nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210819-233719-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210819s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210819-233719-0 doi eng 342 23 Steininger, Silvia Author aut Swipe up for the German Federal Constitutional Court on Instagram - Judicial Storytelling in the Era of Social Media Steininger, Silvia Verfassungsblog 2021-08-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Shortly before noon on 18 August, on an ordinary Wednesday, the German Federal Constitutional Court quietly but firmly took the plunge into the unknown: it published a press release announcing its opening of an official account on Instagram on the occasion of its 70th anniversary. This decision has attracted significant public attention, not only because it promises “exciting insights into the work of Germany’s highest court” but also because the new visual turn of the GFCC is in line with a wider development in the use of social media by courts and judicial storytelling. CC BY-SA 4.0 Bundesverfassungsgericht courts International Organizations judicial storytelling Social Media Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-gfcc-on-instagram/ raw object