englischExposure to media figures, be they idols from television and the social web or virtual figures, shapes the personality development of children and young people. At the same time, this process is flanked by the protection mandate of youth media protection law. This interdisciplinary work [...]

englischAd blockers are an effective tool for protection against unwanted ads on the Internet, but they also threaten the existence of advertising-financed online services. This work deals with the conflict over the attention of Internet users to advertising and examines the permissibility of ad [...]

englischIn the present work, the constitutional determination of rights to information for media is examined, with special attention being paid to the developments of the modern information society with a significantly increased and easily accessible volume of information and a heterogeneous [...]

englischThe book illustrates the influences of the advertising market with its two powerful players, the media agencies and advertising marketers, on the financing and nature of private broadcasting services and analyses its admissibility from a constitutional and statutory law perspective. On the [...]

englischThe increasing transfer of communication to cyberspace has made communication fundamentally less visible and detectable. The transience of the spoken word has repeatedly given way to the permanence of written communication, of whose consequences even digital natives are mostly insufficiently [...]

englischLegal decision makers often encounter gaps in knowledge, yet still have to make a decision despite their uncertainty. Legislators can delegate this uncertainty to decision makers under them, which can lead to regulatory advantages if, for example, more informed decision makers can adapt more [...]

englischIs Internet access a constitutional right in Germany? Markus Oermann answers this question by employing a heuristic analytical framework based on regulatory science. This framework combines levels of technical information transfer with the factual conditions for an individual’s use of [...]

englischThe Internet is both a factor and a product of the fundamental change that society and its law are currently experiencing. How far and how deep these changes reach is now the focus of public attention. The articles in this volume deal with basic and cross-cutting issues, with a broad [...]

englischSocial networks like Facebook have a significant relevance for the process of communication. Being gatekeepers social networks have the ability to control and to manipulate communication. Thus, social networks have a so called power of opinion, which causes high risks for the freedom of [...]

Werbung in Medieninhalten wird als ein Weg angesehen, die Finanzierungskrise für Inhalte abzumildern. Nach dem verfassungsrechtlichen Trennungsgrundsatz dürfen Werbung und Medieninhalt nicht vermischt werden. Doch nicht jede Werbeplatzierung ist insofern von gleicher Relevanz. Das Buch zeigt, welche [...]