Researching Digital Interculturality
Co-operatively
An interdisciplinary project strengthening intercultural communication scholarship
Introducing ReDICo
As cultural boundaries blur and virtual and physical spaces merge, interculturality and digitalization mould our everyday world. We’re convinced that these dual concepts should be viewed together, as they are frequently deeply entangled in various contexts. This is what our research project ReDICo is dedicated to: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. Our vision is of a scholarly Intercultural Communication, informed by the perspectives of a critical and culturally-aware interdisciplinary Internet Studies. ReDICo also seeks to be an inclusive and environmentally-conscious research network, connecting academics and non-academics world-wide via our online platform the ReDICo Hub, and a number of co-hosted virtual conferences (E-Co-Conferences). We therefore don’t just study Digital Interculturality, we also actually do it!
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News Feed
Cosmopolitanism, postmigration and the postidigital – now connected in an open access E-Book
We are very pleased to announce the open access publication of our new ReDICo e-book,entitled Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World. This is the second anthology in the series Studies in Digital Intercultuality (transcript) launched by the ReDICo research co-operative.
Call for Papers: “Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality” – Conference Online, 23-24 June 2025
In this conference we would like to bring together scholars who engage with internet histories, digital futures and digital interculturality so as to initiate a discussion regarding the reimagining of digitality, not least its relationship to interculturality. We are, thus, interested in wide and interdisciplinary approaches that go beyond the presentism that often marks media and communication studies, while also engaging with alternative visions of how digitality can be construed, not least from an intercultural perspective. Please send us an abstract of your intended paper by 28 February 2025.
Culture, Cultural Identity, and Cultural Heritage in the Post-Digital Age – new article published
Can digital media re-define how we see ourselves and others? The open-access article by Luisa Conti, Understanding Culture, Cultural Identity, and Cultural Heritage in the Post-Digital Age, examines how online platforms both amplify cultural stereotypes and create spaces for self-representation. Using the “Talahon” phenomenon as a case study – a term popularized in German social media to describe young men, often of Arab descent, through specific stereotypes – the research highlights the dual role of digital influence, simultaneously reinforcing societal divisions and reshaping identities.
Presentations & Publications
With our research we build upon already existent arguments and results, developing them further, and looking for new conclusions surrounding Digital Interculturality. We also benefit directly from the interdisciplinarity of our team, while our working style is co-operative. Our papers and publications are directed towards a wide audience: During the life of the project we participated in conferences, lead workshops, enter articles for journals and produce a number of publications, in which the arguments of external academics may also be found. We consciously strive towards a multiplicity of formats and barrier-free access to our results. We, indeed, offer many of these as downloads here upon our website. We continue to do this as the ReDICo Research Cooperative.
Team & Network
ReDICo builds on intercultural, multilingual, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Our core team comprises researchers based at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Universität Potsdam.
