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 
  1. Published

    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/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology

    Apprich, C. (Editor), Berry Slater, J. (Editor), Iles, A. (Editor) & Schultz, O. L. (Editor), 2013, London: Mute Books. 160 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Arttvism: Quando l'arte diventa consapevole ; intervista di Tatiana Bazzichelli

    Bazzichelli, T. (Contributor), 2007, Artivismo Tecnologico: Scritti e interviste su arte, politica, teatro e tecnologie. Verde, G. (ed.). Pisa: BFS, p. 56-58 3 p. (Biblioteca universale Utopie; vol. 7).

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

  4. Published

    McLuhan neu lesen: Kritische Analysen zu Medien und Kultur im 21. Jahrhundert

    de Kerckhove, D. (Editor), Leeker, M. (Editor) & Schmidt, K. (Editor), 2008, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 508 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  5. Published

    Tanz – Kommunikation – Praxis

    Klinge, A. (Editor) & Leeker, M. (Editor), 2003, Münster: LIT Verlag. 212 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  6. Published

    Tanz und Technologie: Auf dem Wege zu digitalen Inszenierungen

    Dinkla, S. (Editor) & Leeker, M., 2002, Berlin: Alexander Verlag. 435 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  7. Published

    Maschinen, Medien, Performances. Theater an der Schnittstelle zu digitalen Welten

    Leeker, M. (Editor), 2001, Berlin: Alexander Verlag. 774 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    Mime, Mimesis und Technologie

    Leeker, M., 1995, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 348 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  9. 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

  10. Published

    Zur Einleitung: Die Macht der Gefühle

    Beyes, T. & Metelmann, J., 2012, Die Macht der Gefühle: Emotionen in Management, Organisation und Kultur. Metelmann, J. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Berlin: Berlin University Press, p. 7-22 16 p.

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

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