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Schmidt, J.-H. (2013): Social Media. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
2013
This project develops methods for the automatic recognition of arguments or argument components with the help of Natural Language Processing technologies. The goal is to use these methods to enable logical evaluation and content-analytical measurement of the use of arguments in large collections of...
The (Social) Media Observatory is creating a knowledge base, competency cluster, and data hub for the systematic observation of media-based publics, to support other projects within and beyond the FGZ.
What is the state of the Internet and Germany? Upon a request from the German Commission for UNESCO, the HBI will apply 130 indicators to see how digital policy-making can be improved.
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...
This book project, drawn up in the run-up to the Internet Governance Forum organised by Germany in November 2019, clears up misconceptions about the impact and reality of the Internet and explains fact-based, vividly and practically what science knows about Internet-based communication.
In their article on the Verfassungsblog, Dr Sangeeta Mahapatra, Martin Fertmann and PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann write about the recent dispute between Twitter and the Indian government and what this means for human rights in India. You can read the article here Abstract “The Internet is sp...
Together with a team from the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Network of Internet and Society Research Centers (NoC), PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann conducted a review of Missions Publiques and its activities on Internet governance in the last year. "WE, THE INTERNET&qu...
Leonie Wunderlich explains in the dpa Innovation Blog how young users are exposed to news content on social media and to what extent this contact goes beyond mere "casual" consumption. To the full article As part of our #UseTheNews project, we examined the different practices and s...
In their contribution to JuWiss, media lawyers Martin Fertmann and Keno Potthast discuss whether Donald Trump's Twitter ban heralds a change in the previously privileged treatment of public officials on digital platforms. Read the article here (in German) Abstract After soon-to-be...
In a contribution to the anthology "Social Media", Dr. Gregor Wiedemann and Cornelia Fedtke examine the interplay between hate speech and counter speech on social networks. The authors propose a model for computer-aided critical discourse analysis. Download the article here (fee required)...
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