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Reuters Digitals News Survey 2017: Results for Germany published
Wie die Digitalisierung öffentliche Kommunikation verändert [How Digitisation Changes Public Communication]
Flucht und Vertreibung im Rundfunk [Flight and Expulsion in Broadcasting]
Conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Historical Authenticity, the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam...
Hans-Bredow-Institut Founding Member of News Integrity Initiative (NII)
In order to find out what has to be considered for future developments of youth media protection, children and...
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From June 26th to June 29th, Dr. Jeannine Baker and Dr. Justine Lloyd from the Centre for Media History, Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia) are Visiting Fellows at the Research Centre Media History. The invitation to Hamburg is enabled by the MQ-FU-HAM Trilateral Strategic Partnership, a net...
Now online: Videos and pdfs of the lectures at the lecture and discussion event "Soziale Medien: Gefahr oder Chance für Rechtsstaat und Demokratie?!!?" [Social Media: Threats or Chance State of Law for Democracy?!!?) in the Moot Court of the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, on 16 Ju...
Mascheroni, G; Holloway, D. (Eds.) (2017): The Internet of Toys: A Report on Media and Social Discourses around Young Children and IoToys. DigiLitEY. (pdf for Download] Contributors (in alphabetical order): Cristina Aliagas, Rita Brito, Patricia Dias, Donell Holloway, Ana Jorge, Reijo Kupiainen, Cla...
Hölig, S.; Hasebrink, U. (2017): Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2017 – Ergebnisse für Deutschland [Findings for Germany]. Hamburg: Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut, Juni 2017 (Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Institut Nr. 42) (pdf)
Dr. Cornelius Puschmann will take part at the workshop of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University on June 29./30.6.2017.
Finally our new website is on-line! Full of informationen, thematically interconnected, pretty and modern. We are looking forward to your comments and helpful hints on things, we could still improve!
Discussion event "Wir wollen reden – Bürgerschaft im Diskurs" [We Want to Talk – In Conversation with the Parliament] of the parliament in Bremen together with the media authority in Bremen, with a input lecture by Lisa Merten.
8th Hamburger Mediensymposium [Hamburg Media Symposium], organised by the Hans-Bredow-Institut, the State Media Authority of Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (MA HSH) and the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce on the question how digitisation changes public communication.
Hans-Bredow-Institut (Ed.): Konstruktivismus in der Kommunikationswissenschaft [Constructivism in Communication Sciences]. Special Issue "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" 65(2). Guest Editors: Andreas Hepp, Uwe Hasebrink, Wiebke Loosen, Jo Reichertz. Nomos: Baden-Baden. ...
Amélie Pia Heldt and Anne-Kristin Polster are supporting the institute's legal scientific field since April / May and are also writing their doctoral thesis this area. Amélie Heldt studied French and German law at the Universities of Paris Ouest Nanterre and Potsdam, completed an a...
With ten lectures and presentations, the Hans Bredow Institute is represented on the annual conference of the International Communications Association at the University of California, San Diego, CA, from 25 to 29 May 2017. Seven staff members of the institute were invited to present their research r...
Is the situation of refugees in Germany really new? Or are there similarities across time and countries? What are the specifics or parallels of flight and integration processes in the past and present? The new CD on the topic of "Flight and Expulsion in Broadcasting. Audio Recordings from...
With the Draft for an Act improving Law Enforcement on Social Networks (NetzDG), the German government reacts on Hate Speech and Fake News in Social Media. The draft has provoked criticism concerning freedom of speech because it creates incentives for providers to delete contents although they have...
Hamburg, 6.4.2017. Dr. Claudia Lampert gives a lecture on "Health Promotion and Digital Media - Opportunities, Limits, Challenges" at the opening event of "New Ways in Self-Help", more
The Hans-Bredow-Institut is founding member of the newly organized „News Integrity Initiative“ (NII), which will be funded by Facebook and other organisations with $ 14 millions. A group of tech industry leaders, academic institutions, non-profits and other organizations are jointl...
Topic: Networking: Stability and Change of Social Communication Many scientists from the Hans Bredow Institute are speakers at the annual meeting of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft e. V. [German Society for Publishing and Communication Science] (...
Hans-Bredow-Institut (ed.) (2017): Flucht und Vertreibung im Rundfunk. Tondokumente aus den Jahren 1945 bis 1960 [Flight and Expulsion in Broadcasting. Audio Recordings from 1945 to 1960], conceptual design and text: Alina Laura Tiews and Hans-Ulrich Wagner. Hamburg: Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut.
Schmidt, J.-H.; Merten, L.; Hasebrink, U.; Petrich, I.; Rolfs, A (2017): Zur Relevanz von Online-Intermediären für die Meinungsbildung [Impact of Online Intermediaries on Opinion Formation]. Hamburg: Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut, März 2017 (Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Institut Nr. 4...
Dankert, K,.; Dreyer, S. (2017): Social Bots – Grenzenloser Einfluss auf den Meinungsbildungsprozess? [Social Bots - Unlimited Impact on Opinion Formation?] In: Kommunikation und Recht, Issue 2, pp. 73-78.
People with disabilities are still excluded from many media services and cannot join their friends or colleagues when they talk about television programmes. This is one of the outstanding results of a joint study carried out by the Hans-Bredow-Institut (Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink / Dr. Sascha Höli...
How can information processing be made transparent and controllable again for individuals and institutions by new technologies? In the current digital society, data are acquired, recorded and processed by new technologies in ever more areas of life. These types of data increasingly affect de...
Hans-Bredow-Institut (Hrsg.): Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 64(4).
