Short News
Sign up now: HIIG Quarterly Newsletter 2016
Sign up now for our HIIG Quarterly Newsletter and don't miss the latest news of our institute, important publications, interesting call for papers or upcoming events. You can easily sign up here now.
Digitaler Salon: Dem Hölderlin sein Hashtag.
Are algorithms the new authors of a highly calculated literature in the digital age? How can the internet help us to redefine storytelling and writing? Discuss with us Hashtag Hölderlin at our first #DigSal in 2016 in Ocelot Bookstore in Berlin.
SSRN-Paper: Fostering Engagement with Gamification
Anna Hansch, Christopher Newman and Thomas Schildhauer examine the potential of gamification in online Learning platforms. They presented their results in a SSRN-Paper. Click here for more information.
Networks of Outrage
The research project "Networks of Outrage: Mapping the Emergence of New Extremism in Europe" deals with far-right movements in the web and social media. The project is realized by HIIG-director Jeanette Hofmann, Cornelius Puschmann, Julian Ausserhofer (HIIG), Noura Maan and Markus Hametner (Der Standard) and supported by VolkswagenStiftung.
Foto: User: Rosaura Ochoa/flickr, CC BY 2.0
Digitaler Salon: Fluchthelfer Smartphone
Especially when people flee from their homes, smartphone and internet access become vital tools - as compass, map and alarm phone. We want to discuss this month: How does the internet help refugees? And what are the potentials of technologies and apps for refugees and helpers alike? - We discuss on 25 November in ACUD MACHT NEU.
Making Sense of Big Data
Watch the the event on youtube. On 5 November at the British Embassy Berlin Professor Mike Savage from the London School of Economics and Isabelle Sonnenfeld, lead of Google’s News Lab in Germany, discussed the importance of big data for modern societies.
Media Communication between Complexity and Simplification
What is the digital future of media communication? HIIG organizes on behalf of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) this year's conference scheduled from 5 to 7 November. The conference starts with a kenote dialogue of Mike Savage (LSE) and Isabelle Sonnenfeld (Google's News Lab) at the British Embassy.
Special issue on ‘Big data: big power shifts?’
The Internet Policy Review is publishing a special edition on how power relations are affected in the "Big Data society". The Call for Papers is closed and the submitted abstracts are now reviewed until 27 October. Dealine for full submission is 14 December.
Digitaler Salon: Porno vernetzt
Passionate, emancipatory, digital – how much potential for innovation has the porn industry? Shortly after the 10. Pornfilmfestival in Berlin will have taken place we want to discuss the future of porn with you - in the Moviemento cinema on 28 October.
Early Stage Researchers Colloquium 2015
We are are pleased to announce our fourth annual ESRC on September 24th. The colloquium wishes once again to gather early stage researchers from all disciplines in order to provide a stage for new perspectives in the field of internet research. We cordially invite you to join us in the discussions.
Keep in touch
Would you like to receive the latest news on internet and social research? Subscribe to our newsletters.