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Current Projects

Technology, Power and Domination (Weizenbaum Institute)
Head
Dr. Clara Iglesias Keller
Staff
Ann-Kathrin Koster, Jana Heim, Max Mayer, Moritz Otto, Sebastian Berg
Duration: 2022-2027
Funding: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR)
ClaimSov - (Re-)claiming digital sovereignty in discourse, policy and practice
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Staff
Leo Thüer, Marielle Düh
Duration: 2025-2028
Funding: Open Research Area ORA
FORSEE -- Forging Successful AI Applications for European Economy and Society
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Staff
Sandra Sieron
Duration: 2025-2028
Funding: EU Horizon Project
Balancing Acts: European digital policy amidst economic, normative and security competition in the international system
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle, Prof. Dr. Christian Rauh
Staff
Milan Schröder, Leo Thüer
Duration: 2023-2025
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
Internet Governance – Actors, discourses and institutions
Head
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann, Dr. Julia Pohle
Duration: 2013-2026
Digital Sovereignty
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Duration: 2017-2025
Teaching Digital Politics
Duration: 2016-2026
Civil Society’s Responses to Disinformation in Contexts of Polarization
Head
Dr. Thamy Pogrebinschi, Prof. Dr. Lena Ulbricht
Duration: 2023-2025
Funding: WZB seed money
German Research Network “Digital societies in Latin America”
Head
Prof. Dr. Lena Ulbricht, Dr. Clara Iglesias Keller
Duration: 2022-2025
Vox data, vox populi? Genealogie und Gegenwart politischer Datafizierung im Kontext demokratischer Repräsentation
Head
Sebastian Berg
Duration: 2019–2025
The normative force of the possible: The scientific-technical constitution of controllability attributions as a driver of normative change
Head
Dr. Florian Irgmaier
Duration: 2018-2025
Governing through models. Digital social knowledge practices, contested expertise and the political epistemology of algorithmic governance
Head
Florian Eyert
Duration: 2018-2025
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: 2018-2025
Transnational communications surveillance. Signals intelligence in the digital transformation
Head
Ronja Kniep
Duration: 2016-2025

Completed Projects

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
Towards informational sustainability: Grasping the co-productionist nature of digitalization and sustainability (Weizenbaum Short Project)
Staff
Jana Heim, Rainer Rehak
Dr. Nicolas Zehner (Head), Till Büser, Dr. Thomas Kox
Duration: 2024-2025
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Deliberative Democracy and Digital Communication. The Effects of Social Media Platforms for Deliberative Systems
Head
Karoline Helbig
Duration: 2018-2024
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
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
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)
Quantification and Social Regulation - Project at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Head
Prof. Dr. Lena Ulbricht
Staff
Florian Eyert, Dr. 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
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
Event series - Networks & Politics
Head
Dr. Julia Pohle
Duration: 2016-2020
Funding: Wikimedia Deutschland und ICANN
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
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
Die dienende Freiheit sozialer Netzwerke (The Serving Freedom of Social Networks)
Head
Torben Klausa
Duration: 2019–2023
Funding: German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Assessing Big Data (ABIDA)
Head
Prof. Dr. Lena Ulbricht
Duration: 2015-2019
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Global Citizenship Technology

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