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NEW DFG RESEARCH UNIT ON THE AUTOMATION OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

A new Research Unit from the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the topic of "Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI) has been successfully acquired by the HBI, ZeMKI and other research institutions in Graz and Vienna.

MORE PERSPECTIVES DESIRED IN THE NEWS

Two thirds (66 percent) of adult internet users in Germany expect the news media to offer them different perspectives on current topics, but less than half (43%) consider this to be well fulfilled. The news media perform even worse when it comes to giving people a more optimistic view of the world. German findings of the “Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024” on news usage in an international comparison published.

WHAT IS THE STATE OF JOURNALISM IN GERMANY?

The average German journalist is male, 45.3 years old, has an academic degree, works full-time in the print or online section of a newspaper or magazine, and often feels stressed. The findings of our latest journalist survey are now summarized in a video.

Latest News

News, new research projects and publications from the Institute

Library and Office Secretariat Open Tuesdays to Thursdays - by Appointment Only

The library of the HBI is open Tuesdays to Thursdays, but only by prior appointment. After registering at bibliothek@leibniz-hbi.de, time slots will be allocated during which you can work in the library. If you have any questions, please contact our library team by e-mail at bibliothek@leibniz-hbi.d...

Appointed

Tobias Mast Appointed to Advisory Board

Tobias Mast, head of the research program "Regulatory Structures and the Emergence of Rules in Online Spaces" at the HBI, has been appointed to the advisory board of the Coordination Office for Digital Services. Tobias Mast represents the field of science on the advisory board together wi...

Study on the Public Service Mandate

ZDF's Educational Mission

The Second German Television ZDF asked its audience what they understand by education and what expectations they have of ZDF. The HBI helped design the survey. For the majority of the population (80.6%), it is (very) important that ZDF makes a contribution to the education of the population. Even t...

Congratulations!

Two prizes for Johanna Sebauer at the Bachmann competition

Johanna Sebauer won two awards at this year's Bachmann competition with her highly comical text "Gurkerl" [cuke]. She received the 3sat Prize (7,000 euros) and the BKS Bank Audience Award, endowed with 7,000 euros plus a 6,000-euro City Writer's Scholarship in Klagenfurt, Austria....

Event for the Science Year 2024 – Freedom

How Do We Protect Academic Freedom, Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Opinion?

On deck of the MS Wissenschaft, we held a public discussion on three fundamental values as cornerstones of our social coexistence: freedom of the press, freedom of opinion and academic freedom. What is the state of these freedoms in Germany and worldwide? Where and how are they under threat? In what...

14th Hamburg Media Symposium

Resonance instead of Dissonance

About 200 experts and guests came to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce on June 18th to discuss the drivers of social conversations and the challenges of current media communication. Discourses and groups seem to be drifting further and further apart, while at the same time journalism is expected to ke...

M&K 2/2024 erschienen

The articles in M&K 2/2024 focus on "Practices of Contradiction in Networked Public Spheres" (Thomas/Lünenborg/Hoffmann/Eichner/Kinnebrock), "Examining Opinion-Forming Processes from the Users' Perspective" (Stegmann/Schneiders/Stark/Buggert) and "Social Me...

Blog: Sicherheit im Netz

Ideen von Jugendlichen für ein sicheres Internet

Cybermobbing, Grooming und Hate Speech – Viel wird darüber diskutiert, wie es angesichts dieser Gefahren gelingen kann, Heranwachsenden eine sichere und selbstbestimmte Nutzung digitaler Medien zu ermöglichen. Die, um die es geht, kommen dabei nur selten zu Wort. Im Projekt “SI...

Blog: Mehr Europa durch TikTok und Co.?

Digitale Plattformen – Fluch oder Segen für die Europäisierung?

Drei Jahre lang hat ein internationales Forscherteam untersucht, inwiefern digitale Plattformen einen Beitrag zu europäischer Öffentlichkeit und Kultur leisten. Haben Facebook, Twitter und Co. die europäische Kultur europäischer gemacht? Haben sie zu einem gesamteuropäischen...

On News Fatigue and the State of German Journalism

Re:publica Presentations Available as Video

Three researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Media Research presented the findings of their research at this year's re:publica in Berlin. You can watch the presentations in full length on YouTube. Julia Behre spoke in a panel discussion about news fatigue and how media companies deal with it...

Ethics in der Quantum Science

Matthias C. Kettemann in World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology

The Secretary-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO has appointed Prof. Matthias C. Kettemann, head of an HBI research programme, as one of 18 experts on the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) The World Commi...

Balancing Family and Work

HBI RECEIVES CERTIFICATE FOR FAMILY FRIENDLINESS

On 31 May 2024, the Leibniz Institute for Media Research was awarded the "audit berufundfamilie" [audit work and family] certificate, the quality seal for a “family and life-phase-conscious personnel policy". The Leibniz Institute for Media Research wants to ensure th...

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024 – Ergebnisse für Deutschland

Surveys were conducted simultaneously in 47 countries for the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024 on news usage in an international comparison to identify general trends as well as national peculiarities. The HBI is responsible for the German part of the study; it is supported by the state me...

Study Findings in a Video

What Is the State of Journalism in Germany?

Conference Review

Conference " Indicators of Social Cohesion in Social Media and Online Media"

Around 50 international academics from the field of social media research discussed the question of what role social and online media play in endangering or promoting social cohesion and what methods can be used to research these issues. The international symposium entitled "Indicators of Socia...

Enabling Political Advice

Lost (and Found) in Translation. Thesen zur Übersetzungleistung von Beratungsdokumenten an der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft und Politik

The thesis paper provides practical tips on how scientific advisory documents should be created and used. It was written as part of a project that created a repository for such documents. Broer, Irene; Ibert, Oliver; Kuckeland, Niklas; Kuper, Freia & Müller, Felix. C. (2024): Lost (and Fo...

