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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The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and its partners are looking to develop a global research network with the aim of bringing scientific expertise more strongly into the discussion and to make a set of debates, which are often centered around Europe and the USA, more global. In March, HIIG and its collaborators will organize a conference seeking to both bring together cutting edge interdisciplinary academic work on all things platform and kickstart a grass-roots network of researchers that spans academia and civil society.

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A new study published by AlgorithmWatch in cooperation with the European Policy Centre and the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law shows that the GDPR needn’t stand in the way of meaningful research access to platform data; looks to health and environmental sectors for best practices in privacy-respecting data sharing frameworks.

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