Welcome to REDICO, the podcast for digital interculturality. REDICO stands for Researching Digital Interculturality Cooperatively. It's a research and networking project that looks for the areas of intercultural communication and internet studies to come closer together.
S2E2: “Back to the Future? The Vernacular Web”
2025-10-02 28 min
In the second episode of the series Luisa Conti and Fergal Lenehan, from the Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies, talk to Nathalie Fridzema from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and Anya Shchetvina from the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany. Nathalie and Anya are PhD scholars and historians of the Internet, who presented a paper at the ReDICo-Conference in June 2025 called “Nostalgia, DIY and Internet Critique: The Emergence of the Vernacular Web as an Imaginary of Alternative Digital Futures.” The conversation touches on the vernacular web and what exactly this is, platforms dealing with the past of the Internet such as the Yesterweb, and the nostalgia-tinged imagining of Internet futures.
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S2E1: “Random Archives, Global YouTube and Rewiring the Net: A Conversation with Ethan Zuckerman”
2025-09-25 41 min
In the first episode of the series Fergal Lenehan and Luisa Conti, from the Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies, talk to Ethan Zuckerman. Ethan is a ...
S1E3: "Online community-building among the Nigerian LGBTQI+ community"
"Series 1: Freedom and the Internet"
2024-11-11 38 min
In the third episode of the "ReDICo Podcast”, Anna Finzel and activist Bisi Alimi discuss the challenging situation of the LGBTQI+ community in Nigeria, wher...
S1E2: "The Fundamental Error"
"Series 1: Freedom and the Internet"
2024-11-10 24 min
In this episode, Luisa Conti and Roman Lietz explore how individuals and communities are evolving in a postdigital and globalized society.