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What does Public Service Broadcasting Provide to Society?
New Edition "Social Media": Not a Guidebook but Fundamental Basics
Algorithms decide what you see when on the Internet and in which order by deciding on the priority and contents....
If Tinder works for dating, why should it not do so for news? In this project, the intuitive principle of Tinder...
Dissertation by Alina Laura Tiews Nominated as Best Scientific Publication by a Young Researcher
BredowCast on the Topics and Organisation of the Postdoctoral Research Network "Algorithmed Public Spheres"
Fellow at Post-Doc Kolleg "Algorithmed Public Spheres"
The network project looks at the historical and today's role of the media in the Baltic Sea Region in light...
In order to find out what has to be considered for future developments of youth media protection, children and...
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Schmidt, J.-H. (2018): Social Media. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. Second updated and expanded edition.
Algorithms decide what you see when on the Internet and in which order by deciding on the priority and contents. Since it also affects opinion formation on socially relevant topics, a research team of the Hans-Bredow-Institut summarises the state of research in a report for the German Bundestag and...
If Tinder works for dating, why should it not do so for news? In this project, the intuitive principle of Tinder will be applied to journalistic contents. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research promotes the development of an innovative news and information app for the city.
Hans-Bredow-Institut (2017): Jahresbericht 2016/2017 [Annual Report in German] (pdf)
Including the article ‘Investigative Journalism for the Benefit of Public. Shedding Light on Correctiv as a New Kind of Journalism Organization Under Way’ along with contributions on journalism as a service, news consumption in Germany, communicating directly with voters in an election c...
It is official, she is entitled to call herself a doctor now: We congratulate Dr. Alina Laura Tiews sincerely on earning the doctoral degree and we are very happy for her! The dissertation "Fluchtpunkt Film" has been published by the Bebra-Verlag: Tiews, A. L. (2017): Fluchtpunkt Film. In...
What role do algorithms play for the constitution of the public spheres? Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Atilla-Filipe Cevik address this question in the postdoctoral research network “Algorithmed Public Spheres” and in this BredowCast. The postdoctoral research network “Algorithmed P...
What role do social media play for how voters inform themselves? How do social bots and fake news change election campaigns? How do they influence political opinion formation? The host Martin Fuchs and the two media researchers Jasmin Siri and Jan-Hinrik Schmidt discuss the digital world of the elec...
At the end of September, the channels will hand their proposals to the Rundfunkländerkommission [Federal State's Commission on Broadcasting], which will decide on a reform of public service broadcasting. But what does really matter? In a guest commentary in the newspaper 'Süddeutsc...
Only ten of overall 90 books made it onto the shortlist of the “Opus Primum” Award of the Volkswagen Foundation for the best publication of young researchers published in this year. The dissertation of Alina Laura Tiews is one them! The Publications that will be awarded are not only of...
Scherenberg, V.; Lampert, C. (2017): Gesundheits-Apps für Kinder. Undurchsichtiger Markt mit vielen Möglichkeiten [Health-Apps for Kids. Intransparent Market with Lots of Possibilities]. In: Dr. med. Mabuse - Zeitschrift für alle Gesundheitsberufe, Jg. 42., Nr. 229, S. 49-51.
We welcome Dr. Judith Möller from Amsterdam School of Communication Research as fellow at our post-doc Kolleq "Algorithmed Public Spheres" . Together with Dr. Cornelius Puschmann she will work on a concept for a study on how personalized search results can produce different kinds of p...
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz is part of the new permanent exhibition "Mediengeschichte/n neu erzählt" [New Tales about Media History] at the Museum für Kommunikation [for Communication] in Frankfurt. In a video statement he is one of "21 Heads Thinking Future" and reflects...
Part 2 of his findings about the role algorithmic personalization plays in Google searches about political parties and candidates Dr. Cornelius Puschmann describes in the blog entry of his post-doc kolleg "Algroithmed Public Spheres".
