Centre for Digital Cultures

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) unites a large range of research and development activities dedicated to the digital shift. It engages in knowledge creation and transfer, experimental and interventionist media practices, and research in disciplines such as media, social and cultural studies. The CDC aims to both understand the epochal digital shift through excellent research, and to become one of the major European forces that shape digital cultures to come.

The CDC has seen a remarkable uptake of successful funding bids. The major projects are funded by the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE) and the State of Lower Saxony, by the German Research Council (DFG) and the VW Foundation respectively. Additional smaller projects are supported by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Transmediale, and the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). The CDC has by now more than 80 researchers and cultural producers from all over the world. They work on questions such as:

  • Transmedia: How can we understand and develop new formats for entertainment as well as culture and education, merging different forms of production, participation, distribution and aesthetics?
  • User and Audience Research: What kind of methods enable us to understand new usage and consumption patterns, addressing digital cultures’ both global and local audiences? 
  • Gamification: Computer games have a growing relevance in contemporary life, not only due to the games themselves, but also through their metaphors and methods. What new opportunities arise?
  • Common Media: Which new forms of citizenship and cultural/political engagement are developing in the digital age, and how can we understand, enact and strengthen them?
  • Net based Public Broadcast: How can publicly funded provision of information, education, culture and entertainment adapt to the internet? How can new versions of basic provision be realized?
  • Hybrid Publishing: Which avenues for the communication and dissemination of knowledge beyond classrooms and research articles can be constructed, adapting the cultural and economic logic of the digital age?
  • Computer Simulation: From climate change to mass panics: Knowledge production based on computer simulation is shaping our worldview. How can we analyse and understand its effects?

Research and development at the CDC traverse boundaries between the academic sector, culture and the arts, industry, governmental bodies and civil society. It is a conducive, productive and experimental research environment, in which researchers and entrepreneurs, activists and artists, producers and hackers, thinkers and doers broker dynamic connections. Visions, blueprints and experimental findings get exposed to real-world conditions. The development of innovative teaching formats is a further crucial part of the mix: Leuphana Digital School is bringing knowledge and education online, and a new English-speaking Bachelor in Digital Media started in autumn 2013, developed in cooperation with Leuphana’s Institute for the Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, Hamburg Media School and Hongkong City University. The result is a new, open and engaged form of research and development for Europe’s digital cultures.

Topics

  • Transmedia
  • User and Audience Research 
  • Gamification
  • Common Media
  • Net based Public Broadcast
  • Hybrid Publishing
  • Computer Simulation
  • Artistic Research
  • New Teaching Formats
  1. 2016
  2. Winding (and not Knowing) the Sociotechnical Mangle of Organization

    Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)

    12.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Transparency and Secrecy

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    26.01.201627.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. 9th International Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference

    Paula Bialski (Speaker)

    29.01.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  5. Academic Space

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    25.02.201626.02.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. BA Seminar: Aesthetics and Marketing - 2016

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  7. BA Seminar: Cultural Entrepreneurship - 2016

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  8. BA Seminar: Theories of Contemporary Society II

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  9. In Praise of Workarounds

    Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)

    05.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  10. Re-thinking Relationality in the Sociotechnological Condition

    Boris Traue (Speaker)

    18.05.201619.05.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. The Business of Teaching - 2016

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    20.06.201624.06.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  12. Unpacking Organization: Cybernetics, Logistics, Labour

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    28.06.201629.06.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  13. 32nd EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2016

    Lisa Conrad (Participant)

    07.07.201609.07.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  14. Philosophy, Technology and Organization Studies

    Timon Beyes (Panel participant)

    07.07.201609.07.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  15. Data Studio 1

    Lisa Conrad (Participant)

    11.07.201612.07.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  16. 7th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms 2016

    Martina Leeker (Participant)

    21.09.201623.09.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  17. 38. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie

    Boris Traue (Speaker)

    27.09.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. Freie Universität Berlin

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    10.201604.2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  19. Im Kreativitätsdispositiv

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    06.10.201607.10.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  20. Art/Activism

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    20.10.201621.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  21. Kafka’s bestiary of organizing

    Robert D. Holt (Coauthor) & Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    10.11.201612.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  22. IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference 2016

    Lisa Conrad (Participant)

    09.12.201610.12.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  23. 2017
  24. 33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  25. Organization Studies (Journal)

    Timon Beyes (Editorial Board)

    2017 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  26. Princeton University

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  27. Western Sydney University

    Armin Beverungen (Visiting researcher)

    01.02.201731.03.2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  28. Rethinking Management Education: Theories, Practices, Interventions 2017

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201715.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  29. Was sind digitale Kulturen? MA Seminar

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201715.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  30. After the Revolution: On Digital Cultures

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    07.04.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  31. Organize: Satin Island.

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    19.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  32. Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge

    Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)

    16.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  33. Work and Organization in the Digital Age

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    18.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  34. Colour is as colour does: Green and social ordering

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  35. Between the Wage and the Commons

    Holger Kuhn (Moderator)

    05.06.201706.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  36. Lives of the secret: Rimini Protokoll’s Top Secret International (State 1)

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    08.06.201711.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. 33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  38. Kafka’s bestiary of organizing

    Robert D. Holt (Coauthor) & Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  39. Paper, pegboard, software: Elements of a media theory of organization

    Lisa Conrad (presenter) & Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  40. The distribution of the insensible: Organizational aesthetics in the age of digital reproduction

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  41. Aesthetics, Affect and the Good Organization

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  42. Colloquium social critique - 2017

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  43. Digital Cultures MA Seminar - 2019

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  44. New Forms of Organizing Culture MA Seminar - 2017/18

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  45. Sloterdijk’s Plural Spherology and its potential for Organization Studies - 2018

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  46. Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies Writing Workshop

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    19.10.201720.10.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  47. Silicon Trolls. Net Cultures, Neo-Fascism and Technological Determinism

    Laura Hille (Organiser) & Daniela Wentz (Organiser)

    25.10.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  48. Intendanz vs. kollaborative Leitungsmodelle

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    16.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  49. Niklas Luhmann am OVG Lüneburg.

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    05.12.201706.12.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  50. Surveillance Capitalism. Überwachen und unterhalten

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    14.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  51. 2018
  52. Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam (External organisation)

    Maja-Lee Voigt (Chair), Cesrin Schneider (Chair), Charlotte Niewerth (Chair) & Juliane Bötel (Chair)

    2018 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  53. meson press (Publisher)

    Andreas Bernard (Editor)

    2018

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of unfinished anthology/collectionResearch

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