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Mast, T. (2017): WTF, hier spricht die Polizei!!! [WTF, This Is the Police Speaking!!!]. In: Recht & Politik, 53 (2), pp. 216-219.
2017
Why do digital media feed us certain messages and not others? Which technical service providers and algorithms play a role when messages reach us? Which of these functions are socially acceptable and which, on the other hand, constitute manipulation? The project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation a...
The project devotes itself to several questions of public communication facilitated by the media, focussing mainly on the 1950’s to the 1980’s and with a particular emphasis on programme offerings from the NDR (North German Broadcasting Corporation).
Dr. Tobias Mast writes in his contribution to the new Handbook of the Law of State Expression about the legal competencies and boundaries for parliamentary groups and members of parliament when communicating publicly in their official role. This area of law is gaining in importance due to new ways...
Tobias Mast has published the article "Gesetzespublizität im Zeitalter der Vernetzung" [Publicity of Laws in the Age of Networking] in No. 1/2022 of the Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung (ZG). The article looks at the plans on the federal level to create a uniform legal information p...
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Keno C. Potthast write about science communication in between legal protection and the need for regulation in their contribution to "Wissenschaftspolitik im Dialog [Science Policy in Dialogue]", the publication series of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of...
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz and Dr. Stephan Dreyer have written a report on information intermediaries for the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), in which they identify challenges and possible solutions in the area of governance. To the full report (PDF) Abstract In the context of...
Matthias K. Klatt writes about politicians at the Constitutional Court in the JuWissBlog. Stephan Harbarth has been a judge at the BVerfG for over a year, having previously been an important figure in the CDU/CSU faction and a successful lawyer. There was a dispute about his appointment to th...
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