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HBI Coordinates Knowledge Forum for "Small Tech" Platforms

A regular policy table is to facilitate future exchanges between representatives of small and medium-sized social media platforms and the scientific community. Researchers of the HBI make scientific findings available in dialog with practitioners. At the same time, the practical experience of...

New Guest Researcher from Vienna

A Warm Welcome to Maximilian Brockhaus

We welcome our new guest researcher Maximilian Brockhaus from the University of Vienna. He will continue his research on school radio and school television in Austria and Europe between 1924–1993 at the HBI until the end of January 2024. Maximilian Brockhaus has been a university assistant (p...

RISC Symposium

Media Change, Cohesion and Social Change

Researchers from the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) discussed the topic of "Media Change, Cohesion and Social Change" in Hamburg at the end of September. The Social Media Observatory (SMO) presented current research results: PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt gave a presentatio...

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RISC Hamburg Introduces Itself

In a 5-minute video, some researchers from the Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) introduce themselves and their projects. Irene Broer, Aditya Kumar, Wiebke Loosen, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Wiebke Schoon and Rahel Winter also explain what they think about cohesion in...

Social Media as a Threat to Democracy?

Judith Möller as a Guest on arte

HBI researcher Judith Möller was a guest on the arte programme "Agree to Disagree" and discussed with psychologist and scientist Bertolt Meyer the impact of social media on users as well as on our democracy as a whole. Can fake news and conspiracy theories undermine governments by dis...

Podcast!

Sicherheit für Kinder und Jugendliche im Netz

In this BredowCast, lawyer Sünje Andresen and media researcher Kira Thiel report on the dangers that lurk for adolescents on the internet and how safety can nevertheless be established. The two researchers come from different disciplines and have just as different perspectives on the topic:...

Use It Free of Charge

Database of Public Spokespersons

The "Database of Public Spokespersons" (DBÖS) offers a comprehensive collection of the most relevant German social media accounts on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram and systematises actors who contribute to public communication. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Felix Münch and Li...

Project Results in brief

Safety for Children in the Digital World: Most Important Findings in English

Numerous studies show that children increasingly use social networking sites such as TikTok, Instagram and BeReal at an earlier age and to a greater extent to search for information, discuss ideas or feel connected to others. However, interactions with others in various online communities also pose...

Cooperation Project for VW Foundation

Hate Speech and Hostility towards Science

In recent decades, there has been an increase in the number of attacks on scientists through digital platforms for science communication and the political desire for more social impact. The climate debate of the past few years has made this phenomenon very clear. Most recently, researchers were at...

Podcast!

Die Denkwerkstatt als wissenschaftliche Methode

Irene Broer has chosen the think tank as the survey method for her current research project. She explains the advantages of this innovative transfer-oriented format in the BredowCast. You have to imagine a think tank as a protected space where people are invited to express themselves completely f...

German Findings of "Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023" Published

News Fatigue in Germany on the Rise

Interest in news continued to decline in 2023. 52 per cent of adult internet users in Germany say that they are extremely or very interested in news (2022: 57%). The reach of news overall is also slightly declining in the long-term view. 89 per cent of adult internet users in Germany read, listen to...

Presentations on YouTube

The HBI at the re:publica 2023

The HBI was represented at the 17th edition of re:publica with two presentations and a panel discussion. Some of the contributions were recorded and are now available on the event's YouTube channel. On the first day of the conference, our PhD students Josefa Francke and Jan Rau introduced...

Review of the 13th Hamburg Media Symposium

Influence and Responsibility of Social Media Content Creators

About 200 guests came to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce on 30 May 2023 to discuss the social significance of social media content creators with experts from academia and practice. The theme of this year's event was "Just Saving the World for a Moment? Influence and Responsibility of Social...

Podcast!

Bessere Regeln für Zugang zu Plattformdaten?

The European Union's Digital Services Act requires large online platforms to provide access for science in the future. A potential milestone for research into digital phenomena. The two internet researchers Jan Rau and Vincent Hofmann explain what needs to be considered for the law to be of op...

First Place!

DGPuK Journal Article Award 2023 for Our Researchers

Wiebke Loosen, Stephan Dreyer, Wolfgang Schulz and their co-authors were awarded first place in the DGPuK Journal Article Award 2023 for their article "Von der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion zur kommunikativen KI" [From Human-Machine Interaction to Communicative AI]. KI as a Research Object...

73rd Annual Conference

The HBI at the ICA 2023 in Toronto

Media researchers from all over the world will travel to Toronto from May 25th to 29th to share their current studies at the largest conference for communication studies, the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Several members of the HBI will also be there to pres...

Scientific Publishing

Our Journal M&K Becomes More English

From now on, German-speaking authors will also be able to submit articles in English to our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (M&K)" [Media & Communication Studies]. Until now, this was only possible for those who did not speak German. M&K is published with texts...

Podcast!

Medienmosaik Schweiz

In this BredowCast, media researcher Manuel Puppis talks about the peculiarities of the media system in Switzerland. Switzerland has 8.7 million inhabitants, one tenth of Germany, with four language regions. How does a media system function in such a small-scale linguistic field? "Basically...

Student Assistant Published Article

„Schadensersatz ohne Schaden“ nach der DSGVO?

Lennart Schiek, student assistant at the HBI, has published an essay in the most cited and oldest German journal on data law, "Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD". In his article, he undertakes an attempt to categorise Article 82 of the GDPR from a civil-dogmatic point of view. Link to...

A Classic Celebrates Its Birthday

60 Years "Psychology of Mass Communication"

In 1963, the communication scientist and media researcher Gerhard Maletzke published his book "Psychologie der Massenkommunikation" (Psychology of Mass Communication), which is still considered a fundamental work of media research today. Maletze was a researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut...

Podcast!

Mit Influencer*innen Nachrichtenmuffel erreichen?

Influencers could succeed in reaching an audience that is not interested in news about political issues at all. Hannah Immler and Dr. Lisa Merten discovered this in an elaborate Instagram study. People who tend to avoid news in their everyday lives can hardly be reached by traditional media with...

"Platform Governance"

Summer School in Delhi 2023

Following a two-year pandemic break, the Media Law Summer School, co-organised by the HBI, took place again in Delhi, India, from 20 to 26 March. In addition to Director Wolfgang Schulz, HBI research assistants Vincent Hofmann and Christian Ollig took part. This year's topic was "Platform G...

Guest Researcher

Manuel Puppis for 2 months at HBI

In March and April 2023, we welcome Prof. Dr. Manuel Puppis as a visiting researcher at HBI. Manuel Puppis is Full Professor of Media Structures and Governance in the Department of Communication and Media Research DCM, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He also serves as vice-chair of th...

Study Launch

Political Media Use in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

A new study by the HBI investigates how people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania inform themselves about politics and other socially relevant topics in their federal state and what their general attitudes towards politics are. The telephone survey will start in February 2023 and will last abou...

Public Service Broadcasting

Sascha Hölig Advises ZDF Television Council on Quality Measurement

Dr. Sascha Hölig will be part of a panel of experts advising the ZDF Television Council as of March 2023 with his expertise as a researcher. ZDF wants to make the quality of its programming comprehensible and transparently measurable in the future and is seeking support from the scientif...

We are thrilled!

Judith Möller Is New Professor at HBI

We welcome our new colleague Judith Möller! The internationally highly renowned communication scientist from the University of Amsterdam, takes over the professorship "Empirical Communication Research, especially Media Use and Social Media Effects" at the University of Hamburg in coop...

Podcast!

Medical Controversies Online

Magdalena Góralska is a guest researcher at the HBI and explores how digital communication influences medical debates. In this BredowCast, she gives an insight into the latest findings of her research. As part of her doctoral project at the University of Warsaw, Magdalena Góralska i...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)....

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...

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....

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 small...

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...

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...

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 "...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 cree...

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 whe...

11 th Hamburg Media Symposium Available as Video

Can Media Law Promote Social Cohesion?

How do rules for (better) digital communication for tomorrow's society emerge? On 27 May 2021, PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Amélie Pia Heldt and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz explored this question from the perspective of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (Sub-Institute Hamburg) as well as...

Bredows on Tour

ICA 2021: Contributions of the HBI at a Glance

This year’s theme of the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), the world's largest conference for communication studies, is "Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice." As in the previous year, the...

Online Article

"Supreme Court" or Fig Leaf?

In the "Pros and Cons" section of the online magazine leibniz leibniz published by the Leibniz Association, PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Julian C. York discuss the topic of "Self-Regulation on Facebook". Matthias C. Kettemann will start the discussion. According to him, Face...

Point of View

Private Macht und Private Gewaltenteilung

In their article in Tagesspiegel Background, Martin Fertmann and PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann discuss who should determine what could be said on platforms, how institutions can be designed for this and the role of the Facebook Oversight Board. Abstract Few court decisions are as eagerly awai...

Call for Participation!

Virtual Research Sprint: “Toward an African Narrative on Digital Sovereignty”

A virtual research sprint within the framework of our project "Ethics of Digitalisation" will focus on the African perspective on the topic of digital sovereignty from 7 June to 30 July 2021. It is hosted by the University of Johannesburg as part of the "Ethics of Digitalisatio...

Study Published

How Do Young People Inform Themselves?

Four very different types of news use by young people have been revealed in a recent study by the HBI, which provides new insights for media companies and media education. The study "#UseTheNews - News Usage and News Literacy in the Digital Age" found out that there are great differences i...

Podcast!

Wie informieren sich junge Menschen?

