Theories of Choice. The Social Science and the Law of Decision Making
2021, Stefan Grundmann and Philipp Hacker (eds.), Oxford
Oxford University Press
Datenprivatrecht. Neue Technologien im Spannungsfeld von Datenschutzrecht und BGB [Private Data Law. Emerging Technologies between Data Protection and Private Law]
2020, Philipp Hacker, Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
Regulating Blockchain. Socio-Technical and Legal Challenges
2019, Philipp Hacker, Ioannis Lianos, Georgios Dimitropoulos and Stefan Eich (eds.), Oxford
Oxford University Press
Matching Code and Law: Achieving Algorithmic Fairness with Optimal Transport
Philipp Hacker, Ralf Krestel, Stefan Grundmann and Felix Naumann
34 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 163-200 (2020)
Explainable AI under Contract and Tort Law: Legal Incentives and Technical Challenges
Philipp Hacker, Ralf Krestel, Stefan Grundmann and Felix Naumann
28 Artificial Intelligence and Law 415-439 (2020
Teaching Fairness to Artificial Intelligence: Existing and Novel Strategies against Algorithmic Discrimination under EU Law
Philipp Hacker
55 Common Market Law Review 1143-1186 (2018)
Crypto-Securities Regulation: ICOs, Token Sales and Cryptocurrencies under EU Financial Law
Philipp Hacker, Chris Thomale
European Company and Financial Law Review 645-696 (2018)
Anti-feminism in Online Discourses: An Introduction to Digital Ethnography
Think local: Digitalization and the City
"Anyway the wind blows" Excursion to Re:Publica 2022 Conference, Berlin
Introduction to Data Science with R for Social Scientists
ENS Research Seminar
DIGITAL DEMOCRACY MASTER THESES 2022
Students who wish to write a Master thesis in the field of Digital Democracy and Political Communication are most welcome to join our Digital Democracy Colloquium.You are free to develop a project on your own or pursue a topic that you are deeply interested in – whether it has a theoretical, empirical or methodological focus. Just reach out and we’ll provide feedback and, if possible, data. Here are some suggestions for those who do not yet have an idea what to work on. For all of these topics there is enough research to build a literature review, even though some of the topics are very contemporary and some off the beaten path. Basically, these are topics we would love to work on ourselves if we had the time and task to write a Master thesis. For all of these topics we can provide the data you need to do empirical research. These are our suggestions for theses to be developed in Spring/Summer 2022:
Social media and the 2022 French presidential elections (condition: you need to speak French)
We welcome theses on any election or referendum in any country you choose. These will be linked to the Digital Elections Lab we are launching in the Summer term 2022.
The role of fashion in political communication, e.g. apparel of candidates in election campaigns (think President Macron in his unusual hoodie recently), gender differences in perceptions of power dressing, personalizing messages on Instagram through fashion, symbolic statements and stages events etc.
Visual political communication (think TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, explore theories and methods how to analyze pictures and videos)
Ukraine: info war, crisis communication, strategic communication and propaganda
Celebrity Politics, e.g. Wolodymyr Selensky – from TV star to president
Connective action and the pandemic: Covid protest movements like #querdenken and their mobilization patterns
Political communication on small and niche platforms, e.g. 9gag, Reddit, Parler, or dating platforms, or…
The rise of political influencers and micro-influencers, e.g. Brittanny Pettibone Sellner, feminist influencers and make-up tutorials,…
Ulrike Klinger is a scholar in the field of political and digital communication.
After her PhD on media pluralism in defective democracies, she has worked extensively on the transformation of digital public spheres, the role of digital media in election campaigns, and the impact of technologies on public communication (e.g. algorithms, social bots). She is associated researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin.
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Between a Patchwork and Best-Practice
Borucki, Isabelle & Klinger, Ulrike (2021)
Darren Lilleker, Ioana Coman, Miloš Gregor, Edoardo Novelli (eds), Political Communication and COVID-19 Governance and Rhetoric in Times of Crisis, Routledge.
The needle in the haystack: Finding social bots on Twitter
Keller, Tobias & Klinger, Ulrike (2020)
Hargittai, E., Research Exposed. How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Algorithmen, Bots und Trolle: Vom Ende der demokratischen Öffentlichkeit, wie wir sie kennen
Diskurskiller Digitalisierung? Warum das Internet nicht an allem schuld, aber trotzdem ein Problem ist
Klinger, Ulrike (2020)
Russ-Mohl, Stephan (ed). Streitlust und Streitkunst. Diskurs als Essenz der Demokratie. Band 3 der «Schriften zur Rettung des öffentlichen Diskurses» Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, S. 48-65.
Myth busted: Likes and shares reliably indicate popularity
Klinger, Ulrike (2019)
Kettemann, Matthias & Dreyer, Stephan (eds.) Busted! The Truth About the 50 Most Common Internet Myths, Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hamburg
Social bots in election campaigns: Theoretical, empirical and methodological implications
Keller, Tobias & Klinger, Ulrike (2018)
Political Communication 36:1, pp. 171-189
The end of media logics?
Klinger, Ulrike & Svensson, Jakob (2018)
On algorithms and agency. New Media & Society 20:12, pp. 4653–4670
“Beer is more efficient than social media”—Political parties and strategic communication in Austrian and Swiss national elections
Klinger, Ulrike & Rußmann, Uta (2017)
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 14:4, pp. 299-313
Chair for Information Management and Digital Transformation
Our team does information systems research by leveraging organization theory in order to understand and design digital transformation.
We are interested in both inductive case studies in order to build theory as well as more prescriptive methods that generate effective interventions into real life settings. Regardless of theory and methods, our research always starts with an interest in solving concrete practical problems that arise in organizations and society at large. Specifically, we have experience with studying digital transformation of organizations, as well as studying and designing smart services. Our particular area of expertise is digital health.
Team
Prof. Dr. Lauri Wessel
Professor for Information Management and Digital Transformation
