Projects (6)

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 (…)

Team: Dr. Stefan Welling, Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter, Sabrina Schlachter Partner: Fraunhofer Fokus, FÖV https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/raggeber: IT Planning Council The digitalization of public administration is changing structures, processes and work culture. Employees must be prepared for these changes and their consequences through appropriate training and further education. This presents public administration employers and the associated training (…)

Team: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Daria Dergacheva, Adrian Kopps Partners: HIIG, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) Funding: EU – Horizon 2020 Social media platforms play an important role in the tension between freedom of expression and copyright. Services such as YouTube, Instagram and Facebook check and delete videos, images and texts (…)

The project, which is affiliated with the ZeMKI Lab “Film, Media Art and Popular Culture”, explores the reflection of biometric facial recognition and algorithmically controlled security devices in contemporary photography, film and media art. Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Winfried Pauleit and junior researcher Dr. Rasmus Greiner, the project will examine different aesthetic forms (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen), Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen (Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI), Hamburg) Participating institutions: ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI), Hamburg Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) The fundamental aim of this research project is (…)

The project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age” is being funded as an Innovation Action with around 5 million euros as part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 program. The project will run for four years, starting in January 2019. The Holocaust is a central point of reference in European history (…)

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 (…)