Cosmopolitanism in a Postdigital, Postmigrant Europe, and Beyond (Tag 3)

We will present contributions from academic scholars as well as representatives of civic engagement in cosmopolitan issues. We are also very much looking forward to our two keynote addresses by Prof. emer. Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex) and Prof. Naika Foroutan (DeZIM Berlin). The conference will take place on Zoom and is free of charge. The conference language is English.

Registration is possible from now on until the day of the event via email: redico@uni-mainz.de

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Friday, 30.06.2023
Session 4
10:00 – 11:45

Social Media & Populism

Luisa Conti (University of Jena) and Fergal Lenehan (University of Jena)
„Cosmopolitanism as a Conscious Transformational Digital Process? Counter-Speech and Digital Ethnography“

Alina Jugenheimer (Independent Scholar)
„Constructions of Threat to the People in Right-Wing Online Discourses“

TBA
Countering Online Hate Speech

Session 5
14:00 – 16:15

Platforms & Critical Discourse

Emilian Franco (LMU Munich)
„Contaminated and Cosmopolitan Imaginaries in Brazilian AI Research“

Fergal Lenehan (University of Jena) and Roman Lietz (University of Mainz)
„The Manifestation of Cyber-Utopian Cosmopolitanism or a Distinctly German Democratic Platform? The Mastodon Discourse in the Anglophone and German-language Media Following the Takeover of Twitter“

Simon Pistor (University of St. Gallen)
„Varieties of Cosmopolitanism – Cultural, Constitutional, Contestative – and Social“

Hervé Saint Louis (Université du Québec)
„Migration From Twitter: Black Mastodon’s Predicament“