For the first time, a scientific study examined the news consumption of young people in detail. Author Leonie Wunderlich talks about the study in the BredowCast. The common prejudice that adolescents and young adults are not interested in news and only hang out with their favourite YouTubers on th...

Podcast!

Mit Memes Geschichte kommunizieren

Memes have become a language of the internet. Those who do not master them miss some statements and punchlines. Media historians Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner and Hermann Breitenborn explain why it is worth examining memes from a communication science perspective and how history is communicated via...

Speed Dating with Science

Book A Scientist

Speed dating with science - at "Book a Scientist" on 18 March, Leibniz researchers will once again answer questions on topics that touch our everyday lives. HBI researcher PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann will be taking part as an expert. His topic will be "Who says what you can say onli...

Research on Platform Regulation

First Annual Conference of the Platform Governance Research Network

The newly founded Platform Governance Research Network aims to advance research on platform regulation and promote international cooperation in this field. The first annual conference of the network will take place from 24 to 26 March 2021. The first two days of the conference will be focused...

EU Study

Stephan Dreyer Expert on Germany for EU Study

On 1 February 2021, the EU Commission published a comprehensive assessment of current market developments, technical approaches and regulatory trends with regard to the three topics of video-sharing platforms, media ownership and signal integrity in audio-visual media services. It analyses the situa...

Podcast!

Sturm aufs Kapitol, Trump und Twitter

After the "Storming of the Capitol" on 6 January 2021 in Washington D.C., political scientist Jan Rau and media lawyer Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann discuss what role the media play in this – and whether something like this could happen in Germany as well. The society in the USA is di...

Thank you!

Thank You for All the Good Things This Year!

In addition to all the efforts required this year, it has also opened up some new worlds for us. Stimulating digital event formats (Leibniz Media Lunch Talks and Leibniz Media Lectures) have emerged, highly exciting projects have started, first and foremost our Hamburg branch of the "Research I...

Open Access Gold for M&K

M&K Published Open Access as of 2021

Starting in 2021, our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft [Media & Communication Studies]" will be published open access! All future issues as well as all issues published since 2000 can then be accessed free of charge via the eLibrary of Nomos Verlag at https://www.m-und-...

Annual Report 2019 Available for Download

Our 1st Year in the Leibniz Association: Annual Report 2019

2019 - Our first research year as the "Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI)"! The evaluation for this admission demanded a lot from us, but afterwards we were welcomed with open arms into the community of the Leibniz Institutes. Our annual report for 2019 shows...

Recommendations for Parents

Recommendations for Action to Handle Child Influences

Cologne/Hamburg, 14.12.2020. Children are more and more active as influencers on social platforms like YouTube, TikTok or Instagram. They present themselves and their everyday life to a large number of people - often completely without reflection regarding the information they reveal about themselve...

Podcast!

Wie wird man Medienrechts-Forscher*in?

Dr. Stephan Dreyer is a researcher in media law. In this BredowCast episode, he tells us how he became one. Even as a young student, it was clear to Stephan that he would not become a sly lawyer later on. During his first internship in a law firm, he had to find out that "lawyers are there to a...

Podcast

Regulierung von Telegram und Zoom?

Contents on Telegram and Zoom are hardly subject to legal control or platform internal moderation. Should it stay that way? The media law experts Amélie Heldt and Martin Fertmann are weighing up the options. At least since Corona we know the platforms Zoom and Telegram a little better...

Video Recordings Online!

Internet Governance Forum 2020

Several colleagues from the HBI took part in the 15th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which ended yesterday. From 2 - 17 November 2020, actors from politics, science and civil society discussed our digital future and related policy issues under the topic "Internet for Human Resilience a...

Podcast!

Das HBI auf der Europäischen Medienkonferenz

The media legal experts Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Amélie Heldt report on the EU media conference and explain the complex interaction between science and politics. For four months, from July to October 2020, our Institute provided scientific support for the EU media conference. The...

RISC Team Complete

Meet the Newest Members of Our FGZ Team!

In the next years, we will realise five projects at the HBI in Hamburg as part of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC). We are happy to welcome a few new colleagues into the team, which is now complete. The RISC has a decentralised structure and is supported by ten other research institutio...

Call for Papers!

Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Journalism Research - Journalism Interdisciplinary

For a planned thematic issue of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft [Media & Communication Studies]" (M&K) we are looking for contributions that deal with forms of interdisciplinary journalism research, interdisciplinary questions about journalism as well as with t...

Media Research Methods Lab

HBI founds "Methods Lab"

In the recently founded Media Research Methods Lab (MRML), the HBI bundles its methodological expertise in one organisational unit. What is new is the combination of established social science methods with novel digital procedures. The HBI is pleased to welcome Dr. Gregor Wiedemann, who holds...

Interview in "Frag Leibniz"

Do Print Media Still Exist in the Future?

After professional journals, newspapers will be the next print medium to disappear, says Hermann-Dieter Schröder in his contribution to "Frag Leibniz [Ask Leibniz]", a campaign by the Leibniz Association. In the long run, print media will largely disappear. They will be replaced by el...

Podcast Episode!

Wie wird man Medienforscher*in?

Wiebke Loosen is one of the best-known journalism researchers in Germany. In this BredowCast she talks to Johanna Sebauer about how her professional career has developed. In the end, it might have been her aversion to chemistry, which made Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen a journalism researcher. After all...

Video: First Findings from UNESCO Study

Almost All Germans Use (Comparatively Slow) Internet

95 per cent of all households in Germany have Internet access. 86 per cent use it, in the age group of 16-54 years it is 99 per cent. However, fast Internet access is still unequally distributed. These are initial findings from the study "The State of the Internet in Germany" presen...

Podcast Episode!

Ethnographic Media Research

To find out how science journalists do their job, Irene Broer became one herself. Applying the research method ethnography, she spent several weeks amidst a team of science journalists. In this BredowCast episode, she explains what this endeavour entailed and why ethnography is a useful method to...

Book a Scientist!

Speed Dating with Science

The longing for directions is great when the world is upside down. In the Leibniz Association, around 20,000 people are working to explore the issues facing mankind - and in doing so are pointing the way to new perspectives and ways forward. At »Book a Scienstist« on 18 August 2020, more...

Worldwide Research Project under the Patronage of the Federal President of Germany

Global Dialogue on the Ethics of Digitalisation

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier launched the two-year project "Ethics of Digitalisation - from Principles to Practices" on 17 August 2020 in Schloss Bellevue with a kick-off event. Under the umbrella of the NoC (Global Network of Internet and Society Research Center), the HBI and...

Podcast!

BredowCast 56: Europäische Medienordnung

In this episode of the BredowCast, media lawyers Theresa Josephine Seipp and Dr. Stephan Dreyer explain why the European media need a coherent order and why this is so difficult to achieve. Within the framework of the German EU Council Presidency, the Federal Government Commissioner for Cult...

New Podcast Episode!

Die Normative Ordnung des Internets

Matthias C. Kettemann writes about the emergence and nature of the normative order of the Internet in his new book "The Normative Order of the Internet", which can be downloaded for free. In this BredowCast he gives a first insight into the topic. There are rules on the Internet. That mu...

Kick-Off for the EU Medien Conference

"Pluralism and Responsibility. Media in the Digital Society"

The digital conference series "Pluralism and Responsibility. Media in the Digital Society" - on the occasion of Germany's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 - offers an overview of current challenges for the European media landscape and poses central questions about its f...

Apply until 15 July 2020!

Call for Research Sprint "AI and Platform Governance"

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) invites you to a research sprint on "AI and Platform Governance“ for the project "The Ethics of Digitalisation". Doctoral students and post-docs from IT, law, political science or similar fields can apply. The...

Podcast

Even on the Internet We Are Not Equal

Political scientist Katharina Mosene explores the Internet from an intersectional feminist perspective. In the BredowCast she talks about how inequality and discrimination arise on the Internet, how they are researched and what can be done about them. In the early 2000s, the Internet was still th...

Social Cohesion in the MDR Broadcasting Area

Feeling of Cohesion Has Increased during Corona

More than 65 percent of the population in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia think that the MDR sets topics that are important for society and makes sure that people are not excluded and treated with disrespect. This is one of the results of a representative study conducted by the MDR in cooperatio...

Congratulations!

Johanna Sebauer Receives Residency Scholarship at the mare-Künstlerhaus

The Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media and the Roger Willemsen Foundation enable five Hamburg artists, including Johanna Sebauer, to spend four weeks at Roger Willemsen's former villa in Wentorf working on their projects. Out of approximately 30 applications, the Board of Trustees of the Roge...

Article on BBC History

Emerging from the siege

Visitors to Hamburg cannot help but be impressed by the magnificent Elbphilharmonie concert hall situated on the banks of the river Elbe. Referred to affectionally as the ‘Elphi’ by locals, this landmark building opened its doors in 2017. However, the Elphi’s resident ensemble, the...

Trends in News Usage

German Findings of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 Published

The latest Reuters Institute Digital News Report shows slowly changing usage habits of online users in Germany when they want to keep up with the latest news. It is true that television is still the news source with the greatest reach and also the resource that is considered most relevant. However,...

Interview with Media Researchers

BredowCast 53: Lokaljournalismus digital

How can local journalism make attractive and contemporary content available to younger people? Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen have not only conducted extensive research on the topic of local journalism, but also developed the app "molo.news" - a digital platform for l...

Podcast!

Was Journalisten sollen und wollen

A new study by the HBI examines what the German population expects from journalism and compares it with the expectations journalists have of themselves. The result: There is a broad consensus between the two groups about what journalism should achieve. The representative population survey was funde...