Submission until July 15th

Call for Papers: Transmedia Conference 2025

The international conference “Transmedia History: Circulations, Reconfigurations and New Methodologies”—organised by the Impresso project and the University of Lausanne’s History Department on 27 and 28 January 2025—will gather scholars from various backgrounds around t...

Summer School in Delhi

Summer School about AI Regulation

At the 8th iteration of the NoC Summer School in New Delhi, 33 students from Brazil, Germany and India came together at the National Law University Delhi for an intensive week of lectures, discussions and interactive learning exercises from April 22nd to April 29th. The programme focused on the glo...

NDR Interview Marking the Anniversary

100 Years Radio in Hamburg

The Nordische Rundfunk Aktiengesellschaft (Norag AG) launched its program in May 1924. This made Hamburg the 5th German metropolis to have a radio station. Media historian Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner spoke to NDR on the occasion of this anniversary. Founded by grain and agricultural machinery dealers, N...

AI Usage under the Microscope

Generative AI for Information Navigation

The project investigates the distribution and fields of use of generative AI such as Chat GPT in private and professional contexts. It will particularly focus on the extent of using generative AI for political information purposes in the context of the 2024 European elections and for obtaining infor...

New Episode of "Tonspur Wissen"

Podcast: Wie sollten soziale Medien reguliert werden?

In the podcast “Tonspur Wissen - der Podcast von Rheinischer Post und Leibniz-Gemeinschaf” [Soundtrack Knowledge - the Podcast of Rheinische Post and the Leibniz Association], Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann talks about how TikTok and other social media can be regulated (from min. 1:23)....

Blog: Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

Verbinden oder spalten? Was Medien leisten (sollten)

Ob Information oder Unterhaltung – Medien bieten uns einen Blick über den eigenen Tellerrand. Neben den klassischen Massenmedien ermöglicht die Etablierung digitaler Medien eine breite Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Diskurs, lässt aber auch Befürchtungen über eine Frag...

Interview with BDZV

How Newsrooms Can Get Young People Excited about News

Leonie Wunderlich talks about new approaches in journalism and how editorial teams can get young people excited about news in an interview with the German Newspaper Publishers and Digitalpublishers Association (BDZV). In her current study for the #UseTheNews project on the news literacy of teenagers...

Podcast!

Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt erforschen – Ein Zwischenfazit

Sociologist and media researcher Jan-Hinrik Schmidt has headed the Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion for four years, which is about to enter its second funding phase. In the BredowCast, he sums up the first four years of the project. At the beginning, the question was: Wha...

Special Issue

Mediatization and Human-Machine Communication: Trajectories, Discussions, Perspectives

Wiebke Loosen is guest editor of a special issue of the journal "Human-Machine Communication". It has been published under the title "Mediatization and Human-Machine Communication: Trajectories, Discussions, Perspectives". Other guest editors are Andreas Hepp, Göran Bolin, a...

Dissertation Published!

Rechtsschutz durch Entscheidungsarchitekturen

In his dissertation written at the HBI, Johannes Schmees deals with the state's use of algorithmic decision-making systems and its constitutional control. The entire work has now been published open access by Duncker und Humblot Verlag. To Johannes Schmees' dissertation at the publish...

Podcast!

Schulfunk und Schulfernsehen

In our podcast, media historian Maximilian Brockhaus talks about the now historic media format of school radio and school television in Austria. Broadcasters soon realized that the new media technology of radio could also be used for educational purposes. Just a few years after the start of broadc...

New Research Funding Format

HBI Involved in the Leibniz Lab "Upheavals and Transformations"

The Leibniz Association is funding a new format called "Leibniz Labs" for the first time. The HBI is involved in one of three labs which is dedicated to the topic of "Upheavals and Transformations". The labs will be funded over a period of three years from April 2024 with a total...

Project Findings in Video

People Who Use Media Also Trust Them – But Not Unconditionally

"Trust in Established News Sources": A special analysis of data from the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey with findings published as a report and in three short videos In Germany, trust in established news sources can best be explained by age: Older internet users tend to place more...

Human in the Machine

Human In the Loop? Autonomy and Automation in Socio-Technical Systems

The research project "Human in the Loop?" investigates how human participation can improve automated decision-making processes.

Monitoring and Improving the DSA

DSA Research Network

In the DSA Research Network, experts from all over Europe monitor the implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and work together on reform proposals.

Social Divide Due to AI

The Artificial Intelligence Divide: Who is the Most Vulnerable?

In their article in the journal "New Media & Society", Judith Möller and colleagues describe which social groups could be left behind by developments in artificial intelligence (AI). The authors note that older people and people with a lower level of education are partic...

Open Access!

Longitudinal Upstream and Downstream Effects of Political Participation

Judith Möller and fellow researchers have published an article in the international political science journal "Acta Politica". It examines the question of whether low-threshold political activities (donations, volunteering, etc.) make people participate more in democratic process...

Interview in Leibniz Magazine

Are Right-Wing Extremists Ruling the Internet?

HBI researchers Jan Rau and Gregor Wiedemann told the online magazine "Leibniz" in an interview why the internet is not as hateful and toxic as it sometimes seems and how extreme views on social media can be countered successfully. The atmosphere online is becoming i...

Expert Opinion for Bundestag

Stellungnahme zum Entwurf des Digitale-Dienste-Gesetzes

Tobias Mast has written an expert opinion for the Bundestag on the draft Digital Services Act (DDG). It is available on the Bundestag server: https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/990562/688777df60250ea4d22b717e8131a852/Mast.pdf (in German). Key findings and proposals The design...

RISC Publication

Sozialer Zusammenhalt vor Ort

A new volume in the publication series of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) presents articles on the topic of "Local Social Cohesion". This includes an article by Jan-Hindrik Schmidt and Hannah Immler, both researchers at the FGZ's Hamburg site at the HBI, on "Local Me...

