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Barbara Thomaß

Barbara Thomass is professor emerita at Ruhr-University of Bochum for international comparison of media systems and a senior researcher at Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institute in Hamburg. She is the second deputy head of the administrative council of the ZDF, the national public-service broadcaster in Germany.

On the way to a European digital public sphere

Barbara Thomaß

A European digital public sphere need not be constructed de novo. Many elements already exist to be cohered.

Why do we need a European digital public sphere?

Katrin Dapp, Johanna Niesyto, Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Barbara Thomaß and Michael-Bernhard Zita

Introducing a new series on a European digital public sphere, some contributors sketch what it is—and explain why we need it.