Happy Birthday!

70 Years Hans-Bredow-Institut

The institute is 70 years old today! And yet we are only just getting off to a good start: for about 1.5 years in the Leibniz Association, with great projects such as the new Use The News, and from tomorrow in the Forschungsinstitut gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ, Research Institute Social C...

Project about News Literacy

Use the News – News Usage and News Literacy in the Digital Age

How do people in Germany keep themselves informed in the digital age - and what does actually stick with them? In a long-term project, the HBI, together with the dpa and other partners from the media, public institutions and civil society, is researching the news literacy of the population under the...

Podcast "Forschergeist"

Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt in an Interview on the Media and Opinion Formation

Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt joined the podcast Forschergeist, a podcast of the Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in cooperation with Metaebene Personal Media. He spoke with host Tim Pritlove about the focus of his research - the Internet. More specifically, he talked about the emergence...

One of 20,000: At Home

"I recommend you listen to the radio more (often)!”

How do researchers live during the corona crisis - and what advice do they have for working from home? The online magazine "Leibniz" provides an insight into the everyday life of researchers working in one of the current 96 member institutes of the Leibniz Association. Under the title &quo...

Kettemann in Sustainable Computing Lab

Towards a People-Oriented Internet with Better Online Rules

PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann has been elected to the Management Board of the Sustainable Computing Lab at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He will be the head of the research group Platform and Content Governance. The research group focuses on a better understanding of the developme...

This Time It's Virtual

70th Annual Conference of the ICA 2020

The meeting rooms of the world's largest conference for communication science will remain empty this year. The International Communication Association (ICA) had to cancel its annual conference on the occasion of its 70th anniversary due to the coronavirus. The Gold Coast in Australia should have...

In Podcast "Tonspur Wissen"

Right to the Internet is a Human Right

"How can a person today see itself as a social being if this person is not able to use the Internet?" In episode 34 of the podcast "Tonspur Wissen – Corona-Fragen" of the Leibniz Association, PD. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann calls for a rapid implementation of the right to t...

Interview

"Platform Providers Should Not Become Judges"

To let social media decide on deleting content in the sensitive area of opinion formation is not a good idea, says Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt in an interview with medienpolitik.net. "Within the limits of freedom of opinion, there is a wide spectrum of 'fake news' - the conscious or unconsci...

Video online!

Fighting Corona Digitally in China and Europe. Leibniz Media Lunch Talk on Zoom

In our first digital Lunch Talk we discussed the use of digital tracking technology in the fight against the corona virus in China and Europe. The event was recorded and is now available on YouTube. Please note that the Lunch Talk was held in German. The panel included China experts Kai von Carnap...

Webinar Recording Online!

Webinar: Psychological Challenges for Doctoral Researchers during the Corona Pandemic

Irene Broer, doctoral researcher at the HBI, has organised a virtual workshop on Mental Health and Corona together with her colleagues from the Leibniz-PhD Networks. The current crisis poses particular mental challenges for young academics. In the almost two-hour webinar, three international expert...

Funding Approved

Research Institute Social Cohesion Can Get Started

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the main phase of the "Research Institute Social Cohesion" (RISC) for four years starting in summer 2020. The HBI, together with ten other German research institutions, had developed the research programme of the RISC in a one...

Submissions until 15 April 2020!

CfP Interdisciplinary Journalism Resarch – Journalism Interdisciplinary

For the annual conference of the DGPuK division group journalism/journalism research on the topic "Interdisziplinäre Journalismusforschung – Journalismus interdisziplinär [Interdisciplinary Journalism Research - Journalism Interdisciplinary]", we are asking for numerous off...

Bredows on Tour

DGPuK- Jahrestagung 2020 in München

On the topic of "#Medien #Mensch #Gesellschaft. Fragen und Antworten der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft in Zeiten rapiden Medienwandels [#Media #People #Society. Questions and Answers of Communication and Media Studies in Times of Rapid Media Change]", the German Communication Asso...

Welcome, Marta!

Guest Researcher from Galicia

In March and April 2020 Marta Rodríguez-Castro will be a guest researcher at HBI. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her thesis examines the development of public value tests in European public media o...

Podcast!

Watchdog Journalism in Mexico

Mexican journalist and media researcher Veronica Sánchez researches watchdog journalism in her country. In the BredowCast, she talks to Johanna Sebauer about the late development of critical reporting in Mexico, its current challenges and why she, while working as a journalist, would never t...

Audio Is In!

World Radio Day 2020: Our Recommendations

The 13th of February is World Radio Day. The day is intended to commemorate the founding of United Nations Radio on 13 February 1946 and has been celebrated worldwide since 2012. We have a reading and two listening tips for this. In his 2014 audio essay, Uwe Hasebrink continues to reflect on...

Study with Children and Young People in 19 Countries

Europe's Children Need More Tips for Safe Surfing

The majority of European children and young people between the ages of 9 and 16 use their smartphone "every day" or "almost all the time." This means that both the proportion of smartphone users and the length of time they use the Internet have increased significantly compared to...

Study on Digital Participation

Children and Young People Are Also Interested in Political Information

As they grow older, children and young people also use online services that allow them to participate in political discussions and to network strategically. 83 percent of 9 to 17-year-olds have heard of "Fridays for Future". 46 percent of them have looked for further information on the Int...

Interviews on Media Use

Study Participants Wanted in the Hamburg Area

Netflix, podcasts, Tagesschau - in a qualitative study, we want to find out how people connect with the world through the media and how they inform themselves about it. For this purpose, we are looking for participants in the Hamburg area in the following age groups: between 18 and 25, 35 and 45 or...

Podcast

How Facebook Develops Rules for 2.7 Billion People

For the first time, Facebook has given scientists direct access to its internal decision-making bodies. Researchers from the Hamburg-based Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) have investigated how Facebook develops communication rules for its platform. On the BredowCas...

Development of a Research Training Group

State Research Funding for Project with HBI Participation

The HBI is participating in the third round of research funding by the State of Hamburg with a project in cooperation with Universität Hamburg and the Institute of Technical Education and University Didactics at the TU Hamburg. The aim is to develop a research-training group that will focus on...

Apply until 9 February 2020!

Research & Impact Workshop

The Young Researcher Event of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in cooperation with the EU Hub of the Network of Centers (NoC) aims at linking young researchers and their research interests as well as reflecting and developing positions and de...

Podcast!

BredowCast 49: Was Kinder online machen

Children and young people in Germany spend up to three hours per day online. In the BredowCast episode 49, Claudia Lampert and Kira Thiel talk about what children and adolescents do online, what risks they face and how their parents feel about the whole thing. As part of the transnational...

Apply until 31 January 2020!

International Summer School in India

Students with a focus on Media Law as well as European and International Law have the opportunity to participate in an international summer school on “Law, Internet and Democracy” being held from 02 to 08 March 2020 in Delhi, India. The summer school brings together a diverse group of s...

Pilot Study Investigates Integration Performance of the Media

Media Use and Social Integration

Social integration is one of the essential functions of the media. Accordingly, the question arises as to how the integration performance of the media as a whole or of individual media can be empirically analysed. In cooperation with the ZDF and mindline media, the following criteria were defined, b...

Interview with Matthias C. Kettemann

"Hate speech cannot be stopped by the mere regulation of algorithms."

In his interview with the magazine of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Matthias C. Kettemann gives all-clear signals to all those who see our democracy in danger through phenomena such as fake news or hate speech saying that "there is no empirical evidence that disinformation and hate speech pose...

Pretty International!

Guests from Austria, Brazil, China, and Estonia Conduct Research at the HBI

Pretty international! Four guest researchers from Asia, Latin America and Europe are currently working on their research projects at the HBI: Clara Iglesias Keller from Brazil, Chen Xinsheng from China, Anu Masso from Estonia and Herwig Mitter from Austria. Clara Iglesias Keller is a lawyer....

Podcast

Internetmythen auf dem Prüfstand

Although the Internet is already several decades old, numerous myths entwine around the abstract space "cyberspace". Internet experts Matthias C. Kettemann and Stephan Dreyer have published a book that scientifically disenchants the 50 most common myths. For the 200-page anthology...

Students Inform Themselves at the Institute

Was man im Netz darf und kann – und was nicht

On 8 November 2019, students of the Hamburg Gymnasium Altona discussed with Matthias K. Klatt and Keno Christoffer Potthast what you can and may do on the Internet from a legal perspective - and what you cannot. There was also a great deal of interest in the question of how to get to research at all...

Guest Researcher from Tallin

Anu Masso as Guest Researcher at the Postdoc Kolleg "Algorithmed Public Spheres"

From November 2019 to January 2020, Ass. Prof. Dr. Anu Masso from Tallinn is a guest at our postdoc network "Algorithmed Public Spheres." Anu Masso is Associate Professor of Big Data in Social Sciences at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance in Tallinn and Senio...

The Most Interesting Events at the IGF2019

A Guide to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2019

At the end of November, the United Nations Global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) comes to Germany for the first time. Following the motto “One World. One Net. One Vision”, researchers and politicians from all over the world will discuss the central legal, political, social and technolog...

Welcome, Enjoy Your Stay!

Herwig Mitter as Guest Researcher at the Institute

Fom October until December 2019, Mag. Herwig Mitter from the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna will investigate how media freedom within the ECHR relates to Internet intermediaries, in particular whether and to what extent they are protected or obliged b...

With Federal President Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Harvard University

Livestream Stream: Ethics of the Digital Transformation

As part of the delegation of Federal President Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz will discuss ethical issues of digital transformation at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University on November 1. The event will be broadcasted live here (local time...

