Press Releases

Hans-Bredow-Institut Will Be Leibniz-Institut

Joint Science Conference Creates Basis for the Admission of Hamburg Media Researchers into the Leibniz Association Hamburg, 13 April 2018. The Joint Science Conference (GWK – Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz) of the Federal Government and the Länder has unanimously decided to accept the...

Statement of the Science Council on the Institute

Opinion of the Science Council on the Hans-Bredow-Institut

Hamburg, 30 January 2018. The Science Council assesses the scientific quality of the Hans-Bredow-Institut and its supra-regional significance as "very good", its structural relevance for the scientific system as "excellent". The Science Council adopted a corresponding opinion at...

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Results of the Youth Media Protection Index

Hamburg. 07.11.2017. 73 percent of German parents are worried about their child's safety on the Internet. They fear their children might come into contact with strangers online, see images of disturbing violence or pornographic content or become the victims of data theft. As a result, the majori...

Tinder the City

Research institutions from Hamburg and Bremen are currently developing a new and exciting news app, which is based on the Tinder concept: swipe left to read and right to abandon a story. The app will launch in 2019 and is being funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.   ...

New Edition "Social Media": Not a Guidebook but Fundamental Basics

On 5 October 2017, Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt has published the second edition of his book ‘Social Media’ at Springer Fachmedien Verlag. It is not a guidebook but a fundamental scientific book for everyone who wants to understand how digital social media works and how it is used. Hamburg 5 O...

Nachrichtennutzung im internationalen Vergleich

Reuters Digitals News Survey 2017: Results for Germany Published

Hans-Bredow-Institut Publishes German Findings of the "Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017" about International News Usage Hamburg, 22.06.2017. More than three quarters of adult Internet users in Germany watch the news on television (77%). Television is the most important source for...

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

Das Hans-Bredow-Institut is founding member of the new „News Integrity Initiative“ (NII). A group of tech industry leaders, academic institutions, non-profits and other organizations are jointly launching a $14 million fund to support the News Integrity Initiative, a global consortium fo...

Erfolgreiche Veranstaltung

AoIR2016 "Internet Rules!"

570 internet researchers from all over the world met at the conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR2016)in Berlin. According to the theme “Internet Rules!”, they discussed regulations of the Internet, how power structures as well as making and breaking rules work onli...

Informationsrepertoires für die politische Meinungsbildung [Information Repertoires for Political Opinion Formation]

Hamburg, 13.06.2012 Television remains the most important source for political opinion formation according to the findings of a study carried out by the Hans-Bredow-Institut, which has been presented today to the Bundestagsausschuss für Kultur und Medien [Committee on Cultural and Media Affai...

Unabhängigkeit der Medienaufsicht

Hamburg, 14.12.2011. The independence of supervisory authorities can barely be calculated “mathematically”. However, there are indicators that can be identified, which can identify risks and dangerous constellations that enable an influence on the impartiality of media supervisory auth...