Altogether ten students of "Media Studies" Film & Television Academy (HFF) "Konrad Wolf" Potsdam-Babelsberg in Germany and their leader Dr. Elisabeth Prommer performed a study about the topic: "Real life extension" in Web-based social networks: The gendered construction of self among student. Their thesis was that the use of web-based social networks is an instrument of constructing new self-identities and not only a way to built up close relation-ships. For the research the group of students used results of online-interviews they sent to other students of the German city Potsdam. Responses came from 1.210 young students and 1021 of them were registered by studiVZ.
Only half of the Internet users read the data protection policies of their service providers, the TNS Infratest study on behalf of the German Digital Institute and Microsoft Germany revealed. 1014 Internet users were surveyed. The Non-Readers were asked about the reasons for not reading the data protection policies, and it was stated that it takes too long. 13% have not thought about reading them up to now, 14% do not read them principally because they distrust those. The data protection regulations have to be abbreviated and to be make better understandable, so Tom Köhler from Microsoft Germany.
As an authentication token and personal data source, a national eID card is a gateway to personal information. Any unwanted disclosure of personal information as a result of the publishing or use of the card constitutes a violation of the citizen's privacy rights. Apart from considerations of fundamental rights, this is also a serious obstacle to the adoption of eID card schemes and to their cross-border interoperability.
02.03.09 - 03.03.09 Democratic Education in a New EuropeBerlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Jägerstraße 22/23
10117 Berlin
Germany
02.03.09 Violence and cyber-bullying on Web 2.0Altes Rathaus, Karmarschstraße 42, Hannover, Germany
04.03.09 - 05.03.09 Annual Conference of the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young PersonsWerk II - Kulturfabrik Leipzig e.V.
Kochstr. 132
04277 Leipzig
Germany
11.03.09 - 12.03.09 10. Gautinger Internet-TreffenGermeringer Straße 30
82131 Gauting
Germany
20.03.09 - 22.03.09 Ways of Implementing the EU Directives on Violence against Women, Children and Youth: Good Practices and RecommendationsLjubljana, Slovenia
11.06.09 EU Kids Online ConferenceLondon School of Economics, London, UK
Stiftung Digitale Chancen
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10623 Berlin
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