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Puschmann, C.; Bozdag, E. (2014): Staking Out the Unclear Ethical Terrain of Online Social Experiments. In: Internet Policy Review, Vol. 3(4).
Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
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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.
As part of the project "Security for Children in the Digital World", funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research, the HBI is researching the legal framework concerning online risks for children. It will develop ways of optimally interlinking actors and measures and investigate...
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...
How can information processing be made transparent and controllable again for individuals and institutions by new technologies?
In his thesis, Lennart Ziebarth examines the criteria to which data is transported via the internet and to what extent network providers should be allowed to intervene in data transport.
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 his blog article, PD Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann explains what the "Ethics of Digitalisation" project is about and why it is important to address the normative shaping of digitisation by law. Read the blog article here Abstract Scientists have the privilege to ask questions. For example...
Philip Baugut and Katharina Neumann write about the relations between journalists and right-wing extremists (Beziehungen zwischen JournalistInnen und Rechtsextremisten) in the new issue of M&K. Further articles deal with the digital change of the knowledge order (Neuberger et al.), research ethi...
Analysis by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Dr. Stephan Dreyer, commissioned by the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Algorithmic systems evaluate people – which poses risks – for us as individuals, for groups and for society as a whole. It is therefore important that algorithmic processes be auditab...
Heldt, A. (2018): Internationales Abkommen über das Internet als Raum des Gemeinwohls [International Agreement on the Internet as a Space of Public Interest]. In: JuWiss Blog: Junge Wissenschaft im Öffentlichen Recht No. 92/2018. Website. Hamburg: Bucerius Law School.
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