Research Colloquium

Recently, more and more people of African descent in Romance-speaking Europe have started to tell their stories online, re-appropriating the narrative of who they are and why they are here. The ERC-funded AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE project investigates how they use the internet to gain visibility and participate in knowledge production. Studying online magazines, blogs and other digital (…)

In this presentation I engage with digitalization through the lens of disappearance, challenging the prevailing narrative of digital emergence and transformation. Guided by Jean Baudrillard’s idea that concepts emerge when things begin to vanish, the study focuses on the disappearance of printed newspapers as a case study. There are two main aims: first, to ethnographically (…)

Does every restriction of freedom lead to the same resistance? In the lecture, Katharina V. Hajek will provide insights into a project funded by the Bavarian Institute for Innovation for Digital Transformation (bidt) on the measurability of reactance in the age of ‘wicked problems’ and focus on the question of how different types of reactance (…)

Coordination is central to social and communicative behaviors online and offline. Recently, this concept has been incorporated into disinformation studies, focusing on inauthenticity and social media manipulation, thereby generating considerable attention. In this talk, I explore various coordinated behaviors on social media and discuss related detection and analysis methodologies. Investigating coordinated behavior on social media (…)

As digital media takes a decidedly visual turn, researchers delving into (social/digital) media adapt and refine their methodologies to handle visual big data. This talk provides an overview of my research team’s initiatives aimed at leveraging images as a substantive data source. We work on utilising machine learning for scalable image analysis or ‘images-as-data’, but (…)

The invitation to the event and information on the lecture by Prof. Dr. Simone Natale can be downloaded here.

When: 20. December 2023   –   16:15 to 17:45h Where: Room 60.070, Linzer Str. 4   Abstract: My paper explores the audiovisual design of videos by contemporary Muslim preachers. I hope to offer a broader perspective on this emerging field that considers the complexity of audiovisual material. I propose audiovisuality as a conceptual complement to existing research (…)

  The invitation to the event with an abstract of the lecture and more information on Prof. Dr. Helene Friis Ratner can be downloaded here.

The invitation to the event with an abstract of the lecture and more information on Paola Lopez can be downloaded here.

The invitation to the event with an abstract of the contract and more about Dr. Arianda Matamoros Fernandez can be downloaded here.

The invitation to the event can be downloaded here

The invitation to the event, with the abstract of the lecture and more information about Dr. Artem Zakharchenko, can be downloaded here.

The invitation to the event and further information on the lecture by Prof. Dr. Helen Manchester can be found here.

The invitation to the event can be found here.

The invitation to the event can be found here.

The invitation to the event can be found here.

The invitation to the event can be found here.

The invitation to the event can be found here.

The invitation to the event can be found here.

The invitation to the event can be found here.

The invitation to the event can be found here.

The invitation to the event can be found here.

The invitation to the event can be found here.

The invitation to the event can be found here.