Image: Camillo Schumann (Studioschumann)
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, it is also the “Wissenschaftsjahr Freiheit”; the scientific year for freedom in which academics and scientists are called on to reflect upon freedom and to communicate these reflections to as wide an audience as possible.
Thus, ReDICo has also developed the ReDICo podcast, the first series of which, in three episodes, deals with the topic of “Freedom and the Internet”. In the first episode, “The Patchwork of Platforms”, Fergal Lenehan and Yolanda López García explore how digitality can be viewed anew from the perspective of platformization, posdigitality and agentive fragments, and how these structures mould our freedom on the Internet. In the second episode, “The Fundamental Error”, Luisa Conti and Roman Lietz explore how individuals and communities are evolving in a postdigital and globalized society, discussing this from an identity perspective and how Internet movement relates to freedom. In the third episode, Anna Finzel and activist Bisi Alimi discuss the challenging situation of the LGBTQI+ community in Nigeria, the critical role that online communities play for marginalized individuals, and how social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook have become spaces of freedom for the LGBTQI+ community in Nigeria.
The podcast is available from all major podcast platforms, and from our own podcast website: https://letscast.fm/sites/redico-the-podcast-for-digital-interculturality-20406d05/index
“ReDICo: The Podcast for Digital Interculturality” will return in 2025.