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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Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht: Facetten erfolgreicher Politik
Eckert, G. (ed.), Novy, L. (ed.) & Schwickert, D. (ed.), 2013, Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 431 p. (Politik als Beruf)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Britain and Germany Imagining the Future of Europe: National Identity, Mass Media and the Public Sphere
Novy, L., 12.09.2013, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 304 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book
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Jahrbuch Fernsehen 2013
Anschlag, D. (ed.), Cippitelli, C. (ed.), Hachmeister, L. (ed.), Kammann, U., Kubitz, P. P., Müller, P. (ed.) & Novy, L. (ed.), 2013, Berlin: Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik gHmbH. 464 p. (Jahrbuch Fernsehen)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Relationen im Raum: Visualisierung topographischer Klein(st)strukturen
Hüttenmeister, N., Kollatz, T., Rütenik, T., Warnke, M., Wedemeyer, C. & Ziai, T., 2013, In: Kalonymos. 16, 4, p. 4-6 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Changing societies, changing journalism
Novy, L., 2013, 2013 Social Media Guidebook. Möller, C. & Stone, M. (eds.). Wien: OSCE - The Representative on Freedom of the Media, p. 129-138 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Stiftung Journalismus: Zur Konkretion neuer medienpolitischer Strategien
Novy, L., 2013, Rundfunkpolitik und Netzpolitik: Strukturwandel der Medienpolitik in Deutschland. Hachmeister, L. & Anschlag, D. (eds.). Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, p. 140-149 10 p. (Edition Medienpraxis; vol. 10).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Journalismus als „creative industry“? Medienpolitische Möglichkeiten & kreativ-wirtschaftliche Strategien
Hachmeister, L., Novy, L. & Torun, O., 2013, Das Bauhaus kommt aus Thüringen: Kreativwirtschaft jenseits der Metropolen. Machnig, M. & Kiefer, D. (eds.). Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau Verlag GmbH, p. 93-111 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Das Ende der alten Zeitungsindustrie
Novy, L. & Wäscher, T., 2013, In: Berliner Republik : das Debattenmagazin. 14, 5, 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Eine Partei lebt
Novy, L. & Stauss, F., 2014, Wahl 2013: Macht, Medien, Milliardäre : Analysen zur Nationalratswahl. Hofer, T. & Tóth, B. (eds.). 2 ed. Münster: LIT Verlag, p. 125-135 (Politik Aktuell; no. 14).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Places of Memory, Topologies of Remembrance: On Still/Silence - Text for solo exhibition by Erika Matsunami & Antonis
Yoshida, M., 2011, Still = Silent. Matsunami, E. (ed.). Berlin: Revolver Publishing, p. 41-43 3 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
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Die Magischen Kanäle: Clemens Krümmel und Miya Yoshida über Joëlle De La Casinière bei Croy Nielsen
Krümmel, C. & Yoshida, M., 2006, In: Texte zur Kunst. 63, p. 221-224 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Agentenspiele. Crowd Management, Sozialsimulation und Big Data
Vehlken, S. & Pias, C., 01.02.2014, Managementperspektiven für die Zivilgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts: Management als Liberal Art. von Müller, C. & Zinth, C-P. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 167-182 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Critical Reflections on "Democracy in Crisis': BETWEEN ACTIVISM AND ACADEMIA
Brunner, C., Burcar, L. & Freudenschuß, M., 01.06.2013, In: International Feminist Journal of Politics. 15, 2, p. 267-276 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research
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Liquid Democracy and the Futures of Governance
Ramos, J., 2015, The Future Internet: Alternative Visions. Winter, J. & Ono, R. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 173-191 19 p. (Public Administration and Information Technology; vol. 17).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Friedrich Kittler: E-Special Introduction
Parikka, J. & Feigelfeld, P., 12.2015, In: Theory, Culture & Society. 32, 7-8, p. 349-358 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Workshop: Accessible interaction for visually impaired people
Joisten, M., Zeng, L., Woletz, J., Brock, A. & Avila, M., 28.08.2015, Mensch und Computer 2015 - Workshop: 21st International Workshop on Intelligent and Personalized Human-Computer Interaction,. Weisbecker, A., Schmidt, A. & Burmester, M. (eds.). Oldenburg: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 379-381 3 p. (Mensch und Computer 2015 - Workshop).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Der Sinn der Lehre: Ethnographie, Affekt, sensemaking
Beyes, T. & Steyaert, C., 2015, Vom Sinn der Soziologie: Festschrift für Thomas S. Eberle . Maeder, C., Brosziewski, A. & Nentwich, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer, p. 197-211 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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A preliminary study on similarity-preserving digital book identifiers
Vladimir, K., Silic, M., Romic, N., Delac, G. & Srbljic, S., 2015, Proceedings of the 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities: LaTeCH 2015. Zervanou, K. A., van Erp, M. & Alex, B. (eds.). Beijing: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 78-83 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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'Summoning art to save the city': A Note: 'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice
Beyes, T., 2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 15, 1, p. 207-220 13 p., 15.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review