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Schmidt, J.-H. (2013): Social Media. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
2013
International data on children and online media is extensive, heterogeneous and partly contradictory. The CORE 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 resear...
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.
The international cooperation project investigates how the Internet has changed and will continue to change societies in the USA, Europe and China.
Is user-generated content on private communication platforms protected by freedom of expression? In her PhD project, Amélie Heldt focuses on the effect of the fundamental right on freedom of expression on the Internet.
The lawyer Amélie Heldt writes in her essay in the Journal of Information Policy about responsibilities in the age of online communication. States often delegate responsibility for problems in online communication (disinformation, hate speech, etc.) to online platforms. At the same time, the...
On the JuWissBlog Keno C. Potthast has written an article about political microtargeting – “addressing personalised voters based on evaluations of personal data.” "We've made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally." This is the begin...
This anthology clears up misconceptions about the Internet and summarises what we really know about the online world. The editors Matthias C. Kettemann and Stephan Dreyer have embarked on a search for the 50 most common Internet myths and asked Internet experts from America, Africa, Asia and Europe...
Facebook can be forced to delete hate postings worldwide. This is the ruling of the European Court of Justice in the Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland Limited (C-18/18) case. Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, former spokeswoman for the Austrian Green Party, had sued the US company after it refused to...
Heldt, A. (2019): Reading between the Lines and the Numbers: An Analysis of the First NetzDG Reports. In: Internet Policy Review 8 (2), Online First.
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