Explorations in Digital Interculturality

An exploration of digital intercultural practices that deepens our understanding of digital interculturality, offering insights from various disciplinary perspectives.

Digital intercultural experiences are shaped by broader sociocultural dynamics, including migration, corporate discourse, and social activism. This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of 'digital interculturality', drawing on insights from intercultural communication studies, sociolinguistics, and adjacent fields. The contributors examine how digital technologiessuch as social media platforms, translation apps, and artificial intelligencemediate intercultural encounters, identities, and meaning-making processes. Together, these perspectives advance our understanding of the entanglement of intercultural communication with digital technologies, laying the groundwork for 'digital interculturality' as an emerging interdisciplinary field.

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Milene Oliveira (Dr.) ist Dozentin für Angewandte Linguistik an der Newcastle University in Großbritannien. Sie promivierte 2018 in Linguistik an der Universität Potsdam, wo sie auch das vom BMBF geförderte Projekt Digital Communities and Online Intercultural Competence (2020-2024) leitete. Im Jahr 2023 war sie Gastdozentin am King's College London. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind digitale interkulturelle Kommunikation, interaktionale Soziolinguistik, Englisch als Lingua Franca (ELF) und Wirtschaftskommunikation.