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
Data and Technics Symposium Report
Feigelfeld, P., Hui, Y. & Bachmann, G.
19.05.14
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Rundfunkbegriff mehr vom Internet aus denken - Medientreffpunkt Mitteldeutschland
07.05.14
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Pressevorschau: Das Wissenschaftsjahr 2014 - Die digitale Gesellschaft im Mai
30.04.14
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CFP:Cultural Analytics, Information Aesthetics, and Distant Readings
Warnke, M., Janssen, A. & Schrickel, I.
03.04.14
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Kunststätte Bossard erhält Preis für digitale Kommunikation
21.03.14
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Lüneburg: "Medienwandel - Was heißt das für Medienschaffende der Region?"
20.03.14
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GfM: Cutting Edges and Dead Ends - Workshop AG-Games (Lüneburg 11.-12.04-2014)
14.02.14
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War Games. Computer Simulation, Sovereignty and the Military (Lüneburg, 21.-22.02.14)
Pias, C., Engemann, C., Vehlken, S., Spreen, D., Schrape, N. & Hagen, W.
14.02.14
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Chronisch unterversorgt: Die netzpolitische Dimension des Breitbandausbaus
10.02.14
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Zeitreise: Studenten nehmen das Erbe der Stadt unter die Lupe
15.01.14
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Leuphana-Konferenz zur veränderten Rolle von Archiven vom 15. bis 18. Januar 2014
10.01.14
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