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About Center for Diversity, Media, and Law

The Center for Diversity, Media, and Law (DiML) at the University of Giessen explicates how diversity interacts with media and cultural-legal norms. The Center’s focus on diversity creates a new home for gender and sexuality research at the University of Giessen. Yet the Center understands these topics to be indivisible from identity factors such as race, nationality and migration status, class, religion, and ability, all of which have to be conceptualized through an intersectional lens. Diversity is understood as a set of practices concerning the acceptance of differences between persons and groups and the promotion of pluralistic values. Diversity can never be taken as a given but results out of conflictual social and political processes that have to be continuously negotiated. The critical questioning of cultural-legal norms through informed media interactions is at the core of the Center’s mission to examine and support such practices. The Center for Diversity, Media, and Law (DiML) picks up on the earlier Center for Media and Interactivity’s (Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität, 2001 – 2024) more than twenty-year history of promoting research on human interactions with digital and analog media, including understanding media skills as cultural techniques and investigating digital habitus. The Center aims to foster research and academic activities that raise awareness of the embeddedness of power relations in digital media technologies, legal settings, and other cultural domains.

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