New Guest Researcher

A Warm Welcome, Clara Iglesias Keller!

We welcome Clara Iglesias Keller at the HBI. From October 2019 to April 2020, she will be a guest researcher at our institute focusing on regulatory strategies for disinformation. She completed her PhD (2019) and Master degree (2011) in Public Law at the University of the State of Rio de Jane...

Linguistic Creativity and Narrative Skills

Literary Prize for Johanna Sebauer

In the Landesmuseum in Eisenstadt, Austria, Johanna Sebauer was awarded the Literature Prize 2019 of the Province of Burgenland on the evening of 17 October 2019. She was honoured for her prose text "Nincshof." The jury awarded her "prize-worthy literature" for her ability to com...

Financially Strong Collaborative Research Centre

Cooperation with New ADM Research Centre in Australia

A new centre for research into automated decision-making systems is being established in Australia. It is funded with a total of 71.1 million Australian dollars. The HBI will be an international cooperation partner. How automated decision making (ADM) systems can be applied in an ethically re...

Guest Researcher from Shanghai

We Welcome Chen Xinsheng

Chen Xinsheng from Fudan University (Shanghai, China) will be a guest researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut from 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2020. Chen Xinsheng is a PhD student at the Center of Information and Communication Studies at Fudan Universit...

The HBI in the Leibniz PhD Network

Irene Broer Elected Section's Spokesperson

At this year's General Assembly of the Leibniz PhD Network in Potsdam, Germany, Irene Broer, junior researcher at the HBI, was elected speaker of the PhD students in Section B. Thus, she represents the doctoral candidates in the Leibniz Institutes in the fields of economics, social sciences and...

Podcast with Guest Researcher

Freedom of speech on US college campuses

Republicans are more likely to tolerate speakers with political views different from their own on US college campuses than Democrats and liberals, a new study finds. The results seem surprising since in previous studies on political tolerance Democrats had always turned out to be more tolerant. So...

Educational Leave at the Institute

The Media, Media Change and Digital Media Practices

Participants of the educational leave "Medienstadt Hamburg" informed themselves about social media and social cohesion in changing media environments at the Institute on 26. September 2019. The topics included the role of the media, media change and digital media practices in the context o...

Visiting the Institute

Leibniz Trainee Visits the HBI

Since mid-September, Mareike-Vic Schreiber has supported the public relations team at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut as an intern. The internship is part of a two-year traineeship that Mareike-Vic is currently completing at the Leibniz Association's headquarters...

Exchange with High-Tech Country

Delegation Trip to Israel

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen travels to Israel today with a delegation of 70 representatives from politics, business and science. The aim of the three-day trip is to expand the exchange and cooperation in the fields of science, education, business and innovation with the high-tech country of Israel. &nbs...

Sascha Hölig in Oxford

As Guest Researcher at the Reuters Institute

Dr. Sascha Hölig begins his stay in Oxford today. He will spend the coming months as a visiting scholar at the renowned Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. During this time, he will focus intensively on international news repertoires. Sascha Hö...

Interview with Claudia Lampert

Transparent Health Apps for Children

Health apps for children and adolescents are entering the market. They differ enormously in quality. In the Tutzinger Diskurs, Dr. Claudia Lampert explains how to make the App Store more transparent. excerpt: You also criticise the fact that the range of health apps is currently very confusing. Fo...

Dissertation Successfully Defended

Congratulations Tobias Mast!

Tobias Mast successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut on 16 August 2019. The topic of his thesis was "Staatsinformationsqualität [Quality of State Information]." Congratulations on your well-deserved success! Tobias M...

How Incidental Is "Incidental"?

Incidental News Exposure on Social Media

In addition to children's photos of our friends and cat videos, we also casually encounter news content on social networks. Dr. Anna Sophie Kümpel and Lisa Merten examine how this happens by chance and what this news contact means. You know it: A friend posts a link on Facebook. You...

Welcome to the Institute

Researches Journalist-Audience-Relationships

Since August 2019, Louise Sprengelmeyer has been working as a junior researcher in research programme 1 "Transformation of Public Communication: Journalistic and Intermediary Functions in the Process of Opinion Formation". She is particularly involved in the changing relationship between j...

Welcome to the Institute

EU Kids Online Got Reinforced

Since August 2019, Kira Thiel has been a junior researcher in the competence area of Growing Up in Digital Media Environments at the institute. Welcome! Currently, she works mainly in the project "EU Kids Online". Her research interests include (negative) emotions in the use of media by...

Submit Abstracts by 30 November 2019!

CfP M&K Special Issue 'Research Software'

The thematic issue aims to bring together contributions that deal with overarching questions of the development, methodology, application or sustainability of research software in the field of media and communication science. Publishers: Andreas Hepp, Wiebke Loosen, Uwe Hasebrink With the digitalis...

Submit Abstracts by 15 November 2019!

CfP M&K special issue 'Technik – Medien – Geschlecht revisited'

Current questions and findings on the relationships between the construction of gender and digital media technology (devices and applications) will be presented in theoretical and empirical articles in the thematic issue of M&K. Guest editors are Corinna Peil, Kathrin Müller, Ricarda Dr&uu...

Best Social Science Article

Sascha Hölig Receives Fritz Thyssen Foundation Award

The second place of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation Award for Social Science Essays of 2018, endowed with 1000 EUR, goes to Dr. Sascha Hölig for his article "Eine meinungsstarke Minderheit als Stimmungsbarometer?! Über die Persönlichkeitseigenschaften aktiver Twitterer [Sensing the...

Delicious Media Research

Leibniz Media Lunch Talks

Our new event series Leibniz Media Lunch Talks brings media research to the lunch table. Researchers from our institute or guests from outside present their projects in a relaxed atmosphere. You are welcome to bring your own lunch. Please register briefly at info@leibniz-hbi.de. Freedom...

Podcast

Media Use in German Refugee Camps 1945-2000

There are specific information needs and media use practices in refugee shelters. Philipp Seuferling explores them and talks about it in the new episode of the BredowCast. Over the past decades, Germany has experienced a number of refugee movements. People from various countries found temporary a...

New at the Institute

Katharina Mosene Is New Research Coordinator

Katharina Mosene joined the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans-Bredow-Institut in July 2019. She is a political scientist (M.A.) and is responsible for the research and event cooperation at the HBI, especially in the context of the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and the Network...

Three in One Fell Swoop

Awards for M&K Articles

The three best communication science articles of the year 2018 can all be found in our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" [Media & Communication Studies], according to the German Communication Association (DGPuK) at their annual meeting. Among the awards for outstanding...

All Presentations Available as Video

Review: 10th Hamburg Media Symposium

All presentations of the 10th Hamburg Media Symposium are now available online as video. What rules structure our online world? How it is decided what is allowed online? And how do social actors behave? These questions were the focus of the event, which was organised on 6 June 2019 by the Leibniz In...

New at the Institute

New Junior Researcher Johannes Schmees

With Johannes Schmees, we have another junior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │Hans-Bredow-Institut. Since July 2019 he has been responsible for the interdisciplinary project of the Volkswagen Foundation “Deciding About, By and Together with Algorithmic Decision Making S...

Congratulations!

Matthias Kettemann Habilitated in New Subject Internet Law

On 26 June 2019, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann obtained the first lectureship in Internet Law in Germany. His inaugural lecture with the title "Asymmetrische Kommunikation als Herausforderung für das Recht [Asymmetrical Communication as a Challenge for Law]" marked the conclusion of th...

A Warm Welcome!

Anna Boch Guest Researcher at the Institute

Anna Boch, PhD candidate in Sociology at Stanford University, is guest researcher at the institue from June to August, She is researching public opinion on online hate speech and content moderation, using approaches from sociology, communication studies, and law. Anna Boch’s dissertation proj...

For Reading and Listening!

Fritz Bauer and the Radio

Fritz Bauer's plea against the vilification of the resistance fighters of 1952 is only one of the audio documents that Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner included in his article "Fritz Bauer und das Radio [Fritz Bauer and the Radio]" in contemporary historical research. Wagner, Hans-Ulrich...

In Tagesspiegel Background

One Internet for All People

"We don't need new basic and human rights for the 'internet age'. The rules already in force are sufficient. They only have to be applied in a technology-sensitive way," argues Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann in the section 'Standpunkt' of the Tagesspiegel Background Digitali...

Available Online

Analysis of the First NetzDG Reports

Amélie Pia Heldt's article "Reading Between the Lines and the Numbers: An Analysis of the First NetzDG Reports" in Internet Policy Review examines the activity reports that platforms, which receive more than 100 complaints a year, must publish under the NetzDG. The article is av...

First Podcast in English

Igor, Gabriela and Their YouTube Journey

Igor and Gabriela are fictional characters created by media researcher Dr. Jonathon Hutchinson. In his current project, Jonathon tries to uncover patterns in YouTube’s recommender system. For that purpose he created individual YouTube accounts for five different fictional characters and obse...

Guest from Australia

Dr. Karen Pearlman as Guest Researcher in Hamburg

From 6 to 17 June 2019, Dr. Karen Pearlman from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) will be a guest at the Institute for Media and Communication (IMK) at Universität Hamburg. Dr. Pearlman is an accomplished film scholar and an impressive filmmaker/documentary filmmaker. Together with Dr. H...

Workshop at the HBI

JF:TEC Researches Technological Change

The Junges Forum: Technikwissenschaften JF:TEC met on 23 May 2019 for a first workshop at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut. The programme included the discussion of disciplinary perspectives on the topic of decisions, the presentation of current projects, publications...