Available Open Access

M&K 1/2024 Published

The articles in M&K 1/2024 deal with gender-specific differences in precarious work in journalism (Rick/Lauerer), the effects of the corona pandemic on the communication of scientific knowledge in Informationsdienst Wissenschaft and in regional newspapers (Rediger/Beer), the topic of "Nutri...

What if the AfD Was in Power?

Protecting Public Broadcasters from the AfD

A potential AfD Minister-President at the helm of Thuringia could single-handedly shut down public broadcasting. Tobias Mast and Lennart Laude explain how this could be prevented as part of the "Thuringia Project" of the Verfassungsblog. An amendment to the state constitution would ma...

Successful Disputation

Congratulations, Dr. Irene Broer!

Our researcher Irene Broer has successfully defended her dissertation. Irene Broer presented the findings of her four years of research in the HBI library in front of colleagues, friends and her family who had traveled from the Netherlands. "Science Communication in Flux" is the tit...

Safer Internet Day 2024

Mit Jugendlichen über sexuelle Grenzverletzungen sprechen

“Let’s Talk about Porn” lautet das Motto des diesjährigen Safer Internet Days, um darauf aufmerksam zu machen, dass Kinder und Jugendliche online vermehrt – freiwillig und unfreiwillig – mit sexuellen Inhalten in Berührung kommen. Dieser Beitrag wirft einen Bl...

Podcast!

BredowCast 90: Sexting im Strafrecht

Sending self-generated sexual content can have legal consequences for young people. Even if it is consensual. Media law experts Sünje Andresen and Stephan Dreyer explain this in the newest episode of the BredowCast. Sexting, i.e. the consensual exchange of intimate selfies, can be criminally...

Digital Turbulences

Demokratische Gesellschaft in Zeiten des digitalen Umbruchs

HBI researcher Jan Rau describes how our democracy can be strengthened in digital spaces in the special issue of the journal "Wissen schafft Demokratie" [Knowledge Creates Democracy] on the topic of "Netzkulturen und Plattformpolitiken" [Net Cultures and Platform Politics]. "...

Blogserie "Nahost"

Krieg “for you” – Wie nehmen Heranwachsende den Nahostkonflikt auf Social Media wahr?

In personalisierten und algorithmisch kuratierten Online-Umgebungen lässt sich schwer ausmachen, welchen Kriegsinhalten Kinder und Jugendliche konkret begegnen und vor allem, wie sie die Darstellungen empfinden. Paulina Domdey, Kira Thiel und Claudia Lampert haben Schüler*innen getroffen u...

Guest Article by HBI Director Wolfgang Schulz

Little Futur, a Lot of Advice?

In a guest article in Legal Tribune Online, HBI Director Wolfgang Schulz comments on the reform proposals for public broadcasting drawn up by a "Future Council". He sees good approaches among them, but also legal impossibilities and cost drivers. "The federal states r...

Podcast!

Wie läuft's im deutschen Journalismus?

Anna von Garmissen and Wiebke Loosen identified these findings in the world's largest journalism study "Worlds of Journalism". The average German journalist is male, 45.3 years old and has an academic degree. He works full-time in the online or print section of a newspaper, of...

Mental Health of Young People

Digitale Mediennutzung als Balance-Akt zwischen Wellbeing und Stress und Ohnmacht

The relationship between digital media and mental health is complex and multi-layered. On the one hand, digital media provide access to health-related information and support services and enable exchange with similarly affected people. On the other hand, however, different facets of online use can a...

Project Findings Presented

Digital Repository for Scientific Policy and Social Advice

Scientific advice documents will soon be able to be stored in a digital repository for scientific policy and social advice (REPOD). The project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), was presented in Berlin on 24 January 2024. It is intended to help improve politi...

Blogserie "Nahost"

Nahost-Konflikt auf Twitter muss unerforscht bleiben

Mehrere Hundert Millionen Tweets hat ein Team des HBI zum Ukraine-Krieg gesammelt und Forschenden aus aller Welt zur Verfügung gestellt. Eine solche Datensammlung ist für den Krieg im Nahen Osten nicht möglich. Denn Elon Musk hat den freien Zugang zu Plattformdaten auch für akade...

Available Open Access

Zwischen Genervtsein und Belastung

Online interaction risks from the perspective of young people are the focus of the article written by Kira Thiel and Claudia Lampert. The article was written as part of the project "SIKID - Security for Children in the Digital World" and has been published open access in the December issue...

Article on bpb Website

Das Internet als rechtsextreme Erfolgsgeschichte?

Right-wing extremists achieve a wide reach on online platforms. This digital mobilization poses a substantial threat to society and democracy. Jan Rau explains on the website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) that the political challenges that our democracies have experienced in r...

First Volume of New Publication Series

Forschungsbasierter Wissenstransfer und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

The first volume of a new publication series by the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) has been published. It is dedicated to the question of how the mutual transfer of knowledge between research, civil society and politics can succeed. The volume discusses the methods used to research social...

For a Secure Data Exchange

Data Portal Right-Wing Extremism

For the "Data Portal for Research on Racism and Right-Wing Extremism", the HBI is developing a research data infrastructure for the secure exchange of social media account lists in compliance with data protection regulations.

Goodbye to X

Goodbye X, Hello LinkedIn and Threads!

The communication environment on Twitter/X is no longer the same as it used to be. So we said goodbye and moved to LinkedIn as well as Threads https://threads.net/@bredowinstitut. Let's meet there again soon!

Sixth Interstate Media Amendment Treaty

Stellungnahme zum Reformentwurf des Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrages

In their expert opinion on the "Discussion Draft of the Broadcasting Commission of the Federal States for a Sixth Interstate Media Amendment Treaty (6th MÄStV)" revised in November 2023, media legal experts Stephan Dreyer and Wolfgang Schulz discuss remaining quest...

