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 platform on the Glocal Campus, “Digital Interculturality Research 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
ReDICo Lifewide Learning Conference: The Conference Film!
Winter is coming, and we are looking back on an inspiring conference summer. This year our first big conference “Lifewide Learning – Transformations and New Connections in Postdigital Societies” took place in the Dornburg Castles near Jena. For those who want to take a little trip back in time, we have created a short film in which we talk to participants.
Call for Abstracts: Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond (26.6. – 7.7.2023)
We hereby invite all interested parties to submit abstracts for this conference! The deadline is 31 January 2023. We are looking forward to a lively discussion, among others Prof. emer. Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex) and Prof. Naika Foroutan (DeZIM Berlin) have confirmed their participation.
Guest lecture at the University of Potsdam with Prof. Dr. Sávio Siqueira
The ReDICo team from the University of Potsdam is pleased to announce the lecture “English as a Lingua Franca made in Brazil: decolonizing and expanding ELF research and praxis in Freire’s homeland”.
When? November 1, 2022 – 4-5 p.m. (CET)
Where? Potsdam – Campus Neues Palais, Haus 8, Room 0.64
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.