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Lukas Roland Athanasius Wilde

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Lukas Roland Athanasius Wilde

Professor
Department of Art and Media Studies

lukas.r.a.wilde@ntnu.no
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About

Dr. Lukas R.A. Wilde is Professor at the Department of Art and Media Studies of the NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He studied theatre and media; Japanese; and philosophy at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and the Gakugei University of Tokyo, Japan. From 2017 to 2022 he was a research associate at the Collaborative Research Unit 923 „Threatened Order: Societies under Stress“ and the Department of Media Studies of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany.

His media studies dissertation on the functions of ‘characters’ (kyara) within everyday communication of contemporary Japanese society was awarded the Roland-Faelske-Award 2018 for the best dissertation in Comics and Animation Studies as well as the GIB Dissertation Award 2021 of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Pictures. His article „Material Conditions and Semiotic Affordances: Natsume Fusanosuke’s Many Fascinations with the Lines of Manga“ was recognized with an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Martin Schüwer Publication Prize for Outstanding Comics Studies.

He is the Vice President of the German Society for Comic Studies (ComFor) and a member and former spokesperson of the Committee for Comic Studies (AG Comicforschung) of the German Society of Media Studies (GfM). Lukas Wilde is also one of the organizers and founders of the digital artists initiative Comic Solidarity and the GINCO Award (The German Inclusive Comic Award of the Independent Scene).

Visit Lukas Wilde's private homepage for more information

Research

Main research points:

Generative AI-imagery;
Transmedia studies;
Comic/manga studies;
Emoji research;
Japanese popular culture;
Webcomics and digital comics;
Media-comparative narratology;
Pictorial semiotics;
Diagrammatics

  • German Society for Comic Studies (ComFor)
  • AG Interfaces - a working group of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM)
  • AG Comic Studies - a working group of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM)
  • AI Media Research Network NTNU

Publications

For a full list of publications, see:

http://lukasrawilde.de/en/publikationen

 

  • Chronological
  • By category
  • All publications registered in NVA

2026

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2026) 8. AI Imagery.
    Academic chapter
  • Hoel, Aurora; Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2026) 7. AI as Media.
    Academic chapter
  • Kyselo, Miriam; Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Brandt, Thomas; Hanem, Guri Ellen; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2026) 1. Beyond the Hype: Humanities Perspectives on AI.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Kyselo, Miriam; Brandt, Thomas; Hanem, Guri Ellen; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2026) Humanities Perspectives on AI: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. Scandinavian University Press (SCUP)
    Anthology

2025

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Webcomicforschung.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Medienwissenschaft.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Bilderzählungen unter Plattform-Bedingungen: Erweiterungen, Reduktionen und Formatierungen des Erzählens mit digitalen Comics. Der Deutschunterricht: Beitrage zu Seiner Praxis und Wissenschaftlichen Grundlegung
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Aesthetics and Rhetorics of AI Anthropomorphization: The Eliza Effect vs. the Character Effect.
    Academic chapter
  • Thon, Jan-Noël; Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Introduction: AI Aesthetics.
    Academic chapter
  • Thon, Jan-Noël; Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) AI Aesthetics | AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics |. Routledge
    Anthology
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) KI-Bilder und die Widerständigkeit der Medienkonvergenz: Von primärer zu sekundärer Intermedialität?.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Diesseits und jenseits der Diegese: Populäre, partizipatorische und transfiktionale Facetten der gezeichneten Figur.
    Academic chapter

2024

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Characters in the Media Mix: Beyond Narratives.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Meyer, Christina; Ossa, Vanessa. (2024) What Was, Is, Will Be Comic Studies – to Us? Introduction.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Meyer, Christina; Ossa, Vanessa. (2024) Was war, ist, wird Comicforschung – für uns? 10 Jahre ComFor e.V. als eingetragener Verein. Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor)
    Anthology
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Matters of Concern: Comics als epistemische Dinge zwischen disziplinären Anliegen.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Führer, Carolin. (2024) ‚spannend […] wegen […] den ganzen Geheimnissen, die man noch ähm halt, irgendwie lüften musste‘: Lernen durch, zu und mit unzuverlässig erzählten Comics am Beispiel von Sascha Hommers Insekt (2006).
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Musik, Manga, Medien: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der grafischen Transkription.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Vom character zum dynamic object: Semiotische Ansätze nach C.S. Peirce und Kontroversen in der transmedialen Figurentheorie.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Meyer, Christina; Becker, Romain; Domingo, Sheree; Bulling, Nino. (2024) Harte Fakten, große Aufgaben: Die Arbeitsrealität Comicschaffender im deutschsprachigen Raum. Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor) e.V.
    Research report
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Unreliable Iconicity, or: Accounting for the Cartoonish Pictures of Comics in Multimodal Reasoning. Zeitschrift für Semiotik
    Academic article