Comment on Draft Bill

Gesetz zur Anpassung der Mindeststrafen des § 184b Abs.1 S.1 und Abs.3 StGB

Media legal experts Sünje Andresen and Stephan Dreyer comment on the draft bill presented by the Federal Ministry of Justice (BJM) in November 2023 to adjust the minimum penalties for the distribution, acquisition, and possession of child pornography content (Section 184b (1...

Blog: Journalismus im Nahost-Krieg

„Zeigen, in welcher Welt wir leben“

Seit zwei Monaten herrscht im Nahen Osten wieder Krieg. Grausame Bilder und Berichte über unvorstellbares menschliches Leid füllen seither unsere Medien. Wie schwierig und gleichzeitig unverzichtbar Journalismus aus dem Kriegsgebiet ist, erzählt Journalismusforscherin Anna von Garmiss...

Podcast!

Mediensysteme in Nordwest-Europa

Barbara Thomaß and Volker Grassmuck talk about the media systems of Northwestern Europe The two HBI researchers Volker Grassmuck and Barbara Thomaß have collaborated on an anthology that examines Europe's media systems in Northern, Northwestern, Eastern and Southern Europe on the...

Dissertation published

News Must Die for News to Live

Online news is still used relatively rarely, with people often relying on friends and family for political information. Michael Reiss' dissertation uses an improved method for measuring online news consumption and argues in favor of comprehensively investigating various sources of information -...

Working Paper

The Lazy Legislature

In their working paper, media lawyers Tobias Mast and Christian Ollig look at a new, unconventional approach to legislation on the EU level. With the Digital Services Act and the Terrorist Content Online Regulation, the European legislator recently chose a new legislative technique...

Open Access

M&K-Themenheft "Telegram in der politischen Öffentlichkeit"

Our journal Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (M&K) focuses on the messenger service Telegram in its current issue 3-4/2023. It was edited by HBI researchers Gregor Wiedemann, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Jan Rau, Felix Victor Münch and Philipp Kessling. The entir...

Podcast: 100 Years of Radio

The Radio Journey

"Attention, attention! This is the transmitting station Berlin". These sentences marked the beginning of the "entertainment radio service by wireless telephone" in Germany in 1923. To mark the occasion, HBI media historian Hans-Ulrich Wagner spoke to Gábor Paál...

Legislation on Sexual Offences as a Violation of Children's Rights

Sexting im Strafrecht

The consensual exchange of intimate image content (sexting) is now part of the reality of life for many children and young people who are developing sexually and exploring their sexuality in the digital space. Sünje Andresen and Stephan Dreyer, together with two colleagues from the "Arbeit...

Podcast!

Mediensozialisation in der Langzeitstudie

Paulina Domdey and Katrin Potzel explain how children and young people grow up in a changing media environment and describe how to conduct research over a long period of time, using their research on media socialization as an example. The "Connected Kids" project aims to find out how chi...

Anthology

The Science-Media Interface

This open-access anthology combines current studies on science journalism, science communication, information science, and scientific communication. It discusses the interplay between publisher-driven and journalistic science communication and its impact on the science communication system. T...

Study Findings Available for Download

„Verständlicher, nicht so politisch“ – Einblicke in die Bedürfnisse und Nutzungspraktiken gering informationsorientierter junger Menschen

More and more adolescents and young adults do not find their interests and concerns reflected in the traditional news media. They have little interest in current world events, hardly use any information offered by established media and are therefore hardly reached by journalistic offerings. Instead,...

Article in "Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht"

Staatsferne der Medien und Staat im Diskurs

In the "Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht" [Journal of Copyright and Media Law], Tobias Mast discusses the incongruities between the constitutional figure of state neutrality of the media and the jurisdiction on the public relations of state agencies, which has recent...

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr. Johannes Schmees!

On 26 September 2023, Johannes Schmees successfully defended his dissertation on "Rechtsschutz durch Entscheidungsarchitekturen – Skizze einer deskriptiven Systematik zur Erfassung staatlich-exekutiver Entscheidungsbildung bei der Implementation algorithmisc...

Jan-Hinrik Schmidt as an Expert on arte Program

Do Lies Make Our World Better?

The latest episode of the arte program "42 - The Answer to Almost Everything" looks at the phenomenon of lying and asks whether lies are always and exclusively bad, or whether they might not even make our world a better place. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt looks at the topic from his favorite place o...

Current Findings on Situation and Change

Journalismus in Deutschland 2023

In this working paper, Wiebke Loosen, Anna von Garmissen, Elsa Bartelt and Tim van Olphen present first findings from a representative survey involving 1,221 journalists in Germany, conducted between September 2022 and February 2023. The study is funded by the German Research Founda...

New Guest Researcher from Vienna

A Warm Welcome to Maximilian Brockhaus

We welcome our new guest researcher Maximilian Brockhaus from the University of Vienna. He will continue his research on school radio and school television in Austria and Europe between 1924–1993 at the HBI until the end of January 2024. Maximilian Brockhaus has been a university assistant (p...

Small is Beautiful

HBI Coordinates Knowledge Forum for "Small Tech" Platforms

A regular policy table is to facilitate future exchanges between representatives of small and medium-sized social media platforms and the scientific community. Researchers of the HBI make scientific findings available in dialog with practitioners. At the same time, the practical experience of...

Podcast!

Finnish Journalism and the Research of it

Journalism researcher Laura Ahva talks about the challenges and developments in Finnish journalism and how it is being researched. Laura Ahva is a junior professor for "Journalism Studies" at the University of Tampere and a visiting researcher at the HBI until the end of 2023. In a conv...

RISC Symposium

Media Change, Cohesion and Social Change

Researchers from the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) discussed the topic of "Media Change, Cohesion and Social Change" in Hamburg at the end of September. The Social Media Observatory (SMO) presented current research results: PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt gave a presentatio...

