Explorations in Digital Interculturality: Language, Culture, and Postdigital Practices

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 technologies--such as social media platforms, translation apps, and artificial intelligence--mediate 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.

Milene Oliveira (Edited by)
Milene Oliveira is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. She earned her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Potsdam in 2018, where she also led the BMBF-funded project Digital Communities and Online Intercultural Competence (2020-2024). In 2023, she was a visiting researcher at King’s College London. Her research explores digital intercultural communication, interactional sociolinguistics, English as a lingua franca (ELF), and business communication.

Luisa Conti (Edited by)
Luisa Conti (PhD) is a researcher based at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and P.I. of several national and international projects on digital interculturality. Her interdisciplinary research aims to understand the impact of digitalisation on individual and social well-being, while exploring its potential to drive a sustainable societal transformation.