Amélie Heldt
Amélie Heldt is a lawyer and has been associated with the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society since 2017 in the programme area Digital Society, in particular the Platform Governance project. She worked as a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute from 2017 to 2021. From 2020, she conducted research there in the sub-project “Integration Task and Integration Function of Public Service Media” as part of the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (FGZ). Since January 2022, she has been a Digital Policy Officer at the Federal Chancellery.
Amélie Heldt works on platform regulation, social media governance, the impact of new technologies on opinion formation and public discourse, and the perception of fundamental rights in the context of algorithmic decisions and autonomous systems. In her dissertation (funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation with a PhD scholarship), she investigated the spillover effect of freedom of expression on social media platforms.
After studying law at the Universities of Paris Ouest Nanterre and Potsdam and additional studies in design thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute, she completed her legal clerkship at the Kammergericht in Berlin.
Amélie was a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (USA) in 2019, and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Cyber, Law & Policy at Haifa University (Israel) in 2018. She was a member of the editorial board of the JuWiss blog (Young Scholars in Public Law) and has been a member of the editorial board since 2022.
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Journal articles and conference proceedings
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Münch, F. V., Heldt, A., Dreyer, S., Kettemann, M. C. (2022). Not all who are bots are evil: A cross-platform analysis of automated agent governance. new media & society, 24(4), 964-981. DOI: 10.1177/14614448221079035 Publication details
Heldt, A. (2019). Upload-Filters: Bypassing Classical Concepts of Censorship? JIPITEC – Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law, 10(1), 56-65. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2019). Reading between the lines and the numbers – An analysis of the first NetzDG reports. Internet Policy Review, 8(2). DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1398 Publication details
Heldt, A. (2019). Gesichtserkennung: Schlüssel oder Spitzel? – Der Einsatz von intelligenten Scans von Gesichtern im öffentlichen Raum. Multimedia und Recht(5), 285-289. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2019). Let’s Meet Halfway: Sharing New Responsibilities in a Digital Age. Journal of Information Policy, 9, 336-369. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2018). Facebook verstößt gegen Impressumspflicht und deutsches Datenschutzrecht. Multimedia und Recht, 21(5), 328-333. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2018). Ausstrahlungswirkung des allgemeinen Gleichheitssatzes in das Zivilrecht. Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht, 37(11), 813-819. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2018). Transparenz bei algorithmischen Entscheidungen – Food for Thoughts – Ein vergleichender Blick auf die Kennzeichnungspflichten im Lebensmittelrecht. Computer und Recht(8), 494-500. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2018). Zulässigkeit von Facebook-Sperren bei Hassrede. Multimedia und Recht, 770-773. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2017). Terror-Propaganda online: Die Schranken der Meinungsfreiheit in Deutschland und den USA. Neue Juristische Online-Zeitschrift, Heft 45, 1458-1461. Publication details
Edited works
Heldt, A. (2023). Intensivere Drittwirkung. In Hofmann, J., Kettemann, M. C., Scheuermann, B., Schildhauer, T., & Schulz, W. (Eds.), Internet und Gesellschaft: Vol. 30. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck. Publication details
Schulz, W. & Kettemann, M.C. & Heldt, A.P. (2019). Probleme und Potenziale des NetzDG – ein Reader mit fünf HBI-Expertisen., Arbeitspapiere des HBI Nr. 48 Hamburg, Germany: Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut. Publication details
Working paper
Heldt, A., Dreyer, S., Schulz, W., & Seipp, T. J. (2021). Normative Leitbilder der Europäischen Medienordnung. Leitvorstellungen und rechtliche Anforderungen an die Governance für eine demokratische Öffentlichkeit. Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Instituts, Projektergebnisse Nr. 54. DOI: 10.21241/ssoar.71716 Publication details
Other publications
Heldt, A., Kettemann, M. C., & Leerssen, P. (2020). The Sorrows of Scraping for Science: Why Platforms Struggle with Ensuring Data Access for Academics. Verfassungsblog. Publication details
Heldt, A. P., Kettemann, M. C., & Tiedeke, A. S. (2020). Wer sagt, was wir online sagen können? HBI Media Research Blog. Publication details
Heldt, A., & Krüger, J. (2019). Bad content, good content – Julia Krüger and Amélie Heldt on different ways of moderation, [Audio Podcast] Exploring digital spheres – a podcast by HIIG. Retrieved from: hiig.de/podcast. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2019). Facebook and the European elections: overzealous or uninformed? Balkinization Blog in a Wikimedia Essay Series on Intermediary Liability. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2019). Hong Kong protests: From Octopus to datenkraken? Digital Society Blog. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2019). Von der Schwierigkeit, Fake News zu regulieren: Frankreichs Gesetzgebung gegen die Verbreitung von Falschnachrichten im Wahlkampf. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2019). Good Ends, Bad Means? The EU’s Struggle To Protect Copyright and Freedom of Speech. Council on Foreign Relations. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2019). #NSFW? Be yourself but don’t undress. Digital Society Blog. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2019). „Gebühr“ oder „Beitrag“: Einerlei. JuWiss Blog. Publication details
Heldt, A. & Iglesias Keller, C. (2018). Fake News and Elections – How researchers tackle the problem of information manipulation strategies during election campaigns, [Audio Podcast] Exploring digital spheres – a podcast by HIIG. Retrieved from: hiig.de/podcast. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2018). Zensur durch Upload-Filter: Zur umstrittenen EU-Reform des Urheberrechts. Verfassungsblog. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2018). Von der Schwierigkeit, „fake news“ zu regulieren. JuWiss Blog. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2018). Internationales Abkommen über das Internet als Raum des Gemeinwohls. JuWiss Blog. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2017). Anonyme Äußerungen im Netz: Der Fall 4chan. Publication details
Heldt, A. (2017). Die Umsetzung von Kennzeichnungspflichten im Influencer Marketing. Publication details
Organisation of events
The First Annual Conference of the Platform Governance Research NetworkFrom 24.03.2021 to 26.03.2021. Online, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) (International) Further information
Robert Gorwa, João Carlos Magalhães, Clara Iglesias Keller, Amélie Heldt, Christian Katzenbach
Media appearances
Ringen um Urheberrecht (29.01.2021). ZDF
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Angeklickt: Hausverbot bei Social Media Plattformen (29.01.2021). WDR
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COSMO Tech - Wer kontrolliert die Internetkonzerne? (19.01.2021). COSMO Radio
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Position
Former Associated Researcher: Platform Governance
