Digital religion, Digital Humanities, discourse on religion

Winter Term 23/24

• Polarization in contemporary Christianity
• Working methods of religious studies

• May 2024: “Systematizing the intersection of polarization, religion, and social media“, talk at the workshop Digital Religion Meets Politics, Protestantisches Bildungszentrum Butenschoen-Haus, Landau.
• March 2024: “Systematizing the Intersection of Polarization, Religion, and Social Media”, talk at the Institute for Communication and Religion, Seton Hall University (USA).
• March 2024: “The Integration of Computational Methods in the Study of Religion and Metaphor”, presentation for the Computer Science Club, University of Central Arkansas (USA).
• March 2024: “Polarization of Christianity - A Case Study of Progressive and Conservative Subreddits”, presentation for the Philosophy and Religious Studies Club, University of Central Arkansas (USA).
• February 2024: “Mutter, Vater, Kind. Ressourcenarme automatische Metaphernverarbeitung für religionswissenschaftliche Fragestellungen“, talk at the Digital Humanities conference (DHd), Universität Passau.
• September 2023: “Open vs. True Christians – Austausch zu christlichen Problemstellungen auf Reddit”, talk at the conference of the DVRW, Universität Bayreuth.
• August 2023: “We Are All Children of God, the Father (or Mother?!) – Parent-Child Metaphors about God and Believers in Christian Subreddits”, talk at the conference of the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture (ISMRC), Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
• September 2022: “Capturing the Thread Structure: A Modification of CMC-Core to Account for Characteristics of Online Forums”, talk at the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) conference, University Newcastle, UK. Together with Sebastian Reimann.
• May 2022: “‘Team Free Will‘: Analyseebenen möglicher Religionsbezüge in Supernatural“, talk at the international symposium of the Inklings Gesellschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.