Humanities - Media

Between exoticism and cliché: the image of Chile on German television

Media - Jan 7

How do perceptions of other countries and cultures arise - and what role do film and literature play in this? Students from Germany and Chile explored these questions in the binational online course "Estereotipos en la literatura y el cine.

Media - Jan 7

Tackling conspiracy theories needs tactics as varied as the theories themselves

An international project investigating the form, content and consequences of online conspiracy theories has found that in German-speaking countries, such theories often originate locally and have come to form a complex ecosystem of alternative news websites, print media and parts of the political spectrum.

Media - Dec 10, 2025

Online discussions: Whose voices are heard?

Field experiment on Reddit examines what distinguishes passive from active users and tests interventions designed to get more people to join the conversation .

Media - Economics - Mar 3

How journalism can survive in the age of AI

Legal scholar Josef Drexl calls for a new remuneration model to protect against AI displacement. The value of human creativity: Josef Drexl, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, emphasizes that AI depends on human creativity and that human thinking is essential for democracy.

Media - Sep 24, 2025

Gottfried Benn’s Correspondence with his Daughter

New Book: Gottfried Benn's Correspondence with his Daughter - The Würzburg literary scholars Professor Stephan Kraft and Holger Hof have already jointly published two of Gottfried Benn's correspondences.

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