Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies
Interdisciplinary research centre exploring interculturality in digital spaces and beyond
Introducing the Centre
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 centre 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 the non proprietary, free ReDICo Hub, and a number of virtual conferences. We therefore don’t just study Digital Interculturality, we also actually do it!
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News Feed
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”.
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: Our research team participates in conferences, leads workshops, enters articles for journals and produces 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.
Team & Network
ReDICo builds on intercultural, multilingual, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Get to know our core team.
