Next Generation Social Media

The first age of social networks was a gigantic global success with a new form of human interconnectivity and communication, but also dark underbellies of destructive disinformation and propaganda. What can we learn from the first age, about business models, blueprints, algorithms, and echo chambers, and do better in the next?

"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough." – Mark Zuckerberg

Ansprechpartner

Alexander Sängerlaub

Christina Dinar

Frederik Fischer

(coming more soon)

Further topics

#01

Constructive News Lab

News needs perspective. Constructive journalism is the logical development from the insights we have gained about journalism in the last century. We want to help editorial offices to develop their working methods and to think up new formats.

#02

Digital Knowledge Architectures

Digitization offers completely new opportunities for knowledge processing and networking that we as a society can use. This also means leaving the attention economy behind and, for example, placing strategic social megatopics on resubmission. To achieve this, science and journalism need to move closer together to think in terms of joint information platforms.

#03

Resilience against Disinformation & Hate Speech

How to deal with populism? Which measures help against disinformation and hate speech? How can we increase the resilience of our society by having better strategies in hand to respond to the challenges of the digital information society? futur eins helps journalists, politicians and citizens and provides them with concepts and tools on how best to deal with populism and disinformation.

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