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 Governance".
The Summer School brought together students and teachers from Germany, India, and Brazil for an intensive week of lectures, discussions and interactive learning tasks. Participants learned from leading experts and presented their own research topics. The programme included lectures on topics such as "Facebook Oversight Board", "Content Moderation & Inauthentic Behaviour" or "Platform Transparency". The academic programme run from 20 to 26 March 2023 and was accompanied by various excursions.
The Summer School was organised by the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) and the
Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg (UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Communication), the
CCG in Delhi, the
Global Network of Internet & Society Research Centers and the
Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio).
Hamburg, 26 March 2023
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