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Social media is contributing to a change in the structure of the public sphere. It has an effect on how information is distributed or how the private and the public sphere behave to one another. The project, “Social Media and Networked Public Spheres” is uniting numerous publications and...
What role do intermediaries like Google, Facebook, YouTube or WhatsApp play when people get informed about social issues or when they form an opinion?
The Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) commissioned the Hans-Bredow-Institut with a report on the topic of "Algorithms in Digital Media and Their Influence on Individual Opinion Formation of Users".
To what extent can algorithmic recommendation systems be part of the own journalistic activity of public service media providers and take the side of (or take the place of) journalistic selection and compilation of information? In a White Paper for the MDR (Central German Broadcasting), the main cha...
This cumulative dissertation project analysed user behaviour with regard to news on social networking platforms.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Hohage, C.; Dreyer, S. (2014): Facebook und WhatsApp: Aktuelle Nutzungsentwicklungen und Bewertung der Übernahme aus Jugendschutzsicht [Facebook and WhatsApp: Current Usage Developments and Evaluation of the Takeover from a Perspective on Youth Protection]. In: Hans-Bredow-Institut (eds.), Aufw...
Schulz, W.; Dankert, K. (2016): Die Macht der Informationsintermediäre – Erscheinungsformen, Strukturen, Regulierungsoptionen [The Power of Information Intermediaries – Manifestations, Structures and Regulatory Options]. Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
Hölig, S.; Hasebrink, U. (2016): Nachrichtennutzung über soziale Medien im internationalen Vergleich. Ergebnisse des Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2016 [News Consumption on Social Media in International Comparison. Findings of the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2016]. In: Me...
Preusse, J.; Schulze, A. (2016): Online-PR von NGOs. Forschungsüberblick und empirische Befunde einer Nutzerstudie von NGO-Seiten in Facebook [Online PR of NGOs. Research Overview and Empirical Results of a Study on Users of NGO Facebook Pages. In: L. Rademacher, N. Remus (eds.),...
Hölig, Sascha (2017): "Fake News werden die Wahlen in Deutschland nicht entscheiden [Fake News Will Not Decide the Elections in Germany]". In: Die Netzdebatte der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung [The Online Debate of the Federal Agency for Civic Education] (online).
Zurawski, N.; Schmidt, J.-H.; Stegbauer, C. (eds.) (2012): Phänomen "Facebook" [The "Facebook" Phenomenon]. In: kommunikation@gesellschaft, vol. 13, special edition.
Heldt, A. (2018): Facebook verstößt gegen Impressumspflicht und deutsches Datenschutzrecht, Urteilsanm. zu LG Berlin, Urteil v. 16.01.2018 [Facebook Infringes the Obligation to Provide a Legal Notice and the German Data Privacy Laws, Case Notes on LG Berlin, Judgment of 16 January 20...
Heldt, A. P. (2018): Wähler oder Verbraucher – zweierlei Maß? [Voter or Consumer - A Double Standard?] In: JuWiss Blog: Junge Wissenschaft im Öffentlichen Recht. Website. Hamburg: Bucerius Law School (online).
Merten, L.; Hoelig, S.; Hasebrink, U.;Schmidt, J.-H. (2018): Der Einfluss von Google, Facebook & Co. Zur Veränderung der gesellschaftlich-politischen Meinungs- und Willensbildung [The Influence of Google, Facebook & Co. On the Change of the Socio-Political Opinion Formation and Decision...
To what extent can algorithmic recommendation systems be part of the journalistic activity of public service media providers and take the side of (or take the place of) journalistic selection and compilation of information? In a White Paper, the main characteristics and principles of algorithmic rec...
"Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram – How Dangerous Is The Internet for Children and Young People?", presentation by C. Lampert at the AGF European expert meeting on "Children and Young People Using the Internet – Risk Awareness and Online Security within the EU and Germany?&qu...
"What Are the Topics of Populist Anti-Immigrant Movements on Facebook?“, talk by C. Puschmann at the conference "Social Media and Society 2016“ on 13 July 2016 in London.
“L’évolution structurelle de l’opinion publique sous l’effet des intermédiaires de l’information: Pratiques, principes et pathologies de Facebook, Twitter et compagnie [The Structural Development of Public Opinion through Information Intermediaries:...
"Kommunikative Dynamiken rechtspopulistischer Empörungsöffentlichkeiten im Netz: Zur Beziehung von Themen, Akteuren und Quellen auf der Pegida-Facebookseite [Communicative Dynamics of Right-Wing Networks of Outrage: On the Relation of Topics, Actors and Sources on Pegida's Faceboo...
"Alliance of Antagonism: Counter Publics and Polarisation in the German Language Online Climate Change Discourse“, talk by C. Puschmann at the panel "Communicating Nature, Sustainability, and Environmental Issues Using Online Media Channels“ at the "66th Annual Conference&...
"Empörungsöffentlichkeiten im Netz: Zur Beziehung von Themen, Akteuren und Quellen auf der Pegida-Facebookseite [Outraged Publics Online: On the Relations of Topics, Actors and Sources on the Facebook Page of Pegida]“, talk by C. Puschmann at the "Annual Conference of the D...
“L’évolution structurelle de l’opinion publique sous l’effet des intermédiaires de l’information: Pratiques, principes et pathologies de Facebook, Twitter et compagnie [The Structural Development of Public Opinion through Information Intermediaries: Practi...
“Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment and User Rights”, talk by C. Puschmann at the weekly “HIIG journal club” on July 2, 2014 in Berlin (in collaboration with E. Bozdag).
"‘Dark Germany’: Hidden Patterns of Participation in Online Far-Right Protests Against Refugee Housing", guest lecture by Sebastian Schelter, TU Berlin, and discussion within the series "Computational Social Science @ Hans Bredow Institute" on 20 July 2017 in Hamburg.
Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt is a participant in the interdisciplinary conference on the topic of Internet platforms, their social influence, the associated risks and the resulting legal and regulatory issues.
Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt speaks at the Department of Communication and Media Science at the University of Zurich about how online intermediaries such as Google, YouTube or Facebook influence information management and the opinion-forming process. Online intermediaries want to be seen as "platforms"...
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