Germans are significantly less interested in news; only 57 per cent of adult internet users are still interested in information about current affairs. That is ten percentage points less than last year. The decline is most visible in the group of 18 to 24 year-olds, in which only 31 per cent are interested in news, which is 19 percentage points less. At the same time, the percentage of those who at least occasionally try to avoid the news rises to 65 per cent. Topic fatigue, causing a bad mood and exhaustion due to the vast amount of information are the main reasons for this. In addition, young people in particular do not perceive news as important or useful to them personally.

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How can states strengthen newly emerging economic sectors in the context of digitalisation and create fair working conditions at the same time? What are the environmental side effects that need to be avoided to shape the digital economy in a climate-friendly way? The SET research team is investigating these questions in close cooperation with the…

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For millennia, fantasies about intelligent machines have shaped our expectations, hopes and fears. All too often, these imaginings diverge from reality and blur the line between science and fiction. At the JDZB, international researchers will discuss how these visions of artificial intelligence influence political, economic and civil society debates around the world. The central question…

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How can platform councils ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account when setting and implementing private platform rules? The new co-operation project “Platform://Democracy”, comissioned by the Stiftung Mercator, untertakes an inquiry into the meaning and limits of democracy online. The project is carried out by the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) with support from the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin) and the Department of Theory and Future of Law of the University of Innsbruck (Austria).

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Hamburg, 27.04.2022. Wer und was bestimmt eigentlich, ob uns in digitalen Medien bestimmte Nachrichten erreichen? In einem von der VolkswagenStiftung geförderten Projekt des Leibniz-Instituts für Medienforschung und des Fachbereichs Informatik der Universität Hamburg wird eine neue Methode entwickelt, mit der Zusammenhänge komplexer Medien-Ökosysteme aufgeklärt und Schutzmechanismen für gesellschaftliche Kommunikation abgeleitet werden können.

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With the CO:RE Knowledge Base platform, the European project network CO:RE – Children Online: Research and Evidence presents a solid knowledge base for the topic of children and the internet for this year’s Safer Internet Day. The recently launched beta version was developed together with various stakeholders and offers educational and political decision makers as well as researchers more than 1,800 publications and 1,300 studies. These were collected from over 30 countries and categorised according to research and practice relevance.

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Under the patronage of German President Steinmeier and with support of the Stiftung Mercator, a global network of research institutes has demonstrated over the course of the past two years how the digital transformation can be managed according to ethical standards. International experts from science, business and civil society have developed groundbreaking answers to the…

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The digitalization of society has many facets: It includes the transformation of the world of work, new forms of learning, the transformation of public space through digital media and platforms, changes in how democracies work, and challenges for the legal system. In light of these developments, which often imply profound social transformations, the WJDS intends…

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Uwe Hasebrink hat das Institut nach innen und außen entscheidend geprägt und in zahlreichen internationalen Kooperationsprojekten die Kommunikationswissenschaft, vor allem die Mediennutzungs- und –wirkungsforschung, folgenreich vorangebracht. Auch die Bereiche Jugendmedien-, die Radio- und Journalismusforschung sowie die Medienwissenschaft haben von seinen Arbeiten profitiert. Seine durchdachten und anschlussfähigen Impulse schätzen Schüler:innen und Kooperationspartner:innen in Wissenschaft und Praxis.…

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