Jan Rau

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Researcher
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Dominika Radon

Jan Rau is a Researcher in the Media Research Methods Lab at the Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut, working on its (Social) Media Observatory, a project for the Research Institute Social Cohesion. He holds an MSc in the Social Sciences of the Internet from Oxford University and has worked with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, the Computational Social Science Department at GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for Social Science, Princeton University, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research to date has centred on topics including echo chambers and polarization, public opinion manipulation, right-wing populism and extremism, and the governance of digital platforms. Jan draws on this research to formulate policy advice for governments and parliaments, as well as engaging frontline workers, presenting at conferences, and delivering workshops in schools and universities.

Sessions

Jenseits der Wut-Maschine: Wie digitale Plattformen demokratischen Diskurs fördern können

Jan Rau

Summary
Digitale Plattformen verzerren unseren Diskurs, indem sie Wut, Konflikt und Gegeneinander in den Mittelpunkt stellen. Die Demokratie braucht jedoch auch Kompromiss und Miteinander - Regulierung und alternative, demokratische Plattform-Architekturen können diese ermöglichen.
Democracy
Platforms
Polarisation
shift to the right
Lightning Box 1
Talk
German
Conference