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...

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...

I’m so excited that my book is now out in the world. It pulls together my scholarly training in African American literature with my turn to digital humanities. I’ve also published the complete data dataset of 100 years of AFAM and am lit anthologies that is the backbone of the book.

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...

⚡️Exciting job opportunity at the University of Geneva: assistant or associate professor of platform studies⚡️ #STS #MediaStudies #DigitalSociology #DigitalAnthropology #AcademicSky

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...

Great first day with keynotes from @sesamescholar.bsky.social & @ethanz.bsky.social. Be sure to come by tomorrow for day 2.

Applications are now open for two scholarships at QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre. Investigate how 21st-century media changes and challenges the social role of media by gathering detailed evidence about how Australians use media (all forms, old and new). More information here: qut.to/28a6y

I am BEYOND excited to announce my upcoming book, 'Researching Digital Society' is now available for pre-order! It's a comprehensive textbook that explores current research, methods, and theories for understanding digital technologies & their impacts on society uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/re...

Check out this #CfP for a special issue of Interculture Journal: online journal for intercultural studies "Photography and (Post-)Coloniality: Visual Representations of Colonial Encounters in Intercultural Perspective". hub.redico.eu/call-for-pap... #intercultural #postcolonial #photography

Our online conference with a fantastic line-up of speakers is coming up soon. We would love to see you there. Check out the program and register here: www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re....

CfP: Queer Lives & Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures, an online conference that I have co-organized with Cedar Lensing-Sharp! Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2025! Keynotes from @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @jonahgarde.bsky.social & Camilla Smith!

Out now: 3rd Edition of Digital Media & Society! A privilege to revisit and update it over the years. New in this edition: • Non-progressive digital activism (radicalization, hate) • Post-pandemic/post-truth media, disinfo & propaganda • Generative AI, LLMs, deepfakes • Expanded learning features

We seek a new PhD student to join our research group, studying how digital technologies – social media and AI – affect political communication, mobilisation and power. The position is within the @digsum.bsky.social research centre at Umeå University. Deadline July 21 --> www.umu.se/en/work-with...

The first of the “Climate Futures in Digital Cultures” positions at Leuphana now open. A great opportunity to work with fantastic scholars www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

📢 Registration is now open for the #CAISConference “Creating Spaces for Digital Futures”! 📍 Oct 9-10, 2025 | Bochum Join us in #Bochum to explore how we can design fair, transparent digital spaces. ⚠️ Only 100 spots available – register here: www.cais-research.de/creating-spa... @ruhr-uni-bochum.de

"Digitaler Faschismus" wurde nicht von mir, und nicht von Fielitz/Marcks zuerst geprägt, sondern eigentlich von Ana Texeira Pinto, die früh Essays drüber geschrieben hat. In diesem (2019) sind schon viele TechFascisms vorgeahnt, die heute Alarm machen www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New OA book. Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social & @fvandervlist.bsky.social www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Please sign the petition to end the brutal planned reduncies at Newcastle University. @redico.eu www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

Check out this short promotional film for the ReDICo-Hub, our networking platform for everybody who is interested in digital interculturality.

Super, jetzt ist der Vortrag "Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus" von @bildoperationen.bsky.social auf dem YouTube-Kanal von re:publica online. youtu.be/JZpi6Irzvd0?...

Aus keinem anderem Buch hab ich so viel über Faschismus, soziale Medien & Alltagsaffekte sowie ihren Zusammenhang gelernt wie aus «Rechte Gefühle» von @unddieregel.bsky.social. Wer den digitalen Faschismus verstehen will, der nicht erst gestern über uns hereingebrochen ist, muss Simons Buch lesen 1/

Join the ReDICo Hub #Community! 🔗 hub.redico.eu Explore our free digital platform. Find and share #publications, CfPs, #events, #ResearchJobs, #grants and more. Let's shape the future of digital interculturality together! #intercultural #research #hub #AcademicSky #academia #digital #CfP #HigherEd