ReDICo

Today we celebrate the inauguration of the Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies @uni-jena.de. Learn more about this important milestone highlighted by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology & Space in a profile article: www.geistes-und-sozialwissenschaften-bmbf.de/de/News-Einz...

“Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively” das @redico.eu Projekt stellt Interkulturalität im (post)digitalen Zeitalter in den Fokus - vorgestellt im „Good Practice“-Beitrag unter kleinefaecher.de/beitraege/blogbeitrag/das-redico-projekt-researching-digital-interculturality-co-operatively

An exploration of digital intercultural practices that deepens our understanding of digital interculturality, offering insights from various disciplinary perspectives.  https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7629-7/ #Culture #Digitalization #Linguistics #DigitalMedia #Interculturalism

Und noch ein CfP des @dhi-paris.fr: "Doing #MigrationHistory with Digital Methods". Summer School 2026 in Paris, deadline: 15 January 2026. #MigHist #DigHum: dhdhi.hypotheses.org/12659

Our review & reflection on Blommaert's 'Durkheim and the Internet' (2018) and 'Online with Garfinkel' (2019). If you get a chance to take a look, we'd love to hear your thoughts. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I’m hiring for a 2.5 year postdoc position in digital methods and the creator economy, details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG525/p...

Final episode of our podcast: @emaginaries.bsky.social Junior Prof. for Intercultural Praxis with a Focus on Digital Cultures discusses her work on digital influencers in Germany, their so-called “migratory experience” & Yolanda’s theoretical concept of the “e-maginary”. letscast.fm/sites/redico...

The latest episode of our podcast features Martina Di Tullio, an archaeologist and anthropologist based in Argentina. Listen to her discuss her extensive scholarly work together with rural Indigenous communities in Northwestern Argentina in relation to Internet usage. letscast.fm/sites/redico...

The first book-length analysis of memes from a linguistic perspective, proposing a new approach to the study of multimodal genres. The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier & @lieven.bsky.social, Out Now #LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #BookSky https://cup.org/3IDqYNf

📣 2 yrs postdoc w/in project Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture - investigates a selection of anti-gender networks & feminist LGBTQI+ networks in 5 European regions. Experience w/h ethnography/ digital network analysis & deep knowledge of language & sociopolitical contexts in Southern Europe.

Come work with us! We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers working in cultural game studies from the beginning of 2026 until the end of 2027. Read more and apply by 31.10.2025 (at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2):

Internet Histories, Volume 9, Issue 3, September 2025 is now online All articles in this volume are open access. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/9/3 Got a piece on web history? Submit to Internet Histories @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Niels Brügger #webarchiving

My book is out! 💗 Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories. Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Also: The launch of the ReDICo Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies and the Research Lab on Postdigital (Inter)Culturality @digitalculture-tuc.bsky.social @fergallenehan.bsky.social @redico.eu

Cultural Complexity & Digital Interculturality in Focus 📅 September 25, 2025 | Jena & online 26th Intercultural Summer Academy presenting two panels Full program & registration: www.interculture.de/images/ISA20...

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

New edited volume "Contemporary Far Right Culture" with chapters by C-REX scholar @grahammacklin.bsky.social and affiliate @evianeleidig.com. Check it out! www.routledge.com/Contemporary...

I’ll be presenting at the @baal-linguistics.bsky.social Conference this Friday (5:30 pm). My paper, co-authored with Daniel N. Silva, examines students’ reflections on social interactions during a virtual project in relation to neoliberal discourses. If you’re at #BAAL2025, do stop by!

📘 Explorations in Digital Interculturality Here’s how Luisa Conti and I responded to transcript verlag’s questions about our edited volume on language, culture & postdigital practices (I loved the 4th question! ☺️) Interview & open-access volume 👉 www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...

