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Examining realised and unrealised contacts: theoretical thoughts on digital interculturality

Lenehan, F. (2024)

In: Language and Intercultural Communication, 1-15.

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(Un-)Sichtbarkeit von Race und Queerness in der diskriminierungsfreien Zukunftsutopie Star Treks

Lietz, R. / Strobl, N. (2024)

In: Kanzler, K. / Stoppe, S. (eds.): Star Trek: Gestern – Heute – Morgen: (Selbst-)Historisierung und Zukunftsvisionen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 119-144.

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“Our group was by far the coolest”: Multimodal team-building practices and English as a lingua franca in a virtual intercultural game

Mendes de Oliveira, M. / Räisänen, T. / Oittinen, T. (2024)

In: Pragmatics and Society.

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Postdigitality as Lifeworld Hybridity: A Discursive Essay

Conti, L. / Lenehan, F. / Lietz, R. (2024)

In: Popa / Goorts (eds.): Cultural Identities in a Global World: Reframing Cultural Hybridity. Trier: WVT, 87-100.

Sprache und Interkulturalität in der digitalen Welt

Lietz, R. / Mendes de Oliveira, M. / Conti, L. / Lenehan, F. (Hrsg.) (2024)

Forum Angewandte Linguistik (F.A.L.), 70.

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Einführung: Sprache und Interkulturalität in der digitalen Welt

Mendes de Oliveira, M. / Lietz, R. (2024)

In: Lietz / Mendes de Oliveira / Conti / Lenehan (eds.): Sprache und Interkulturalität in der digitalen Welt; F.A.L. 70, 9-20.

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Displaying and Negotiating Power through Entitlement Claims in Newly-Established International Online Groups

Mendes de Oliveira, M. / Conti, L. (2024)

In: Lietz / Mendes de Oliveira / Conti / Lenehan (eds.): Sprache und Interkulturalität in der digitalen Welt; F.A.L. 70, 35-66.

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Diskursive Herstellung von Identität und sozialer Kohäsion im virtuellen Raum

Lietz, R. (2024)

In: Lietz / Mendes de Oliveira / Conti / Lenehan (eds.): Sprache und Interkulturalität in der digitalen Welt; F.A.L. 70, 215-242.

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Digitaler Europäismus: #DenkEuropaMit, @PulseOfEurope und europäisierte Referenzialität vor der Bundestagswahl 2021

Lenehan, F. (2024)

In: Lietz / Mendes de Oliveira / Conti / Lenehan (eds.): Sprache und Interkulturalität in der digitalen Welt; F.A.L. 70, 243-270.

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Heimat als Netzwerk. Wie sie erlebt wird und imaginiert werden kann

Conti, L. (2024)

In: Lietz / Mendes de Oliveira / Conti / Lenehan (eds.): Sprache und Interkulturalität in der digitalen Welt; F.A.L. 70, 271-304.

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Interculturality and decision making: Pursuing jointness in online teams

Mendes de Oliveira, M. / Stevanovic, M. (2024)

In: Intercultural Pragmatics, 21(1), 1-32.

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Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies: Shedding Light on Emerging Culturalities

Conti, L. / Lenehan, F. (eds.) (2024)

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From Interculturality to Culturality: The Bridging Function of Postdigital Lifewide Learning

Conti, L. (2024)

In: Conti / Lenehan (eds.): Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies: Shedding Light on Emerging Culturalities, Bielefeld: transcript, 19-25.

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Intercultural Learning as an Interactional Achievement in a Digital Space

Mendes de Oliveira, M. / Tuccillo, M. A. (2024)

In: Conti / Lenehan (eds.): Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies: Shedding Light on Emerging Culturalities, Bielefeld: transcript, 57-78.

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Learning About Colonialism by Scrolling?: The Twitter Thread as Lifewide Textual Offer and Cosmopolitan Potentiality

Lenehan, F. (2024)

In: Conti / Lenehan (eds.): Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies: Shedding Light on Emerging Culturalities, Bielefeld: transcript, 79-101.

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Does Integration Still Take Place ‘at the Local Level’?: Challenging a German Integration Paradigm in a Postdigital World

Lietz, R. / Loska, M. (2024)

In: Conti / Lenehan (eds.): Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies: Shedding Light on Emerging Culturalities, Bielefeld: transcript, 131-146.

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In German: Lietz / Loska: „Integration findet vor Ort statt.” Ein Integrationsparadigma auf dem (post-digitalen) Prüfstein. Link to the German version.

Buddy-Culture Goes Viral: Meaning and Potentiality of the Buddy-Approach in and Outside Formal Educational Settings

Conti, L. / Darmanin, J. / Fenech, C. / Räthel, K. (2024)

In: Conti / Lenehan (eds.): Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies: Shedding Light on Emerging Culturalities, Bielefeld: transcript, 147-168.

