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Little Trust in News on Social Media

Hamburg, 14 June 2018. A third of adult Internet users (31 %) use social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp or YouTube as a news source. However, for only 7 per cent it is the most important source, for just under 2 per cent it is the only source. These are the results of the Reuters Institute Digital...

9th Hamburg Media Symposium

Hamburg, 7 June 2018. How can algorithmic recommendation systems be programmed in such a way that they also offer diversity of opinion despite increasing personalization? This was the central question at the 9th Hamburg Media Symposium, which has been organised today by the Hans-Bredow-Institut, the...

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Wiebke Loosen Appointed Professor

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...

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...