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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
Secret communications surveillance: Emergence and change of signals intelligence as a transnational field
Head
Ronja Kniep
Duration: 2016-2021
Quantification and Social Regulation - Project at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Head
Dr. Lena Ulbricht
Duration: 2017-2020
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Democracy and Digitalisation - Project at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Head
Dr. Thorsten Thiel
Duration: 2017-2020
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Administrative Office of the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Head
Dr. Karin-Irene Eiermann
Staff
Maite Vöhl
Duration: 2017-2020
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Digital Sovereignty
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Duration: 2017-2022
Analyzing privacy and data protection policies in Germany and India in the post-Snowden years
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
Staff
Kim Arora
Duration: 2018-2019
Funding: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
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
Miriam Kraus
Duration: 2016-2020
Event series - Networks & Politics
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Duration: 2016-2020
Funding: Wikimedia Deutschland und ICANN

Completed Projects

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