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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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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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 anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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 anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Tanz – Kommunikation – Praxis
Klinge, A. (Editor) & Leeker, M. (Editor), 2003, Münster: LIT Verlag. 212 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Tanz und Technologie: Auf dem Wege zu digitalen Inszenierungen
Dinkla, S. (Editor) & Leeker, M., 2002, Berlin: Alexander Verlag. 435 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Maschinen, Medien, Performances. Theater an der Schnittstelle zu digitalen Welten
Leeker, M. (Editor), 2001, Berlin: Alexander Verlag. 774 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Mime, Mimesis und Technologie
Leeker, M., 1995, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 348 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › 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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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review