2023

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Paradoxien der Bildlichkeit: Unmögliche Konstruktionen und optische Täuschungen.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Comics und Animation.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Ossa, Vanessa; Ulrich, Anne. (2023) 9/11 und das mediale Imaginäre terroristischer Bedrohungen.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Webcomics as mediation. Studies in Comics
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) „Essayistic Comics and Non-Narrative Coherence“. Closure: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Kunz, Tobias. (2023) Transmedia Character Studies. Routledge
    Academic monograph
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Generative Imagery as Media Form and Research Field: Introduction to a New Paradigm. IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2023) Introduction to the Semiotics of Emoji and Digital Stickers. IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas Roland Athanasius; Thon, Jan-Noël; Ossa, Vanessa. (2023) Comics and Agency: Introduction.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus; Lemmes, Marcel. (2023) Generative Imagery: Towards a ‘New Paradigm’ of Machine Learning-Based Image Production, special-themed issue of IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences. IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences
    Editorial
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2023) The Semiotics of Emoji and Digital Stickers. IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences
    Editorial
  • Thon, Jan-Noël; Wilde, Lukas Roland Athanasius; Ossa, Vanessa. (2023) Comics & Agency. De Gruyter Brill
    Anthology
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Unreliable Iconicity, or: Accounting for the Cartoonish Pictures of Comics in Multimodal Reasoning. Zeitschrift für Semiotik
    Academic article

2022

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Text.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Convergence.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Denson, Shane. (2022) Historicizing and Theorizing Pre-Narrative Figures: Who is Uncle Sam?. Narrative
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Visual Language Theory.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Narratology.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Live aus dem Hotspot der Interpretationslust: Das politische Selfie im Spannungsfeld verteilter Handlungsmächte und autorialer Konstrukte.
    Academic chapter

2021

  • Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2021) Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11: Medial Reflections. Routledge
    Anthology
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Jung, Berenike; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2021) Agency postdigital: Verteilte Handlungsmächte in medienwissenschaftlichen Forschungsfeldern. Herbert von Halem Verlag
    Anthology
  • Wilde, Lukas Roland Athanasius. (2021) The Social, Political and Ideological Semiotics of Comics and Cartoons. Special-Themed Issue of Punctum: international Journal of Semiotics. Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics
    Editorial

2020

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Veits, Andreas; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2020) Einzelbild & Narrativität: Theorien, Zugänge, offene Fragen. Herbert von Halem Verlag
    Anthology

2019

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Packard, Stephan; Rauscher, Andreas; Sina, Véronique; Thon, Jan-Noël; Wildfeuer, Janina. (2019) Comicanalyse: Eine Einführung. Verlag J. B. Metzler
    Academic monograph
  • Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2019) Emoticons, Kaomoji, and Emoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age. Routledge
    Anthology
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Thon, Jan Noël. (2019) Characters Across Media. Frontiers of Narrative Studies (FNS)
    Editorial

2018

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2018) Im Reich der Figuren: Meta-narrative Kommunikationsfiguren und die ‚Mangaisierung‘ des japanischen Alltags. Herbert von Halem Verlag
    Academic monograph

2016

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Thon, Jan Noël. (2016) Mediality and Materiality of Contemporary Comics. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
    Editorial

2012

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2012) Der Witz der Relationen: Komische Inkongruenz und diagrammatisches Schlussfolgern im Webcomic XKCD. Ibidem-Verlag
    Academic monograph

Journal publications

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Bilderzählungen unter Plattform-Bedingungen: Erweiterungen, Reduktionen und Formatierungen des Erzählens mit digitalen Comics. Der Deutschunterricht: Beitrage zu Seiner Praxis und Wissenschaftlichen Grundlegung
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Webcomics as mediation. Studies in Comics
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) „Essayistic Comics and Non-Narrative Coherence“. Closure: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Generative Imagery as Media Form and Research Field: Introduction to a New Paradigm. IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Denson, Shane. (2022) Historicizing and Theorizing Pre-Narrative Figures: Who is Uncle Sam?. Narrative
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2023) Introduction to the Semiotics of Emoji and Digital Stickers. IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus; Lemmes, Marcel. (2023) Generative Imagery: Towards a ‘New Paradigm’ of Machine Learning-Based Image Production, special-themed issue of IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences. IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences
    Editorial
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Thon, Jan Noël. (2016) Mediality and Materiality of Contemporary Comics. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
    Editorial
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2023) The Semiotics of Emoji and Digital Stickers. IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences
    Editorial
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Thon, Jan Noël. (2019) Characters Across Media. Frontiers of Narrative Studies (FNS)
    Editorial
  • Wilde, Lukas Roland Athanasius. (2021) The Social, Political and Ideological Semiotics of Comics and Cartoons. Special-Themed Issue of Punctum: international Journal of Semiotics. Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics
    Editorial
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Unreliable Iconicity, or: Accounting for the Cartoonish Pictures of Comics in Multimodal Reasoning. Zeitschrift für Semiotik
    Academic article
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Unreliable Iconicity, or: Accounting for the Cartoonish Pictures of Comics in Multimodal Reasoning. Zeitschrift für Semiotik
    Academic article