Apply until 16 June 2019!

Summer School "Governance Technologies" at HBI

From 16 to 19 September 2019, the interdisciplinary summer school "Governance Technologies: Privacy, Fairness & Transparency" will take place in Hamburg. It is aimed at young PhD students as well as post-docs interested in the interface between computer science, law and philosophy. You...

All Contributions from the HBI at a Glance

Annual Conference of the ICA 2019 in Washington

The International Communication Association (ICA) invites participants to its annual conference in Washington, D.C., from 24 to 28 May 2019. Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut will also be there to present their work in various panels. The Contrib...

How to Proceed with the Controversial Law?

Expert Opinion on the Network Enforcement Act

Expert opinion by Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann as expert for the public hearing on the Network Enforcement Act at the invitation of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection of the German Bundestag on 15 May 2019. the entire expert opinion as pdf Central Statements The process of a...

Invitation to the 10th Hamburg Media Symposium

The Limitations of What Can Be Said: Who Determines the Rules of Public Discourse Online?

What rules structure our online world? How it is decided what is allowed online? And how do social actors behave? These questions will be discussed at the 10th Hamburg Media Symposium of MA HSH, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research on 6 June 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in t...

Podcast

Legal Steps against Disinformation on the Net

The European Union elects its Parliament at the end of May. Could fake news affect the result? How can we take legal action against this? Is that even supposed to happen? Johanna Sebauer asked the media law expert Dr. Matthias Kettemann. Lies are not forbidden. Who lies has to bear in most cases...

Integration through Communication

64th Annual Conference of the DGPuK

The 64th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) attracted about 500 participants from the scientific and practical fields of communication science. This topic this year was "Integration durch Kommunikation in digitalisierten Öffentlichkeiten [Integration through...

SHARENEWS Project Launched

Research with Facebook Data for the First Time

For the first time in history, Facebook grants science access to its data records. As part of the SHARENEWS project, Dr. Cornelius Puschmann is investigating the criteria according to which Facebook users share messages on the platform. Facebook, with its approximately two billion users worldwide,...

We Are In!

Sommer des Wissens

The Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut is participating in Sommer des Wissens [Summer of Knowledge] with five events from 20 to 23 June 2019. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Universität Hamburg, Hamburg's universities and research institutions are transf...

Nominations

Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden

A 13-member jury, including Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner, has nominated three works for the 68th Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden [Radio Play Award of the War Blinds], which will be awarded on 7 May at Deutschlandfunk Köln. The winner of the renowned award, awarded by the Bund der Kriegsblinden e...

In the Current Print Version

Four Theses on the Situation of Culture-Oriented Radio

"Radio-Kulturen im medialen Wandel. Eine Standortbestimmung und vier Thesen zur Lage des kulturorientierten Hörfunks [Radio Cultures in Media Change. An Assessment of the Current Situation and Four Theses on the Situation of Culture-Oriented Radio]" by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner can be re...

Welcome to the Institute!

New at the Institute: Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Since April 2019, Anna Sophia Tiedeke is part ot the team of our research area "Regulatory Structures and the Emergence of Rules in Online Spaces“. She studied law at Universität Hamburg and Université Panthéon-Sorbonne I in Paris with a focus on European and Internatio...

Guest Researcher at the Institute

New Colleagues at "Algorithmed Public Spheres"

Maris Männiste and Dr. Cristiano Ferri joined the postdoctoral research group "Algorithmed Public Spheres“, led by Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, in April 2019. In the picture from left to right: Dr. Cristiano Ferri, Dr. Jonathon Hutchinson, Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Dr. Felix Victor M&uum...

Researching Social Cohesion

Workshop Discussion with Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt

The "Institute for Social Cohesion" is in the conception phase. What is social cohesion and how can it be explored? A workshop discussion with Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt. In the summer of 2018, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) selected eleven research institutions from t...

Congratulations on Your Scholarship!

Johanna Sebauer in Literature Retreat in Italy

Johanna Sebauer, host of the BredowCast and science communicator at the institute, has received a scholarship from the Burgenland Cultural Department for the artist studio in Paliano, Italy. There, she is allowed to devote the month of April to free writing. Johanna Sebauer has already published sh...

Dr. Stephan Dreyer on the Upload Filter

"Filling the legal decision-making leeway needs people - at least for now."

The controversial EU copyright reform is currently putting thousands of people on the streets. The amendment is to be voted on in the EU Parliament at the end of March. At the Science Media Center Germany, Dr. Stephan Dreyer presented his view on the new copyright law and explained possible risks....

New Episode Online!

Like-Economy: Das Geschäft mit den Followern

A global economic sector has emerged from the trade with likes, followers and commentaries. Prof. Dr. Patrick Vonderau is researching it. Likes, followers, shares and comments can be bought. Quite legally and often with just a few clicks. " The trade with the digital good is also called &quo...

New Podcast Episode

Die Wege unserer Daten

On the Internet, our data goes a long way, which is often difficult to understand. Florian Wittner followed them and wanted to know which one of the many actors in the so-called "platform ecosystems" is responsible for data protection. We rarely interact online with just one provider, bu...

Preliminary Report Published

Children's Perspective on Privacy Issues

The problems children and young people face in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Norway, and Slovakia when dealing with digital media can be seen in the preliminary report of a current survey conducted by the research network EU Kids Online. The report was published on the occasion of the ‘S...

Apply until 15 Februar 2019!

International Summer School in India

Students with a focus on Media Law as well as European and International Law have the opportunity to participate in an international summer school on “Law, Internet and Democracy” being held from 25 to 31 March in Delhi, India. The summer school brings together a diverse group of schola...

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Open Science Conference 2019

The registration for the 6th International Open Science Conference is now open. The Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0 invites you from 19 to 20 March 2019 to Berlin. The event is dedicated to the open science movement and offers researchers and practitioners a unique platform for exchange, discu...

New Podcast Episode

BredowCast 39: The Relotius Case

The fabrication scandal surrounding Claas Relotius shook the media world at the end of 2018. A few weeks have passed since then, and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, a journalism researcher, looks at the events and background information with some distance in the current BredowCast. In December 2018, sho...

Welcome to the Institute

New Guest Researcher Jonathon Hutchinson

With us as guest researcher until the middle of June 2019: Dr. Jonathon Hutchinson, lecturer for online communication and media at the University of Sydney/Australia, will conduct research on automated media and algorithms in media within the postdoc-kolleg Algorithmed Public Spheres. As the curren...

New Podcast Episode

Special Edition on Joining the Leibniz Association

The Hans-Bredow-Institut is a member of the Leibniz Association since 1 January 2019. This is the biggest change in the history of the Institute. In this special edition of the BredowCast, Johanna Sebauer talks to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, one of the two directors of the Institute, about the sig...

Welcome!

New Senior Researcher Mag. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard)

We are very happy to welcome Mag. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard) as a new senior researcher at our institute. As of today (15 January 2019), he is head of the research programme "Regulatory Structures and the Emergence of Rules in Online Spaces.” In line with his previous work...

Report Based on the Institute’s Scientific Opinion Published

Federal Government Adopts Report on Media and Communications 2018

The Federal Government adopted the “Report on Media and Communications 2018” on 9 January 2019. In its political part, the report summarises the current challenges to a media order that is committed to freedom of the media and expression, supports fair competition and safeguards the dive...

BREDOW is LEIBNIZ!

New Name: Leibniz Institute for Media Research

Since the beginning of 2019 the Hans-Bredow-Institut fr Media Research has been a member of the renowned Leibniz Association and shows this with its new name: Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI). The decision to accept the Hans-Bredow-Institut as a new member was made b...

Migration as a Classroom Subject

“Tune In! Historical Radio Programmes on Flight and Expulsion”

How the topic of migration can be dealt with in class is explained in the current “Eckert-Dossier”, including the contribution “Ohren auf! Historische Radiosendungen zu ‚Flucht und Vertreibung‘ als neue Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte und Ressourcen für die Gesc...

TV Discussion on Hamburg 1

Discussion on Hamburg 1 with Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink

The quality and quantity of economic reporting has changed significantly in recent years. This is the consensus of the panel of experts, which was broadcasted in the programme "Standpunkte TV [Standpoints TV]" on "Wirtschaftsberichterstattung im Norden [Economic Reporting in the North...

New Episode

Facebook's "Supreme Court"

Mark Zuckerberg announced that an independent body resembling a sort of "Supreme Court" could function as a complaint office for users in controversial content issues in the future. In episode 38 of the BredowCast, the lawyer Amélie Heldt explains the legal issues raised by this pro...

Workshop Report as Video

Communicating Port Cities

How to explore ‘communicating port cities’ in three continents – this was the topic of the 'Transnational Media Histories'-workshop 2018. The event took place from 12 to 13 September 2018 at Universität Hamburg, a workshop within the 'MQ-FU-HAM Trilateral Strategi...

Joy about Third-Party Funding

DFG Funding for Three Projects on Media Change

Changes in journalism and the relationship between journalists and the audience are the focus of three research projects that have recently been granted funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The three projects originate from the research project “Communicative Figurations” and...

Joining the Leibniz Association!

Bredow Will Be Leibniz in 2019

The Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung becomes a member of the Leibniz Association on 1 January 2019. This was decided by the general meeting at the 24th annual conference of the Leibniz Association on Thursday, 29 November 2018. The Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung aus Ber...

