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Livingstone, S.; Haddon, L. (eds.) (2009): Kids Online. Opportunities and Risks for Children. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Dr. Claudia Lampert
2009
What effects does the corona crisis have on families, children and their use of digital media? The HBI participates with a German partial survey in a European comparative study of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC).
International data on children and online media is extensive, heterogeneous and partly contradictory. The CO:RE project seeks to create a comprehensive pan-European knowledge platform with the participation of international researchers and relevant interest groups, providing an overview of the resea...
How does each individual establish a connection to the public through media and, thus, change the communicative figuration of the public? The project “Public Connection”, financed by the German Research Foundation, seeks to answer these questions as part of the research association &ldqu...
How do children and adolescents in Europe use the Internet; which risks do they encounter and how do they handle them? The project EU Kids Online has been dealing with these questions since 2006.
In several projects, the institute is investigating the new child-specific data protection regulations of the GDPR with regard to children's rights, identifying problem areas and working together with relevant stakeholders to develop solutions.
This report by Dr. Claudia Lampert and Kira Thiel provides an overview of how families in Germany experienced the lockdown phase - in particular, the switch from face-to-face to distance learning - and to what extent this has changed their media use. It is part of the Kids' Digital Lives...
On 30 November 2020, the third edition of the study "Better Internet for Kids" Policy Map was presented at the Safer Internet Forum. The HBI and the TU Dublin were involved in this study. It was commissioned by the EU Commission. The study provides an overview of policy design and i...
In this paper, Lisa Merten analyses how users curate their news consumption on social media by specifically following or blocking news accounts. She draws on the data set collected by the Reuters Digital News Survey, which includes information on the online news usage behaviour of over 70,000 respo...
What are the experiences of children and young people in Europe when they are online? This is the focus of the international comparative study EU Kids Online. In the journal medien+erziehung [media+education], Dr. Claudia Lampert, Kira Thiel and Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink give an overview of the study...
In an article on the innovation.dpa.com, Leonie Wunderlich writes about the first results of our project "Use The News" on news usage in the digital age. You can read the complete article here. Abstract Population-representative studies on news usage, such as the recent...
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