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English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating structure- and process-oriented perspectives in intercultural interactions

Mendes de Oliveira, M. (2023)

In: Language and Intercultural Communication, 1-13.

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Gerard Delanty (2009): The Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Renewal of Critical Social Theory

Lenehan, F. (2023)

In: Interculture Journal, 22(38), 77-80.

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John W. Berry (1992): Akkulturationsstrategien

Lietz, R. (2023)

In: Interculture Journal, 22(38), 31-35.

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John J. Gumperz (1982): Discourse Strategies

Mendes de Oliveira, M. (2023)

In: Interculture Journal, 22(38), 12-15.

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Depicting European federalists in fiction: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi in Bernhard Setzwein’s Der böhmische Samurai (2017) and Heinrich Mann in Colm Tóibín’s The Magician (2021)

Lenehan, F. (2023)

In: Journal of European Studies, 53(3), 215–233.

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Digital Europeanism and Extending the Literary Europeanist Discourse:
The Twitter Feeds of @PulseofEurope and @mycountryeurope

Lenehan, F. / Lietz, R. (2023)

In: Journal of European Studies, 53 (2), 153-178.

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Systematic Vulnerabilization of Migrant Students. How the Dialogic Approach can clear the Way for a Change

Conti, L. (2023)

In: Focus on International Migration, 10, 11-29.

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Tweeting the World a Better Place: Motivations and Values Underpinning the Creation of a Digital Cosmopolitan Persona

Lietz, R. / Lenehan, F. (2023)

In: Persona Studies, (3), 17-34.

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Cyber-Utopia/Dystopia? Digital Interculturality between Cosmopolitan and Authoritarian Currents

Lenehan, F. / Conti, L. / Lietz, R. / Mendes de Oliveira, M. (Hrsg.) (2022)

Interculture Journal, 21 (36).

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Editorial: Cyber-Utopia/Dystopia? Digital Interculturality between Cosmopolitan and Authoritarian Currents

Lenehan, F. (2022)

In: Interculture Journal, 21 (36), 5-12.

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Digital Cosmopolitan Flows in the Lifeworld: Categorizing the Labyrinth of Postdigital Cosmopolitanism

Lenehan, F. (2022)

In: Interculture Journal, 21 (36), 13-33.

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Falcon als Schwarzer Captain America – Diskussionen über Repräsentation und (Cyber-)Rassismus im Marvel-Universum

Biskamp, J. / Lietz, R. (2022)

In: Interculture Journal, 21 (36), 85-106.

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Nationalism Online: The Case of ‘El Paraiso Verde’, a Gated Community for Germans in Paraguay

Pereyra, C. (2022)

In: Interculture Journal, 21 (36), 151-168.

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Drohende Dystopie: Diskursive Bedrohungskonstruktionen auf Grund von Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung der Covid-19-Pandemie auf antifeministischen Webseiten

Jugenheimer, A. (2022)

In: Interculture Journal, 21 (36), 169-187.

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A Genuine ‘Miteinander’: On Becoming a Team in an International Virtual Simulation Game

Conti, L. / Mendes de Oliveira, M. / Nietzel, B. (2022)

In: Interculture Journal, 21 (36), 189-208.

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Caring and Power-Sharing: How Dialogue Influences Community Sustainability

Conti, L. (2021)

In: Journal of Dialogue Studies, 9(1), 34-52.

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Presentations

Digital Interculturality: Taking Stock and Looking Forward

Conti / Lenehan / Lietz / Mendes (22. March 2024)

In: Conference “ReDICo Encounters 2024: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digital Interculturality”

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The Cosmopolitan Promise of Translation Apps

Meyer, B. / Lietz, R. (7. July 2023)

In: Conference “Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond”

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“Why doesn’t Argentina have more Black Players?”: The Twitter Reaction to an Article Published in The Washington Post, Between Postcolonialism, Postmigratory Views and Racism Denial

Pereyra, C. (7. July 2023)

In: Conference “Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond”

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Navigating Digital Interculturality on Zoom: Duelling Between Interactional Practices and Assumptions of Ideal Intercultural Interactions in Search of “Intercultural Competence”

Mendes de Oliveira, M. (6. July 2023)

In: Conference “Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond”

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Narratives, Participation and Social Media

Nguyen, H. V. (6. July 2023)

In: Conference “Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond”

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Unlikely Fraternities Between Argentina and Bangladesh: A Postcolonial and Postdigital Football Tale

Lietz, R. / Pereyra, C. (6. July 2023)

In: Conference “Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond”

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Internet History, Platform History & Platformisation: A Methodological Discussion

Lenehan, F. (30. June 2023)

In: Conference “Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond”