Project Findings

Media Literacy in Care Facilities for People with Disabilities in Bremen

For people with disabilities, lack of equipment and lack of Wi-Fi are the biggest obstacles to Internet participation. These are findings of a study on “Media Literacy in Care Facilities for People with Disabilities in Bremen”, which has been conducted by Jun. Prof. Ingo Bosse and Dr. Na...

New Podcast Episode

How the Protection of Minors in the Media Should Be

How to deal with digital media is like learning to ride a bike – even if you fall flat on your face at the beginning. Once you have learned how to handle it, it is liberating but it can also be risky. Using this analogy, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink explains the protection of minors in the media as...

On the Safer Internet Forum

Research Network EU Kids Online Conducts Representative Survey in 20 European Countries

The international research network EU Kids Online currently interviews children and young people aged 9 to 17 in 21 European countries about their online experiences. The representative surveys include 1000 interviews in each country. The scope and nature of online activities, risks, media literacy...

Analysis

International Declaration on Information and Democracy Adopted

The "International Declaration on Information and Democracy“ wants to create some sort of a constitution for the public. In her new blog article at JuWiss.de, Amélie Heldt analyses how useful this is. An international commission consisting of journalists, Nobel laureates and membe...

Interview

Growing Up Healthy in the Digital World

Dr. Claudia Lampert spoke with the magazine "Gesunde Stadt [Healthy City]" of the Wiener Gesundheitsförderung [Vienna Health Promotion] about growing up healthy in the digital world and how parents can support this. One of the things she explains is what sense mobile phone bans make...

Index for Youth Media Protection Published

Teachers Need Support in Teaching Media Literacy

(06 November 2018) - The Index for Youth Media Protection is the result of a far-reaching study that interviewed teachers and educators in Germany to assess online risks for young people. The index was iniated and published by the German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Digital Media Ser...

Available for Download

First Diversity Report of die medienanstalten Published

The Hans-Bredow-Institut participated in the first Vielfaltsbericht [Diversity Report] of die medienanstalten with an article by Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Dr. Sascha Hölig. In this article, the authors observe the role of social media within the news usage of Germans and put the results into...

Bredows on Tour

Hans-Bredow-Institut at the ECC 2018 in Lugano

The Hans-Bredow-Institut was represented with numerous contributions at the 7th European Communication Conference (ECC) of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), which took place from 31 October to 3 November 2018 in Lugano, Switzerland. Contributions of the Hans-Bre...

Available for Download

Guideline for Providers of Online Content for Children

The brochure “Kinderseiten und DSGVO: Das geht gut! [Websites for Children and the GDPR: That Works Well!“] provides information and assistance on the GDPR implementation for providers of online content for children. It was written by the German Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation...

New Podcast Episode

That's How Twitter Users Think

Twitter users are not many but they are loud. With their discourse on the platform, they have great influence on the coverage of “traditional media.” In his study , Dr. Sascha Hölig observed active Twitter users and recognised interesting characteristics they have. Some of them were...

We Are Part of It!

BMBF Is Funding the Development of the IfGZ

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has selected a network of research and university institutes for the establishment of the “Institut für gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt [Institute for Social Cohesion]”, including the Hans-Bredow-Institut. Eleven institutions fro...

A Growing Plant

Statement on the Discussion Draft of an Interstate Media Treaty of the Länder

"Courageous step, further discussions necessary", this is how the statement by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Dr. Stephan Dreyer on the discussion draft of the Interstate Media Treaty of the Länder can be summed up in a nutshell. The entire statement can be downloaded here as pdf file....

Families Wanted to Participate in Study!

Growing Up with Digital Media

A new study of the Hans-Bredow-Institut and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg will examine the significance of digital media for adolescents' growing up and relationship building. For this project, we are looking for families from Hamburg or Nuremberg and the surrou...

Twitter, the Elite Network

Dr. Sascha Hölig in an Interview with the WDR

Dr. Sascha Hölig examines in a study to what extent the athmosphere on Twitter reflects the current athmosphere within society. The conclusion: Twitter fails as a mood barometer. In an interview on WDR 5, he spoke today with Anja Backhaus about the "elite network" and about the risks...

Call for Project Presentations // Deadline 12. Oktober

Open Science Conference 2019 Call

The Open Science Conference 2019 is dedicated to the Open Science movement and provides a unique forum for researchers, librarians, practitioners, infrastructure provider, policy makers, and other important stakeholders to discuss the latest and future developments in Open Science. It will take plac...

Presentation of Project Results

Day of Knowledge 2018

On the topic of "Data Analytics: Von der App-Entwicklung bis hin zum Online-Journalismus [From App Development to Online Journalism]", Prof. Walid Maalej will present the results of a collaborative project with the Hans-Bredow-Institut at the Tag des Wissens [Day of Knowledge] on 22 Septem...

International Workshop in Hamburg

Transnational Media History

Within the cooperation project Transnational Media Histories between the Macquarie University in Sydney and Universität Hamburg, the Research Centre Media History is organizing an international workshop at Universität Hamburg on 12 and 13 September 2018. The workshop brings together media...

New Podcast Episode

Reality TV in Germany

Frauentausch [Wife Swap], Dschungelcamp [The Jungle Camp], Bauer sucht Frau [Farmer Wants a Wife] – Prof. Dr. Joan Kristin Bleicher knows them all. And probably better than anyone else. Since the first German season of Big Brother, the media researcher has been interested in the media format &...

Legal Questions in Multimedia School Projects

New Article by Dr. Stephan Dreyer

Last week, an article by Dr. Stephan Dreyer was published in the journal Computer+Unterricht [Computer+Education]. In this article, he explains the legal framework for projects in the field of multimedia storytelling in education. Computer+Unterricht is the leading journal for digital teachin...

Available Online

Where Does Media Hostility Come From?

Negative attitudes towards the media have increased in Germany in recent years. In a study recently published in the journal M&K, the authors looked for reasons for media hostility. They specifically examined the connection between populist attitudes and media hostility at the individual l...

Transparency in Algorithmic Decisions

New Article by Bredow Researcher Amélie Pia Heldt

An article by Bredow researcher Amélie Pia Heldt has been published in the current issue of the journal Computer und Recht (CR) [Computer and Law]. In this article, she focuses on the transparency in algorithmic decisions. Despite being anchored in the General Data Protection Regulation; tran...

Science in Podcast Format

Johanna Sebauer in an Interview about the BredowCast

Mediennetz Hamburg has published an interview with BredowCast host Johanna Sebauer. In this interview, they talked about the podcast itself and its role in promoting media literacy and media education. “Why is a podcast well suited for this kind of discussion, what is the advantage of it, and...

Guest Lecture

Social Bots, Agency and the Non-Neutrality of Technologies

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Klinger, junior professor at Freie Universität Berlin gave the lecture “Rage against the Machines? Social Bots, Agency und die Nicht-Neutralität von Technologien [Social Bots, Agency and the Non-Neutrality of Technologies]“ at the Hans-Bredow-Institut. Social...

New Blog Article

The Difficulty of Regulating Fake News

In her new blog post on juwiss.de, Amélie Pia Heldt writes about the challenges to regulate “fake news.” At the beginning of 2018, President Emmanuel Macron announced a law against “fake news.” It was triggered by the dissemination of disinformation during the electio...

Listening to Research

Breitbart and Co. - Alternative Media in Focus

In recent years, media brands such as Breitbart, Epoch Times or PI-News (Politically Incorrect) have attracted attention with controversial reporting. BredowCast host Johanna Sebauer talks to media researcher Dr. Cornelius Puschmann about the so-called 'alternative media'. With often lurid...

What's Your Research?

Researchers from the HIIG Visit the Hans-Bredow-Institut

On 13 July 2018, researchers of the Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society visited Hans-Bredow-Institut. The guests were Kirsten Gollatz, Project Manager at the HIIG in Research Programme I "The Evolving Digital Society“ and the guest researchers Dr. Alfred Früh, Clara Iglesias K...

New Interview

Constitutional Court Decision on the Broadcasting Licence Fee

On 18 July 2018, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the licence fee is constitutional. For Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, director of the Hans-Bredow-Institut, this decision is convincing and not surprising. In an interview with the newspaper 'Handelsblatt', Wolfgang Schulz speaks for a...

Facebook Allows Science Access to Data

Social Science One Has Been Launched

An independent research commission on the use of Facebook data in the context of elections has now officially been launched under the name Social Science One. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann from Hans-Bredow-Institut and Prof. Dr. Barbara Pfetsch, member of the scientific council of the institute, are...

Reality TV in Germany

Media researcher Prof. Dr. Joan Kristin Bleicher, who is also an associated researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut, writes in her latest article for the Tagesspiegel about the status quo of German reality TV. Crossover to Social Media The variety of moving image formats that the Internet and social...

Report for Download

Wide Range of Interests and Information, But Rather Passive

How do millennials consume news? How do they inform themselves? What content do they prefer? The “die medienanstalten“, an umbrella brand of the 14 state media authorities in Germany, addresses these questions in its current Content Report 2017. The report assembles contributions of auth...

Apply until 30 July 2018!

Impact School 2018

This three-day training programme is tailored to up-and-coming researchers who want to learn the skills necessary to maximize the impact of their research beyond academia. The sessions will be held by renowned experts in their respective fields and cover the three dimensions of scholarly impact: eco...

Varied Mixture Succeeds

Alternative Models of Financing Investigative Journalism

How to finance investigative Journalism best? A Team of Prof. Dr. Michel Clement (Universität Hamburg / Hamburg Business School) and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen analysed eight alternative financing models. The study, that was commissioned by the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, shows: a...

