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
  1. Published

    Entsolidarisierung und Rassismus

    Bojadzijev, M., Opratko, B., Braun, K., Heiter, A. & Liebig, M., 2017, Forschungsbericht Forschungs-Interventions-Cluster „Solidarität im Wandel?“. Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM) (ed.). Berlin: Instituts für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM), p. 31-51 20 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to scientific reportsResearch

  2. Published

    Entwickler

    Bialski, P., 2017, Nach der Revolution : Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen . Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 140-148 9 p. ("Duisburger Dialoge" der Haniel Stiftung).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Ereignis

    Engemann, C., Traue, B. & Scholz, R., 2014, DiskursNetz: Wörterbuch der interdisziplinäre Diskursforschung. Wrana, D., Ziem, A., Reisigl, M., Nonhoff, M. & Angermüller, J. (eds.). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, p. 134 1 p. (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft; vol. 2097).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  4. Published

    Erfolgreiche Politik! Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht – eine Einleitung

    Eckert, G., Novy, L. & Schwickert, D., 2013, Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht: Facetten erfolgreicher Politik. Eckert, G., Novy, L. & Schwickert, D. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 11-30 20 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Ertanzte Technikgeschichte(n): Beobachtungen zur zeitgenössischen Begegnung von Tanz und elektronisch-digitaler Technologie

    Leeker, M., 2002, Tanz Theorie Text. Klein, G. & Zipprich, C. (eds.). Münster: LIT Verlag, p. 533 - 552 20 p. (Tanzforschung; vol. 12).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransfer

  7. Published

    Executive Dashboard

    Beverungen, A., 12.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 225-237 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    Existential Graphs as Ontographic Media

    Wentz, D., 2019, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 10, 1, p. 177-189 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  10. Published

    Exploding Images

    Tollmann, V., 2014, Every Whisper is a crash on my ears. Missa, A. (ed.). London: Arcadia Missa, p. 190-204 15 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  11. Published

    Explorations in social spaces: Gender, age, class fractions and photographical choices of objects

    Wuggenig, U. & Mnich, P., 10.04.2006, Visual research methods: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods. Hamilton, P. (ed.). London: SAGE Publications Inc., Vol. IV. p. 339-364 26 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  12. Published

    Explorations in Social Spaces: Gender, Age, Class Fractions and Photographical Choices of Objects

    Wuggenig, U. & Mnich, P., 1994, Correspondence Analysis in the Social Sciences : Recent Developments and Applications. Blasius, J. & Greenacre, M. (eds.). London / San Diego / New York: Academic Press Inc., p. 302-324 23 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  13. Published

    Exposing the machinic present: Rimini Protokoll’s theatre of operations

    Beyes, T., 2019, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics. Eckersall, P. & Grehan, H. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 219-223 5 p. (Routledge theatre and performance companions).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Eye Contact with the Machine: Gaze Correction in Video Conferencing

    Rapoport, R. & Tollmann, V., 11.2023, Video Conferencing: Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics. Volmar, A., Moskatova, O. & Distelmeyer, J. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 209-231 23 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft; vol. 53).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Faire de la recherche avec des artistes. La continuité entre l'art et la science

    Wuggenig, U., 1996, In: Sociologie de l'art. 9, p. 95-119 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  16. Published

    Farbe

    Beyes, T., 2018, Der Kreativitätskomplex: Ein Vademecum der Gegenwartsgesellschaft. Beyes, T. & Metelmann, J. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 95-100 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  17. Published

    Faszinosum Maschine: Die Roboterperformances von Louis Philipp Demers & Bill Vorn

    Kaldrack, I. & Leeker, M., 2003, Es - das Wesen der Maschine. Demers, L. P. (ed.). Osnabrück: Europ. Media Art Festival, p. 10-33 23 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    FEMINA POLITICAL - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, Heft 2-2014

    Freudenschuß, M. (ed.) & Günther, J. (ed.), 11.2014, 2 ed. Verlag Babara Budrich. 196 p. (FEMINA POLITICAL - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft; vol. 23, no. 2)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  19. Published

    Feminismus und Film

    Horstmann, F. (ed.), Wentz, D. (ed.) & Waack, L. (ed.), 12.04.2019, Bremen: Institut für Kunstwissenschaft – Filmwissenschaft – Kunstpädagogik, Universität Bremen. (Nach dem Film; no. 17)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  20. Published

    Fictions of the Possible: Art, the City and Public Entrepreneurship

    Beyes, T., 27.10.2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 24, 4, p. 445-449 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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