Doctor Ludmil Duridanov

Ludmil Duridanov is a communication theorist who is an academic at the New Bulgarian University (NBU) Sofia and Adjunct Fellow at the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, now Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences – Western Sydney University. He graduated with a degree in Bulgarian language and literature at St. Kliment Ohridski University Sofia (MA, 1988), and Philosophy and Linguistics at Albert Ludwig University Freiburg (Dr. phil., 2000). As a Research Fellow he has been lecturing at various Universities in Sofia, Freiburg, Jena, Erfurt, and Leipzig) on topics in Linguistic Theory, Online Communities, Slavic, and Byzantine and Ottoman cultural and religious tradition. Starting with a monograph (Sofia 1990) focused on critical insights about the development and practical application of digital communications in face-to-face interaction, he has extended communication analysis to key aspects of the visual language of icons in the Middles Ages (Freiburg 2001) and its impact in Modern Times. Since 2013 he has been running two BA Minor programs (Digital Humanities, Service Delivery Engineering) at NBU focused on the digital fluidity of the 21st century visual language and its Social Media dialects. Since 2011, he led teams of students and academics who worked together with student teams from the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics at Western Sydney University in Professional Experience projects with themes focused on accurate re-enactment of ancient myths. These projects have resulted in a collection of prototypes. Since 2018 the DH Creative Lab along with NBU lecturers and students initiated an incubator for game design projects focused on history- / mythology-based games, such as the Magic of Orpheus (started February 2019), as well as games for children of the Autistic Spectrum.

He has mostly dedicated his research on key moments of history with a societal impact in Southeastern Europe as well as on communications over the internet. His economic activities (2004-2009) as a Consultant at the German Postbank in Jena (2006-2009, Area Manager of the Real Estate Division) allowed him to see the expansion of global communications from a new service perspective. The practical expertise gained from these processes have made the marked difference in the delivery of his practically oriented curriculum on Communication Management for clients in Germany and Bulgaria (2009-2013). This curriculum has been further developed in his innovative lectures on Key Competencies in Nonverbal Communication and the silent language of Social Media at the New Bulgarian University.

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