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Schulz, W.; Dankert, K. (2017): Informationsintermediäre – Anknüpfungspunkte für rechtliche Regulierung [Information Intermediaries – Connecting Factors for Legal Regulation]. In: Informatik-Spektrum, 40 (4), pp. 351-354.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz
2017
In this computational social science project, we will use browser data donations to determine how relevant individual search engines and social media platforms are in journalists’ everyday work.
The institute will provide scientific support for the media conference in the context of Germany's 2020 EU Council Presidency and is analysing in advance the requirements of a modern European information order.
The social science case study gains access to Facebook's Content Policy Forum for the first time in order to examine how rules for the moderation of content, so-called "community standards", are developed.
Using the example of the Science Media Center Germany, a new organization at the interface between science and journalism, research is being conducted into how the field of science communication is changing.
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.
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...
"A Comparative Study of Content Governance and Media Policy Responses After Russia’s Attack on Ukraine" is the subtitle of #4 in the Working Paper Series of the Global Digital Human Rights Network, published by Mart Susi, Wolfgang Benedek, Gregor Fischer-Lessiak, Matthias C. Ketteman...
In their article in new media & society, the authors examine how bots are regulated on 9 platforms and develop an analytical scheme to develop a generalisable normative framework for agent governance. Makhortykh, Mykola; Urman, Aleksandra; Münch, Felix Victor; Heldt, Amélie; Dreye...
The EU is dedicated to becoming a "global role model for the digital economy" and to spreading its regulatory model beyond the EU's borders. In a background article for the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Amélie Heldt assesses the enforcement mechanisms of EU laws on platform reg...
In the run-up to the 2021 federal election, a team from the HBI collected real-time data in the project "Platform Governance in the Super Election Year 2021". It looked at how online platforms regulate the communication that takes place on them, how laws and local standards interact and ho...
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