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
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Teilmengen. Mengen teilen. Taxonomien, Ordnungen und Massen im Facebook Open Graph
Kaldrack, I. & Röhle, T., 16.07.2014, Soziale Medien - Neue Massen. Pias, C., Baxmann, I. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 77-103 27 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The Anthropocenic Illusion: Sustainability an the Fascination of Control.
Hörl, E., 2015, Art in the Periphery of the Center. Wuggenig, U., Behnke, C., Knoll, V. & Kastelan, C. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 352-368 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Theater im Zeitalter technologisch implementierter Interaktivität
Leeker, M., 1996, Kunst, Kultur und Bildung im Computerzeitalter. Erdmann, J. W. (ed.). Berlin: Universität der Künste Berlin, p. 85-103 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Theater, Performance und technische Interaktion: Subjekte der Fremdheit. Im Spannungsgefüge von Datenkörper und Physis
Leeker, M., 2001, Formen interaktiver Medienkunst: Geschichte, Tendenzen, Utopien. Gendolla, P. (ed.). Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp Verlag, p. 265-290 26 p. (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft; vol. 1544).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Theater – Raum – Medien: Optionen für einen reflexiven Umgang mit Medienkulturen
Leeker, M., 2013, Vom Straßenkind zum Medienkind: Raum- und Medienforschung im 21. Jahrhundert. Westphal, K. & Jörissen, B. (eds.). 1 ed. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa Verlag, p. 87-106 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Theater und Technikgeschichte: Evaluation der Sommerakademie und Ausblick auf die Weiterbildung im Bereich Theater und Medien
Leeker, M., 2001, Maschinen, Medien, Performances: Theater an der Schnittstelle zu digitalen Welten ; Dokumentation und Ergebnisse der Sommerakademie "Theater und Neue Medien, Interaktion und Wirklichkeit" zur Weiterbildung von Theaterkünstlern in Praxis und Theorie des Umgangs mit Digitalen Techniken im Theater, Hellerau 1999. Leeker, M. (ed.). Berlin: Alexander Verlag, p. 355 - 374 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Theatre and Engineering: Kontrolle und Macht in medialen Umwelten in den 1960er Jahren, und heute?
Leeker, M., 2016, Räume und Medien des Regierens. Balke, F. & Muhle, M. (eds.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 198-217 20 p. (Merz Akademie).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The Clock of the Long-Now: Die Uhr, die Langeweile und der Beobachter
Sprenger, F., 2008, Paradoxien der Langeweile. Heller, F. (ed.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 104–116 13 p. (AugenBlick : Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft; no. 41).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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The communism of capital?
Beverungen, A., Murtola, A-M. & Schwartz, G., 25.08.2013, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 13, 3, p. 483-495 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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The Corrupt State of Artificial Intelligence: Clemens Apprich on Machine Learning and Bias
Apprich, C., 03.2018, In: Texte zur Kunst. 109, p. 136-141 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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The Creativity Complex: A Companion to Contemporary Culture
Metelmann, J. (ed.) & Beyes, T. (ed.), 2018, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 255 p. (Kultur und Gesellschaft; vol. 36)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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The Environmentalitarian Situation: Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital
Hörl, E., 01.07.2018, In: Cultural Politics. 14, 2, p. 153-173 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The financialisation of business ethics
Beverungen, A., Dunne, S. & Hoedemaekers, C., 01.01.2013, In: Business Ethics: A European Review. 22, 1, p. 102-117 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The "Hidden Homeless" in Japan’s Contemporary Mobile Culture
Yoshida, M., 2013, Asian Popular Culture in Transition. Fitzsimmons, L. & Lent, J. A. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 97-107 11 p. (Routledge contemporary Asia series; vol. 36).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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The Island of the Day After. The Television Series Lost and the Post-9/11-Era
Niemeyer, K. & Wentz, D., 2018, Lost In Media. Wentz, D., Beil, B. & Schwaab, H. (eds.). Wien: LIT Verlag, p. 137-154 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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”The Machine Could Swallow Everything”: Satin Island and Performing Organization
Beyes, T., 31.12.2016, Performing the Digital: Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures. v. Leeker, M., Schipper, I. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 229–244 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The media arcane
Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 01.05.2019, In: Grey Room. 75, Spring, p. 84-107 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibilities of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Conrad, L., 04.2021, In: Management Learning. 52, 2, p. 255-259 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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The Network Dynamics of Movements
Apprich, C., 2014, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 1, 1, p. 1-4 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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The organizational a priori: Critique of the digital as critique of organization
Beyes, T., 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnholdt, C. L. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 229-248 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The organizational powers of (digital) media
Beverungen, A., Beyes, T. & Conrad, L., 01.09.2019, In: Organization. 26, 5, p. 621-635 15 p., 867206.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The Organization is a Repair Shop
Conrad, L., 05.2019, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 19, 2, p. 303-324 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The Ornament of Mass Customization: On the Collective Consciousness of Dispersed Examiners
Simons, S., 2016, Social Media: New Masses. Baxmann, I., Beyes, T. & Pias, C. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 225-246 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The Oxford Handbook on Media, Technology and Organization Studies
Beyes, T. (ed.), Holt, R. (ed.) & Pias, C. (ed.), 12.12.2019, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 560 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Transfer