Following an invitation of the Volkshochschule Bremen [Adult Education Centre in Bremen], J.-H. Schmidt will give a talk on the subject of "Politische Kommunikation und Wahlkampf im Netz [Political Communication and Election Campaigns Online]" within the series "Smart Democracy"...
At the event SCICAR (Where Science Meets Computer Assisted Reporting) on 6 to 8 September 2017 at TU Dortmund, the Hans-Bredow-Institut can present two projects. "Wenn aus Daten Journalismus wird – eine wissenschaftliche Auswertung nominierter Datenjournalismus-Projekte [When Data b...
Wenn staatliche Akteure heute auch über soziale Medien mit den Bürgern kommunizieren, geht es nicht immer sachlich zu. Im neuen BredowCast spricht Daniela Friedrich mit Tobias Mast über Möglichkeiten und Grenzen staatlicher Kommunikation und diskutiert Tweets der Polizei. Nur &l...
Tiews, A. L. (2017): Fluchtpunkt Film. Integrationen von Flüchtlingen und Vertriebenen durch den deutschen Nachkriegsfilm 1945–1990 [Refuge on Screen. How Fictional Movies Integrated German Refugees and Expellees, 1945-1990]. Berlin: be.bra Wissenschaft.
The blog NiemannLab writes about Cornelius Puschmann's research results about the degree to which personalization affects people’s search results: http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/are-your-google-search-results-another-kind-of-filter-bubble-the-answer-seems-to-be-kind-of/
The dissertation by Alina Laura Tiews, Fluchtpunkt Film. Integrationen von Flüchtlingen und Vertriebenen durch den deutschen Nachkriegsfilm 1945–1990 [Refuge on Screen. How Fictional Movies Integrated German Refugees and Expellees, 1945-1990], has been published by the Be.Bra Verlag as vo...
Velicu, A.; Lampert, C. (2017): The Composite World of IoToys. In: G. Mascheroni; D. Holloway (eds.), The Internet of Toys: A Report on Media and Social Discourses around Young Children and IoToys. In: DigiLitEY, pp. 15-23 (pdf).
The Open Science Conference 2018, organized by the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0, will take place in Berlin, Germany, on March 13-14, 2018. Project presentations can be submitted until Sepember, 29th, 2017. Call for Project Presentations Open Science Conference 2018 (March 13-14, 2018 in Be...
In an interview with Axel Schröder from Radio Deutschlandfunk Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz talks about his "UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Communication and Information" at the Law Department of Universität Hamburg (in German): http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/internet-kommunikation-dynami...
Schmidt, J.-H.; Hölig, S.; Merten, L.; Hasebrink, U. (2017): Nachrichtennutzung und Meinungsbildung in Zeiten sozialer Medien [News Usage and Opinion Formation in Times of Social Media]. In: Informatik Spektrum, August 2017, Volume 40, Issue 4, pp. 358–361 DOI: 10.1007/s00287-017-105...
Dankert, K.; Dreyer, S. (2017): Autonomie und Determinismus. Was sagt das Grundgesetz zu Alltagsentscheidungen durch Software? [Autonomy and Determinism. What does the Basic Law think about Day-to-Day-Decisions by Software?] In: S. Eder, C. Mikat, A. Tillmann (eds.), Software takes command. Herausfo...
From July, 24.-29, 2017, Lisa Merten will be part of the Summer School Series on Methods for Computational Social Science teil. Organized by GESIS, Greenwich University, University of Southern California and Cornell University and supported by Volkswagen-Stiftung, the summer school focuses on m...
The introduction of the special issue "Complexity" by guest editors Christian Katzenbach and Christian Pentzold can be downloaded via the Nomos-eLibrary: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/1615-634X-2017-3-483/theoriearbeit-in-der-kommunikationswissenschaft-zwischen-komplexitaetssteiger...
