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
- Editor of unfinished anthology/collection
Beltz Juventa Verlag (Publisher)
Boris Traue (Editor)
01.07.2015 → 01.06.2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
Centre for Digital Cultures Lüneburg (Publisher)
Martina Leeker (Editor)
10.2014 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
meson press (Publisher)
Andreas Bernard (Editor)
2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
- Editor of journals
Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization (Journal)
Armin Beverungen (Editor)
01.2007 → 12.2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization (Journal)
Lisa Conrad (Editorial Board)
01.04.2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Femina Politica (Journal)
Magdalena Freudenschuß (Editor)
2008 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung (Journal)
Boris Traue (Editor)
01.01.2016 → 01.06.2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
GAME : the Italian journal of game studies (Journal)
Paolo Ruffino (Editor)
01.01.2013 → 31.12.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Kamion (Journal)
Clemens Apprich (Editor)
01.01.2014 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Transfer
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
spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures (Journal)
Clemens Apprich (Editor)
15.10.2014 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Transfer
spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures (Journal)
Armin Beverungen (Editor)
01.06.2014 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- Editor of series
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
Mute Books (Publisher)
Clemens Apprich (Editor)
01.12.2013 → 01.12.2014Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
Springer (Publisher)
Laura Lambert (Editor)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › 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
- Conferences
10th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers - HCC10 2012
Martin Warnke (Chair)
28.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
10th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers - HCC10 2012
Martin Warnke (Organiser)
27.09.2012 → 28.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
30th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism - SCOS 2012
Lisa Conrad (presenter)
11.07.2012 → 14.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
31st EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2015
Lisa Conrad (Organiser)
02.07.2015 → 04.07.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
38. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Boris Traue (Speaker)
27.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3. Internationales Fast-Forward Theaterfestival - 2013
Ulf Wuggenig (Participant)
24.11.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
4th Workshop on Complex Networks - CompleNet 2013
Martin Warnke (Keynote speaker)
14.03.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
9th Conference of the Foundations of Digital Games - FDG 2014
Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)
03.04.2014 → 06.04.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
9th International Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference
Paula Bialski (Speaker)
29.01.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
After Kittler: Neue deutsche Medientheorien
Mercedes Bunz (Organiser)
02.10.2013 → 03.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
AMMODI Virtual Roundtable: "Making African(ist) Migration Research Visible"
Laura Lambert (Organiser), Franzisca Zanker (Organiser), Jesper Bjarnesen (Organiser) & Leander Kandilige (Organiser)
28.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Berliner Gespräche zur Digitalen Kunstgeschichte - 2013
Martin Warnke (presenter)
18.11.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
Cyberlab Symposium - 2010
Martina Leeker (Organiser)
06.03.2010 → 14.03.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Enacting Citizenship in the Digital Age
Laura Lambert (Organiser) & Stephan Scheel (Organiser)
29.11.2023 → 30.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit - FSCONS 2013
Paula Bialski (Speaker)
30.11.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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Laura Hille (Organiser)
15.11.2023 → 16.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Globalization of Contemporary Art Markets
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
03.10.2013 → 05.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Interdisziplinäre Workshop-Tagung im Rahmen des 29. KasselerDokumentarfilm- und Videofests 2012
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
16.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
International Panel "L’image - document face au numérique: mise en crise ou mise en lumière?" 2012
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
05.03.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - 2008
Florian Sprenger (Speaker)
02.10.2008 → 04.10.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - GfM 2013
Mercedes Bunz (Organiser), Jan Müggenburg (Organiser), Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser) & Timon Beyes (Organiser)
04.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kolloquium: Creative Coding. Zum Stand der Kulturtechnik Programmieren
Martina Leeker (Organiser)
23.07.2010 → 24.07.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
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
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
Proliferations of Digital Identification Infrastructures in the (Post)Colonial World: Trust Relations, Methodologies and Translations
Oisin O'Brien (Organiser)
31.01.2024 → 01.02.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
rePLAYCE: theCITY - 2013
Mathias Fuchs (Speaker)
07.11.2013 → 09.11.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
RESEARCHING BWPWAP
Joanna Figiel (Speaker)
23.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Research Seminar “Interweaving Technologies. The Aesthetics of Digital Urban Living" - 2010
Tatiana Bazzichelli (presenter)
22.04.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Rethinking Gamification Workshop- 2013
Mathias Fuchs (Speaker)
15.05.2013 → 17.05.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Re-thinking Relationality in the Sociotechnological Condition
Boris Traue (Speaker)
18.05.2016 → 19.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Soziale Medien - Neue Massen?
