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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    Mercedes Bunz

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  2. Alte Zeitungen neu aufbereitet

    Mathias Fuchs & Dagmar Bussiek

    17.07.14

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  3. Auf der Suche nach den jungen Leuten

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  4. Bachelor programme "Digital Media"

    Sascha Spoun

    23.05.13

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  5. Bedeutung des Lokalen im Internet

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  6. Chancen mit Risiken und Nebenwirkungen

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    09.07.14

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  7. Conversations about museums and games

    Mathias Fuchs

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  8. Cyber-Feminist Urbanism

    Maja-Lee Voigt

    21.11.22

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  9. Das Denken muss nun auch den Daten folgen

    Claus Pias

    11.03.14

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  10. Das Menschenbild der Gegenwart

    Andreas Bernard

    10.04.14

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  11. Data and Technics Symposium Report

    Paul Feigelfeld, Yuk Hui & Götz Bachmann

    19.05.14

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  12. Der Innovations-Inkubator im Planet MID

    Götz Bachmann

    21.01.13

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  13. Der Panik auf der Spur

    Martin Warnke & Claus Pias

    04.10.12

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  14. Der persönliche Blick von Wissenschaftlerinnen auf ihre Arbeit

    22.05.13

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  15. «Die Angst vor Veränderung ist sehr alt»

    Mercedes Bunz

    06.05.13

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  16. Die Angst vor Veränderung ist sehr alt

    Mercedes Bunz

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  17. Die Klänge von Lüneburg

    07.09.13

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  18. Die Lust an der Selbstdarstellung

    Andreas Bernard

    08.04.14

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  19. Die Rolle des Urheberrechts für Kunst und Kultur

    19.12.12

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  20. Die Rolle des Urheberrechts für Kunst und Kultur

    02.01.13

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  21. Die Schönheit der Frösche

    06.06.14

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  22. Die Untersuchung in Sarajewo

    30.06.14

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  23. Die Videos von Explainity - Die Welt erklärt mit Basteltechnik

    25.11.12

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  24. Die Wirtschaft feiert ihre Besten

    13.11.12

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  25. Die Zukunft des Kinos

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  26. Drohnen als Datensammler

    Adnan Hadziselimovic

    18.01.14

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  27. Druckbranche unter Druck

    Andreas Bernard & Mercedes Bunz

    30.05.14

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  28. Ein Schlüssel für die Demokratie

    Volker Graßmuck

    02.06.14

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  29. Forschung mit Spielzeugautos

    Martina Leeker & Irina Kaldrack

    05.10.13

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  30. Frische Ideen für die Wirtschaft

    04.06.13

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  31. Gamification, die Lösung aller Probleme?

    Mathias Fuchs

    05.11.13

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  32. Genetisches Patchwork

    Andreas Bernard

    17.03.14

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  33. Grundversorgung 2.0?

    Volker Graßmuck

    08.05.13

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  34. Grundversorgung in einer konvergenten Medienwelt

    03.12.13

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  35. Hyperkult-Konferenz an der Leuphana

    26.06.13

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  36. IHK bietet Einblicke in die Forschung

    Mathias Fuchs

    06.10.14

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  37. Imaginational Landscapes

    Clemens Apprich

    05.12.14

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  38. Im Netz der Gemeinschaft

    Clemens Apprich

    01.01.13

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  39. In die Marktlücke gegrätscht

    25.03.14

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  40. Innovationstour an der Leuphana

    Mathias Fuchs

    05.11.14

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  41. Irgendwas mit Medien

    Claus Pias

    02.01.13

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    Andreas Bernard

    03.01.15

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  43. Konferenz an der Leuphana

    24.06.13

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  44. Kontrolleure der Politik

    22.03.14

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  45. Kunststätte Bossard erhält Preis für digitale Kommunikation

    21.03.14

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  46. Kunst + Urheberrecht - Wettbewerb der Leuphana-Uni

    30.01.13

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  47. Leuphana bietet Ausbildung für Digital Media an

    17.05.13

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  48. Leuphana erforscht digitale Kultur

    Sascha Spoun & Holm Keller

    05.02.13

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  49. Leuphana und Hamburg Media School kooperieren

    22.05.13

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  50. Leuphana wird zum Zentrum der Medienwissenschaft

    Claus Pias

    01.10.13

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  51. Lüneburg: "Medienfreiheit und Public Value im Internet"

    16.05.14

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  52. Lüneburg: Politics of Measurement

    11.12.13

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