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09.29.11
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12.22.11
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Click on “events” to find all information, facts such as research paper of our 1st BERLIN SYMPOSIUM OF INTERNET AND SOCIETY.

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Alexander von Humboldt, internet, research, society
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  • 01 About us

    The Internet and related technologies significantly transform our society, which implies enormous potential as well as indisputable challenges. We have founded this research institute for Internet & society in Berlin to further the transdisciplinary analysis of the Internet and its influence on the information society.

    tags internet

  • 03 Research

    Hosted by three leading academic institutions in Germany, including Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin University of the Arts and the Social Science Research Center Berlin, and in close collaboration with the Hans-Bredow-Institute in Hamburg, the institute will bring together leading academics to engage in innovative research focusing on questions of Internet innovation, Internet policy, information and media law and global constitutionalism.

    • Dr. Jeanette Hofmann

      Internet Governance & Policy

      We customarily assume that the provision of regulations concerning the internet results from parliaments. Internet related issues, however, require working within a broader concept of regulation. The formation of the digital world is based upon very different kinds of actors.

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    • Prof. Dr. jur. Dr. h.c. Ingolf Pernice

      Constitutional Law

      Technological developments in communication have the power to change social relationships, enlarge and concurrently concentrate spaces of political processes, while simultaneously putting conventional constitutional norms and values to the test.

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    • Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer

      Internet based Innovation & Economy

      It is common knowledge that the Internet is a powerful and innovative force that has revolutionized countless industries. For years, to cite one example, we have devoted a significant amount of research to the changes in the music industry brought on by digitalization.

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    • Dr. Wolfgang Schulz

      Internet & Media Law

      The Research and Transfer Center Internet & Society of the Hans-Bredow-Institute (HBI) – led by the designated director, Wolfgang Schulz – contributes its unique research experience, embedded within a legal perspective and focused on the public with a special interest in media communication.

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    tags internet, privacy

  • 04 Newsroom

    Find an overview of all the institutes information channels put together on this site. Follow up Twitter, Facebook, news and press releases. Further a press kit is prepared ready to be downloaded. Please send your requests to presse@hiig.de.