Prof. Dr. Simon Hegelich
Professor of Political Data Science, Bavarian School of Public Policy | Technical University of Munich
Measuring opinion power and diversity on the Internet: Towards a new conception of regulating media concentration
What could control of media concentration that secures the functioning of a political public sphere in the age of digitalisation look like? This is the overarching question of the project.
Differential Privacy: New approaches for managing social big data
This project focuses on a comprehensive evaluation of the new ways of combining privacy protection with the possibilities of big data analysis.
Data
A simple explanation of the term data is to see data as symbols containing information. These symbols are interpreted by the recipients of the data.