Pentzold, C.; Katzenbach, C. (2017): Komplexitätssteigerung und Komplexitätsreduzierung in der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Theoriebildung [Working with Theory in Communication Studies: Complexity between Complification and Simplification]. Special issue "Medien & Kommunikatio...
With how much enthusiasm our students do research on the topic of data journalism, you can here in the new 27th BredowCast (in German language). Data journalism is the topic of out project "When ‘Data’ Becomes ‘News’: A Comparative Analysis of Computational Journalism&...
PD Dr. Wiebke Loosen will discuss the question "Internetboom: Welche Zukunft haben Radio und Fernsehen? [Internet Boom: What Future Do Radio and Television Have?] in the Deutschlandfunk radio programme 'Lebenszeit' on 7 July 2017 starting at 10:10 a.m.
Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Volker Lilienthal discuss the role of the media and their coverage of the G20 summit in Hamburg at "akademischen Tage zu G20 [Academic Days on the G20 Summit]", organised by ASta at Universität Hamburg on 5 July 2017, starting at 5 p.m. at the Department of...
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters has published the scientific part of the Federal Government Report on Communications and Media on June 27, 2017. The report gives an overview of the development of the media in Germany between 2013 and 2016. The Hans-...
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...
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...
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.
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.
Since June, 14, 2017 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!
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.
Hepp, A.; Loosen, W.; Hasebrink, U.; Reichertz, J. (2017): Konstruktivismus in der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Über die Notwendigkeit einer (erneuten) Debatte [Constructivism in Communication Studies. The Necessity of a (Renewed) Debate]. In: Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 65 (2), pp....
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...
The network project looks at the historical and today's role of the media in the Baltic Sea Region in light of current challenges and analyses historical lines of developments of migration processes. In 2017/18, the project is funded by the Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg [Hamburg Researc...
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, (Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Institut Nr. 40 [Working Pape...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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
Schmidt, J.-H.; Taddicken, M. (eds.) (2017): Handbuch Soziale Medien [Handbook Social Media]. Wiebaden: Springer VS.
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 [Big, Small, Or Many Data? A Systematic Literary Survey on Digital Data in Health Communication]. In: A.-L. Camerini, R. Ludolph, F. Rothenfluh, F....
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 [Media & Communication Studies]. 2016.3.
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.
Hans-Bredow-Institut (2016): Annual Report 2015/2016 (pdf).
Lampert, C.; Kühn, J. (2016): Kommunizieren, Koordinieren, Kontrollieren. Zur Rolle von mobil genutzten Instant-Messaging-Diensten in der Familie [Communicate, Coordinate, Control. On the Role of Used Mobile Instant Messaging Services for Families]. In: Studies in Communication Sciences, DOI: 1...
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 has written the 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 provides significant parts to the Federal Governme...
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.
English translation will follow soon An der Universität Hamburg veranstaltet Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Rodenberg in diesem Semester eine Ringvorlesung zu "Public Service und gesellschaftlichem Wandel", die im Wechsel Vorträge aus der Wissenschaft und von Vertreter(inn)en des NDR umfasst. Den...
"Jugendmedienschutzindex [Index for Youth Media Protection]", presentation of the eponymous study on 7 November 2017 in Berlin on the occasion of the 20-year anniversary of the FSM [Germany's Association for the Voluntary Self-Monitoring of Multimedia Service Providers] .
Conference "Political Science in the Digital Age" of the "International Political Science Association" (IPSA) Dec 4-6 2017 in Hannover, among others with a panel "Partizipation and the Public Sphere in Times of Digitalisation" and a presentation by J.-H. Schmidt about "How...
"Ist die Lage von Flüchtlingen in Deutschland heute wirklich neu? Flucht und Vertreibung in den Medien damals und heute" [Is the Situation of Refugees in Germany really new? Flight and Expulsion in the Media then and now], Workshop in the Series "Bildung bei Brandts" [Education...
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