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Current Projects

Oversight and intelligence networks: Who guards the guardians? (GUARDINT)
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
Staff
Ronja Kniep, Lina Ewert
Duration: 2019-2022
Funding: DFG/ORA
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
Duration: 2021–2022
Funding: Volkswagen Stiftung
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
Quantification and Social Regulation - Project at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Head
Dr. Lena Ulbricht
Staff
Florian Eyert, Florian Irgmaier, Rainer Rehak
Duration: 2017-2022
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Die dienende Freiheit sozialer Netzwerke (The Serving Freedom of Social Networks)
Head
Torben Klausa
Duration: 2019–2022
Funding: German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Democracy and Digitalisation - Project at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Head
Dr. Thorsten Thiel
Staff
Sebastian Berg, Karoline Helbig, Niklas Rakowski, Dr. Rebecca-Lea Freudl (geb. Korinek)
Duration: 2017-2022
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Digital Sovereignty
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Duration: 2017-2022
Transnational communications surveillance. Signals intelligence in the digital transformation
Head
Ronja Kniep
Duration: 2016-2021
Vox data, vox populi? Genealogie und Gegenwart politischer Datafizierung im Kontext demokratischer Repräsentation
Head
Sebastian Berg
Duration: 2019–2022
Media Law in Brazil: the normative framework for online content regulation
Head
Dr. Clara Iglesias Keller
Duration: 2020
The Political Economy of Digital Speech Control across Regimes: different borders for a “bordered Internet”
Head
Rafael Bezerra Nunes
Duration: 2019–2023
Funding: Yale Law School
Internet Governance – Actors, discourses and institutions
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann, Dr. Julia Pohle
Duration: 2013-2020
Teaching Internet policy
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
Staff
Niklas Weber
Duration: 2016-2020
Event series - Networks & Politics
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Duration: 2016-2020
Funding: Wikimedia Deutschland und ICANN

Completed Projects

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
Data protection and digitalization
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
Duration: 2015-2018
Internet policy in German federal ministries
Head
Maximilian Hösl, Ronja Kniep
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
Assessing Big Data (ABIDA)
Head
Dr. Lena Ulbricht
Duration: 2015-2019
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
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