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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.
ReDICo’s Fergal Lenehan with a new article in the Journal Language and Intercultural Communication
Fergal Lenehan has a new article, available at present as a pre-print open-access text, in the journal Language and Intercultural Communication. It’s called “Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality” and looks to set out a theoretical framework for a possible Digital Interculturality Studies.
The New ReDICo Podcast and the Series “Freedom and the Internet”
2024 is the seventy fifth anniversary of the Grundgesetz – the German Basic Law – and the thirty fifth anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution which toppled the authoritarian GDR state. For these reasons, ReDICo has developed the ReDICo podcast, the first series of which, in three episodes, deals with the topic of “Freedom and the Internet”.
(In)Visibility of Race and Queerness in Star Trek
Space – the final frontier… These are the opening credits of one of the most famous and longest pop culture phenomena: Star Trek. As a form of fiction that uniquely describes the encounter between various diversities in its cyber utopia, Star Trek is also ideal for an analytical examination from a digital intercultural perspective.
“The coolest group ever!”
ReDICo member Milene Mendes de Oliveira and her collaborators Tiina Räisänen (University of Oulu) and Tuire Oittinen (University of Jyväskylä) investigated the emergence of a ‘team culture’ in an international group of university students engaging in a virtual collaborative project.
Guest Lecture by Daniel do Nascimento e Silva
ReDICo is glad to announce a guest lecture by Prof. Daniel Nascimento e Silva (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) at the University of Potsdam on October 17 from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. Title: Literacies of survival: The creative use of language and technologies by Rio de Janeiro favela activists in resisting (in)securitization
New publication: E-Book “Language and Interculturality in the Digital World”
Language, interculturality and digitality interact in many ways. As a further development of the panel “Digital Intercultural Communication” organized by the ReDICo team (as part of the section conference of the German Society for Applied Linguistics (GAL), 15 – 17.9.2021), we are now pleased to announce the completion of the volume “Language and Interculturality in the Digital World”. It is published in open access format and as an e-book in the series “Forum Angewandte Linguistik” (the Forum for Applied Linguistics).