Research at HIIG
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) aims to broaden the theoretical and empirical foundation of internet and society research in order to contribute to a better understanding of digital society. Throughout the process of digitalisation, societies are undergoing changes. Our conceptual frame of reference for identifying and assessing these societal changes is the relationship between innovation and governance.
Innovation Governance
Innovation and governance interact in ambiguous ways; they may both mutually stimulate and even enable each other but they may also be constraining. Tensions and synergies emerging from this relationship can be found across all societal fields and organisations including the state, corporations and markets, from the local to the global level.
Analysing the relationship between innovation and governance, HIIG has developed three long-term research programmes, who provide the framework for research activities at HIIG. Further research groups and projects add to and strengthen our programme-oriented research. Research results are presented and discussed through science transfer projects and events.
CONCEPTS, DISCOURSES, MATERIALITIES
The evolving digital society
DATA, ACTORS, INFRASTRUCTURE
The governance of data-driven innovation and cyber security
KNOWLEDGE & SOCIETY
Shifts in knowledge production, organisation and transfer
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- Entrepreneurship and innovation
- Media and data
- Politics and law
- Science and education
- Society and culture
The Third Engagement Report
The Third Engagement Report is a report on civic engagement that focuses on “The Future of Civil…
The Public International Law of the Internet
The rapid development of the Internet and the increasing digitalisation of everyday life is raising new legal questions across the world: Which (state?) law is applicable to which life circumstance? What does a nation’s (digital?) sovereignty mean in the era of a potentially limitless cyberspace?
The Ethics of Digitalisation – From Principles to Practices
According to which criteria must chat bots be programmed to communicate without discrimination? What rules must apply…
The discursive and political construction of AI
This project empirically investigates the discursive and political construction of AI in contemporary societies. We have started with small-scale preliminary studies on the media discourse in Germany as well as on select national AI strategies.
The Digital Administrative State
Current discussions on the Internet’s impact on public administration and on public institutions in general have centred around the notion of e-government. Our research contributes to this debate by investigating the relationship between the Internet and public institutions as well as their modes of action (public governance).
Task Force: European Platform Economy
The “Task Force European Platform Economy” is a group of HIIG researchers who study the implications of…
Shaping 21st Century AI – Controversies and Closure in Media, Policy, and Research
“Artificial Intelligence” (AI) is currently in its formative stage. Politicians, experts and start-up founders tell us that…
Scholar-led Plus
Sustainable journal financing through consortial support structures in small and interdisciplinary subjects The project aims to improve…
Ranking Digital Rights
Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating…
Publication: Internet Policy Review
The Internet Policy Review is an open access, fast track and peer-reviewed journal on Internet regulation.
Public Interest AI
The “Public Interest AI” research group is therefore developing an operationalisable analysis procedure that allows defining and assessing public interest AI on three levels: on an argumentative level, on the level of the technical implementation of AI, and on the level of the usability of AI in the application context.
Platform Governance and Copyright (H2020)
Social media platforms have become key regulators of the historically tense relationship between freedom of expression and…
Platform governance
Platforms have installed themselves as key intermediaries in contemporary societies. They re-organise communication and politics, mobility and…
Platform Alternatives
How can Europe’s digital platform economy be governed to achieve fairer results for all stakeholders? The Platform…
People Analytics
We explore how organizations and users employ people analytics applications. These applications analyze a variety of data such as usage data from digital information systems and combine those with traditional data from human resources like fluctuation rates.
Pelagios Network: Linking the places of your past
Being able to link one document to another — and move easily between them — is one…
Organizational Adaptivity in the Higher Education Context (OrA)
OrA is a cooperation project conducted with the FernUniversität in Hagen (D²L² Research Cluster). In this project,…
Open!
OPEN!NEXT – Open and community-based innovation processes Recent socio-technological evolutions in Europe and around the globe show:…
Learn. Match. Partner.
Digitization trends present different challenges for each business area. There is no single, universal model solution for…
Jung. Digital. Engagiert.
Digitalisation is changing the framework conditions of social life and thus also civic engagement in many ways….
IMPaQT – Indicators, Measurement and Performance of Quality Assurance: Third-Mission-Activities in the Social Sciences
The research project “IMPaQT” is about making knowledge transfer from research to society measurable through quality criteria…
Global Privacy Governance
In the age of the Internet, in the wake of new challenges from increased network connection, new data generation and collection, new analytical techniques and conflicting cultural values, privacy debates have emerged as a prominent focal point for many concerns.
