Ergebnisse aus dem #UseTheNews-Projekt

A summary of the study #UseTheNews, written by Dr. Sascha Hölig, Leonie Wunderlich and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink, has been published in issue 6/21 of the journal Media Perspektiven: Download the full text (2 MB, PDF, in German). Hölig, S., Wunderlich, L., & Hasebrink, U. (2021). I...

Tips and Tools

Praxisbuch Digitale Zusammenarbeit in der Kommunalpolitik

Together with editor Anne Haller and co-author Dennis Eighteen, Katharina Mosene writes about tools and tips for digital cooperation in local politics. It was written during the Corona crisis, and one year later the authors are convinced that many of the tools presented will survive the pandemic. Th...

Podcast!

BredowCast 66 - Nachrichtennutzung in Deutschland

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021 surveyed news usage behaviour in 46 countries worldwide. The findings for Germany were provided by the HBI. Co-author Julia Behre explains the findings in this BredowCast. Germans still prefer to get their news from linear television. Although its cr...

News Usage in Germany 2021

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021: Ergebnisse für Deutschland

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021: Findings for Germany The Reuters Institute Digital News Report on news usage in international comparison is published for the tenth time in a row. The German part of the study published here was conducted by Dr. Sascha Hölig, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hase...

Humans and Technology

10 Thesen zu Zukunftsthemen der Technikwissenschaften für eine nachhaltige Technologieentwicklung mit dem Menschen im Mittelpunkt

Matthias C. Kettemann, Martin Fertmann, Vincent Hofmann and Mesut Bayraktar, together with Sissy-Ve Basmer-Birkenfeld, Regina Schönherr and Anna Engelhardt, have written 10 theses on people and sustainable technology development. Available at Junge Forum: Technikwissenschaften [Young Forum: Sci...

Project Findings Available for Download

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021 Published

The German findings of the "Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021" on news usage in international comparison show that almost half of internet users receive misinformation about the coronavirus. The greatest concerns about encountering false information about the coronavirus are towar...

Blog Article

One Council to Rule Them All: Can Social Media Become More Democratic?

In their article on the Digital Society Blog, Martin Fertmann and Matthias C. Kettemann explain how social media councils can contribute to making platforms more democratic. Read the article here (online) Fertmann, M.; Kettemann, M. C. (2021): One Council to Rule Them All: Can Social Media Become...

Article in Journal of Information Policy

Competent Third Parties and Content Moderation on Platforms: Potentials of Independent Decision-Making Bodies from a Governance Structure Perspective

Amélie Heldt and Stephan Dreyer write about content moderation and the potential of independent decision-making bodies on online platforms. Their article is published as open access in the Journal of Information Policy. You can download the article here (pdf) Heldt, A., & Dreyer,...

Intermediaries vs. States or Intermediaries and States: Democracy in the Post-Intermediation Age

In their conference paper, Martin Fertmann and Matthias C. Kettemann write about intermediaries and freedom of expression. The conference paper is available as an open access publication. Artikel available for download (pdf) Abstract Humans are social beings. We experience ourselves through...

Podcast!

Intermediäre in der Wissenschaftskommunikation

With the Science Media Center Germany, Germany has a centre of expertise that supports journalists in reporting on scientific topics. Irene Broer and Louisa Pröschel examined the centre and talk about it in the BredowCast. The Science Media Center Germany (SMC) works at the interface wh...

Working Paper Available for Download

Das Science Media Center Germany

Irene Broer and Louisa Pröschel took a closer look at the Science Media Center Germany and its role between science and journalism. The findings of their ethnographic study are now available for download as No. 57 in the series "Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Instituts [Working Papers of t...

Blog Article

Siegfried Lenz: Der Schriftsteller als Medienarbeiter

On the blog of the Historical Commission of the ARD, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes about how the author Siegfried Lenz used the media. To the article (online, in German) Abstract There are "treasures" in the archives of the public broadcasters that need to be unearthed. This or something...

Media Regulation in India

Fighting Platforms and the People, Not the Pandemic: #ResignModi and Disinformation Governance in India – An Update

On the Verfassungsblog, Matthias C. Kettemann, Maximilian Beyer and Sangeeta Mahapatra give us an update about the state of Twitter in India. In their follow-up, they write about how the Indian government's new regulations may affect social media platforms. You can read the article here (online...

Blog zum Superwahljahr 2021

Rechtlicher Rahmen des Online-Bundestagswahlkampfs

Der Normenkatalog für den Online-Wahlkampf nimmt auch die Betreiber*innen der großen Online-Plattformen in die Pflicht. Dieser Text gibt einen Überblick über die rechtlichen Verpflichtungen von Parteien und Plattformen. Von Matthias C. Kettemann, Vincent Hofmann, Mara Barthelme...

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