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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Fort da. Ein Zirkular über bewegte Bücher: Fragen von Claus Pias. Antworten von Andreas Bernard, Timon Beyes, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Christian Kracht, Thomas Macho, Eckhart Nickel, Joseph Vogl und Sigrid Weigel
Pias, C., Bernard, A., Beyes, T., Gumbrecht, H. U., Kracht, C., Macho, T., Nickel, E., Vogl, J. & Weigel, S., 2015, Das bewegte Buch: ein Katalog der gelesenen Bücher; mit 104 Beispielen aus dem Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach. Gfrereis, H. & Pias, C. (eds.). Marbach: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e.V., p. 68-87 20 p. (Marbacher Magazin; vol. 150/151/152).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Introduction: Why does management education need reinventing?
Beyes, T., Parker, M. & Steyaert, C., 2016, The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Steyaert, C., Beyes, T. & Parker, M. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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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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Wir sind drin. Zur Gegenwart digitaler Kulturen
Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 5-11 7 p. (Edition Speersort)(Duisburger Dialoge).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Organisation
Beyes, T., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 127-137 11 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen
Beyes, T. (ed.), Metelmann, J. (ed.) & Pias, C. (ed.), 09.2017, Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH. 204 p. (Duisburger Dialoge)(Edition Speersort)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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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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Digitale Kulturen
Bernard, A., Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 2018, Die Rolle der Universität in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft im Wandel. Henkel, A., Hobuß, S., Jamme, C. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). 1 ed. Berlin: Pro BUSINESS Verlag, p. 167-170 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Geheimnistheater
Beyes, T., 2018, Rimini Protokoll: Staat 1-4. Phänomene der Postdemokratie. Schipper, I. (ed.). Berlin: Theater der Zeit, p. 59-67 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Politics, embodiment, everyday life: Lefebvre and spaces of organizing
Beyes, T., 2018, Organisational Space and Beyond: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organisation Studies. Wasserman, V., Dale, K. & Kingma, S. F. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 27-45 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die nächste Wirtschaftsuniversität
Beyes, T. & Metelmann, J., 2018, Welzers Welt. Störungen im Betriebsablauf. Giesecke, D., Soeffner, H-G. & Wiegandt, K. (eds.). 1 ed. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, p. 151-156 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Mischverhältnisse: Zur Beziehung von Medien- und Organisationstheorie
Conrad, L. & Beyes, T., 04.2018, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 10, 18-1, p. 50-58 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Der Kreativitätskomplex: Ein Vademecum der Gegenwartsgesellschaft
Beyes, T. (ed.) & Metelmann, J. (ed.), 09.10.2018, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 278 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Exposing the machinic present: Rimini Protokoll’s theatre of operations
Beyes, T., 2019, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics. Eckersall, P. & Grehan, H. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 219-223 5 p. (Routledge theatre and performance companions).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Organizing Media: Security and Entertainment
Beyes, T., 10.2019, Organize. Beyes, T., Conrad, L. & Martin, R. (eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, p. 29-62 34 p. (In Search of Media).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Für ein Bestiarium der Organisation – Kafkas Grenzwesen
Beyes, T. & Holt, R. D., 2019, Kafka: Organisation, Recht und Schrift. Ortmann, G. & Schuller, M. (eds.). Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, p. 103-124 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › 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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Organize
Beyes, T., Conrad, L. & Martin, R., 10.2019, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 128 p. (In Search of Media)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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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