Gemeinsam Digital
_Gemeinsam digital, the Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Berlin, is a central contact point for all companies in Berlin and…
Empirical Copyright Research
Copyright is one of the most contested fields of Internet regulation. Strong copyright protection is routinely assumed to be a key factor in the creative economies
DREAM (Digital Research Mining)
As part of the DREAM project, a mobile application is being developed that simplifies the search for…
Digital Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
In the “Digital Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship” research project, we investigate entrepreneurial organisations that primarily focus on…
Digital Electoral Compass 2021
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Demystifying AI in entrepreneurship
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to sustainably change how value is created in all sectors. In…
Defining concepts of the digital society
Algorithmic governance, autonomous systems, platformization, datafication – terms like these seem quite familiar, as they regularly appear…
At all political levels, we perceive a growing number of citizens to be dissatisfied with their governmental…
Data Protection as a Service
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires website and blog owners to comply with legal requirements…
Data Cooperation Platforms for SMEs
Large digital platforms from the USA and China have dominated digital markets across industries and countries. They…
Data & Society Interface
The increasing digitisation of all aspects of human life has led to an avalanche of data that…
Cybersecurity
With critical infrastructure becoming increasingly networked and the number of networked sensors and other objects of everyday…
Competing and complementing – The relation of Co-determination and new participatory platforms within companies
In our project “Competing and complementing – The relation of co-determination and new participatory platforms within companies”…
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society is currently launching an 18-month study into the tension between innovation and imitation in the Digital Games Industry.
Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Work – Implications, Opportunities And Risks
The research project focuses on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in the intraorganizational workplace of…
ACTiSS: Action for computational social science
With an increasingly turbulent society, the demand for social scientists who are capable of analysing behavioural dynamics…
A media theory of the humanoid robot – Artificial intelligence in Japanese and European interpretations
Machines that are capable of learning and making independent decisions, that communicate with us or are even…
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- Entrepreneurship and innovation
- Media and data
- Politics and law
- Science and education
- Society and culture
Wahlkompass Digitales
Digital policy will be a focal point of the German federal elections in 2017. More than ever,…
User innovation in smart energy technologies
Interconnected, intelligent energy systems are a highly discussed issue. Such systems are used by customers to control and measure their energy us-age.
The Futures of Telemedicine: Knowledge, Policy, Regulation
Digital health cards, electronic health records, medical telematics infrastructure – these are the terms dominating the…
Privacy by design in smart cities
How to build smart cities in a privacy and security-friendly way, when more and more movements and human…
Participation in German Law
In the context of a comprehensive project concerning online participation in cooperation with the Hans-Bredow-Institute, the sub-project „e-petitions“ focuses on the e-petitions platform of the German parliament, the Bundestag.
Participating through the Outernet
Due to technological progress and a price decline in display technologies, it is believed that almost any surface in urban spaces could become digital. In the long run, people might live ‘inside’ the Internet, surrounded by interactive and digital surfaces.
Opening Science
It seems as though the digitalisation of research is accompanied by a revision of established research practices and an opening of the research process. In the lead project Open Science we examine the mentioned changes.
Networks of Outrage
In the past decade, Europe has witnessed the birth of many movements at the right end of the political spectrum.
KORSE @ HIIG – the Internet and civil security in Europe
The emergence of cyberspace has challenged the law of civil security in Europe. Today, nearly all aspects of life have a digital dimension and therefore, we face new digital threats.
Internet of Things: Entrepreneurship & eGovernment
From the Internet of Computers to the Internet of Things The internet of things refers to a…
Innovative Open Access in small sciences (InnOAccess)
Academia – especially internet research – strives on a dynamic and diverse publishing ecosystem within which researchers can read…
Innovation and Imitation in the Games Sector
This 2-year study investigated the tension between innovation and imitation in the Digital Games Industry. In this…
Index of Internet-based Innovation
The Internet enables groups to communicate over large distances and provides access to information to a previously…
How to collaborate with startups?
Joint innovation projects by corporates and startups are being supported by ongoing digitalisation. These collaborative approaches consist…
Goodcoin – Robust Privacy for Loyalty Programmes and Payment Systems
The processing of customer data plays an important role both in traditional business and e-commerce.
Freedom of Expression in the Quasi-Public Sphere
The emerging publics on the Internet heavily rely on the infrastructure and platforms provided by private entities such as Facebook, Twitter, the Apple App Store, or Google. Previous research, predominantly in the form of case studies, has revealed that online platforms not only facilitate but also limit private speech in certain contexts.
Entrepreneurship Research Lab
Our Innovation and Entrepreneurship team is a transdisciplinary group of researchers at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society (HIIG).
Digital Innovation in German mid-sized businesses
Digitalisation brings new opportunities and growth potential, especially for the German Mittelstand. What kind of activities and…
Digital Civil Disobedience
The political phenomenon of civil disobedience has undergone a remarkable change in recent times, with the expression electronic civil disobedience coming into being in the mid-1990s.
The sharing and re-use of digital data can foster innovation and increase economic and social welfare. However,…
Creative uses and cross – border copyright regulation
The Internet and digitisation simplify access to copyright protected works, and facilitate their distribution and use. However, these developments also pose fundamental questions of how to reconcile the often-opposing interests and ideas for regulation in this domain.
Big Data & Nudging – Regulation by Big Data and Behavioural Sciences
In recent years, the possible intersections of “big data” and “nudging” (as well as related instruments) increasingly…
»dwerft«
In March 2014, a three-year research project on new technologies for digital moving images will start in Babelsberg: the »dwerft«.