Discrimination and extremism in digital media

On 15 March 2024, Josephine B. Schmitt will present the keynote speech on the topic of “Between word violence and stigmatisation: discrimination, representation deficits and extremism in the (digital) media” as part of the symposium “Language – Power – Diversity” at the University of Cologne. She will then take part in the subsequent panel discussion.

Tiktoker makes fun of German habits

Airing the house, taking away deposits or separating rubbish – more or less typical German habits are a hit on social media. A British tiktoker uploaded his first video on the subject three years ago.

Why is the AfD successful online?

More people follow the far-right party on social media than any other. Christoph Bieber from the Digital Democratic Innovations research programme spoke about this with Christopher Onkelbach from the WAZ.