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
Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
04.02.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
05.12.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kunst und Öffentlichkeit
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
03.06.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kybernetische Biopolitik
Laura Hille (Speaker)
04.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Leading without formal power
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
17.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Lecture of Praeter Naturam: Beyond Nature
Sacha Kagan (Organiser)
03.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Les économies de la misére: Pierre Bourdieu et la photographie ethnographique
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
24.02.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Lives of the secret: Rimini Protokoll’s Top Secret International (State 1)
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
08.06.2017 → 11.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
Ludic Overload - Ludic Overkill: Gamification in the age of Media Overload
Mathias Fuchs (Lecturer)
13.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Manet und die Revolution des Impressionismus
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
24.10.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Mapping the Field of Contemporary Art
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
11.01.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
MA Seminar: The Politics of Organization - WiSe 2014/2015
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2014 → 01.02.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
MA Seminar "Whither theatre? The role and organization of culture in the 21st century" 2007
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2007 → 15.07.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Measuring is Knowing
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
17.01.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Mediating Atmospheres: Apprehending the Intersections of Data, Memory and Space
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
26.11.2012 → 28.11.2012Activity: 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
Mental representations of art field globalization
Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)
04.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
meson press (Publisher)
Martina Leeker (Editor), Andreas Bernard (Editor), Armin Beverungen (Editor), Irina Kaldrack (Editor), Sascha Simons (Editor) & Florian Sprenger (Editor)
2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
meson press (Publisher)
Boris Traue (Editor)
01.08.2015 → 01.04.2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
meson press (Publisher)
Andreas Bernard (Editor)
2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
Methods of Media Studies
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
11.03.2015 → 13.03.2015Activity: 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
Michel de Certeau as a Theorist of Hacking
Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)
24.08.2013 → 25.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Mobilising Memes: The Contagious Socio-Aesthetics of Participation
Sascha Simons (Speaker)
08.05.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Models & Mechanics: Knowledge Management in Charitable Organizations
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
22.04.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Modewort "Innovation"
Timon Beyes (Panel participant)
19.01.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Multiple Organizations. An Organization-Theoretical View on Nonprofits
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
06.09.2005 → 07.09.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Multitudes Revues
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
03.12.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Mute Books (Publisher)
Clemens Apprich (Editor)
01.12.2013 → 01.12.2014Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
Narratives of independent production in video game culture
Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)
26.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Neue Medien in der Informationsgesellschaft - NMI 2012
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
05.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
New Forms of Organizing Culture MA Seminar - 2017/18
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
New Sites in Organization Studies: A Seminar Series
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
2014 → 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Niklas Luhmann am OVG Lüneburg.
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
05.12.2017 → 06.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Oberflächen// Interfaces
Irina Kaldrack (Organiser)
21.03.2014 → 23.03.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Öffentliche Kunst, Kunstfeld und öffentliche Sphäre
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
12.05.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Öffentlichkeit und Strategie
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
01.06.2012 → 02.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
On the structurual Richness of Art Historical Discourse
Martin Warnke (Lecturer)
22.02.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge
Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)
16.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Organizational Behaviour and Change
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2008 → 01.02.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Organization (Journal)
Lisa Conrad (Editor), Armin Beverungen (Editor) & Timon Beyes (Editor)
2019Activity: 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
Organization Studies (Journal)
Timon Beyes (Editorial Board)
2017 → …Activity: 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
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
Organization theory and the politics of space
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
15.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Organize
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
08.10.2015 → 10.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Organize: Satin Island.
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
19.04.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Orientation workshop on "historical research projects using geographical data and GIS technology" - 2013
Martin Warnke (Opponent)
15.11.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research