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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Kunst im öffentlichen Raum und ästhetischer Kommunitarismus
Wuggenig, U., 1997, Kunst auf Schritt und Tritt: Public Art is Everywhere. Müller, C. P. & Könneke, A. (eds.). Hamburg: Kellner, p. 76-93 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Normative Integration of the Avantgarde? Traditionalism in the Art worlds of Vienna, Hamburg and Paris
Tarnai, C. & Wuggenig, U., 1998, Visualization of Categorial Data. Blasius, J. & Greenacre, M. (eds.). London / San Diego / New York: Academic Press Inc., p. 171-184 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Paradoxe Kritik
Wuggenig, U., 2008, In: transversal / EIPCP multilingual webjournal. 8, 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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The Return of the Plague of Ornaments
Wuggenig, U., 2013, D.A. : A Transdisciplinary Handbook of Design Anthropology. Milev, Y. (ed.). Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, Vol. 1. p. 56-67 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Krise der Kunstkritik? Teil II
Wuggenig, U., 2013, In: Kunstforum international. 40, 221, p. 114-123 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Interfaces Ludiques
Fuchs, M., 01.12.2011, Jusqu'ici, tout va bien: Rencontres des arts numériques, électroniques et médiatiques. Bébié Valérian, G. (ed.). Le Vigan, France: Oudeis, p. 18 - 23 5 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die Kunst und der neue Kapitalismus: Analysen und Befunde der rezenten französischen Soziologie – eine kritische Rezeption und Diskussion
Wuggenig, U., 2006, In: Angewandte Sozialforschung. 24, 1/2, p. 16-18 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Die Kunst in der konnexionistischen Welt: Besprechungsessay zu Alfed Smudits "Die Funktion des Kulturschaffens im digitalen Zeitalter"
Wuggenig, U., 2006, In: Angewandte Sozialforschung. 24, 1-2, p. 115-144 30 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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The "Hidden Homeless" in Japan’s Contemporary Mobile Culture
Yoshida, M., 2013, Asian Popular Culture in Transition. Fitzsimmons, L. & Lent, J. A. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 97-107 11 p. (Routledge contemporary Asia series; vol. 36).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Modes of Being in Mobile Telecommunication
Yoshida, M., 2010, In: Aether - The Journal of Media Geography . 5, p. 77-89 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Krise der Kunstkritik? Teil I
Wuggenig, U., 2013, In: Kunstforum international. 40, 221, p. 80-91 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Apocalypse postponed: Discourses on video games from noxious objects to redemptive devices
Carbone, M. B. & Ruffino, P., 2012, In: GAME : the Italian journal of game studies. 1, 1, 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Narratives of Independent Production in Video Game Culture
Ruffino, P., 2013, In: Loading... Journal of the Game Studies Association. 7, 11, p. 106-121 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Unreine Bilder: Zur medialen (Selbst-)Inszenierung von school shootern
Grzeszyk, A., 01.08.2012, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 432 p. (Kultur- und Medientheorie)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Nähe und Empathie: Die Bilderwelten der Kamerafrau Judith Kaufmann
Giesemann, B. (ed.), Kirchner, A. (ed.), Neubauer, M. (ed.) & Prümm, K. (ed.), 2013, Marburg: Schüren Verlag. 240 p. (Marburger Kameragespräche ; vol. 8, no. 8)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Update wurde nicht ausgeführt: Mit „Drama und Regie. Lars von Triers Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville“ hat Georg Tiefenbach ein eigenartiges Buch zu drei Filmen des dänischen Regisseurs vorgelegt
Kirchner, A., 21.06.2012, 1 p. Verlag LiteraturWissenschaft.de.Research output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research
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DOGMAlen nach Zahlen: Kristina M. Schulte-Eversum versucht mit Zahlen zu belegen, wie Dogma 95-Filme durch den Bruch filmischer Konventionen die Grenzen zwischen Dokumentation und Fiktion überwinden und eine eigene Hybridform herausbilden
Kirchner, A., 2009, In: literaturkritik.de. 9Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Open Access und Open Educational Resources: Gemeinsames Handeln für die Öffnung von Wissen
Heise, C., 03.04.2013, Lernen in der digitalen Gesellschaft – offen, vernetzt, integrativ: Abschlussbericht. Ludwig, L., Narr, K., Frank, S. & Staemmler, D. (eds.). 1 ed. Berlin: Internet & Gesellschaft Collaboratory , p. 114-117 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
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Free work
Beverungen, A., Otto, B., Spoelstra, S. & Kenny, K., 24.02.2013, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 13, 1, p. 1-9 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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As You Like It: Critique in the Era of an Affirmative Discourse
Bunz, M., 04.2013, Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Lovink, G. & Rasch, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Vol. 8. p. 137-145 (Inc Reader).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review