Department of Digital Cultures and Communication

Research areas:

• Information and communication practices, in particular, the impact of digitization on people's communication, production and consumption of information
• Digital exclusion and inequalities, digital literacy skills and opportunities for access to digital technologies and mechanisms to reduce inequalities and exclusion
• Digital narratives and storytelling, focusing on understanding the role of narrative and storytelling in shaping individual and collective identity in digital, hybrid and even non-digital contexts, and assessing its implications for contemporary societies
• Research frameworks for digital communication to provide theoretically grounded and practically applicable approaches, and to analyze and interpret evidence on human-information interactions in the digital domain

Head of the Department
Prof. dr. Konstantinos Dallas

Researchers - Experts

• Assist. Prof. Dr Neringa Latvytė
• Assoc. Prof. Dr Ingrida Kelpšienė
• Assoc. Prof. Dr Mariana Sueldo
• Assoc. Prof. Dr Martynas Petrikas
• Assoc. Prof. Dr Vincas Grigas
• Assoc. prof. dr. Rusnė Kregždaitė
• Asst. Prof. Dr Justina Zamauskė
• Asst. Prof. Dr Paulius Petraitis
• Prof. Dr Andrius Šuminas
• Prof. Dr Arūnas Gudinavičius
• Prof. Dr Rimvydas Laužikas
• Researcher Prof. Dr (HP) Elena Macevičiūtė

 Doctoral students

• Lukaš Kaminski
• Simona Kvederytė-Vaitkevičienė
• Magda Devadze