Rules for Immersive Worlds

Einführung in die Regulierung der Metaverse

Matthias C. Kettemann, Caroline Böck and Martin Müller examine selected legal issues of rule application in the metaverse and look at future developments. Excerpt The metaverse is phenomenologically diverse; technically complex; economically endowed with much potential; challenging tradit...

Brief Expert Opinion

Zum Referentenentwurf des Digitale-Dienste-Gesetzes

In this HBI brief opinion, some aspects in the draft of the new Digital Services Act are commented on regarding DSA implementation and legal issues related to Germany's federal media law system. For several years now, the European Union has been issuing numerous regulations to implement t...

For World Children's Day on 20 September 2023

Stärkung von Kinderrechten durch den Digital Services Act

Ingrid Stapf, Stephan Dreyer, Laura Schelenz, Sünje Andresen, and Jessica Heesen have analyzed how the Digital Services Act (DSA) can strengthen children's rights in the digital realm. In a paper, they constructively accompany the implementation of the new European legal standard DSA from a...

Annual Report in English

Annual Report 2020–2022

Our annual report on the three "Corona years" 2020 to 2022 is now also available in English. It provides an overview of the research projects on socially relevant communication carried out during this period as well as our transfer activities. You can download the report here [pdf,...

Anthology

@ichbinsophiescholl: Darstellung und Diskussion von Geschichte in Social Media

In 2021/22, the Instagram project @ichbinsophiescholl of the public broadcasters SWR and BR let users participate in the last 10 months of the life of a remediated Sophie Scholl, played by Luna Wedler. A new anthology now examines this project from different academic perspectives and asks how histor...

Impulse Paper #5

The EU Elections 2024: How to Build Resilience Against Disinformation Campaigns on Social Platforms

Looking at the 2024 EU elections, the fifth impulse paper in the series "Digital Platforms: Design Proposals and Alternatives" examines the tension between electoral processes and disinformation. How well prepared are governments, platforms, and civil society to ensure healthy public disco...

Article in "Publizistik"

Concept and Challenges of a Social Media Observatory as a DIY Research Infrastructure

In their open access article published in "Publizistik", Gregor Wiedemann, Felix Victor Münch, Jan Philipp Rau, Phillip Kessling and Jan-Hinrik Schmidt write about the lessons learned from the establishment of the Social Media Observatory (SMO), an open science infrastructure for moni...

Video

RISC Hamburg Introduces Itself

In a 5-minute video, some researchers from the Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) introduce themselves and their projects. Irene Broer, Aditya Kumar, Wiebke Loosen, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Wiebke Schoon and Rahel Winter also explain what they think about cohesion in...

Anthology

Schlüsselwerke der Journalismusforschung

Wiebke Loosen and Armin Scholl have edited an anthology on the most influential texts in journalism research. From David Manning White's "Gate Keeper" (1950) to Herrmann Boventer's "Ethics of Journalism" (1984), the volume presents 24 classics in short...

Continuities and Discontinuities

The Media Systems in Europe

This handbook provides an overview of current trends and issues in media systems within the European Union. Based on Hallin and Mancini's famous model for analyzing media systems ("Comparing Media Systems," 2004), the book examines Europe's media systems in different regions: North...

ChatGPT, LaMDA, and the Hype Around Communicative AI

The Automation of Communication as a Field of Research in Media and Communication Studies

This article aims to define the research field of "automated communication" more clearly and recommends that we should broaden our view in order to better understand the current changes in the media environment. Instead of focusing on human-machine interaction alone, social communication s...

Social Media as a Threat to Democracy?

Judith Möller as a Guest on arte

HBI researcher Judith Möller was a guest on the arte programme "Agree to Disagree" and discussed with psychologist and scientist Bertolt Meyer the impact of social media on users as well as on our democracy as a whole. Can fake news and conspiracy theories undermine governments by dis...

Podcast!

Sicherheit für Kinder und Jugendliche im Netz

In this BredowCast, lawyer Sünje Andresen and media researcher Kira Thiel report on the dangers that lurk for adolescents on the internet and how safety can nevertheless be established. The two researchers come from different disciplines and have just as different perspectives on the topic:...

BMBF Project

Trust in Established News Sources

The project examines the relationship between the news sources people use and the trust people place in news. It is based on data from the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey.

Advice from the Field of Publishing

Wissenschaftsgeleitetes Publizieren. Sechs Handreichungen mit Praxistipps und Perspektiven

A new practical guide on supporting OA publications provides extensive knowledge for successful and science-driven journal publishing. Cindy Hesse, librarian and OA expert at the HBI, contributed to it. In the section "Governance and Legal Form", she and other experts from the field...

Filmanalyse zu "Barbie"

Alles so schön pink hier?

Medienwissenschaftlerin JOAN BLEICHER über Greta Gerwigs neuen Film „Barbie“ und dessen Rezeption. Greta Gerwigs neuer Hitfilm „Barbie“ ist ein Genrehybrid aus vielfältigen Bausteinen des populären Kinos. Er ist Roadmovie, Slapstick-Komödie, Animati...

Impulse #4

Threats to Democracy: Climate Misinformation and Gendered Disinformation

The fourth impulse paper in the series "Digital Platforms: Alternative Models and Designs" by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society has been published. It poses the question of the danger of disinformation in climate and gender issues and is based o...

Neu erschienen

Some Black Boxes are Made of Flesh; Others are Made of Silicon

Tobias Mast's article "Some Black Boxes are made of Flesh; Others are made of Silicon" appeared in issue 2/2023 of the journal Morals & Machines. Automated decisions, especially those that work with AI, are accused of being opaque black boxes. In this article, Tobias Mast argues t...

Basic Contribution to the Dogmatics of Fundamental Rights

Die kompetenzielle Bedeutung der Grundrechtsschranken

Some fundamental rights may be interfered with "by or on the basis of a law", others may only be restricted "on the basis of a law", and before a constitutional amendment in 1968 there were also fundamental rights that could only be restricted "by a law". The discussio...

