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Research Area 5: Media and Multiliteracy Studies

Research Area 5 focuses on the variety of media and their interrelations, one of the many sites of cultural production vital to contemporary cultures. We represent a wide scope of disciplines, including history, linguistics, digital humanities, inter- and intramedial studies, cultural, literary, and film studies. Hence, our discussions and projects reflect both conceptual engagement and thematic diversity.

Our research focuses on how media, multiliteracy, multimodality, inter- and intramedial configurations reinforce and negotiate perspectives on communication, build and question establsihed channels of communication, and to which effect they convey intercultural communication. As a result, we explore contemporary scholarship on media, multiliteracy, multimodality, inter- and intramedial configurations by looking into these notions and concepts as both transforming and transformed in the process of digitalisation. Besides critical insights into established texts, we are also interested in recent and practice-oriented developments in the field of media, inter-, intra-, and multimedia studies.

RA5 plunges into this discursive environment to examine how one gains and uses multiliteracy to navigate the complex intermedial and multimodal world we live in. How does one deal with divergences in media constallations and media transformations and navigate the multimodal landscape of any academic and non-academic discplines? These and many more (emerging) questions will be tackled using the diverse academic skillsets that our members bring to the table: perspectives from any field are welcome!

 

Recent Projects

  • KNL | Roundtable "Dynamics of Memory Across Media" with Prof. Dr. Astrid Erll (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Prof. Michelle Janning (Whitman College, USA), Prof. Silvana Mandolessi (KU Leuven, Belgium), Dr. Arththi Sathanathar (University of Groningen, Netherlands) - June 17, 2024 (in collaboration with RA 1 "Cultural Memory Studies" and RA 7 "Global Studies and Politics of Space")
  • GCSC KNL | Prof. Eduard Arriaga (Clark University): "Afro-Brazilian Community Data Networks: Technological Hybridity, Data Decolonization and Human Reaffirmation" - May 9, 2023
  • MC | Prof. Eduard Arriaga (Clark University): "Afro-Latinx Digital Storytelling. A Twine Journey to Narrative Decolonization" - May 9, 2023
  • Event Series “Weaving Knowledge” planned for the Winter and Summer Semester 2022/23 in collaboration with ETRG Migration and (De)coloniality and RA9 Ecology and the Study of Culture
  • In July 2022, we organized an online session and book discussion with Prof. Eduard Arriaga from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts on his publication Afro-Latinx Digital Connections published in 2021
  • In July 2018, we have invited Prof. Ulrike Shröder from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brasil to hold a Workshop on Intercultural communication in interaction
  • In SS 2018, we co-organized the film series “Sound Disruptions – Music and Global Politics”, with  RA7 and AG Moving Images
  • Members of RA5 participated in the newsreels project organised by RA8, leading up to the publication of a special issue of On_Culture entitled ‘Alterity in the Newsreels of 1968. 50 Years Later’ published in 2018
  • Online workshop with Prof. Suely Fragoso (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) entitled ‘E-magined Communities: Digital Nationalism on Social Networking Sites’, 2016
  • Summer Semester 2016: Keynote Lecture and Master Class by Prof. Claire Kramsch (Professor of German and Education, UC, Berkeley) as part of the GCSC’s Anniversary Lecture Series
  • International symposium entitled ‘Multilingual Turns: New Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Communication’, in collaboration with the DAAD-Network 'Kulturelle Kontakt- und Konfliktzonen im östlichen Europa', 2016

 

Contact

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Members

Participating Scholars

  • Benner, Annalina
  • Brückmann, Tim 
  • Catovic, Zerina
  • Hilal, Toqa
  • Kalte, Isabella
  • Karpa, Romana
  • Krawczak, Sara
  • Quast, Fiona
  • Rezaei, Somaye
  • Schmieder, Robin
  • Seiler, Falk Prof. Dr.
  • Wagner, Felix Andreas
  • Wurst, Christina
  • Zimina, Mariia

Affiliated Scholars

  • Alinezhadi, Ehsan
  • Barkijević, Ivana
  • Bekhta, Natalja Dr.
  • Benitt, Nora
  • Bernaisch, Tobias
  • Clucas, Tom Dr.
  • Dejanović, Sarah
  • Feilke, Helmuth Prof.
  • Fernandez-Castro, Johanna
  • Gloning, Thomas Prof.
  • Grumt Suárez, Melanie
  • Hebborn, Marianna
  • Hennig, Mathilde Prof.
  • Hubermann, Sapir
  • Huang, Amy
  • Ippolitova, Ekaterina
  • Jones, Roger Dale
  • Koch, Christopher
  • Koch, Natascha
  • Krit, Alesya Dr.
  • Künstler, Viktoria
  • Ladilova, Anna Dr. 
  • Lehnen, Katrin Prof.
  • Leonhardt-Borges, Clarissa
  • Lobin, Henning Prof.
  • Maksimovtsova, Ksenia
  • Marques, Gabriela de Oliveira
  • Migowski, Ana
  • Mukherjee, Joybrato Prof.
  • Müller, Katharina
  • Oloruntuba, Faith
  • Pankova, Ekaterina
  • Pepiak, Ewelina
  • Raimann, Eva
  • Revis, Melanie Dr.
  • Rösler, Dietmar Prof.
  • Saage, Sven
  • Schäfer, Jan Simon
  • Schmäing, Sophie
  • Schüler, Lisa
  • Stadelmann, Vera
  • Stamenković, Nevena
  • Steinmetz, Michael Dr.
  • Zeyer, Tamara
  • Zibelius, Marja
  • Zimmermann, Eva
Contributors
Somaye Rezaei