General Editor: Rasmus Greiner, Tatiana Astefeva Managing Editors: Delia González de Reufels, Winfried Pauleit Editors: Mara Fritzsche, Delia González de Reufels, Rasmus Greiner, Winfried Pauleit, Christine Rüffert, Alina Fischer Editorial Assistants: Lukas Holländer Sprache: Englisch ISSN 2627-5848 Research in Film and History is a peer-reviewed online journal. The journal offers an international forum for current (…)

Following a successful test operation in Bremen, researchers are investigating how the news and information app molo.news can be made available throughout Germany. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is providing 1.5 million euros of funding for the project.

Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter Funding institution: DFG – German Research Foundation The information infrastructure project (INF project) “Advancing the Global Welfare State Information System (WeSIS), eScience Services and Research Data Management” has four main objectives: (1) to further develop the Global Welfare State Information System and open WeSIS to the scientific community; (2) to (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Patrick Zerrer The AMBITION project is a scientific pilot study on the news and media usage behavior of Fridays for Future supporters. The project examines the role of media and news offerings and the motivations for political action. For example, the aim is to find out whether and in (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann The useNews dataset has been compiled to enable the study of online news engagement. It relies on the MediaCloud and CrowdTangle APIs as well as on data from the Reuters Digital News Report. The entire dataset builds on data from 2019 and 2020 as well as a total of (…)

Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach Funding institution: University of Bremen The Platform Governance Archive (PGA) is a project to promote a critical examination of the way platforms organize and govern our communication and activities. The project is a data repository and platform that collects and curates policies of major social media platforms in a (…)

The database of the Digital Constitutionalism Network (DCN), a global interdisciplinary network of academics, consists of a regularly updated data set of so-called “Internet bills of rights” (IBRs). Digital constitutionalism describes the political process of entrenching rights and principles into the global governance of digital technologies, specifically the Internet. Digital constitutionalism does not describe actual (…)

Measuring socio-political development dynamics and inter-state interdependencies worldwide. Co-creation of the Global Welfare State Information System TP A01 in the SFB 1342: Global Development Dynamics of Social Policy. Cooperation of ifib with the University of Bremen. Team: Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter, Hendrik Heuer, Gabriela Carolina Molina León Partner: SOCIUM University of Bremen Client: German Research (…)

The basic aim of this research project is to further develop the media diary software MeTag and the Q-Sort or free sorting software MeSort and, in doing so, to develop a model of good practice for the provision of research software in the field of media and communication.

The economic crisis of regional newspapers continues as local news apps have yet failed to establish themselves. Researchers and software developers of the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research and of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) are now trying to go a new, much more experimental way: In co-creation, together with future users, they developed an innovative mobile news- and information-app for young people in the city and its surrounding areas.