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
Keine Lösung für Foltergefängnisse. Antirassistischer Widerstand zu Notfallevakuierungen in den Niger
20.06.24
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No Solution for Torture Prisons. Anti-racist Resistance to Emergency Evacuations to Niger
20.06.24
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Kapitalistisches Schlaraffenland
Voigt, M.-L. & Mitrović, M.
25.11.23
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Interview by Geert Lovink for the Institute of Network Cultures
Lovink, G. & Tollmann, V.
11.10.23
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Europe Outsourcing Asylum to African Countries Is a Terrible Idea - there Are Alternatives
Lambert, L. & Lemberg-Pedersen, M.
18.04.23
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Abwehr und etwas Anwerbung. Deutsche Grenzpolitik in Westafrika
18.04.23
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Abschreckung in Dauerschleife. Asylzentren in Afrika sind keine Lösung
13.02.23
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Episode 1 (2022) Maja-Lee Voigt - CTRL + F_eminist futures_. Hacking algorithmic architectures of cities to come
04.10.22
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CTRL + F_eminist futures_: Hacking algorithmic architectures of cities to come
04.10.22
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Der Gewinner der Digitalisierung: Franco Moretti: "Distant Reading", Konstanz University Press (ISBN 9781781684818)
13.03.16
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Review: Sean Cubitt, Daniel Palmer, and Nathaniel Tkacz (Eds) (2015) Digital Light. London: Open Humanities Press. ISBN 978-1-78542-000-9
01.01.16
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Theorie fürs Schwimmbad und unterwegs: Philipp Felschs Buch "Der lange Sommer der Theorie"
08.03.15
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DiGRA 2015: Bereits 263 Einreichungen für internationale Spieleforscher-Konferenz
03.02.15
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Askese und Leidenschaft: Die Hardcore-Szene der achtziger Jahre in Washington
04.01.15
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Neues Forschungsprojekt an der Universität Konstanz: Wie schaffen Medien Gemeinschaft?
02.01.15
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Gamification: Spielen im Dienst. Wie die Kraft des Spiels auch für Unternehmen hilfreich sein kann.
01.01.15
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Seid fruchtbar, aber später!: Social Freezing und die kontrollierte Gesellschaft
18.10.14
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Aus einer geschlossenen Alpha muss schnell eine offene Beta werden: Stellungnahme des CDC zur Digitalen Agenda der Bundesregierung
20.08.14
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Der dritte Kreis der Hölle: Dave Eggers' Roman "Der Circle", Orwells "1984" und Huxleys "Schöne neue Welt"
09.08.14
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"Am Sande" goes Computerspiel - Leuphana Universität schreibt Wettbewerb aus
05.08.14
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Inkubator-Projekt "aera - breaking history" liefert tagesaktuelle Nachrichten aus dem Jahr 1914
04.07.14
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"Rethinking Gamification" - Innovations-Inkubator realisiert erstes Buch im eigenen Verlag
Fuchs, M., Fizek, S., Ruffino, P. & Schrape, N.
04.07.14
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Dr. Mercedes Bunz, Innovations-Inkubator, erhält Auszeichnung "Deutschlands Digitale Köpfe"
04.07.14
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Artpop: Pharrell schreibt seinen offenen Brief an die Frauen in der Pariser Gruppenausstellung »GIRL« weiter
01.07.14
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