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Schmidt, J.-H. (2013): Social Media. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
2013
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.
For the first time in history, Facebook grants science access to its data records. As part of the SHARENEWS project, Dr. Cornelius Puschmann is investigating the criteria according to which Facebook users share messages on the platform.
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...
In her article in the open access journal Internet Policy Review, Amélie Heldt writes about freedom of expression in the United States and the consequences of the US President's executive order on preventing online censorship. You can read the entire article here Abstract While we consi...
In the Diversity Report 2020 of die medienanstalten, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Dr. Sascha Hölig write about social media, misinformation and its influence on opinion formation, comparing Germany, France, Great Britain and the USA. You can download the complete Diversity Report 2020 free of c...
In the "Handbook of Political Communication", Dr. Sascha Hölig writes about news repertoires, the relevance of established brands, social media, participation possibilities and preferred modes of use. As an open access publication, the article is available free of charge. You c...
In the journal Revista Culturas Jurídícas, Dr. Matthias Kettemann presents in the Portuguese version of an article his approaches to the emergence of a normative order on the Internet and analyses which actors exercise power on the Internet and Internet-based communication in which way...
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