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The performatization of space: Comments on the historicity of knowledge and technology in the construction of contemporary performance spaces
Leeker, M., Baumgärtel, S. A. & Corrêa, T., 24.09.2020, In: URDIMENTO-REVISTA DE ESTUDOS EM ARTES CENICAS. 2, 38, p. 1-27 27 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The Political Economy of Corporate Governance
Jansson, A., Larsson-Olaison, U., Veldman, J. & Beverungen, A., 02.2016, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 16, 1, p. 1-17 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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The Politics of Micro-Decisions: Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality and the Architecture of the Internet
Sprenger, F., 2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 127 p. (Digital Cultures Series)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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The poverty of journal publishing
Beverungen, A., Böhm, S. & Land, C., 01.11.2012, In: Organization. 19, 6, p. 929-938 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The Power of Information: A Journey Back in Time to the Faultlines of Globalization, Art, and Media in the Early 1990s
Bunz, M., 2013, The whole earth: California and the disappearance of the outside. Diederichsen, D. & Franke, A. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 172-176 5 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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There is no software, there are just services
Kaldrack, I. (ed.) & Leeker, M. (ed.), 2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 114 p. (Digital Cultures)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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There is no Software, there are just Services: Introduction
Kaldrack, I. & Leeker, M., 2015, There is no Software, there are just Services. Kaldrack, I. & Leeker, M. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 9-19 11 p. (Digital Cultures).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The Return of the Plague of Ornaments
Wuggenig, U., 2013, D.A. : A Transdisciplinary Handbook of Design Anthropology. Milev, Y. (ed.). Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, Vol. 1. p. 56-67 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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The revolution will not be televised: Youtube auf dem Weg zum Nachrichtenmedium?
Novy, L., 2014, Medienwandel kompakt 2011 - 2013: Netzveröffentlichungen zu Medienökonomie, Medienpolitik & Journalismus. Kappes, C., Krone, J. & Novy, L. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 233-234 2 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education
Steyaert, C. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.) & Parker, M. (ed.), 31.05.2016, London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 550 p. (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting)Research output: Books and anthologies › Book
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The Silent Revolution: How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism, and Politics Without Making too Much Noise
Bunz, M., 2013, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 134 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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The technological condition
Hörl, E. & Enns, A., 2015, In: Parrhesia : a Journal of Critical Philosophy. 22, p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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The topographical imagination: space and organization theory
Beyes, T. & Holt, R., 01.04.2020, In: Organization Theory. 1, 2, 26 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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The total Archive On the Function of Not-Knowing in digital Culture
Bernard, A., 02.2016, In: Merkur. 70, 801, p. 5-17 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The Truth Games of Radical Net Cultures
Apprich, C., 2013, Idea of Radical Media: Ideja radikalnih medija. Medak, T. & Milat, P. (eds.). Multimedijalni institut, p. 15-39 25 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Three shades of 'urban-digital citizenship': borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town
Antenucci, I. & Tomasello, F., 2023, In: Citizenship Studies. 27, 2, p. 247-270 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Topografische Spurensuche in Köln entlang der Achse Berlin–Köln. Wiedergutmachung und Wiederaufbau (1945–1957): Leopold Reidemeister als Mittler und Streiter für die Moderne
Severin, I. L., 2017, Leopold Reidemeister. Ein Deutscher Museumsmann. . Moeller, M. M. (ed.). München: Hirmer, p. 114-165 52 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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To See and to Be (With) - Reflections on the Ecology of Web Videos
Simons, S., 2014, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 1, 1, 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Totgesagte leben länger – Zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Renaissance und den Paradoxien von Authentizität: Eine Sammelrezension
Simons, S., 2013, In: KULT_online. 36, 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Toward a Kaleidoscopic Understanding of Anonymity
Bachmann, G., McHardy, J., Knecht, M. & Zurawski, N., 30.04.2021, Book of Anonymity. Collective, A. (ed.). Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, p. 16-34 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Tracing Concepts: In, Out and Through Computing
Romic, N. & Gardner, E., 15.07.2011, In: Volume. 28, p. 1-24 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the City
Bialski, P., 31.07.2017, In: The Fibreculture Journal. 29, p. 115-128 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Transparenz und Geheimnis
Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 2014, In: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. 8, 2, p. 111-117 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Trick 17: Mediengeschichten zwischen Zauberkunst und Wissenschaft
Vehlken, S. (ed.), Müller-Helle, K. (ed.), Müggenburg, J. K. (ed.) & Sprenger, F. (ed.), 2016, Norderstedt: meson press. 118 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Trick 17 zur Einführung
Vehlken, S., Müggenburg, J. K., Sprenger, F. & Müller-Helle, K., 2016, Trick 17: Mediengeschichten zwischen Zauberkunst und Wissenschaft. Vehlken, S., Müller-Helle, K., Müggenburg, J. & Sprenger, F. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 7-14 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Über das Essen
Bernard, A., 2002, Salzburg: Jung und Jung. 84 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review