Call for papers: Internet Histories Early Career Researcher Award 2026 Deadline 1st October 2025 Please see the full call for papers here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #webarchiving

#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by @strippel.bsky.social & Magnus Rust. Submission deadline: November 17, 2025. More: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

I wrote an article about linguistic bias and the internet for the BBC, based on a paper @ze.vin, @ethanz.bsky.social, and I wrote comparing four language-specific samples of YouTube. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Our edited volume on digital interculturality is out. It's been such a pleasant journey to work together with colleagues from different disciplines and to look at digital interculturality from so many theoretical and empirical angles. Do make sure to check it out.

Stay tuned for the second season of ReDICo: The Podcast for Digital Interculturality. The new season will feature conversations with leading experts on "Internet Futures" and will be forthcoming soon. letscast.fm/sites/redico... Don't miss it! #Podcast #Podcasts

Schon immer sind Militär und Games eng verwoben. Für die @bpb.de durfte ich im Sammelband "Gaming & Rechtsextremismus" über Militarismus schreiben. Meine Takeaways: - Das Militär hat das Medium Videospiel schon immer mit finanziert bzw. Produkte lizenziert um zu rekrutieren oder auszubilden./1

Here is the new book from the ReDICo project. It's open-access & includes the article "Digital Interculturality: Understanding Post-Digital Reality through a New Conceptual Lens" by Luisa Conti, @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social, Roman Lietz & myself. Check it out & download the book!

Our new book is live! Edited by @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social and Luisa Conti, it brings together perspectives from sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, & intercultural communication studies to explore digital interculturality. Check it out! #openAccess www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Lately we've explore how #LLMs transform culture translation, interpretation, (mis)representation and we're very intrigued to read Explorations in Digital Interculturality on digital cross-cultural encounters 👀 What’s your go-read on AI + culture right now? #DigitalInterculturality #AICulture

Happy Release Day: Unser Band "TikTok – Memefication und Performance" ist heute erschienen. Aktuelle Forschung zu TikTok aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht. Und Open Access. Check it out unter link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🧐 A sneak peek at the introduction to "Explorations in Digital interculturality" www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7... It will be available soon! Stay tuned!

Write with us! Submit a 100-word pitch by the 15th of September for the "Collaborative Glossary: Imagining the Internet(s)". The Glossary will be published by the INC (open access) with the @easstransport.bsky.social support. More info: matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp #sts #internetstudies

Our new book is forthcoming this summer, so stay tuned! www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Stellenmarkt: PhD Research Fellow in Digital Sociology/Sociology of Artificial Intelligence https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/282726/phd-research-fellow-in-digital-sociology-sociology-of-artificial-intelligence University of Agder

Here is access to the OER website that my students contributed to in my Misogynoir in Digital Spaces course, spanning Fall 2024 to Spring 2025, across two universities. Feel free to peruse around and see their final projects and examples of digital misogynoir. digitalmisogynoir.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉 It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality. www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...

With Yu-Shan Tseng, I am co-editing a Special Issue (for Urban Studies, subject to full proposal acceptance) on 'Ordinary Democracy and Digital Cities'. Read the CFP details here: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

What do creators do when they feel that social media platforms aren’t treating them fairly? Our study of a controversy about racism and bias on YouTube, out now #openaccess in @policyr.bsky.social, offers a new answer: they participate in aspirational platform governance doi.org/10.14763/202...

Huge thanks to you Julia for your fascinating paper and for the positive feedback.

Thank you Nathalie and Anya for your great presentation. hub.redico.eu

@anya-shchetvina.bsky.social and I are exploring the concept of the vernacular web and related notions. Can you help us with literary suggestions? Read more about it in our recent MoI newsletter (to which you can subscribe) (and yes, we do pick new GIFs every month) mailchi.mp/c85362c3a6ae...

Internet Histories Volume 9, issue 1-2 is now online. Please notice: This special double issue: Gender in Internet and Web History, has free access until the end of July. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/9... #webarchiving #digitalhumanities #internethistories #internethistory #webhistory

I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC WEB CHILD project. 2,5ys. Aarhus, Denmark. Well paid. Amazing team. You don't need a PhD in history or prior knowledge of digital methods 😄 You do need fluent Korean and English and interest in collaborative work. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...