In the second episode of the series Luisa Conti and Fergal Lenehan, from the Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies, talk to Nathalie Fridzema from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and Anya Shchetvina from the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany. Nathalie and Anya are PhD scholars and historians of the Internet, who presented a paper at the ReDICo-Conference in June 2025 called “Nostalgia, DIY and Internet Critique: The Emergence of the Vernacular Web as an Imaginary of Alternative Digital Futures.” The conversation touches on the vernacular web and what exactly this is, platforms dealing with the past of the Internet such as the Yesterweb, and the nostalgia-tinged imagining of Internet futures.

In the first episode of the series Fergal Lenehan and Luisa Conti, from the Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies, talk to Ethan Zuckerman. Ethan is a world-recognized expert in the field of the digital and is a professor at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, USA. He has published widely and his book, Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, originally from 2013, has been highly influential among those who wish to see more connection between the scholarly areas of Internet Studies and Intercultural Communications. The conversation engages with Ethan’s recent work on digital archives and the topic of random archiving, the different uses of the platforms YouTube and TikTok in different cultural contexts, and concludes with a discussion on the future of the Internet as Fergal asks Ethan to re-visit his arguments from 2013 for the present time. 

In the third episode of the "ReDICo Podcast”, Anna Finzel and activist Bisi Alimi discuss the challenging situation of the LGBTQI+ community in Nigeria, where same-sex relationships are still criminalized.

In this episode, Luisa Conti and Roman Lietz explore how individuals and communities are evolving in a postdigital and globalized society.

In this episode of the ReDICo Podcast, Fergal Lenehan and Yolanda López García explore key concepts of digital intercultural communication. At the heart of the discussion is postdigitality, which highlights the merging of the analog and digital worlds.