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
(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
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.