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Database of Public Spokespersons

The "Database of Public Spokespersons" (DBÖS) offers a comprehensive collection of the most relevant German social media accounts on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram and systematises actors who contribute to public communication. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Felix Münch and Li...

Project Results in brief

Safety for Children in the Digital World: Most Important Findings in English

Numerous studies show that children increasingly use social networking sites such as TikTok, Instagram and BeReal at an earlier age and to a greater extent to search for information, discuss ideas or feel connected to others. However, interactions with others in various online communities also pose...

Cooperation Project for VW Foundation

Hate Speech and Hostility towards Science

In recent decades, there has been an increase in the number of attacks on scientists through digital platforms for science communication and the political desire for more social impact. The climate debate of the past few years has made this phenomenon very clear. Most recently, researchers were at...

Impulse Paper #3

Rat beim Beirat: Potenzial von Plattformbeiräten

The third impulse paper in the series "Digital Platforms: Alternative Models and Designs?" by the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society has been published. It poses the question of the potential of platform advisory boards and is based on the results of a...

Podcast!

Die Denkwerkstatt als wissenschaftliche Methode

Irene Broer has chosen the think tank as the survey method for her current research project. She explains the advantages of this innovative transfer-oriented format in the BredowCast. You have to imagine a think tank as a protected space where people are invited to express themselves completely f...

Change and Growth during the Corona Years

Jahresbericht 2020–2022

The Institute's annual report 2020-2022 shows how the Institute has successfully fulfilled its mission of conducting research on socially relevant communication and making the results available to society in the three years of Corona from 2020 to 2022. You can download the pdf here [13,6 MB] F...

German Findings of "Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023" Published

News Fatigue in Germany on the Rise

Interest in news continued to decline in 2023. 52 per cent of adult internet users in Germany say that they are extremely or very interested in news (2022: 57%). The reach of news overall is also slightly declining in the long-term view. 89 per cent of adult internet users in Germany read, listen to...

International News Consumption

Reuters Institute Digital News Report

The annual international representative survey on changing news usage conducted by the Reuters Institute (Oxford) shows general trends and national peculiarities of developments. The Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut carries out the German part of this study.

Presentations on YouTube

The HBI at the re:publica 2023

The HBI was represented at the 17th edition of re:publica with two presentations and a panel discussion. Some of the contributions were recorded and are now available on the event's YouTube channel. On the first day of the conference, our PhD students Josefa Francke and Jan Rau introduced...

Review of the 13th Hamburg Media Symposium

Influence and Responsibility of Social Media Content Creators

About 200 guests came to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce on 30 May 2023 to discuss the social significance of social media content creators with experts from academia and practice. The theme of this year's event was "Just Saving the World for a Moment? Influence and Responsibility of Social...

Project Findings Published

Mediennutzung und politische Kultur in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

The study "Media Use and Political Culture in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania" investigated how people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania inform themselves about politics and other socially relevant topics in their federal state and what general attitudes they have towards politics. The study...

Legal Concerns and Questions of Effectiveness

Stellungnahme: Eckpunkte des BMJ zum Gesetz gegen digitale Gewalt

Several HBI experts from the fields of media law, protection of minors from harmful media, platform regulation and internet research have given their opinion on a key issue paper of the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ) on a law concerning digital violence. In this paper, they assess the three measu...

First Place!

DGPuK Journal Article Award 2023 for Our Researchers

Wiebke Loosen, Stephan Dreyer, Wolfgang Schulz and their co-authors were awarded first place in the DGPuK Journal Article Award 2023 for their article "Von der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion zur kommunikativen KI" [From Human-Machine Interaction to Communicative AI]. KI as a Research Object...

Podcast!

Bessere Regeln für Zugang zu Plattformdaten?

The European Union's Digital Services Act requires large online platforms to provide access for science in the future. A potential milestone for research into digital phenomena. The two internet researchers Jan Rau and Vincent Hofmann explain what needs to be considered for the law to be of op...

Publication!

Exploring the Interrelation between Journalism and Social Cohesion

Julius Reimer, Verena Albert and Wiebke Loosen explain in their new article in the journal "Journalism" how journalism can strengthen or weaken social cohesion. The article is based on the findings of four group discussions with 21 experts from journalism, academia and civil societal "...

Qualitative Study

Wahrnehmung, Bewertung und Bewältigung belastender Online-Erfahrungen von Jugendlichen

The findings of the qualitative study by Kira Thiel and Dr Claudia Lampert provide valuable information on how young people deal with stressful online experiences and where they need support. From a media education perspective, approaches that raise young people's awareness of their rights in t...

73rd Annual Conference

The HBI at the ICA 2023 in Toronto

Media researchers from all over the world will travel to Toronto from May 25th to 29th to share their current studies at the largest conference for communication studies, the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Several members of the HBI will also be there to pres...

Fourth Edition

Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Policy Map 2023

The fourth edition of the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Policy Map provides an overview of the implementation of the "European Strategy for a Better Internet for Kids" (BIK Strategy) in the EU Member States as well as Iceland and Norway. It is the first report of its kind since the adopti...

Scientific Publishing

Our Journal M&K Becomes More English

From now on, German-speaking authors will also be able to submit articles in English to our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (M&K)" [Media & Communication Studies]. Until now, this was only possible for those who did not speak German. M&K is published with texts...

Recently Published!

M&K 1-2/2023

The articles in issue 1-2/2023 of our journal "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" (Media & Communication Studies) address, among other things the rediscovery of the sociological category "class" in communication studies (Polkowski & Jandura), the influence of social...

Project Findings

Perspectives on Platform Power, Public Values and the Potential of Social Media Councils

In the final report of the research project "Platform://Democracy", project leaders Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz present possibilities for a better protection of human rights and democratic values in the digital space. Based on research data...

