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Gaffney, D.; Puschmann, C. (2013): Data Collection on Twitter. In: K. Weller, A. Bruns, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt, C. Puschmann (eds.), Twitter and Society. New York: Peter Lang. pp. 55-67.
Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
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Within the scope of this project, a discourse analyses on the topics of drug policy and drug consumption in social media will be carried out in an explorative way.
What role do intermediaries like Google, Facebook, YouTube or WhatsApp play when people get informed about social issues or when they form an opinion?
What role does social media play at the 2015 Hamburg state election?
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...
Which norms influence the behaviour of users of social media services, i.e. uploading pictures to Facebook? A German-Israeli research team examines this question in an interdisciplinary project.
Hölig, S.; Hasebrink, U. (2017): Katzen und Katastrophen. Zur Nutzung von Online-Nachrichtenvideos im internationalen Vergleich [Cats and Catastrophes. Comparing the Usage of Online-News Videos on an International Level]. In: die medienanstalten (eds.), Content-Bericht. Forschung, Fakten, Trend...
Schmidt, J.-H.; Kinder-Kurlanda, K.; Stegbauer, C.; Zurawski, N. (eds.) (2017): Algorithmen, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft [Algorithms, Communication and Society]. Special Issue of kommunikation@gesellschaft (online).
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. Available at: www.bpb.de/dialog/netzdebatte/247147/meinung-fake-news-werden-di...
Elsaß, L.; Labusga, J.-H.; Tichy, R. (2017): Löschungen und Sperrungen von Beiträgen und Nutzerprofilen durch die Betreiber sozialer Netzwerke: Rechtliche Möglichkeiten des Vorgehens vor dem Hintergrund von Hate Speech, Fake News und Social Bots [Social Network Providers Delete...
Hasebrink, U; Merten, L.; Schmidt, J.-H.; Hölig, S. (2017): Die Rolle von Social Media für Information und Meinungsbildung [The Role of Social Media for Information and Opinion Formation]. In: merz. Zeitschrift für Medienpädagogik [merz. Journal for Media Education]. Issue 61, Nu...
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