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
- 2012
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Die Fernsehserie als Reflexion und Projektion des medialen Wandels
Wentz, D., Beil, B., Engell, L., Schröter, J. & Schwaab, H., 2012, Mediatisierte Welten. : Beschreibungsansätze und Forschungsfelder. Hepp, A. & Krotz, F. (eds.). Opladen: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 197-223 27 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die Macht der Gefühle: Emotionen in Management, Organisation und Kultur
Metelmann, J. (ed.) & Beyes, T. (ed.), 2012, Berlin: Berlin University Press. 211 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Entgrenzung des künstlerischen Feldes durch Globalisierung ? Kontroverse Haltungen im Kunstfeld von Zürich
Wuggenig, U. & Tarnai, C., 2012, Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen: Verhandlungen des 35. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Frankfurt am Main 2010. Söffner, H-G. (ed.). Springer, Vol. CD-ROM. 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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EWMN: Towards a Cooperation of Self-organized Actors in Digital Cultures
Leeker, M., 2012, Sharon Lockhart / Noa Eshkol. Barron, S. & Salvesen, B. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 97-102 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
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Explicit Art Historical Image Referencing on a Big Scale
Warnke, M., 2012, In: LIBREAS. Library Ideas. 21, Bilder, Graphen, Visualisierungen, 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Google Books als Medium und Medium
Sprenger, F., 2012, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 6, p. 237-240 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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"Ich bin Neda": Zur Authentizität ästhetischer Brüche und ihrer sozialen Resonanz im Web 2.0
Simons, S., 2012, Authentisches Erzählen: Produktion, Narration, Rezeption. Weixler, A. (ed.). Berlin; Boston MA: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 291-319 29 p. (Narratologia; no. 33).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Ich trage, wo ich gehe, stets eine Uhr bei mir - Oder: Mein Gott, was sind die Wissenschaften aufregend !
Warnke, M., 2012, Per Anhalter durch die Turing-Galaxis. Knaut, A., Kühne, C., Rehak, R., Stefan, U., Kurz, C. & Pohle, J. (eds.). Münster: MV Wissenschaft, p. 101-109 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Image Match: Visueller Transfer, ›Imagescapes‹ und Intervisualität in globalen Bildkulturen
Baleva, M. (ed.), Reichle, I. (ed.) & Schultz, O. L. (ed.), 2012, 1. ed. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 332 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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IMAGE MATCH: Neue Indizes einer globalen Bildtheorie
Baleva, M., Reichle, I. & Schultz, O. L., 2012, Image Match: Visueller Transfer, ›Imagescapes‹ und Intervisualität in globalen Bildkulturen. Baleva, M., Reichle, I. & Lerone Schultz, O. (eds.). 1. ed. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 9-24 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Just do it! Mimesis in technischem und künstlerischem Systems Engineering
Leeker, M., 2012, Mimesis. Balke, F., Siegert, B. & Vogl, J. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 153-166 13 p. (Archiv für Mediengeschichte; vol. 12).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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"Kulturinstrument Radio": Zur Genealogie der medialen Katastrophe der Weimarer Republik
Hagen, W., 2012, Populärkultur, Massemmedien, Avantgarde 1919-1933. Nitsche, J. & Werner, N. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 67-82 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kunstfeldforschung
Wuggenig, U., 2012, Das Kunstfeld: Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst am Beispiel von Zürich, Wien, Hamburg und Paris. Munder, H. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Zürich: JRP Ringier Verlag, p. 27-51 27 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kunst und Globalisierung
Buchholz, L. & Wuggenig, U., 2012, Das Kunstfeld: Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst am Beispiel von Zürich, Wien, Hamburg und Paris. Munder, H. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Zürich: JRP Ringier Verlag, p. 163-188 26 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kunstzentren und Kunstmarktzentren: Paris, Wien, Zürich und Hamburg
Wuggenig, U., 2012, Das Kunstfeld: Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst am Beispiel von Zürich, Wien, Hamburg und Paris. Munder, H. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Zürich: JRP Ringier Verlag, p. 63-85 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Lokale Mediengeschichte(n) und Post-McLuhanismus: Zum McLuhan Kongress in Toronto 2011
Leeker, M., 2012, In: Philosophia. E-Journal of Philosophy and Culture. 2, p. 35-67 33 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Medien des Immediaten: Elektrizität, Telegraphie, McLuhan
Sprenger, F., 2012, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos . 514 p. (Kaleidogramme; vol. 87)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Neue Bilder des Wirklichen: Der Kameramann Walter Lassally
Bolsinger, G. (ed.), Kirchner, A. (ed.), Neubauer, M. (ed.) & Prümm, K. (ed.), 2012, Marburg: Schüren Verlag. 208 p. (Marburger Kameragespräche; vol. 7)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Objektaffekte: Die Rolle der Künstler/innen im sozialen Netzwerk
Wuggenig, U., 2012, Das Kunstfeld: Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst am Beispiel von Zürich, Wien, Hamburg und Paris. Munder, H. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Zürich: JRP Ringier Verlag, p. 231-249 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research