Books

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Kyselo, Miriam; Brandt, Thomas; Hanem, Guri Ellen; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2026) Humanities Perspectives on AI: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. Scandinavian University Press (SCUP)
    Anthology
  • Thon, Jan-Noël; Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) AI Aesthetics | AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics |. Routledge
    Anthology
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Meyer, Christina; Ossa, Vanessa. (2024) Was war, ist, wird Comicforschung – für uns? 10 Jahre ComFor e.V. als eingetragener Verein. Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor)
    Anthology
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Kunz, Tobias. (2023) Transmedia Character Studies. Routledge
    Academic monograph
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Packard, Stephan; Rauscher, Andreas; Sina, Véronique; Thon, Jan-Noël; Wildfeuer, Janina. (2019) Comicanalyse: Eine Einführung. Verlag J. B. Metzler
    Academic monograph
  • Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2019) Emoticons, Kaomoji, and Emoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age. Routledge
    Anthology
  • Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2021) Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11: Medial Reflections. Routledge
    Anthology
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2012) Der Witz der Relationen: Komische Inkongruenz und diagrammatisches Schlussfolgern im Webcomic XKCD. Ibidem-Verlag
    Academic monograph
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2018) Im Reich der Figuren: Meta-narrative Kommunikationsfiguren und die ‚Mangaisierung‘ des japanischen Alltags. Herbert von Halem Verlag
    Academic monograph
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Jung, Berenike; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2021) Agency postdigital: Verteilte Handlungsmächte in medienwissenschaftlichen Forschungsfeldern. Herbert von Halem Verlag
    Anthology
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Veits, Andreas; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2020) Einzelbild & Narrativität: Theorien, Zugänge, offene Fragen. Herbert von Halem Verlag
    Anthology
  • Thon, Jan-Noël; Wilde, Lukas Roland Athanasius; Ossa, Vanessa. (2023) Comics & Agency. De Gruyter Brill
    Anthology

Part of book/report

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2026) 8. AI Imagery.
    Academic chapter
  • Hoel, Aurora; Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2026) 7. AI as Media.
    Academic chapter
  • Kyselo, Miriam; Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Brandt, Thomas; Hanem, Guri Ellen; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2026) 1. Beyond the Hype: Humanities Perspectives on AI.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Webcomicforschung.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Medienwissenschaft.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Aesthetics and Rhetorics of AI Anthropomorphization: The Eliza Effect vs. the Character Effect.
    Academic chapter
  • Thon, Jan-Noël; Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Introduction: AI Aesthetics.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Paradoxien der Bildlichkeit: Unmögliche Konstruktionen und optische Täuschungen.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Comics und Animation.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Ossa, Vanessa; Ulrich, Anne. (2023) 9/11 und das mediale Imaginäre terroristischer Bedrohungen.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Characters in the Media Mix: Beyond Narratives.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Meyer, Christina; Ossa, Vanessa. (2024) What Was, Is, Will Be Comic Studies – to Us? Introduction.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Matters of Concern: Comics als epistemische Dinge zwischen disziplinären Anliegen.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Text.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Convergence.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Visual Language Theory.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas Roland Athanasius; Thon, Jan-Noël; Ossa, Vanessa. (2023) Comics and Agency: Introduction.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Narratology.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) KI-Bilder und die Widerständigkeit der Medienkonvergenz: Von primärer zu sekundärer Intermedialität?.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Führer, Carolin. (2024) ‚spannend […] wegen […] den ganzen Geheimnissen, die man noch ähm halt, irgendwie lüften musste‘: Lernen durch, zu und mit unzuverlässig erzählten Comics am Beispiel von Sascha Hommers Insekt (2006).
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Diesseits und jenseits der Diegese: Populäre, partizipatorische und transfiktionale Facetten der gezeichneten Figur.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Musik, Manga, Medien: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der grafischen Transkription.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Vom character zum dynamic object: Semiotische Ansätze nach C.S. Peirce und Kontroversen in der transmedialen Figurentheorie.
    Academic chapter
  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Live aus dem Hotspot der Interpretationslust: Das politische Selfie im Spannungsfeld verteilter Handlungsmächte und autorialer Konstrukte.
    Academic chapter

Report

  • Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Meyer, Christina; Becker, Romain; Domingo, Sheree; Bulling, Nino. (2024) Harte Fakten, große Aufgaben: Die Arbeitsrealität Comicschaffender im deutschsprachigen Raum. Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor) e.V.
    Research report

Teaching

Courses

  • MV1110 - Media, Communication, and Artificial Intelligence
  • HFO1001 - Understandings of AI: Critical Perspectives
  • MV2007 - Media Analysis and Aesthetics

Outreach

Emojis und alles, was man dazu forschen kann: SCIENCE SLAM CHALLENGE #1 mit Dr. Lukas Wilde

SCIENCE SLAM CHALLENGE: FORSCHUNG KOMPAKT, UNTERHALTSAM & LAIENVERSTÄNDLICH. In der Science Slam Challenge bekommen unsere wissenschaftlichen Gäste jeweils drei Mal drei Minuten Zeit, uns von ihrer Forschung zu erzählen.

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