As part of Oxana Eremin's seminar "Interdisciplinary Gender Studies", Birte de Gruisbourne and Sebastian Althoff will provide insights into gender-relevant aspects of their research.

Sebastian Althoff will be a guest at "Kneipengeflüster" [Pub talk] on 29 October at 7 pm. The talk will tackle the question, what can be done about online hate and digital violence? Politicians and journalists often demand more reporting, tracking, deleting and blocking. But this often only postpones the violence. How can digital violence be reduced in the long term and what needs to change to achieve this?

Anna Lena Menne and Christian Schulz are organising a workshop on the imaginary in the context of digital media as part of the junior research group "Development of symmetrical mental models" in March. The detailed CfP is available here:

Sebastian Althoff has written about the Netflix hit "K-Pop Demon Hunters", the staging of self-acceptance in the film and how it lacks the activation of solidarity practices and tranformative potential. The article can be found here:

In September 2025, Hagos Nigussie started his project on "Analysing hate speech and polarisation on digital platforms in Ethiopia and Sudan" at the Working Area Digital Cultures. The project is funded as part of the EU project SAFE for at-risk researchers. Click below to access an abstract of the project:

During this summer semester, our working group invited lectures and students to join discussions on elemental ontologies and media. A reading group provided the starting point for this series of lectures, focusing on questions of politicization and depoliticization through the natural, material, elementary and the non-human. Four lectures and an accompanying seminar dealt with criticism of prevailing knowledge systems, their potential…

As of July 2025, Anna Lena Menne has joined the Digital Humanities division at the Department of Media Studies at Paderborn University as a research associate. She works as part of the independent research group “Development of Symmetrical Mental Models,” led by Dr. Christian Schulz and associated with the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 318 “Constructing Explainability.”