Listen to History

Hans Bredow on the Beginnings of Broadcasting

An interview with Hans Bredow on the Beginnings of Broadcasting in the First World War can now be listened to in the podcast "SWR2 Archivradio – Geschichte in Originaltönen" ["SWR Radio Archive - History in Original Sounds"]. The war was a catalyst for a whole series...

Expert Opinion

Dr. Claudia Lampert Member of Advisory Board "Medienerziehung im Dialog [Media Education in Dialogue]"

A new research project of the German Digital Opportunities Foundation in Berlin and Stiftung Ravensburger Verlag addresses the question how media-educational support for children of preschool age can be usefully designed in a dialogue between parents and pedagogical specialists. Dr. Claudia Lampert...

Workshop at the Institute

A Constitution for Social Media?

Edoardo Celeste, PhD candidate at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin (UCD), gave a presentation on his recent paper “Terms of service and bills of rights: new mechanisms of constitutionalisation in the social media environment?” at the institute on 19 June 2018. Late...

Project Results

Reuters Digital News Report 2018

On 14 June 2018, the Reuters Digital News Report 2018 was presented to the public in Berlin. Dr. Sasche Hölig of the Hans-Bredow-Institut presented the findings for Germany. Since 2013, he and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink of the Hans-Bredow-Institut has been the collaborating partner responsible for...

BredowCast #33

Football and the Media – A Successful Symbiosis

The FIFA World Cup is a media spectacle that is without equal. Our new BredowCast-host Johanna Sebauer and the media historian Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner talk about how football has developed in the media and how both spheres have influenced each other. For some people, the World Cup is a spectacular f...

Event Review

9th Hamburg Media Symposium

The 9th Hamburg Media Symposium, organised by the Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research, the Medienanstalt Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein (MA HSH) and the Chamber of Commerce, focused on the topic of media diversity on 7 June 2018.The video documentation will be available soon. Diversity is the key...

Research Visit in Haifa

Desk Swap with the CCLP Haifa

As part of the so-called "desk swap" of the Network of Centers, Amélie Heldt spent two weeks at the Center for Cyber Law and Policy, the Israeli partner institute at the University of Haifa. The stay at the beginning of May 2018 served as a forum for institutional exchange between...

Event Review

Panel of the DGPuK at the ICA 2018

At the 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Prague, the panel of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK) (LINK) took place on the morning of 28 May 2018, in which German communication science presents itself annually with a main t...

Media in Russia

Guest Researcher in an Interview with World Policy Journal

Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars was a guest researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut from February to May 2018. As a research fellow at the Kolleg "Algorithmed Public Spheres", she conducted a study on news aggregators over the course of the Russian presidential elections in March 2018. Her...

Bredows on Tour

Hans-Bredow-Institut at the ICA 2018

The Annual Conference of the International Communications Association (ICA) took place in Prague from 24 to 28 May 2018. The Hans-Bredow-Institut was represented by numerous contributions. In a total of five panels and four lectures, researchers of the institute presented their current research. An...

Congratulations!

Triple Disputation at Hans-Bredow-Institut

For the first time in the history of the Hans-Bredow-Instituts, there were three disputations in one day. On Monday, 30 April 2018, Stephan Dreyer, Markus Oermann and Florian Seitz successfully defended their doctoral theses, which they wrote at the institute. The Hans-Bredow-Institut is happy for y...

Congratulations!

Wiebke Loosen Appointed Professor at Universität Hamburg

Hamburg, 18 April 2018. Wiebke Loosen, Senior Researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research, has been appointed professor at Universität Hamburg. The certificate of appointment signed by university president Professor Dieter Lenzen was given to the media researcher yesterday by vice...

As of 2019 in the Leibniz Association

Hans-Bredow-Institut will be Leibniz-Institut

On 13 April 2018, the Joint Science Conference (GWK – Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz) of the Federal Government and the Länder has unanimously decided to accept the Hans-Bredow-Institut into the joint funding of the Leibniz Association. The admission is planned for the beginning of 201...

Expertise on GDPR Published

Expertise on GDPR

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force on 25 May 2018, will give effect to individual rights to information about using your own data for fully automated ADM systems (automated decision making, in short: ADM) that work without human intervention. However, the individ...

New Blog Article

Voter or Consumer – Double Standards?

In her new article on the blog of Juwiss, Amélie Pia Heldt addresses the fundamental position of the citizen in the formation of public opinion on the occasion of the current debate about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. The citizen becomes the target of political and non-political advertise...

Event Review

“Medienschnack 2.0” on the Topic “Journalism from the Pocket?”

For students of the master programme ‘Journalism and Mass Communication’ at Universität Hamburg, the student council and the Hans-Bredow-Institut organised the “Medienschnack 2.0” (discussion) on the topic "Mobile Reporting – Journalismus aus der Hosentasche?...

Application deadline: May 1, 2018!

APS Call for Fellows 2018/2019

The Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, Germany, invites applications for international postdoctoral research fellows who will conduct innovative research on the social and cultural impact of algorithms during stays of 3-12 months in Hamburg in the academic year 2018/2019. Th...

Embedding Human Rights in Cybersecurity

International Summer School Delhi 2018

Global issues of Internet regulation and network security are dealt with quite differently in India, Brazil and Germany. A comparison of different regulatory approaches shows clear country specifics, especially in the area of data protection law. This is a result of the International Summer School &...

Interview on the Situation of Public Service Broadcasting

Calling for Diversity

With the rejection of the popular initiative "No Billag" to abolish broadcasting fees, the future of public service broadcasting in Switzerland is now being discussed. However, also in Germany, there is a debate on whether things can continue as before. In an interview with Deutschlandfu...

Research for Listening

BredowCast #32: The Network Enforcement Act and Its Siblings

The NetzDG has been in force since January, when French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a similar law at the same time. Is one of the two laws a really good solution? Stephan Dreyer and Amélie Heldt explain in this episode what it is all about. The Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) se...

Blog Article

From #MeToo to #RiceBunny

In her blog article "From #MeToo to #RiceBunny: How Social Media Users are Campaigning in China" our guest researcher Jing Zeng describes the creativ use of nicknames and emoijs to discuss the issue of #MeToo in China. In Chinese, the phrase “rice bunny” is pronounced as &ldquo...

How Can Children Be Protected from Inappropriate Advertising?

Data Protection vs. Youth Protection

“There are plenty of legal regulations, as well as guidelines and provisions for self-regulation in advertising and at the marketplace for app providers,” says media lawyer Stephan Dreyer in an interview with Meinungsbarometer.info with a view to inappropriate advertising in digital offe...

Video of the Panel Discussion on Freedom of the Press

Discussion on Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Expression after the Preview of "The Post"

After a preview of the film “The Post”, freedom of the press and freedom of expression was the subject of a podium discussion on 19 February 2018 at the cinema ‘Abaton’ in Hamburg. Participants of the discussions were Johannes von Dohnanyi, journalist and author, Katharina Fe...

On BBC Radio 3

Radio Controlled – Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3

With a short information Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner has contributed to this radio feature on BBC Radio 3 about the development of modern classical music broadcasted in post-war West German radio, on Feb 11, 2018. Radio feature Robert Worby tells the fascinating story of how post-war West German radio,...

Welcome at the Institute!

Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars as APS-Fellow

Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars from the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki is research fellow at the Kolleg "Algorithmed Public Spheres" from February until May 2018. During this time, Mariëlle will conduct a study on news aggregators during the Russian presidential elec...

Very Entertaining

Stereotypes in "The Bachelor"

"Der Bachelor: Weichgespült? [The Bachelor: Soft-Rinsed?]", explanatory piece by "Walulis sieht fern [Walulis Watches TV]" on stereotypes in the series "Der Bachelor [The Bachelor]" with comments by J. K. Bleicher on 22 January 2018 on YouTube, https://www.youtube....

Online Article

Is the French NetzDG Coming?

The blog post by Amélie Pia Heldt on http://www.juwiss.de addresses the draft law against misreporting on the Internet announced by the French President Emmanuel Macron, which is expected to be available by the end of 2018. Amélie Heldt explains which goals Macron wants to achieve with...

Positive Evaluation

Science Council Recommends the Admission of the Hans-Bredow-Institut in the Leibniz Association

The Science Council has spoken out in favour of admitting the Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research into the Leibniz Association. The Council assesses the scientific quality of the Hans-Bredow-Institut and its structural relevance for the scientific system as "very good", its supra-regio...

International Workshop

Algorithm Research: Concepts and Innovative Initiatives

From different countries and disciplines: Cornelius Puschmann was able to gather as many as four guest researchers from the postdoctoral research network "Algorithmed Public Spheres" in an internal workshop at the Institute on 29 January 2018. Together with Jing Zeng, Cédric Courtoi...

Study Available for Download

Project Findings Market Analysis of Health Information

The Internet has become increasingly important for the active search for health information in recent years. However, in the average population, it still lags behind personal conversations with doctors, family and friends as well as free brochures or mass media. How someone searches for health info...

Deadline 19.2.2018

Children | Media | Rights – Call for Papers merzWissenschaft

Guest Editor Stephan Dreyer (Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research, Hamburg) and the merzWissenschaft Editing Team (JFF) welcome proposals for the special issue "Children | Media | Rights – Complex Requirements for Access, Protection and Entitlement in the Day-to-Day Media World of Chil...

Strongly Represented

Bredow-Institut Goes ICA2018

In five panels and with four further presentations, members of the Hans-Bredow-Institut will be able to present their research at the annual conference of the International Communications Association ICA 2018 in Prague. Only 37.4% of all lecture and panel proposals had been accepted. Panels with Pa...

