Lukas Roland Athanasius Wilde

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).

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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

Publications

For a full list of publications, see:

http://lukasrawilde.de/en/publikationen

2025

Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Webcomicforschung.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Medienwissenschaft.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Chapter
Thon, Jan-Noël; Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Introduction: AI Aesthetics.
Chapter
Thon, Jan-Noël; Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) AI Aesthetics | AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics |. Routledge Routledge
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) KI-Bilder und die Widerständigkeit der Medienkonvergenz: Von primärer zu sekundärer Intermedialität?.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Diesseits und jenseits der Diegese: Populäre, partizipatorische und transfiktionale Facetten der gezeichneten Figur.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2024

Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Characters in the Media Mix: Beyond Narratives.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Meyer, Christina; Ossa, Vanessa. (2024) What Was, Is, Will Be Comic Studies – to Us? Introduction.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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) Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Matters of Concern: Comics als epistemische Dinge zwischen disziplinären Anliegen.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Musik, Manga, Medien: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der grafischen Transkription.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Vom character zum dynamic object: Semiotische Ansätze nach C.S. Peirce und Kontroversen in der transmedialen Figurentheorie.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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. Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor) e.V.
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/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Comics und Animation.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Ossa, Vanessa; Ulrich, Anne. (2023) 9/11 und das mediale Imaginäre terroristischer Bedrohungen.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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 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
Thon, Jan-Noël; Ossa, Vanessa. (2023) Comics and Agency: Introduction.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter) Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Convergence.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Narratology.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Live aus dem Hotspot der Interpretationslust: Das politische Selfie im Spannungsfeld verteilter Handlungsmächte und autorialer Konstrukte.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2021

Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2021) Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11: Medial Reflections. Routledge Routledge
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Jung, Berenike; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2021) Agency postdigital: Verteilte Handlungsmächte in medienwissenschaftlichen Forschungsfeldern. Herbert von Halem Verlag Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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 Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

2019

Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Packard, Stephan; Rauscher, Andreas; Sina, Véronique; Thon, Jan-Noël; Wildfeuer, Janina. (2019) Comicanalyse: Eine Einführung. Verlag J. B. Metzler Verlag J. B. Metzler
Academic monograph
Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2019) Emoticons, Kaomoji, and Emoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age. Routledge Routledge
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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 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 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.. (2024) Unreliable Iconicity, or: Accounting for the Cartoonish Pictures of Comics in Multimodal Reasoning. Zeitschrift für Semiotik
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.; 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.; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2023) The Semiotics of Emoji and Digital Stickers. IMAGE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Image Sciences
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.; Denson, Shane. (2022) Historicizing and Theorizing Pre-Narrative Figures: Who is Uncle Sam?. Narrative
Academic article
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.; Thon, Jan Noël. (2019) Characters Across Media. Frontiers of Narrative Studies (FNS)
Editorial
Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Thon, Jan Noël. (2016) Mediality and Materiality of Contemporary Comics. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Editorial

Books

Thon, Jan-Noël; Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) AI Aesthetics | AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics |. Routledge Routledge
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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) Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Kunz, Tobias. (2023) Transmedia Character Studies. Routledge Routledge
Academic monograph
Thon, Jan-Noël; Wilde, Lukas Roland Athanasius; Ossa, Vanessa. (2023) Comics & Agency. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter) Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2021) Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11: Medial Reflections. Routledge Routledge
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Jung, Berenike; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2021) Agency postdigital: Verteilte Handlungsmächte in medienwissenschaftlichen Forschungsfeldern. Herbert von Halem Verlag Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Veits, Andreas; Sachs-Hombach, Klaus. (2020) Einzelbild & Narrativität: Theorien, Zugänge, offene Fragen. Herbert von Halem Verlag Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Packard, Stephan; Rauscher, Andreas; Sina, Véronique; Thon, Jan-Noël; Wildfeuer, Janina. (2019) Comicanalyse: Eine Einführung. Verlag J. B. Metzler Verlag J. B. Metzler
Academic monograph
Wilde, Lukas R. A.. (2019) Emoticons, Kaomoji, and Emoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age. Routledge Routledge
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2018) Im Reich der Figuren: Meta-narrative Kommunikationsfiguren und die ‚Mangaisierung‘ des japanischen Alltags. Herbert von Halem Verlag Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic monograph
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2012) Der Witz der Relationen: Komische Inkongruenz und diagrammatisches Schlussfolgern im Webcomic XKCD. Ibidem-Verlag Ibidem-Verlag
Academic monograph

Part of book/report

Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Webcomicforschung.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Medienwissenschaft.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Aesthetics and Rhetorics of AI Anthropomorphization: The Eliza Effect vs. the Character Effect.
Chapter
Thon, Jan-Noël; Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Introduction: AI Aesthetics.
Chapter
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) KI-Bilder und die Widerständigkeit der Medienkonvergenz: Von primärer zu sekundärer Intermedialität?.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2025) Diesseits und jenseits der Diegese: Populäre, partizipatorische und transfiktionale Facetten der gezeichneten Figur.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Characters in the Media Mix: Beyond Narratives.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Meyer, Christina; Ossa, Vanessa. (2024) What Was, Is, Will Be Comic Studies – to Us? Introduction.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Matters of Concern: Comics als epistemische Dinge zwischen disziplinären Anliegen.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Musik, Manga, Medien: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der grafischen Transkription.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2024) Vom character zum dynamic object: Semiotische Ansätze nach C.S. Peirce und Kontroversen in der transmedialen Figurentheorie.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Paradoxien der Bildlichkeit: Unmögliche Konstruktionen und optische Täuschungen.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2023) Comics und Animation.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.; Ossa, Vanessa; Ulrich, Anne. (2023) 9/11 und das mediale Imaginäre terroristischer Bedrohungen.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Thon, Jan-Noël; Ossa, Vanessa. (2023) Comics and Agency: Introduction.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Text.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Convergence.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Visual Language Theory.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Narratology.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wilde, Lukas R.A.. (2022) Live aus dem Hotspot der Interpretationslust: Das politische Selfie im Spannungsfeld verteilter Handlungsmächte und autorialer Konstrukte.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

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. Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor) e.V.
Report

Teaching

Courses

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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Lukas Roland Athanasius Wilde