Conference “Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality” 23-24 June 2025 - recorded presentations

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Author(s):
Fergal Lenehan , Luisa Conti , ReDICo

Year: 2025

The fourth ReDICo conference “Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality” took place online 23-24 June 2025. It brought together scholars who engage with internet histories, digital futures and digital interculturality so as to initiate a discussion regarding the reimagining of digitality. It featured wide and interdisciplinary approaches that go beyond the presentism that often marks media and communication studies, while also engaging with alternative visions of how digitality can be construed, not least from an intercultural perspective. Recordings of the following presentations are available on ReDICo's youtube channel: • Helle Strandgaard-Jensen (University of Aarhus) Inter-linked Imaginaries and the Early Web for Kids • Martin Munke (Saxon State and University Library Dresden/Dresden University of Technology) The Paradox of Place, or: Digital Boundaries in a Borderless World? Regional History Web Portals as Media of Transregionality and Transculturality • Anna Nacher (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) Digital Infrastructures at the End of the World: What has Melted into the Air, Needs to be Re-Captured (watch on YouTube) • Emilian Franco (Bundeswehr University Munich) AI and Interculturality: The Brazilian Discourse on AI Development • Freyja van den Boom (University of Antwerp) Reimagining Digitality Through Causal Layered Tetrad Analysis (CLTA): A Critical Framework for AI Governance • Ekaterina Senina (Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt) The Yoshi-P Effect: Parasocial Relationships and In-Game Culture in Final Fantasy XIV • Luisa Conti (University of Jena) The – Possibly Transformative – Digital Transformation of Education • Tomás Cajueiro (independent scholar) Decolonizing Digital Geographies: Journalism and the Creation of possible Imaginaries • Yolanda López García (Chemnitz University of Technology) Content Creators and the Reconfiguration of Digital Interculturality • Ethan Zuckerman (University of Massachusetts Amherst) The Quotidian Web: The Long Tail of Online Video and the Accidental Archive • Valérie Schafer (University of Luxembourg) Revisiting Internet Histories through Interculturality • Nathalie Fridzema (University of Groningen) and Anya Shchetvina (Humboldt University Berlin) Nostalgia, DIY, and Internet Critique: The Emergence of the ‘Vernacular Web’ as an Imaginary of Alternative Digital Futures • Julia Polyck-O’Neill (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Epistemic Uncertainty: ‘Junk Data,’ Digital Futures, and the Intercultural Limits of Big Data Management in the Artist Archive • Tess McNulty (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) The Uplifting Anecdote: On the Long Pre-History of a Major Viral Genre • Martina Di Tullio (University of Buenos Aires) Rooting the Internet: A Local History of Communication Practices in Rural-Indigenous Jujuy Puna (Argentina) • Y. Silverman (Northwestern University – Civic Education Project) A Transformative Autoethnographic Analysis of Acquaint.org’s Platform • Mareike Schütt (University of Jena) The Solarpunk movement as a transcultural force reimagining global connectivity, digital inclusivity, and ecological sustainability • Andrew Bailey (Concordia University) Archiving the Self: MaddyMakesGames.com and the Digital Memory of Indie Game Development • Ramesh Srinivasan (University of California, Los Angeles) Beyond Fragmentation – A Path for Technology to Support our Collective Futures

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1CQa22YsuGbZbmftoTlQKCwQX3FPtw2S&si=ork488MQg56pjexH

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