Recording on YouTube

Media Policy Lab Has Been Founded

On 17 January 2018, the Media Policy Lab presented itself to the public for the first time. At a kick-off event at ALEX Berlin, guests from science, business and politics were able to get to know the lab and exchange views on network policy issues. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schu...

Excellent German Media Research Presented Internationally

Panel of the DGPuK at the ICA 2018

Julius Reimer from the Hans-Bredow-Institut & colleagues were chosen to present their research on "Opening the Black Box: Investigating the Algorithmization of Journalism" at the annual conference of the International Communications Association (ICA) 2018 in Prague in the panel for exc...

Freshly Published

M&K 1/2018

Issue 1/2018 Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft has been published, including articles on the depiction of politics in German satire shows (Politikdarstellung in deutschen Satiresendungen, authors: Dennis Lichtenstein, Cordula Nitsch), on the functions of local media for municipal politics (Fun...

Literature Tip

Collective Replica of Contributions in the Journalism Forum

A collective replica has now been published on the future of communication studies and the articles in the forum of the scientific journal Publizistik, in which, among others, Lisa Merten und Dr. Cornelius Puschmann from the Hans-Bredow-Institut were involved: Strippel, C., Bock, A., Katzenbach, C....

Welcome at the Institute!

Juhi Kulshrestha as Guest Researcher at the Institute

Juhi Kulshrestha, PhD candiate in the Social Computing Research group at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), is a research fellow in our Reserach Network "Algorithmed Public Spheres" from January until March 2018. Juhi is broadly interested in understanding how users are...

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Open Science Conference 2018

The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0 are pleased to announce the forthcoming Open Science Conference 2018, March 13-14, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The registration is now open. The Open Science Conference 2018 is the 5th international...

Press Release of the German UNESCO Commission

"It would be in the spirit of freedom of communication if a new federal government included the development of alternatives to the NetzDG in its programme."

In a press release issued by the German UNESCO Commission on 9 January 2018, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, Chairman of the Communication and Information Committee of the German UNESCO Commission, on the occasion of the entry into force of the Network Enforcement Act, strongly recommends that the planne...

Congratulations

Schader Prize 2018 Goes to Otfried Jarren

The Schader Prize 2018 goes to the communication scientist Otfried Jarren, chairman of the scientific advisory board and former director of the Hans-Bredow-Institut. Otfried Jarren is honored for his contributions to media policy and his achievements as a science manager. Jarren teaches and research...

Congratulations!

Leibniz Fellowship for Alina Laura Tiews

Dr. Alina Laura Tiews has been granted a fellowship of the Leibniz Research Alliance 'Historical Authenticity': From January 2018 on, she will spend three months as a fellow at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) in Potsdam. The Leibniz Research Alliance Historical Authenti...

Research for Listening

BredowCast #31 on Public Service Broadcasting

The adjustment of licence fees will soon be renegotiated. Reasons enough that there is currently a lively debate on the funding and the contents of public service broadcasting at the Federal State level. Why is public service broadcasting covered by licence fees and organised federally? Why do we st...

Bredows on Tour

Public Speech by Dr. Cornelius Puschmann

At the university of Luzern, Switzerland, Dr. Cornelius Puschmann will talk about the role of personalized search engine results in election campaigns on November 23, 2017 at 4:15 p. More information of the organizer (in German): https://www.unilu.ch/fakultaeten/ksf/institute/soziologisches-seminar...

Welcome at your Postdoctoral Network 'Algorithmed Public Spheres'

Fellows in Our Postdoctoral Network 'Algorithmed Public Spheres'

For the next weeks and months, Jing Zeng from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Dr. Cédric Courtois will be part of our postdoctoral network 'Algorithmed Public Spheres' and will contribute to the team with their research. More a...

Blogbeitrag

Algorithmic Decision Making and Human Rights

Embedded in smart technologies, algorithms are taking decisions on a daily basis. What challenges arise from algorithmic decision making for human rights and for the regulation of artificial intelligence? In this blog article, Wolfgang Schulz and Anne-Kristin Polster document some initial findings w...

Participants wanted!

Online Survey of Teachers and Educational Staff Is Starting Now

Online Survey of Teachers and Educational Staff Is Starting Now We are looking for participants for this study: Do you work with children or young people aged between 9 and 16? Do you work in Bavaria, Hamburg or Schleswig-Holstein? If so, please participate at: https://www.soscisurvey.de/jmsp...

Forschung auf die Ohren

BredowCast on the Topics and Organisation of the Postdoctoral Research Network "Algorithmed Public Spheres"

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...

Wir gratulieren Alina Laura Tiews

Congratulations on Achieving Your PhD!

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...

Artikel von W. Schulz in der SZ

Proposals on Reforming Public Service Broadcasting

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...

Podcast "Wahlkabine" der BpB mit Jan-Hinrik Schmidt

Social Media, Social Bots and Fake News in the Election Campaign

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...

Auf der Shortlist des "Opus Primum" der Volkswagen Stiftung!

Dissertation by Alina Laura Tiews Nominated as Best Scientific Publication by a Young Researcher

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...

Dr. Judith Möller as Guest Researcher at the Institute

Fellow at Post-Doc Kolleg "Algorithmed Public Spheres"

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...

Wolfgang Schulz's Zukunftsvision im Kommunikationsmuseum Frankfurt

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...

Research Findings Part II

Algorithmic Personalization in Google Searches

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".

Bredows on Tour

Politische Kommunikation und Wahlkampf im Netz [Political Communication and Election Campaigns Online]

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"...

Presentation of Research Results

Lectures by J. Reimer and C. Puschmann

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...

Forschung für die Ohren

BredowCast zur staatlichen Kommunikation via Social Media

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...

Research Results

Filter Bubbles through Personalized Google Search Results?

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/

Dissertation erschienen

Fluchtpunkt Film [Refuge on Screen]

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...

Call for Project Presentations

Open Science Conference 2018

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...

Bredows in the Media

UNESCO Chair Freedom of Communication

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...

Bredows on tour

Summer School Methods for Computational Social Science

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...

For Download

Special Issue M&K "Complexity" Introduction

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...

M&K-Themenheft "Komplexität" [Special issue Complexity]

Special Issue 3/2017 M&K is dedicated the topic "Working with Theory in Communication Studies: Complexity between Complification and Simplification". Guest Editors: Christian Pentzold & Christian Katzenbach with contributions by Christian Katzenbach & Christian Pentzold, Maria...

Medienforschung für die Ohren

BredowCast Datenjournalismus [BredowCast Data Journalism]

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&...

Bredows in the Media

Internetboom: Welche Zukunft haben Radio und Fernsehen? [Internet Boom: What Future Do Radio and Television Have?]

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.

Diskussionveranstaltung

Media Coverage G20

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...

Scientific Opinion Published

Media Development in Germany 2016 – 2016

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-...

Re-experience the Event

Soziale Medien: Gefahr oder Chance für Rechtsstaat und Demokratie?!! [Social Media: Threats or Chance State of Law for Democracy?!!?]

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...

Guests form Australia

Australian Media History Researchers in Hamburg

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...

Bredows on Tour

Workshop am Berkman Klein Center

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.

Bredows on Tour

Election Campaigns in Social Media

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.

Relaunch

New Website

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!

8. Hamburger Mediensymposium am 13. Juni 2017

Wie die Digitalisierung öffentliche Kommunikation verändert [How Digitisation Changes Public Communication]

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.

Reinforcement of our Legal Science

New PhD Students at the Institute

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...

Mit neun Vorträgen und Präsentationen auf der #ICA17

Annual Conference of the International Communications Association at University of California

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...

Order for Free

Flight and Expulsion in Broadcasting

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...

Comment

Comments by Wolfgang Schulz on the Draft for an Act improving Law Enforcement on Social Networks (NetzDG)

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...

Bredows unterwegs

Chancen, Grenzen, Herausforderungen [Opportunities, Limits, Challenges]

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

International Network

Hans-Bredow-Institut Founding Member of News Integrity Initiative (NII)

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...

Jahrestagung 2017 der DGPuK

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] (...

Promotion of Research

Information Governance Technologies

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...

Studienergebnisse

Study Published on “People with Disabilities and Their Use of Media”

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...

Video

Algorithmic News

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...

new!

Formation of Opinion through Single Media Offerings and Digital Service

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...

New at the Institute

Dr. Cornelius Puschmann

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...

Represented well

Hans-Bredow-Institut at ECREA 2016

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...

Project Results

People with Disabilities and Their Use of Media. TV Is Extremely Important!

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...

Programm AoIR 2016

The extensive agenda of the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and the Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research, is online. The conference will take place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany...

Artikel in M&K

Every Third Media Coverage of Transfers in the German Bundesliga Is Wrong

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“ [&...

Plenary Panel Discussion:

Who Rules the Internet?

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...

Einreichungen bis 25.03.2017

Historische Authentizität und Medien

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“...

Guestresearcher

Marta Portalés Oliva

Since mid September 2017, Marta Portalés Oliva works as guest researcher at the institute for three months. Marta Portalés Oliva is a PhD candidate at the “Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación” Research Group of the Journalism Department at the Communica...

EU-Pilotprojekt MIRACLE erfolgreich abgeschlossen

EU-Project MIRACLE Successfully Completed

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...

ECC2010

From 12 to 15 October 2010, the Hans-Bredow-Institut hosted the third conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in cooperation with the University of Hamburg and Hamburg Media School. The conference focused on the topic of “Transcultural Communication...

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