Centre for Digital Cultures

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

Contemporary culture is characterized by the ubiquity of digital media technologies and infrastructures, which are constantly configuring our techniques for processing, storing, and transmitting data. As a result, our everyday practices of connecting, relating, reading, writing, perceiving, sharing, competing, and communicating are undergoing significant changes. At the same time, these technologies are closely tied to major societal challenges such as climate change, global conflicts, digital divides and social unjustness. In this dynamic context, the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) directly addresses the emergence of new and complex qualities of vernacular socio-technical life. This involves the development of advanced theory and innovative study programmes. We are concerned with the question of how we can understand and shape digital cultures today​​​​​​​.

Main research areas

The digital shift re-shapes the cultural sectors, and, indeed, everyday life, politics, law, and economics. the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), affiliated to Leuphana University of Lüneburg, examines this shift through a range of interdisciplinary methodologies, including media, cultural and social studies, through knowledge creation and transfer, as well as by developing experimental and interventionist media practices. Established in 2012, as one of the first research centres in Europe to research the emergence of digital cultures, the CDC continues to produce cutting-edge research on socio-technical regimes of inclusion and exclusion. Since its inception, the CDC has built an innovative network and research environment, where academic institutions, practitioners, and civil society stakeholders engage with new concepts, formats, and applications within digital cultures.

Current Research Areas

  • Climate Futures
  • (B)Orders, Identities and Belonging in the Digital Age
  • Cities, Infrastructures, Logistics, Platforms 
  1. 38. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie

    Traue, B. (Speaker)

    27.09.2016

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  2. 35th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2019

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    04.06.201906.06.2019

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  3. 33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    2017

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  4. 33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. 32nd EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2016

    Conrad, L. (Participant)

    07.07.201609.07.2016

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

  6. 31st EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2015

    Conrad, L. (Organiser)

    02.07.201504.07.2015

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  7. 30th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism - SCOS 2012

    Conrad, L. (presenter)

    11.07.201214.07.2012

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  8. 2nd International Workshop - DigID 2024

    O'Brien, O. (Organiser)

    31.01.202401.02.2024

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  9. 10th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers - HCC10 2012

    Warnke, M. (Chair)

    28.09.2012

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  10. 10th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers - HCC10 2012

    Warnke, M. (Organiser)

    27.09.201228.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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