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
- 2009
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Pragmatism versus Artificial Art: Computer Stories
Leeker, M., 2009, Americanisms: Discourses of Exception, Exclusion, Exchange ; [conference on "Americanisms" at the University of Bayreuth between January 30 and February 1, 2008]. Steppat, M. (ed.). Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag, p. 67-84 18 p. (American Studies; vol. 173).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Von der Leidenschaft, Bilder zu zeigen, die man so noch nicht gesehen hat: Die 11. Marburger Kameragespräche mit dem Träger des Marburger Kamerapreises 2009 Wolfgang Thaler
Kirchner, A., 2009, In: MEDIENwissenschaft. Rezensionen. Reviews.. 2, p. 109-114 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Die Medien und das Neue
Wendler, A. (ed.) & Wentz, D. (ed.), 02.2009, Marburg: Schüren Verlag. 284 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
- 2010
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A Theory of Media as a History of Electricity: How McLuhans thoughts about mediation are thwarted by their negation
Sprenger, F., 2010, McLuhan Galaxy Conference: Understanding Media Today : Conference Proceedings. Ciastellardi, M., Almeida, C. M. & Scolari, C. A. (eds.). Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, p. 71-77 7 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Das neue Fernsehen und die Historizität des Dispositivs
Wentz, D., 2010, Die Medien und das Neue: 21. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium. Wentz, D. & Wendler, A. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 151-164 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Einleitung: Von der "Klein-Hypothese" zur Beratung der Gesellschaft
Pias, C. & Vehlken, S., 2010, Think Tanks : Die Beratung der Gesellschaft. Brandstetter, T., Pias, C. & Vehlken, S. (eds.). Zürich, Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7-15 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Gefährdungen der Zukunft
Sprenger, F., 2010, Gefahrensinn. Engell, L., Siegert, B. & Vogl, J. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 79-91 13 p. ( Archiv für Mediengeschichte; vol. 9).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Lasst es brennen! Ein Kommentar
Apprich, C., 2010, In: Kulturrisse : Zeitschrift für radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik. 1, p. 8 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Transfer
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Meme, Virals, Vlogs and Mimikry. Zum Scheitern von Theatralität und Performativität im Web 2.0
Leeker, M. & Wassermann, A., 2010, Theatralität online!: Positionen für eine theatrale Online-Interktionspädagogik. Bonczek, F. (ed.). Berlin: Schibri-Verlag, p. 89-122 33 p. (Lingener Reihe für Theaterpädagogik; vol. 8).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Modes of Being in Mobile Telecommunication
Yoshida, M., 2010, In: Aether - The Journal of Media Geography . 5, p. 77-89 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Protest 2.0 - Don't believe the Hype: Soziale Computernetzwerke als Gelegenheit und Herausforderung für politischen Aktivismus
Apprich, C., 2010, In: Kulturrisse : Zeitschrift für radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik. 2, p. 38-41Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Stadt im Fluss: Liquidierung des Tatorts in zwei Episoden
Wentz, D., 2010, Tatort Stadt. : Mediale Topographien eines Fernsehklassikers. Griem, J. & Scholz, S. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, p. 245-266 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Was soll Universität heute? Eine Sammelrezension zweier Neuerscheinungen zu den jüngsten Universitätsbesetzungen
Apprich, C., 2010, In: Kulturrisse : Zeitschrift für radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik. 3, p. 48-49Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Zu einer platonischen Rekurrenzfigur der Medienkritik
Sprenger, F., 2010, In: Maske und Kothurn: Internationale Beiträge zur Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft. 56, 2, p. 53-67 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Schwinde(l)ndes Theater: Zur Installation "camera orfeo" von Penelope Wehrli
Leeker, M., 05.2010, Penelope Wehrli : Ich wohne in der Möglichkeit ; raum partituren. Bern: Benteli, p. 214 - 219 5 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
- 2011
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Automatismen im Tanz: Vom Agenten-Züchten
Leeker, M., 2011, Unsichtbare Hände: Automatismen in Medien-, Technik- und Diskursgeschichte. Bublitz, H., Kaldrack, I., Röhle, T. & Winkler, H. (eds.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 111-140 30 p. (Schriftenreihe des Graduiertenkollegs "Automatismen").Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Die übertragene Revolution
Apprich, C., 2011, In: Kulturrisse : Zeitschrift für radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik. 4/2011, p. 7 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Intermediale Performances: Vom Umgang mit Medienkonvergenz 1966/2001
Leeker, M., 2011, Blickregime und Dispositive audiovisueller Medien. Elia-Borer, N., Sieber, S. & Tholen, G. C. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 87-110 24 p. (MedienAnalysen; no. 13).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Mit Pixel und Korn: DV-Ästhetik und DOGMA-Film
Kirchner, A., 2011, Film im Zeitalter "Neuer Medien": Fernsehen und Video. Segeberg, H. (ed.). 1 ed. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Vol. 1. p. 339-366 28 p. (Mediengeschichte des Films; vol. 7).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Places of Memory, Topologies of Remembrance: On Still/Silence - Text for solo exhibition by Erika Matsunami & Antonis
Yoshida, M., 2011, Still = Silent. Matsunami, E. (ed.). Berlin: Revolver Publishing, p. 41-43 3 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer