Weizenbaum FundamentalsDigitalization raises many questions. Researchers from various disciplines continuously provide new insights, but naturally also contradictions and ever new questions. With the 'fundamentals' we offer a current, fundamental, and critical overview of the state of research on important and relevant topics.
Democracy
Digital democracy — Do social media steer opinion formation?With the spread of social media in recent years there has been growing concern about their effects on opinion formation. Key suspects are fake news, radical content, and algorithms that mostly show users what they are already thinking, among others. Accordingly, researchers have worked on numerous studies that investigate the effects of social media on democracy and its members.