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. 2014
  2. Rethinking Management Education? The Role of the Humanities

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.05.201416.05.2014

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

  3. Social atmospherics and the question of organization

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    10.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Mobilising Memes: The Contagious Socio-Aesthetics of Participation

    Sascha Simons (Speaker)

    08.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Symposium Data and Technics

    Irina Kaldrack (Speaker)

    24.04.201425.04.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. 9th Conference of the Foundations of Digital Games - FDG 2014

    Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)

    03.04.201406.04.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Facing the camp: Refugee settlements and the spatial politics of organizing

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    02.04.201405.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. The Aesthetic Turn - SoSe 2014

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201415.07.2014

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

  9. Oberflächen// Interfaces

    Irina Kaldrack (Organiser)

    21.03.201423.03.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    30.01.201431.01.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. Involuntary Servitude

    Mathias Fuchs (Lecturer)

    19.01.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Kamion (Journal)

    Clemens Apprich (Editor)

    01.01.2014 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsTransfer

  13. New Sites in Organization Studies: A Seminar Series

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    20142015

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

  14. Rethinking Management Education: A Colloquia Series on Humanities and Social Sciences at the Business University - 2014

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    20142016

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

  15. 2013
  16. What’s next? Kunst nach der Krise (Art after the crisis)

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    14.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  17. The Rise and Fall of 'Measurement'

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    04.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  18. Mute Books (Publisher)

    Clemens Apprich (Editor)

    01.12.201301.12.2014

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  19. Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit - FSCONS 2013

    Paula Bialski (Speaker)

    30.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. 3. Internationales Fast-Forward Theaterfestival - 2013

    Ulf Wuggenig (Participant)

    24.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  21. Simulation

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    23.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  22. Simulation statt Lyrik: Computerspiele als Ausdrucksmittel

    Niklas Schrape (Lecturer)

    19.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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