The Center aims to bring together subject-related research into language and situated language use, communication and data processing in digital media as well as the development of methods and methodologies of digital media and language research, and to bundle and make available the associated tool development and technical infrastructures.

The Siegerland Research Center brings together under one roof projects whose research focuses on the Siegerland as a cultural region that is unique in many respects.

The Literature in Electronic Media (LEM) research center investigates the changes in literary communication and literary aesthetics brought about by computer-based and networked media.

The "Popular Cultures" research center aims to describe and analyze central phenomena, processes and functions of our contemporary culture and the self-designs it has produced since the 1960s.

Schrift-Kultur deals with the research areas of children's and youth literature, reading socialization, literary socialization and multilingualism as sub-areas of literary studies / literary didactics.