Networks

The WoC Research Center Digital Diaspora is part of the interdisciplinary and collaborative research platform Worlds of Contradiction (WoC) of U Bremen and associated to the ERC Starting Grant project AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE (funding ID: 101110473). The WoC Research Center’s members and fellows investigate the (self-)positionings of diasporic groups in the digital space and explores the consequences of decentralized transterritorial online networking for diasporic self-images, forms of representation and practices. In a postdigital age, the entangelements of analog and digital practices and the transmedial projections of diasporic realities come into focus. The WoC Research Center is interdisciplinary in nature and combines in an innovative way medial artefacts with cultural studies approaches that focus on the semiotically charged “textures” of these digital diasporic positionings.

The ERC projects studies literary imaginations of Europe by African European, African, and African diasporic writers by using the framework of transcultural appropriation as a heuristic lens. PI: Gianna Zocco, ZfL.