Team Science Communication

The Science Communication Team bridges the gap between research at the HBI and the society for which this research is conducted. It makes scientific findings visible and accessible, brings them into public debates, and creates spaces for exchange between academia, the media, politics, the professional community, and the general public.

The team adapts research topics and findings for different target audiences and formats and supports the institute’s researchers in communicating their work. It is responsible for the HBI’s press and public relations work, as well as for communication via the institute’s website and social media channels.

The team’s responsibilities include providing editorial support for the journal “Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft” and the HBI’s publication series “Working Papers”, as well as conceptualizing and organizing public events such as the Lunch Talks, the Media Lectures, and the Hamburg Media Symposium. With our podcast BredowCast and the Media Research Blog, the team offers additional formats in which research topics are addressed, contextualized, and made accessible to different target audiences.

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Last update: 24.09.2026

Blog Articles, News, Projects, Publications, Podcast Episodes

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Published in AfP

State Media Treaties Under Pressure

In an article published in the journal AfP 6/2024, Tobias Mast discusses state media treaties in a climate of polarized and fundamentally opposing politics.

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accessible open access

Private Ordering of Media

In a handbook article, Tobias Mast, Matthias C. Kettemann and Wolfgang Schulz address the question of how media organizations and platform operators setprivate law through, for example, their terms and conditions.

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Open Access Publication

Research Data Access and Technology Regulation

In their article, Tobias Mast and Martin Fertmann examine the growing inclusion of access to research data in digital regulatory legislation at the national and European levels (e.g., NetzDG, UrhDaG, and DSA). You can access the article free of charge.

Portrait Kristina Kobrow
New Appointment

A Warm Welcome to Kristina Kobrow!

Since October 2024, Kristina Kobrow has been the new host of our BredowCast and a member of the HBI's science communication team. Thank you for joining us!

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On the Future of Public Broadcasting

Brief Expert Opinion on the Reform Treaty

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz has written a brief expert opinion on the state treaty on the reform of public broadcasting (Reform State Treaty), which is available here as a PDF file. The heads of government of the federal states had requested feedback on their draft state treaty by October 11, 2024.

Matthias C. Kettemann
Appointed to Task Force “Internet Governance”

Matthias C. Kettemann Advises BMDV

Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann has been appointed to the Internet Governance Task Force by the German Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV). The task force has six months to develop future scenarios for the development of German digital policy up to the year 2040.

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Coding Public Value

How can we develop software that is not only oriented towards business models, but also towards the common good, user interests, and media regulation? Coding Public Value (CPV) translates questions on media law into approaches and methods for a responsible software engineering.

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Pilot Project Computational Social Science

Journalistic Use of Information Environments Influenced by Algorithms

The pilot project in the field of computational social science used browser data donations to investigate how relevant the offerings of individual search engines and social media are in the everyday work of journalists.

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BMBF Project

Communication in Times of Crisis

How do communications change in a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic? What role do actors from science, politics and the media take over? How do they deal with uncertainty from this situation? A project that reviewed existing studies and interviewed experts provided answers to this question.

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Funded by Stiftung Mercator

Platform Democracy

How could "platform councils" or other institutions for integrating public interests into platform rule-making processes ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account? A new project is embarking on a search for global best practice models.

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BMBF Project

Media and Science Communication

How do scientific findings about journalistic media and social media get into the world? What criteria do science editors use to select topics? And what impact can scientific content have with it?

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International Cooperation Project

Global Media and Internet Concentration

The international Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMICP) analyses communication, internet and media markets in nearly 40 countries. The HBI is responsible for collecting and reporting the data for Germany.

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