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
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    Lisa Conrad

    01.05.09

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    Andreas Bernard

    19.05.10

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    Martin Warnke & Claus Pias

    04.10.12

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    Reinhard Schulte

    17.11.1217.11.12

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    25.11.12

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  10. Wo fängt Unrecht an?

    21.12.12

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  11. Im Netz der Gemeinschaft

    Clemens Apprich

    01.01.13

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  12. Die Rolle des Urheberrechts für Kunst und Kultur

    02.01.13

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  13. Irgendwas mit Medien

    Claus Pias

    02.01.13

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  14. Rundfunkbeitrag: 15 Thesen zur Grundversorgung 2.0

    16.01.13

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  15. Der Innovations-Inkubator im Planet MID

    Götz Bachmann

    21.01.13

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  16. Millionen-Föderung: Leuphana erforscht digitale Kultur

    Holm Keller & Sascha Spoun

    29.01.13

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  17. Millionen für die Universität

    30.01.13

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  18. Uni-Zentrum erhält drei Millionen Euro

    Holm Keller & Sascha Spoun

    30.01.13

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  19. Kunst + Urheberrecht - Wettbewerb der Leuphana-Uni

    30.01.13

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  20. Leuphana erforscht digitale Kultur

    Sascha Spoun & Holm Keller

    05.02.13

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  21. Millionen für Medienforschung

    09.02.13

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  22. Neue Vortragsreihe "Analog"

    20.02.13

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  23. Bedeutung des Lokalen im Internet

    23.02.13

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  24. Die Angst vor Veränderung ist sehr alt

    Mercedes Bunz

    06.05.13

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  25. «Die Angst vor Veränderung ist sehr alt»

    Mercedes Bunz

    06.05.13

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  26. Grundversorgung 2.0?

    Volker Graßmuck

    08.05.13

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  27. Leuphana bietet Ausbildung für Digital Media an

    17.05.13

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  28. Leuphana und Hamburg Media School kooperieren

    22.05.13

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  29. Der persönliche Blick von Wissenschaftlerinnen auf ihre Arbeit

    22.05.13

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  30. Sofa hilft bei der Forschung

    23.05.13

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  31. Bachelor programme "Digital Media"

    Sascha Spoun

    23.05.13

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  32. Frische Ideen für die Wirtschaft

    04.06.13

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  33. Streiten bis zum Access

    Christian Heise

    18.06.1323.06.13

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  34. Konferenz an der Leuphana

    24.06.13

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  35. Hyperkult-Konferenz an der Leuphana

    26.06.13

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  36. Menschen im Porträt: Andreas Ebert von der Firma Explainity

    31.07.13

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  37. Die Klänge von Lüneburg

    07.09.13

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  38. Twitter-Monitor

    Leonard Novy & Stefan Heidenreich

    09.09.13

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  39. Leuphana wird zum Zentrum der Medienwissenschaft

    Claus Pias

    01.10.13

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  40. Forschung mit Spielzeugautos

    Martina Leeker & Irina Kaldrack

    05.10.13

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  41. Gamification, die Lösung aller Probleme?

    Mathias Fuchs

    05.11.13

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  42. Sicherung der Vielfalt als große Herausforderung

    25.11.13

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  43. Grundversorgung in einer konvergenten Medienwelt

    03.12.13

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  44. Namen und Nachrichten: Über "Politics of Measurement"

    10.12.13

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  45. Lüneburg: Politics of Measurement

    11.12.13

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  46. Post-Media

    Clemens Apprich

    01.01.14

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  47. Taking Care of things

    Volker Graßmuck & Jan Torge Claußen

    05.01.14

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  48. The Archive in a Post-Media Age: Taking Care of Things

    06.01.14

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  49. Zeitreise: Studenten nehmen das Erbe der Stadt unter die Lupe

    15.01.14

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  50. Drohnen als Datensammler

    Adnan Hadziselimovic

    18.01.14

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  51. Zehn Jahre Facebook: Hat das Netzwerk ausgedient?

    Andreas Bernard

    04.02.14

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  52. Das Denken muss nun auch den Daten folgen

    Claus Pias

    11.03.14

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  53. Was Qualitätsjournalismus ausmacht

    15.03.14

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  54. Genetisches Patchwork

    Andreas Bernard

    17.03.14

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  55. Widerstand im globalen Dorf?

    Lisa Conrad & Nancy Richter

    19.03.14

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  56. Kunststätte Bossard erhält Preis für digitale Kommunikation

    21.03.14

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  57. Kontrolleure der Politik

    22.03.14

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  58. Zwei junge Gründer drehen Werbefilme für Unternehmen

    24.03.14

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  59. In die Marktlücke gegrätscht

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