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Digital Public – Opportunities and Risks Involved in Creating Virtual Society – an Intercultural Comparison USA-Germany

The USA and Germany are among the world’s heaviest users of the Internet (USA is in first place in the world with 69.7% of the population connected to the web and Germany accounts for 16% of all internet-users in Europe with 61% of the population connected). So it is certainly of interest to the German-American discourse to look at what the consequences of this development are on public life and on the daily life of individuals in our two societies.More ...

The Haus des Rundfunks, an Expressionist-style building, has, for nearly 80 years, epitomized the history of Berlin, its tragedy and redemption. Today it is an international center for broadcasting and training, most particularly in radio documentary, along with visual and computer media.More ...

Since 2001, the Grimme Online Award has bestowed its coveted prizes on special websites and Internet projects.More ...

Hackers often succeed in gaining access to confidential data or are able to paralyze entire websites. Therefore the term hacker does not always have a particularly positive connotation. Is this in fact justified?More ...

The Prix Jeunesse is the highest honour that can be bestowed on children’s television productions.More ...

The German Press Council has two goals: to uphold the freedom of the press in Germany, while at the same time watching that newspapers and magazines do not stray into forbidden territory.More ...

The Goethe-Institut has teamed up with Chicago’s Free Spirit Media and the Hamburg radio and television station TIDE to get high school students from both sides of the Atlantic dialoging about the issues young adults see themselves facing, and how to address them constructively.More ...

German-language newspapers are to be found all over the world - they are however a dying breed.More ...

Audio art in Germany is attracting a growing audience at festivals, exhibitions and events.More ...

On the trail of German emigrants to America. From the Mennonites of the 17th Century by way of impoverished farmers in the 18th century, political refugees of the failed 1848 Revolution, to the exiles of the 20th century, these programs tell the stories of exemplary destinies of German families and what became of them in their new homeland.More ...