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
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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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Zwischen Selbstvermarktung und Subversion. Das Web 2.0 und seine Subjekte: Reichert, Ramón: Amateure im Netz. Selbstmanagement und Wissenstechnik im Web 2.0. YouTube - MySpace - Second Life. Bielefeld: transcript, 2008.
Simons, S., 2011, In: KULT_online. 26Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Sternenstaub: Zur Anschaulichkeit elektrischer Phänomene Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts
Sprenger, F., 01.04.2014, Zwischen Sichtbarkeit und Unsichtbarkeit: Visualität in Wissenschaft, Literatur und Kunst um 1800. Kaufmann, J., Kirves, M. & Uhlmann, D. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 39-64 26 p. (Laboratorium Aufklärung; vol. 24).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Quantencomputer. Taktlos
Warnke, M., 2013, Kulturtechniken der Synchronisation. Kassung, C. & Macho, T. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 269-287 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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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Image Match: Visueller Transfer, ›Imagescapes‹ und Intervisualität in globalen Bildkulturen
Baleva, M. (Editor), Reichle, I. (Editor) & Schultz, O. L. (Editor), 2012, 1. ed. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 332 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Answers to seven questions
Wuggenig, U., 2012, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark: Projekte 2010. Fenz, W., Kraus, E. & Kulterer, B. (eds.). Heidelberg, New York: Springer, p. 281-282 2 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Other › Transfer
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Jenseits von links und rechts? Stimmen zum Methodenstreit
Wuggenig, U., 1998, In: Texte zur Kunst. 8, 29, p. 81-83 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › 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