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Experiential Hermeneutics and Social Media: Facebook Comments and the German Newspaper Bild

Conti, L. / Lenehan, F. (30. June 2023)

In: Conference “Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond”

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Educasts on Digital Cosmopolitanism

Lietz, R. (29. June 2023)

In: Conference “Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond”

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Lifewide Learning – When Transcultural Learning Becomes Ubiquitous

Conti, L. (01. July 2022)

In: Conference “Lifewide Learning: Transformations and New Connections in Postdigital Societies”

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Learning by Scrolling? The Twitter Thread as Cosmopolitan Potentiality and Lifewide Informative Textual Offer

Lenehan, F. (29. June 2022)

In: Conference “Lifewide Learning: Transformations and New Connections in Postdigital Societies”

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“Integration Takes Place On-Site” – An Integration Paradigm on the (Postdigital) Test Bench

Lietz, R. / Loska, M. (29. June 2022)

In: Conference “Lifewide Learning: Transformations and New Connections in Postdigital Societies”

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Learning and Participation in the Online Intercultural Game Megacities

Mendes de Oliveira, M. / Tuccillo, M. A. (29. June 2022)

In: Conference “Lifewide Learning: Transformations and New Connections in Postdigital Societies”

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Postdigital Cosmopolitanism: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Lenehan, F. / Lietz, R.  (24. March 2022)

In: “Intercultural Lectures” Series, University of Limerick, Ireland/Online.

Cultural conceptualizations and conceptualizations of culture in an online simulation game

Mendes de Oliveira, M.  (10. March 2022)

In: MetView 4 (“Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World”), Landau, Germany.

Identitätskonzepte und Heimatgefühle in einer (post-)digitalen Welt

Conti, L. (11. January 2022)

In: Lecture Series “Digitale Lebenswelten. Politik – Medien – Kommunikation“, Hildesheim/Online, Germany.

Internationale virtuelle Zusammenarbeit. Wie entsteht ein echtes Miteinander?

Conti, L. /Mendes de Oliveira, M. /Nietzel, B. (20. September 2021)

Interkulturelle Studien und Internet Studien: Nebeneinander oder Miteinander?

Lenehan, F. /Lietz R. (20. September 2021)

Business English as a Lingua Franca in intercultural simulation games via Zoom: a case study

Mendes de Oliveira, M. (15.-17. September 2021)

In: GAL 2021 Sektionentagung, Würzburg, Germany.

Diskursive Herstellung von Identität und Sozialer Kohäsion im virtuellen Raum

Lietz, R. (15.-17. September 2021)

In: GAL 2021 Sektionentagung, Würzburg, Germany.

Heimat wird Netzwerk. Reflexionen über Diaspora-Gemeinschaften im postdigitalen Zeitalter

Conti, L. (15.-17. September 2021)

In: GAL 2021 Sektionentagung, Würzburg, Germany.

Intercultural Communications and Internet Studies: A Parallel Academic History, and the Need to Unite?

Lenehan, F. (15.-17. September 2021)

In: GAL 2021 Sektionentagung, Würzburg, Germany.

Language and power: reflections around dynamics of exclusion and self-exclusion in online role-playing games

Conti, L. /Mendes de Oliveira, M. (15.-17. September 2021)

In: GAL 2021 Sektionentagung, Würzburg, Germany.

The construction of (inter)culturality in simulated business communication online’

Mendes de Oliveira, M. (15.-20. August 2021)

Introducing ReDICo – a joint project on ‘digital interculturality’

Mendes de Oliveira, M. (09. July 2021)

In: Research Exchange Workshop, Potsdam, Germany.

To what extent can post-digitality be understood as “life-world hybridity”?

Conti, L. / Lenehan, F. / Lietz, R. (23. June 2021)

In: International Conference „Cultural Identities in a Global World: Reframing Cultural Hybridity“. Gießen, Germany/Online.

Opening a Global Conversation. Building Trust in Digital Intercultural Communities

Conti, L. (22. June 2021)

In: Medialogues on Propaganda. Media Education Lab, Rhode Island (USA) und Würzburg, (Germany)/Online.

Dialogic dialogues? An analysis of on-line interactions transforming strangers into a community

Conti, L. (16. June 2021)

In: Academic Workshop: Dialogue with and among the Existing, Transforming and Emerging Communities, London/Online.

The Transformative Aspect of Dialogue and Emerging Communities

Conti, L. (16. June 2022)

In: Dialogue with and among the Existing, Transforming and Emerging Communities, Dialogue Society/Online.

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Digital Interculturality: A Digital Turn for Intercultural Communication Studies

Lenehan, F. / Mendes de Oliveira, M. / Conti, L. / Lietz, R. (26. November 2020)

In: Conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC). 20th Anniversary Online Symposium: Issues, Controversies and Difficult Questions.