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"ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively" by @FergalLenehan @LuisaContiEU @MileneMendesde1 Roman Lietz. Join our research hub: https://t.co/0hRTLjKyRr
Uni: Jena, Mainz, Potsdam
Joined June 2021
📢Our first ebook is out! "Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies: Shedding Light on Emerging Culturalities" edited by @LuisaContiEU & @FergalLenehan @UniJena. This is a long 🧵highlighting the different chapters. Check it out, it's #OpenAccess: https://t.co/wn6TeQrOzz (1/14)
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Frankenstein 2.0: Netflix’s autumn blockbuster draws on big ideas and a wealth of cinema history
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Delusional mad scientists working intensely on secret projects, peculiar large-silent über-human figures, and created-creatures who turn violently on their master/mistress are central tropes in the...
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Sean Scully’s “Stories”: Abstract beauty rooted in everyday bittersweetness
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In Germany, people often say that the city of Hamburg has bad weather, meaning a wet and mild Irish-like climate. Certainly, Hamburg was looking quite Hibernian when I visited the city recently – it...
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European realities and apple trees: What does it mean to be a European Capital of Culture?
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In the James Bond film Octopussy, the fictional agent – played by a Roger Moore armed with a rising eyebrow as well as a Walther PPK revolver – infiltrates a circus in the East German city of...
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Coming up for air: The eerie contribution from George Orwell to understanding the present
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As global politics moves towards authoritarianism, not least in the US, the literary adjective “Orwellian” has experienced hyper-inflation in general usage, not just randomly in online postings but...
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Please sign the petition against the brutal planned reduncies at Newcastle University:
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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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Folk, fame and failure: The biopics plotting the gritty journeys of great bohemians
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The “structure of feeling”, according to the Welsh cultural commentator Raymond Williams, is the inaccessible ribbon of contextual cultural complexity which artists of various kinds draw on when...
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An authoritarian pocketful: The growing gap between digital platforms and EU values, and how to address it
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A few years ago, it would have appeared alarmist to suggest that using certain digital platforms was a form of complicity with political authoritarianism. But in a European continent dominated by...
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Fergal Lenehan: A strong whiff of black and red coalition permeates the air now in Germany
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At the end of the first fiery one-to-one direct debate between Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz and German Chancellor and Social Democratic leader Olaf Scholz, in which both politicians had at times...
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The intermingling of politics, business and internet culture has gone hand-in-hand with the trollification of political discourse
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In the Pierce Brosnan-era James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies from 1997, Jonathan Pryce plays the megalomaniac villain, Eliot Carver, a media baron who generates geopolitical incidents which are then...
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.@FergalLenehan tracks the fascinating career of Kerryman @ReaGarvey, a music superstar in German who enjoys coming back to Ireland where nobody knows him
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In 2011, I took part in a language teaching day at a German secondary school, teaching Irish for a few hours. To begin gently, I asked the students what they knew about Ireland and what Irish people...
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Have a second look: The streaming movie hits that flopped with cinema audiences
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Film is an inherently collaborative artform, as the hundreds of names listed in the end credits of any movie would suggest. Notions of art, entertainment and business also come together in a someti...
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In 2024, I published a number of articles for @thecurrency, largely on European culture and politics. The Currency has become a space for interesting & thoughtful longer pieces, well beyond business and economics. Check it out. Thanks to @tom_hubert @ipkehoe @TomLyonsBiz
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🎉 My new journal article “TikTok and the Algorithmic Transformation of Social Media Publics” has just been published on New Media and Society! https://t.co/HNRw8BKlKL
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Call for Papers #CfP: Weizenbaum Conference 2025 "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies", Berlin, June 4-5, 2025. #WIConf25 Submit your paper by February 15, 2025 📌 More: https://t.co/L0ZNSTagTD
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Our special issue co-edited with Qinfeng Zhu @qfzhu is published in Media and Communication. The issue brings together studies on diverse topics and contexts that delve into the complexities of disconnectivity. Big thanks to all authors and reviewers and the journal editors!
In a hyper-connected world, are we truly free to disconnect? Our new open access issue explores the complexities of disconnection, showing how it can be both a voluntary act and a forced response to systemic problems. Issue: https://t.co/NfQp8Lw3ag
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Last paper of my PhD research is finally published @seldridge @MJBroersma . In this article we explore the visual protest and visual mobilisation in China. Internet memes, populist campaigns: Nationalism, populism, and online visual protests in China
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This study examines how socially and culturally ingrained visual semiotic resources are used to demonstrate netizens’ affinities with ‘the people’ and dislikes ...
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We've extended the application deadline until Dec. 20. We're accepting applications for a LEO Lecturer I to teach courses for our Digital Studies undergraduate curriculum. Learn more and apply here:
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🌿 New Paper + Call for Chapters 🌿 "Postdigital Nature Connection" I’m launching a call for chapters on postdigital nature connection for a new book with @SpringerNature. If you're researching tech-nature entanglements, let's connect! Details here: https://t.co/gj3kSRNYr7
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New edited book is published. It is co-edited with prof Dervin. It is titled "Un-writing Interculturality in Education and Research". https://t.co/xEVDit0zeT
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Call for Papers - Postdigital Feminisms: Platformed-Lives, Labour, Intimacies, and Activism Guest Editors: Zoe Hurley and Adrienne Evans https://t.co/93PA9WtjYt
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Postdigital Science and Education is the pioneering academic journal focusing on postdigital themes and research approaches in education. Links various ...
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