Social media plays an integral role in everyday life. While much research has focused on hate speech and its effects in virtual spaces, less attention has been devoted to positive …
During the 2026–27 winter semester, the Department of German Linguistics will once again host lectures by national and international colleagues on Wednesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. In addition …
Dr. Maria Berger attended the kick-off meeting for LaSTing, which took place on 8-9 October 2026 in Tübingen. The Priority Area “Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modeling: Foundations …
In mid-September, several members of our lab had the chance to present their work at KONVENS 2026, hosted by the University of Hamburg. Leonie Uhling and Melce Hüsünbeyi presented a …
Tatjana Scheffler and others published a book about „Infrastructures of (Non-)Knowledge. Virtuality and Epistemic Transformations“. The interdisciplinary contributions focus on scientific knowledge, which in all its aspects is widely understood …
Im DFG-geförderten Projekt EmDiCom beschäftigen sich Prof. Tatjana Scheffler und ihr Team mit der Bedeutung und Deutung von Emojis. Dabei konnte beispielsweise gezeigt werden, dass Emojis, ähnlich wie digitale Gesten …
Alicja Caban (pictured on the right), a master’s student at Université Cité in Paris, visited our department during the first week of March. Her research focuses on emojis and their …
Wir freuen uns über die Aufnahme der Arbeitsgruppe „A Multi-dimensional Approach to Advancing Disinformation Research: Narratives, Effects and Counter Structures“ in das Förderprogramm PostdocLab | College UA Ruhr. Im Rahmen …
In den letzten Tagen durften wir uns über die Bewilligung von zwei neuen Projekten freuen: 1. EmDiCom 2: „Dekompositionelle Semantik von Gesichtsemojis in der digitalen Kommunikation“, im DFG Schwerpunktprogramm Visuelle …