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
03.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Speaking back to Theory. Africanist Migration Research beyond the Categories
Laura Lambert (Organiser), Franzisca Zanker (Organiser), Mary B. Setrana (Organiser), Leander Kandilige (Organiser), Samuel Agblorti (Organiser) & Jesper Bjarnesen (Organiser)
15.03.2023 → 18.03.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium Data and Technics
Irina Kaldrack (Speaker)
24.04.2014 → 25.04.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium "Passion Investments in Art Markets" 2011
Ulf Wuggenig (Organiser)
25.11.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Table Talks Künstlerische Forschung des Labors Theaterforschung - UDK 2013
Ulf Wuggenig (Participant)
19.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Tausend Ökologien
Mercedes Bunz (Organiser)
04.06.2013 → 05.06.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Terms of Media I - 2015
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
17.06.2015 → 19.06.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Terra Critica: Re-visioning the Critical Task of the Humanities in a Globalized World
Mercedes Bunz (Speaker)
07.12.2012 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Digital Games Research Association - DiGRA 2014
Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)
03.08.2014 → 06.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
The Terms of Media II: Actions - 2015
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
08.10.2015 → 10.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside
Mercedes Bunz (Speaker)
21.06.2013 → 23.06.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Transmediale - 2013
Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)
02.02.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Visual Archives in the Digitale Age
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
15.06.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Workshop Humanities and Social Sciences in Management Education: Writing, Researching, Teaching
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
05.06.2013 → 07.06.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Workshop „Meta-Image Day 2012”
Jens-Martin Loebel (Speaker)
30.05.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- External workshops, courses, seminars
32nd EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2016
Lisa Conrad (Participant)
07.07.2016 → 09.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › 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
7th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms 2016
Martina Leeker (Participant)
21.09.2016 → 23.09.2016Activity: 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
After the Revolution: On Digital Cultures
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
07.04.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
#Akzeleration? #WTF? Verortungen, Politiken, Subjektivierungen
Laura Hille (Speaker)
24.11.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
A Town (Not a City)
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2008 → 01.02.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Barcamp Gründerwerkstatt neudeli - 2015
Lisa Conrad (Organiser)
21.05.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
BA Seminar: Aesthetics and Marketing - 2016
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2016 → 15.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
BA Seminar: Cultural Entrepreneurship - 2016
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2016 → 15.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
BA Seminar "Organisation als Black Box. Neuere Ansätze der Organisationssoziologie" - 2005
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2005 → 01.02.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
BA Seminar Sociology of Power
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2004 → 01.02.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
BA Seminar "Strategische Herausforderungen in Nonprofit-Organisationen" - 2005
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2004 → 15.07.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
BA Seminar: Theories of Contemporary Society II
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2016 → 15.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
BBC Games Event 2012
Mathias Fuchs (Chair)
27.11.2012 → 28.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Between the Wage and the Commons
Holger Kuhn (Moderator)
05.06.2017 → 06.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Cities and Creativity: Urban Ethnographies MA Seminar - 2018
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
01.04.2005 → 15.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Colloquium social critique - 2017
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Companion to the Humanities and Social Sciences Writing Workshop - 2014
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
19.05.2014 → 21.05.2014Activity: 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
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
Cultural Entrepreneurship Series - 2015
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › 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
Data Studio 1
Lisa Conrad (Participant)
11.07.2016 → 12.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Digital Cultures MA Seminar - 2019
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
„Don't forget: the archive!“ – Collecting Non-Archives for the Post-Media Condition - 2013
Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)
25.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research