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Current Projects

German Research Network “Digital societies in Latin America”
Head
Dr. habil. Lena Ulbricht, Dr. Clara Iglesias Keller
Duration: 2022-2025
What reforms are necessary to improve the trade control and oversight of government hacking technologies in order to safeguard human rights and secure public trust?
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Staff
Mariana Canto Sobral
Duration: 2022-2023
Funding: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Intermediary liability regimes and immunity provisions: a comparative analysis between the Marco Civil da Internet and NetzDG
Head
Dr. Clara Iglesias Keller
Staff
Bruna Martins dos Santos
Duration: 2021-2023
Funding: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Teaching Digital Politics
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Thiel
Staff
Leonard Kamps
Duration: 2016-2026
Governing through models. Digital social knowledge practices, contested expertise and the political epistemology of algorithmic governance
Head
Florian Eyert
Duration: 2018-2023
The normative force of the possible: The scientific-technical constitution of controllability attributions as a driver of normative change
Head
Florian Irgmaier
Duration: 2018-2023
Internet Governance – Actors, discourses and institutions
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann, Dr. Julia Pohle
Duration: 2013-2026
Societal engineering of IT systems – New perspectives on regulation and control regarding IT security, data protection and sustainability of IT systems
Head
Rainer Rehak
Duration: 2018-2023
Consequences of AI for democracy and political participation
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann, Dr. Clara Iglesias Keller
Duration: 2021-2022
Funding: ISF Munich – Institute for Social Science Research
Digital Sovereignty
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Duration: 2017-2025
Recasting the Regulatory State? Comparing the patterns of regulating platform companies across European cities and sectors
Head
Dr. Eliška Drápalová
Prof. Dr. Kai Wegrich (Hertie School)
Duration: 2022-2025
Funding: DFG
Public/Private Partnerships in Tackling the Coronavirus Crisis: Introducing Innovation and Trust into the Equation
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
Prof. Dr. Niva Elkin-Koren, Prof. Dr. Michal Gal
Staff
Dr. Clara Iglesias Keller, Leonard Kamps
Duration: 2021–2022
Funding: Volkswagen Stiftung
Vox data, vox populi? Genealogie und Gegenwart politischer Datafizierung im Kontext demokratischer Repräsentation
Head
Sebastian Berg
Duration: 2019–2023
Die dienende Freiheit sozialer Netzwerke (The Serving Freedom of Social Networks)
Head
Torben Klausa
Duration: 2019–2023
Funding: German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Completed Projects

Oversight and intelligence networks: Who guards the guardians? (GUARDINT)
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
Staff
Ronja Kniep, Sarah Naima Roller, Shen Ibrahimsadeh
Duration: 2019-2022
Funding: DFG/ORA
Democracy and Digitalisation - Project at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Head
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Thiel
Staff
Sebastian Berg, Karoline Helbig, Niklas Rakowski
Duration: 2017-2022
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Transnational communications surveillance. Signals intelligence in the digital transformation
Head
Ronja Kniep
Duration: 2016-2022
Quantification and Social Regulation - Project at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Head
Dr. habil. Lena Ulbricht
Staff
Florian Eyert, Florian Irgmaier, Rainer Rehak
Duration: 2017-2022
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
The Political Economy of Digital Speech Control across Regimes: different borders for a “bordered Internet”
Head
Rafael Bezerra Nunes
Duration: 2020–2021
Funding: Yale Law School
The Turn to Trade Agreements in Global Digital Governance
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle, Dr. Matthew D. Stephen, Robert Gorwa
Duration: 2020
Funding: WZB Seed Money
Media Law in Brazil: the normative framework for online content regulation
Head
Dr. Clara Iglesias Keller
Duration: 2020
Event series - Networks & Politics
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Duration: 2016-2020
Funding: Wikimedia Deutschland und ICANN
Analyzing privacy and data protection policies in Germany and India in the post-Snowden years
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Staff
Kim Arora
Duration: 2018-2019
Funding: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
Assessing Big Data (ABIDA)
Head
Dr. habil. Lena Ulbricht
Duration: 2015-2019
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Internet policy in German federal ministries
Head
Maximilian Hösl, Ronja Kniep
Duration: 2015-2018
Data protection and digitalization
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
Duration: 2015-2018
The Politics of Digitalization - the emergence of the Internet policy field in Germany
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle, Ronja Kniep
Duration: 2015-2018
Semantic formation of the Internet policy field in Germany
Head
Maximilian Hösl
Duration: 2013-2016
Workshop on the emergence of policy fields
Head
Maximilian Hösl
Duration: 2015
Quick poll: Internet policy
Head
Maximilian Hösl
Duration: 2013-2014

Global Citizenship Technology

Citizenship Gamification
Head
Prof. Liav Orgad, Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
Duration: 2018-2019