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
Special Issue: 25th Anniversary of the German University Association for Intercultural Studies
A special issue of the German journal of Intercultural Communication, the open access Interculture Journal, has just been published which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the “Hochschulverband für Interkulturelle Studien”; the German University Association for Intercultural Studies, including texts by ReDICo members.
New Article: Depicting European Federalists in Fiction
As part of his ongoing research on various kinds of cosmopolitanism, Fergal Lenehan has published the article “Depicting European Federalists in Fiction: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzweins Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021)” in the Journal of European Studies.
New Article: Making sense of the Permanent Crisis
Following his keynote address at the ReDICo conference, Fergal Lenehan sat down with theorist of cosmopolitanism Gerard Delanty to extend the perspective and to talk about the direction that societies and politics have been taking, particularly in Europe.
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.
