Welcome to the Junior Professorship Intercultural Practice with a Focus on Digital Cultures
Main areas of research and teaching
The research and teaching topics of the junior professorship address the reconfiguration of everyday life in a postdigital field of action, especially on the topic of migration. The postdigital field of action is understood as the continuity of everyday life in "offline" and "online" fields of action, which are not to be understood dichotomously.
The junior professorship is structured in three thematic areas:
- Postdigital (inter)culturality and social E-maginaries
- Postdigital intercultural practices in the context of migration and internet-mediated interactions.
- E-maginaries of coloniality in social networks
Within the Research Lab on Postdigital (Inter)Culturality, data for the study of (inter)cultural practices, postdigital cultures, digital migration studies and coloniality in social media are observed, collected, analysed and archived, while qualitative methods for the study of the postdigital context are further developed.
The junior professorship coordinates internationalisation and Erasmus+ affairs.
News
The latest updates and daily information about the work of the junior professorship can be found on our Instagram channel @intercultural_praxis! and the bluesky channel Intercultural Practice with a focus on Digital Cultures @TUC @digitalculture-tuc.bsky.social There you will find information about new scientific publications, special teaching experiences and other activities of the junior professor.
Upcoming Events:
Section 7 is organized jointly by Dr. Ana Troncoso and Junior Professor Dr. Yolanda López García and is part of the Jornadas Hispánicas, held under the theme “Umbrales. Polifonías, pluricentrismo y post-digitalidad”, hosted by the German Association of Spanish Teachers (DSV).The conference will take place from February 26 to 28, 2026, in Freiburg.
5th Annual Meth@Mig Workshop. "Methodological Approaches in Cross-Cultural and Cross-National (Migration) Research" will be held on March 30-31, 2026at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) Doha, Qatar
New publications:
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Chitolina Zanini, M. C., López García, Y., & González Rojas, A. (Eds.). (2025). Migration research: Logics, practices, and methodologies between tradition and transformation [Special issue]. REMHU – Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, 33(Dossier 3). https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-858525038800033301
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López García, Y., Chitolina Zanini, M. C., & Rojas González, A. (2025). Repensando la investigación sobre migración, sus lógicas, prácticas y metodologías entre tradición y transformación. REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, 33, e332249. https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-858525038800033301
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López García, Y. (2025). Exploring Whitexicans' narratives of Europeaness in the postdigital field of action. In F. Lenehan & R. Lietz (Eds.), Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World (pp.303-335). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839475324
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Lenehan, F., & Conti, L. (Hosts), & López García, Y. (Guest). (2025, October 30). Social e-maginaries, the internet and German windows: A conversation with Yolanda López García (No. 6) [Podcast]. ReDICo – Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies. https://letscast.fm/sites/redico-the-podcast-for-digital-interculturality-20406d05/episode/s2e6-social-e-maginaries-the-internet-and-german-windows-a-conversation-with-yolanda-lopez-garcia