Video recording of the Bucerius Lab Lunch Session on 19.12.2016 How Google and Facebook influenced the US election was the subject of Bucerius Lab Lunch Session # 3 at Betahaus Hamburg on December 19, 2016. Nick Diakopoulos, Fellow at the Hans Bredow Institute, presented the results of the two top...
Hölig, S.; Hasebrink, U. (2016): Nachrichtennutzung über soziale Medien im internationalen Vergleich. Ergebnisse des Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2016 [News Consumption on Social Media in International Comparison. Findings of the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2016]. In: Me...
Schmidt, J.-H.; Taddicken, M. (eds.) (2017): Handbuch Soziale Medien [Handbook Social Media]. Wiebaden: Springer VS.
Wahl, S.; Grimm, M. (2016): How to Find an Alternative: A Typology of Cancer Patients’ Information Behavior with Regard to Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In: International Journal fo Communication and Health, (10), http://communicationandhealth.ro/upload/number10/STEFANIE-WAHL.pdf
Search engines, network and multimedia platforms as well as instant messaging services are crucial elements of communication and information behaviour online. They function as intermediaries because they open up numerous different sources for their users with the help of filtering algorithms and bun...
Birkner, T.; Löblich, M.; Tiews, A. L.; Wagner, H.-U. (eds.) (2016): Neue Vielfalt. Medienpluralität und -konkurrenz in historischer Perspektive [New Variety. Media Plurality and Media Competition in Historical Perspective]. Cologne: Halem (Öffentlichkeit und Geschichte, 10 [Pub...
Grimm, M.; Wolf, S.; Lampert, C. (2016): Big, Small, Or Many Data? Eine systematische Literaturschau zu digitalen Daten in der Gesundheitskommunikation. In: A.-L. Camerini, R. Ludolph, F. Rothenfluh, F. (Hrsg.), Gesundheitskommunikation im Spannungsfeld zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Baden-Baden: Nomo...
Since October 2016, he belongs to us: Dr. Cornelius Puschmann is our new Senior Researcher as well as coordinator of the postdoc research group Algorithmed Public Spheres (APS) at the Hans Bredow Institute. From March to October 2016 he had alreday been woking part time at the institue, continuing w...
Seven researchers of the institute will be at the Annual Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association ECREA 2016, which takes place from November 9 - 12 in Prague. Furthermore, they will attend the Pre-Conference "Children, Youth and Media". The European Netw...
Accessibility plays a key role in the debate on inclusion. A significant aspect is the unimpeded access to media services for all people. Up until now, there has been no reliable data collection on how people with disabilities use media. A study conducted by the Hans-Bredow-Institut (Prof. Dr. Uwe H...
Loosen, W.; Reimer, J.; de Silva-Schmidt, F. (2016): Wenn aus Daten Journalismus wird. Eine Inhaltsanalyse der für die Data Journalism Awards 2013 bis 2015 nominierten Projekte [When Data Become Journalism. A Content Analysis of the Nominated Projects for the Data Journalism Awards from 2013 to...
The plenary panel discussion “Who Rules the Internet?” was the only public event that took place on October 6 at the AoIR2016, with about 600 guests attending. The annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers 2016 was hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Int...
A third of all media reports on the transfer of players in the Bundesliga [German Soccer League] turns out to be wrong. This is the conclusion reached by the study “Mailand oder Madrid?! Eigenschaften und Verlässlichkeit der Fußball-Transferberichterstattung in Deutschland“ [&...
Tagung des Leibniz-Forschungsverbunds Historische Authentizität, des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam und des Hans-Bredow-Instituts am 13./14.07.2017 in Potsdam, Einreichungen bis 25.03.2017 möglich „Medien“ und „Authentizität“...
Hans-Bredow-Institut (2016): Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft. 2016.3.
Hans-Bredow-Institut (2016): Jahresbericht 2015/2016. (pdf-Datei).
In order to find out what has to be considered for future developments of youth media protection, children and young people, parents and pedagogues are asked for their individual perspectives.
Lampert, C: Kühn, J. (2016): Kommunizieren, Koordinieren, Kontrollieren. Zur Rolle von mobil genutzten Instant-Messaging-Diensten in der Familie [Communicate, Coordinate, Control: About the Role of Instant Messaging Serviced Used on Mobile Devices in the Family]. In: Studies in Communication Sc...
The project MIRACLE (Machine-readable and Interoperable Age Classification Labels in Europe), a project co-financed by the EU Commission, has completed the development of a common data model for interoperable electronic age indicators at the end of July. Under the direction of the Hans-Bredow-Instit...
The Hans-Bredow-Institut writes an academic report on the current development of media in Germany for the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien [German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media]. The report will provide significant parts to the Federal Government...
How the sensitive topic cancer was addressed in the entertainment television series “Club der roten Bänder” [Red Band Society]” is the focus of this project.
Relationships between media and by media do not stop at borders. The cooperative project with the Macquarie University in Sydney investigates such transnational histories of media.
News reaches us through many sources and on many devices. The annual study of the Reuters Institute (Oxford) and the Hans-Bredow-Institut about changing news consumption shows international trends and developments.
Specialist conference "Nur Mut! Hilfebeziehungen zwischen Zwang, Handlungsdruck und Achtsamkeit [Be Brave! Helping Relationships between Compulsion, Need for Action and Mindfulness]", organised by the child protection centres together with the child protection centre in Cologne, including...
"Historische Authentizität und Medien [Historical Authenticity and Media]", joint conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Historical Authenticity, the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam and the Hans-Bredow-Institut on July 13./14, 2017 in Potsdam. Programme as pdf
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