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 Platform Governance Archive (PGA), the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) is taking a pioneering step in collaborative research on online platforms and their governance. The archive is open to researchers, citizens and journalists from all over the world. It collects and organises platforms’ documents on their regulation and governance and makes them accessible via open access.

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