Doctoral Thesis Published

Das Sondervotum beim Bundesverfassungsgericht

The doctoral thesis of our former colleague Dr Matthias K. Klatt was published by Mohr Siebek in April 2023. Content Judges have been able to issue dissenting opinions on Senate decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court since December 1970. After a very long political and academic discussi...

Blog: Research Data Access

Clearing the data fog: German far-right research’s requirements for the DSA research data access

Following the EU Digital Services Act, large online platforms are now required to share their data with researchers. This is a potential milestone for researchers examining the digital far-right. However, some factors need to be considered so that the act does not become a paper tiger. Jan Rau summa...

Blog zum Tag Pressefreiheit

Pressefreiheit weltweit: Deutschland rutscht auf Platz 21 ab

Die Freiheit der Presse ist in Deutschland auch in diesem Jahr zurückgegangen. Nicht nur am heutigen Tag der Pressefreiheit ist es daher unsere Pflicht, uns für eine freie, unabhängigen Presse einzusetzen. von Matthias C. Kettemann und Johanna Sebauer In der heute veröffen...

A New Form of Regulated Self-Regulation

AGB-Recht als Regulierungsrecht

Tobias Mast explains in his article published in the Juristen Zeitung (JZ) the meta-process that GTC law is currently undergoing in the area of platform regulation. To the article (fee required; in German) Abstract The functional descriptions of GTC law no longer capture its nature in the are...

Podcast!

Medienmosaik Schweiz

In this BredowCast, media researcher Manuel Puppis talks about the peculiarities of the media system in Switzerland. Switzerland has 8.7 million inhabitants, one tenth of Germany, with four language regions. How does a media system function in such a small-scale linguistic field? "Basically...

Student Assistant Published Article

„Schadensersatz ohne Schaden“ nach der DSGVO?

Lennart Schiek, student assistant at the HBI, has published an essay in the most cited and oldest German journal on data law, "Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD". In his article, he undertakes an attempt to categorise Article 82 of the GDPR from a civil-dogmatic point of view. Link to...

A Classic Celebrates Its Birthday

60 Years "Psychology of Mass Communication"

In 1963, the communication scientist and media researcher Gerhard Maletzke published his book "Psychologie der Massenkommunikation" (Psychology of Mass Communication), which is still considered a fundamental work of media research today. Maletze was a researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut...

Cooperation project for German Cancer Aid

Fertility and Ethics in Oncology

On behalf of the German Cancer Aid, this cooperative project investigates how younger patients with newly diagnosed cancer can be optimally counseled in dealing with fertility issues.

Podcast!

Mit Influencer*innen Nachrichtenmuffel erreichen?

Influencers could succeed in reaching an audience that is not interested in news about political issues at all. Hannah Immler and Dr. Lisa Merten discovered this in an elaborate Instagram study. People who tend to avoid news in their everyday lives can hardly be reached by traditional media with...

"Platform Governance"

Summer School in Delhi 2023

Following a two-year pandemic break, the Media Law Summer School, co-organised by the HBI, took place again in Delhi, India, from 20 to 26 March. In addition to Director Wolfgang Schulz, HBI research assistants Vincent Hofmann and Christian Ollig took part. This year's topic was "Platform G...

BMBF Project Document Collection

Repository for Policy Documents (REPOD)

This project aims to create a targeted information and advisory infrastructure for actors from politics, administration and other areas of society, by establishing a repository that exclusively contains publications of policy and societal advice from the entire German science system. The HBI support...

BMBF Project Local News App

molo.news: Validation of a Relational Platform for Urban Publics

After a successful test run in Bremen, a science team is researching how the local news and information app "molo.news" can be made available nationwide. The BMBF is funding the project with 1.5 million euros.

Dissertation Published

Intensivere Drittwirkung

In her dissertation thesis, Amélie Heldt asks whether information intermediaries such as social networks are or should be bound by freedom of expression when they moderate users' posts and comments. Based on a constitutional, comparative and interdisciplinary analysis, she advoc...

Blog: Digital Law

The DSA highlights codes of conduct: What can we learn from their similarities and differences to GDPR codes?

The Digital Services Act (DSA) encourages codes of conduct to be developed with the purpose of “tackling different types of illegal content and systemic risks”, or for the specific purpose of online advertising or accessibility. This approach follows in the footsteps of the General Data...

Guest Researcher

Manuel Puppis for 2 months at HBI

In March and April 2023, we welcome Prof. Dr. Manuel Puppis as a visiting researcher at HBI. Manuel Puppis is Full Professor of Media Structures and Governance in the Department of Communication and Media Research DCM, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He also serves as vice-chair of th...

Im Blog: #UseTheNews-Forschungsüberblick

Familienangehörige sind wichtige Nachrichtenquelle

Im #UseTheNews-Forschungsüberblick für Februar hat Leonie Wunderlich einige internationale Studien zusammengefasst: Sie zeigen, dass das familiäre Umfeld eine Rolle beim Nachrichtenkonsum junger Menschen spielt, negative Online-Kommentare dem Ansehen von Nachrichtenanbietern schaden k...

Editorship

Transparency or Opacity

Martin Fertmann, together with Simone Kuhlmann, Fabrizio De Gregorio, Hannah Ofterdinger and Anton Sefkow, has published an anthology with contributions from legal scholars on the problem of transparency in automated decision-making processes. The anthology is available as an open access publicatio...

Blog: Öffentlich-Rechtliche auf Social Media

Löschen für die Vielfalt

Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht gelangt mit einiger Anstrengung zu einer generellen Pflicht öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunkanstalten, Inhalte auf ihren Social Media-Präsenzen zu moderieren und Nutzendenkommentare ohne hinreichenden Sendungsbezug zu löschen. Die Chance, ein zukunftweisend...

