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
ReDICo at the Digital Summit 2023
On 20 and 21 November, the German government is hosting the Digital Summit 2023 in Jena. The ReDICo team will join.
Our Lecture Series started!
On October 27th, our international lecture and discussion series started and we are still receiving requests!
Read more about the ReDICo Lecture and Discussion Series and register for our series!
New article explores synergies between English as a Lingua Franca Studies and Intercultural Studies
In a recently published journal article, the ReDICo member Milene Mendes de Oliveira, drawing upon Jürgen Bolten’s theory of interculturality, makes an argument regarding the interconnectedness of ELF Studies and Intercultural Studies, particularly focusing on the concept of ‘interculturality.’
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.