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
  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. (ed.), Berry Slater, J. (ed.), Iles, A. (ed.) & Schultz, O. L. (ed.), 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., 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. (ed.), Leeker, M. (ed.) & Schmidt, K. (ed.), 2008, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 508 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  5. Published

    Tanz – Kommunikation – Praxis

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

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  6. Published

    Tanz und Technologie: Auf dem Wege zu digitalen Inszenierungen

    Dinkla, S. (ed.) & 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. (ed.), 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

  11. Published

    The Silent Revolution: How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism, and Politics Without Making too Much Noise

    Bunz, M., 2013, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 134 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Disrupting Business: Art and Activism in times of financial crisis

    Cox, G. (ed.) & Bazzichelli, T. (ed.), 2013, New York City: Autonomedia. 256 p. (DATA browser)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  13. Published

    Spielregeln. 25 Aufstellungen. Eine Festschrift für Wolfgang Pircher

    Berz, P. (ed.), Pias, C. (ed.), Kubaczek, M. (ed.), Unterholzner, D. (ed.) & Laquièze-Waniek, E. (ed.), 2012, Berlin und Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 368 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  14. Published

    Re/working Affect - Queer Feminist Engagements: A workshop report

    Freudenschuß, M., Bargetz, B., Gammerl, B., Kleres, J. & Woltersdorff, V., 2013, In: Bulletin Info - Zentrum für Transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien. 24, 47, p. 46-50 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  15. Published

    Prekäre Subjekte - Prekäre Kritik

    Freudenschuß, M., 2013, Krise, Kritik, Allianzen: Arbeits- und geschlechtersoziologische Perspektiven. Nickel, H. M. & Heilmann, A. (eds.). Weinheim/Basel: Beltz Juventa Verlag, p. 118-134 17 p.

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

  16. Published

    Whose Change is it, Anyway? Towards a future of digital technologies and citizen action in emerging information societies

    Shah, N., 2013, The Hague: Hivos, 40 p. (Hivos Knowledge Programm).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  17. Published

    Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking

    Bazzichelli, T., 2013, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. 261 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Repositionierungen: Von Machtverschiebungen im Kapitalismus und Feminismus

    Bunz, M., 2013, In: Femina Politica. 21, 2, p. 161-162 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  19. Published

    Kritische Öffentlichkeit und ihre Herstellung

    Bunz, M., 2013, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 4, 2, p. 63-70 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  20. Published

    The Power of Information: A Journey Back in Time to the Faultlines of Globalization, Art, and Media in the Early 1990s

    Bunz, M., 2013, The whole earth: California and the disappearance of the outside. Diederichsen, D. & Franke, A. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 172-176 5 p.

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

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