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
- 2018
Université Paris-Dauphine
Timon Beyes (Visiting lecturer)
2018Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)
Timon Beyes (Editorial Board), Wendy Chun (Editorial Board), Götz Bachmann (Editorial Board) & Mercedes-Sabine Bunz (Editorial Board)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)
Timon Beyes (Editor)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
Critical Socio-Political-Organization in Digital Cultures
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
11.01.2018 → 12.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Michael Warner,Publics and Counterpublics (2002)
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
17.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The Invisible Man in the Digital Age: From Anonymity to Invisibility, A right to remain Unknown
Paula Bialski (Speaker)
02.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Art, aesthetics and organization: a research seminar
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
12.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Organization theory and the politics of space
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
15.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Flat, intense and shiny: The colour chart’s aesthetics of organizing
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
08.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Digitalization – a panel discussion with Andrus Ansip (European Commissioner for Digital Single Market and Vice President of the European Commission)
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
21.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Creativity and Social Organization MA Seminar - 2018
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2018 → 15.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization (Journal)
Lisa Conrad (Editorial Board)
01.04.2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Urban Atmospheres BA Seminar - 2018
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2018 → 15.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Kybernetische Biopolitik
Laura Hille (Speaker)
04.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Medienorganisationstheorie
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
18.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Workshop "Theoretische und empirische Grundlagen einer soziologischen Digitalisierungsforschung" - TU Berlin
Lisa Conrad (Lecturer)
18.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Workshop: Organizing Digital Cultures: Histories, Ethnographies, Materialities
Lisa Conrad (Organiser), Timon Beyes (Organiser) & Clemens Apprich (Organiser)
07.06.2018 → 08.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
8th Organizations, Artifacts and Practices Workshop - OAP 2018
Lisa Conrad (Participant)
21.06.2018 → 22.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The work of disconnection
Timon Beyes (Keynote Speaker)
21.06.2018 → 22.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The Sap of Organizational Life
Lisa Conrad (Speaker)
05.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - EASST 2018
Lisa Conrad (Organiser)
25.07.2018 → 28.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: New transparency, new opacity
Lisa Conrad (Speaker)
27.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Alternative Mouse – Alternative User? Towards a History of Assistive Media
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
19.09.2018 → 22.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Internationa Conference Digital Cultures
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker) & Timon Beyes (Organiser)
19.09.2018 → 22.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Knowing Colour - 2018/19
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2018 → 01.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Der Dunkle Transhumanismus
Laura Hille (Speaker)
25.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Arcane in Digital Cultures - 2018
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
21.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- 2019
Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization (Journal)
Randi Heinrichs (Editor), Bernadette Loacker (Editor) & Richard Weiskopf (Editor)
2019 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Organization (Journal)
Lisa Conrad (Editor), Armin Beverungen (Editor) & Timon Beyes (Editor)
2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Organization Studies (Journal)
Timon Beyes (Editor)
2019 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures (Journal)
Randi Heinrichs (Editor), Maya Indira Ganesh (Editor), Stina Lohmüller (Editor), Armin Beverungen (Editor), Clemens Apprich (Editor), Laura Hille (Editor) & Ben Trott (Editor)
2019 → 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Laura Hille (Member)
01.01.2019Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Center for Advanced Internet Studies GmbH
Armin Beverungen (Visiting researcher)
01.03.2019 → 15.10.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Data & Drama - 2019
Lisa Conrad (Speaker), Randi Heinrichs (Speaker) & Boukje Cnossen (Speaker)
10.04.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Squirreling myself away from the world: Silence and fieldnotes
Lisa Conrad (Speaker)
10.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
THE FUTURE OF ephemera - 2019
Lisa Conrad (Speaker)
02.05.2019 → 03.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Organization Studies Workshop: Technology and organization - 2019
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
23.05.2019 → 25.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2019 - Be creative!
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
26.05.2019 → 31.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
35th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2019
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
04.06.2019 → 06.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2019
Timon Beyes (Organiser), Claus Pias (Organiser) & Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser)
24.06.2019 → 28.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
- 2020
spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures (Journal)
Randi Heinrichs (Editor), Ben Trott (Editor), Armin Beverungen (Editor), Clemens Apprich (Editor) & Laura Hille (Editor)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Organization (Journal)
Armin Beverungen (Editorial Board)
01.07.2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Black Box Imagination: Zur Undurchschaubarkeit von Organisation
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
17.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Lower Saxony — Scotland Joint Forum 2020
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
24.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- 2021
Processed Food on the Urban Data Highway. Food Delivery Services as In_visible Infrastructure in the Production of Urbanity
Maja-Lee Voigt (Speaker), Cesrin Schneider (Speaker), Charlotte Niewerth (Speaker) & Juliane Bötel (Speaker)
03.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Calculated Publics
Timon Beyes (Keynote Speaker)
22.03.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
4. Workshop des Arbeitskreises Digitalisierung und Organisation der Sektion Organisationssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie - 2021
Lisa Conrad (Organiser)
30.09.2021 → 01.10.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The standards story of SAP: When infrastructure is happening
Lisa Conrad (Speaker)
06.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2022
european association for the study of science and technology (easst) (External organisation)
Maja-Lee Voigt (Member)
2022 → 2023Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Springer (Publisher)
Laura Lambert (Editor)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research