08.04.2021  •  Agencies NEWS

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‘Breaking the News? The political public sphere and regulation of Internet intermediaries’ – STUDIO TOPIE c/o KOMBINATROTWEISS-ILLUSTRATION illustrates for the new publication of the renowned FRIEDRICH EBERT FOUNDATION

The importance of social media in the dissemination and organization of information is undeniable: News is listed additionally in individualized newsfeeds, and recommendation algorithms act as powerful gatekeepers. On this topic, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation has released its new publication entitled ‘Breaking the news? The political public sphere and regulation of Internet intermediaries’. Studio Topie, aka Nils Kasiske, is represented by KOMBINATROTWEISS-ILLUSTRATION. His works adorn the publication with cover illustrations as well as various beautiful chapter openers. 

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation writes about the publication : “The importance of social media in the dissemination and organization of information is undeniable. The blocking of the social media accounts held by outgoing American President Donald Trump in January 2021 has made the influence of large platforms and search engines an issue of even greater urgency. Their global rise has radically changed our information behavior. News is now often listed additionally in individualized news feeds, and platforms, with their recommendation algorithms, play the role of powerful gatekeepers. At the same time, novel mechanisms of direct interaction and personalization are changing communication on a public level. This in turn can foster the formation of filter bubbles and echo chambers while facilitating the dissemination of false or emotionally laden news. But it also provides further means of targeted individual selection in light of an otherwise overwhelming abundance of information.

The concentrated market position, the dynamics of hate speech, and insufficient data security give rise to demands for legal constraint
and regulation of these global players. Authors Maximilian Gahntz, Katja T. J. Neumann, Philipp C. Otte, Bendix J. Sältz, and Kathrin Steinbach are examining the current approaches in the German State Media Treaty and in the planned Digital Services Act for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and indicating research desiderata as we still have insufficient reliable data pertaining to the actual effects of the platforms. They raise the question of what the media landscape could be like in the future and what kind of political public sphere is best suited in order to strengthen our democracy.”

You can download the publication by authors Maximilian Gahntz, Katja T. J. Neumann, Philipp C. Otte, Bendix J. Sältz and Kathrin Steinbach free of charge. GoSee : fes.de/medienpolitik//breaking-the-news 


About – The Friedrich Ebert Foundation e. V. (FES) is the largest and oldest party-affiliated foundation in Germany and is close to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). According to the Association of German Foundations, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation is financially the strongest foundation in Germany with an annual expenditure of 194.6 million euros in 2018. Similar to other political foundations, it is legally and economically not a foundation, but instead a registered association. It is headquartered is Bonn with a branch office in Berlin. GoSee : fes.de

 
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STUDIO TOPIE // FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG

STUDIO TOPIE // FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG

 
STUDIO TOPIE // FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG

STUDIO TOPIE // FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG

 
STUDIO TOPIE // FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG

STUDIO TOPIE // FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG

 
STUDIO TOPIE // FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG

STUDIO TOPIE // FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG

 
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