Public Service Broadcasting

Sascha Hölig Advises ZDF Television Council on Quality Measurement

Dr. Sascha Hölig will be part of a panel of experts advising the ZDF Television Council as of March 2023 with his expertise as a researcher. ZDF wants to make the quality of its programming comprehensible and transparently measurable in the future and is seeking support from the scientif...

Study Launch

Political Media Use in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

A new study by the HBI investigates how people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania inform themselves about politics and other socially relevant topics in their federal state and what their general attitudes towards politics are. The telephone survey will start in February 2023 and will last abou...

We are thrilled!

Judith Möller Is New Professor at HBI

We welcome our new colleague Judith Möller! The internationally highly renowned communication scientist from the University of Amsterdam, takes over the professorship "Empirical Communication Research, especially Media Use and Social Media Effects" at the University of Hamburg in coop...

Complete Study as Brochure

Jugendmedienschutzindex 2022

Parents' concerns about their children's online safety are increasing. Children and young people encounter online risks more frequently. These are the findings of the Youth Media Protection Index 2022, which has now been published as a brochure. HBI researchers Dr. Claudia Lampert, Dr. Steph...

Media Use in a Federal State

Media Use and Political Culture in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

How do people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania inform themselves about politics and other socially relevant topics in their federal state? And what general attitudes do they have towards politics?

Podcast!

Medical Controversies Online

Magdalena Góralska is a guest researcher at the HBI and explores how digital communication influences medical debates. In this BredowCast, she gives an insight into the latest findings of her research. As part of her doctoral project at the University of Warsaw, Magdalena Góralska i...

Jugendmedienschutz-Report 6/22

Folgen der sich wandelnden Regulierungsansätze im Jugendmedienschutz

Dr. Stephan Dreyer, Sünje Andresen and Neda Wysocki have published an article in the current Youth Media Protection Report. In this article, they address the systematic changes in the legal protection of minors from harmful media and the associated control advantages for interaction and communi...

Blog: Kinder, wie die Zeit vergeht!

Das HBI gratuliert der Sesamstraße zum 50. Geburtstag

50 Jahre Sesamstraße – eine Kindersendung feiert Geburtstag. Das HBI gratuliert aufs Herzlichste, hat es doch die Sendung gerade in ihren Anfängen intensiv und forschend begleitet. Claudia Lampert und Hans-Ulrich Wagner haben einen Blick in das Institutsarchiv geworfen. Am 8. Januar...

Hans Bredow Explains the System

75 Years of Public Service Broadcasting in Germany

75 years ago, on 1 January 1948, the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR, forerunner of NDR and WDR) became Germany's first "public service" broadcaster. A few days earlier, Hans Bredow had explained to the Germans what that meant and why broadcasting should be organised federally. SWR2 A...

An Obituary

In Memory of Dieter Roß

We mourn the death of Prof. Dr. Dieter Roß, who was a researcher and highly esteemed and popular colleague at the Hans-Bredow-Institut from 1965 to 1983 and then a professor at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Hamburg. When Dieter Roß became emeritus professor in...

Overview

Overview Study Digital Methods

This comprehensive and compact overview of methodological approaches in Computational Social Science (CSS) seeks to broaden the spectrum of methods in technology assessment.

Blog: Plattformregulierung

Nein, Elon Musk, so geht Plattformdemokratie nicht

Nach einer Online-Abstimmung hat Elon Musk den Twitter-Account von Donald Trump wieder freigeschaltet mit den Worten: „The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei”. Plattformdemokratie funktioniere anders, meint Matthias C. Kettemann. Dieser Beitrag ersch...

Blog: Plattformregulierung

Digitale Demokratie by Design: Was Habermas Stört und Elon Musk freut

Die Regeln für Plattformen sind vorhanden und auch in Geltung. Angesichts der Eigengesetzlichkeiten der Plattformwirtschaft fehlt es jedoch an der effektiven Anwendung und Durchsetzung dieser Regeln. Matthias C. Kettemann diskutiert den Zusammenhang und gibt Einblicke in den aktuellen Stand der...

Twitter-Alternative mit Problemen

Was bei Mastodon besser laufen muss

Seit Elon Musk Twitter übernommen hat, schauen sich viele User:innen nach Alternativen um. Mastodon tritt als Gewinner auf. Die Plattform hätte nun die Chance, neue Wege nachhaltiger Content-Governance zu pilotieren und zum Experimentierraum für demokratische Diskurse zu werden, finde...

Blog: Donald Trump wieder auf Twitter

„Auf Twitter ließ er Medien nach seiner Pfeife tanzen“

Donald Trump darf wieder twittern. Welchen Einfluss der ehemalige US-Präsident nun auf der Plattform erlangt, hänge weniger von Trump selbst ab, als von journalistischen Medien und wie sie mit seinen Tweets umgehen, sagt PD. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt. Obwohl er angekündigt hatte, weitre...

Options for Actions for the Federal Government

Menschenrechte im Digitalen

How can human rights be protected online? For example, by expanding transparency in the digital space, by reviewing existing legal norms on human rights protection in the digital sphere more effectively, by carrying out a mandatory human rights impact assessment before using algorithmic decision-mak...

Handbook

Methods in Practice: Studying Children and Youth Online

A new online handbook from the project CO:RE – Children Online: Research and Evidence explains how to conduct research on the online use of children and adolescents and which ethical aspects need to be considered. go to the Online Handbook Kotilainen, S. (Hrsg.). (2022). Methods in...

Anthology

100 Jahre Radio in Deutschland

Dr Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes about radio personalities and their careers in his contribution to the anthology "100 Years of Radio in Germany", which has been published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb). The book is available in the online shop of the bpb. About the Boo...

Podcast!

Elon Musks Twitterübernahme: Folgen für die Wissenschaft

In this BredowCast, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt talks about Elon Musk's Twitter takeover and what this could mean for academics and media research. Only 10 percent of Germans use Twitter regularly, yet the takeover of the platform by entrepreneur Elon Musk is making waves. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt explains...

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