January 28, 2022

Remaking Nollywood: Networks of Circulations and Memory Constructions

Over the last few years the so-called New Nollywood industry has produced several films that are remakes or sequels of Old Nollywood movies from the video […]
January 28, 2022

Didi Cheeka Screening at Archival Assembly festival

In early September 2021, as part of the #ArchivalAssembly festival in Berlin in which CEDITRAA is a partner, Didi Cheeka, head of the Lagos Film Society, […]
January 28, 2022

Project – K Korean Film Festival 10th Edition 2021

The 10th Korean Film Festival Frankfurt took place from October 20th to 31st, 2021. To celebrate its 10th anniversary the motto of the festival was “Identity”. […]
January 28, 2022

The 3rd edition of the Korean Popular Culture Workshop

The 3rd edition of the Korean Popular Culture Workshop was organized online on 9 December 2021 and started at 17:00 CET. The 96 participants listened to […]
January 27, 2022

Alexander Kock: Analyzing novelty and prior experience through text analysis in movie ventures

Abstract Popular data analytics methods such as text analysis and social network analysis enable large scale and more objective measurements as well as new research questions […]
January 27, 2022

Oliver Hinz: AI-Emotion Recognition in the Wild and Explainable Interactive Machine Learning on Image Data

Abstract In his talk on “AI-Emotion Recognition in the Wild and Explainable Interactive Machine Learning on Image Data”, Prof. Hinz provided two examples for the capabilities […]
January 27, 2022

Prithwiraj Choudhury: Machine Learning application

Abstract Prof. Choudhury from Harvard Business School presented his research on “Machine learning for pattern discovery in management research”, in which he combines various machine learning […]
January 27, 2022

Tian Heong Chan: “Design and (Visual) Optimal Distinctiveness”

Abstract How different should a new design be? In his talk, Tian Chan examined how a new design’s similarity with other designs contributes to its market […]
January 27, 2022

Simone Pfeifer: Affordances and Platform Dynamics in Digital Ethnographic Research: Examples from Muslim Everyday Life on Instagram

Abstract Affordances and platform dynamics have often been studied as part of digital anthropological work (e.g., Costa 2018; Bareither 2018; Madianou & Miller 2012). However, these […]