The Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) examines media change and the related structural shifts in public communication.
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“Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft“ offers a forum for the discussion of media and communication-related issues and for analyses of media development from different perspectives and for all media.
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Scheliga, K.; Friesike, S.; Puschmann, C.; Fecher, B. (2016): Setting Up Crowd Science Projects. In: Public Understanding of Science. DOI: 10.1177/0963662516678514 (pdf).
Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
2016
How do communications change in a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic? What role do actors from science, politics and the media take over? How do they deal with uncertainty from this situation? A project that reviewed existing studies and interviewed experts provided answers to this question.
How can digital products and platforms be designed to protect individual freedom and promote social cohesion? The project, which is under the patronage of the German Federal President, developed answers to this question that will serve as a knowledge base for political dialogue in the international...
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...
The relationship between journalism and its audience is changing, yielding consequences for what journalists cover and how. The project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), examines the breadth, depth, and diversity of this re-figuration and its consequences.
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...
After two years of research on the ethical challenges of digitalisation and strategies on how to overcome them, the international and interdisciplinary team of researchers has now published the final report. The HBI researchers Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann,...
In the anthology "Arbeitswelt und KI 2030" [Working World and AI 2030], Johannes Schmees and Dr. Stephan Dreyer describe the current guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in administration and justice. They also offer cautious considerations on concerning the direction in...
In the article, Matthias K. Klatt, Keno C. Potthast and Alina Funk (University of Hamburg) give an overview of podcasts in legal communication. The article was published in the journal RuZ - Recht und Zugang as an open access publication. Download the article here (pdf, in German) Abstr...
Irene Broer and Louisa Pröschel took a closer look at the Science Media Center Germany and its role between science and journalism. The findings of their ethnographic study are now available for download as No. 57 in the series "Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Instituts [Working Papers of t...
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