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Alexander Sängerlaub (born March 7, 1986 ) is a German journalist , publicist and communication scientist . He is editor-in-chief of the utopian political magazine Kater Demos , which was founded in 2014 and first appeared on newsstands in 2015. He published several studies and papers on digital publics and their challenges for the think tank Stiftung Neue Kompetenz, including on the topics of disinformation , fake news , fact checking and news literacy in Germany.

Life

Alexander Sängerlaub is the son of the composer Rainer Oleak . Sängerlaub studied journalism and communication science as well as psychology at the Free University of Berlin .

In 2014, Sängerlaub founded the utopian political magazine Kater Demos together with Franziska Teubert . The print magazine is the first German political magazine to be assigned to constructive journalism . The print magazine, which is primarily produced for the generation of digital natives , tries to make complex political topics accessible to people who are disenchanted with politics.

Since 2017 he has been head of the “Strengthening the Digital Public” area at the Berlin Think Tank Stiftung Neue Zusammenarbeit . There he published studies and papers on how fake news affects elections in Germany. In doing so, he mainly uses the digital structural change of the public as an explanation and explains in his work the occurrence, spread and effect of disinformation . In his work, he criticizes both the social media platforms for a lack of efforts to contain them and the dirty work of some journalists and right-wing populists who use disinformation as a communication strategy. In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung , he also criticized the German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer for spreading fake news.

In 2019 he was invited as an expert in the Bundestag's digital agenda committee on the subject of "Forming and manipulating opinions". In the same year he participated in the format Streitraum of the Berlin Schaubühne , moderated by Carolin Emcke , in the edition “Crisis of Representation - or: Which journalism does a democratic society need?”.

He wrote guest posts a. a. for Netzpolitik and the taz and works as a journalistic curator for the news aggregator piqd .

Publications (selection)

• Start-ups. In: Paul Ziemiak (Ed.): Die Zukunftsmacher. 40 bright minds under 40 and where they want to lead our country. Econ / Ullstein, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-430-20248-0 .
• Germany before the federal election: fake news everywhere ?! New Responsibility Foundation, Berlin 2017.
• Distorted realities: “Fake News” overshadowed by the USA and the federal election. New Responsibility Foundation, Berlin 2017.
• Facts instead of fakes. Cause, distribution channels and effects of fake news in the 2017 federal election campaign . New Responsibility Foundation, Berlin 2018.
• Fire brigade without water? Possibilities and limits of fact-checking as a means against disinformation. New Responsibility Foundation, Berlin 2018.
• The blind spot of digital publics. New Responsibility Foundation, Berlin 2019.
• Cat and Mouse Game with Disinformation: The Possibilities and Limits of Fact Checking. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Dossier Digital Disinformation, 2019.
• The career of fake news. In: Christian Preiser et al: Good press is a fundamental right. An almanac on future journalism. German Society for Quality Journalism , Frankfurt am Main 2020, OCLC 1142622944 .
• In the age of fake news: Why (news) journalism has to reinvent itself In: Tanja Köhler (ed.): Fake news, framing, fact checking: News in the digital age Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2020, ISBN 978-3- 8376-5025-9 .
• Understand what is. On the way to the news-competent society together with Anna-Katharina Meßmer, New Responsibility Foundation, Berlin 2020.

Web links

• Website of the political magazine Kater Demos .
• Portrait about Alexander Sängerlaub 2019 on SWR2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Issue - Views of an Anglers - Media - Süddeutsche.de. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Strengthening the digital public | Publications | New Responsibility Foundation (SNV). Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Where does our future have a place? Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Mike Isaac, Melissa Eddy: Facebook Responds to Trump and Positions Itself as Election-Ready . In: The New York Times . September 27, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed July 30, 2019]).
5. ↑ Facts instead of fakes. Cause, distribution channels and effects of fake news in the 2017 federal election campaign . March 20, 2018, accessed on July 30, 2019 . 
6. ↑ “The CSU has also spread fake news”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 25, 2018, accessed July 30, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Opinion formation and opinion manipulation are often closely related. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
8. ^ Gregor Mayntz: Fake News: Digital Committee advises on automated corrections. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Dispute Space_Archive. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Guest post: Fake News: It's complicated. In: netzpolitik.org. August 23, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Alexander Sängerlaub: Flat rates and funding . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 2, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 12 ( taz.de [accessed on July 30, 2019]).