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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Aufmerksamkeit. Passagen der Filmphilosophie in die Phänomenologie
Sprenger, F., 2007, Medien - Zeit - Zeichen.: Dokumentation des 19. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums 2006. Hissnauer, C. & Jahn-Sudmann, A. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 195-202 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Atomare Hinterlassenschaften: Die strahlende Zukunft des kalten Krieges
Sprenger, F., 2014, Den Kalten Krieg denken.: Beiträge zur sozialen Ideengeschichte seit 1945.. Bernhard, P. & Nehring, H. (eds.). Essen: Klartext Verlag, p. 337-358 22 p. (Frieden und Krieg; vol. 19).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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A Theory of Media as a History of Electricity: How McLuhans thoughts about mediation are thwarted by their negation
Sprenger, F., 2010, McLuhan Galaxy Conference: Understanding Media Today : Conference Proceedings. Ciastellardi, M., Almeida, C. M. & Scolari, C. A. (eds.). Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, p. 71-77 7 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › 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
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Astro-Kulturen zwischen epistemisch-diskursiven Notwendigkeiten und schwachen Ontologien: Ein Nachwort
Leeker, M., 2014, Astroculture: Figurations of Cosmology in Media and Arts. Neef, S., Sussman, H. & Boschung, D. (eds.). 1. ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 217-231 15 p. (Morphomata; vol. 17).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Asia in the edges: a narrative account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore
Shah, N., 04.2014, In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 15, 2, p. 306-314 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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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Art, Aesthetics and Organization
Beyes, T., 26.08.2016, A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies. Czarniawska, B. (ed.). 1 ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 115-125 11 p. (Elgar research agendas).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Architekturen des "environment": Reyner Banham und das Dritte Maschinenzeitalter
Sprenger, F., 2015, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 12, 1, p. 55-67 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Arbeitslosigkeit und Spaltungsprozesse in der Gesellschaft der BRD
Wuggenig, U. & Engel, U., 1991, Bewältigung von Arbeitslosigkeit im sozialen Kontext: Programme, Initiativen, Evaluationen. Kieselbach, T. & Wacker, A. (eds.). Weinheim: Deutscher Studien Verlag, p. 65-87 23 p. (Psychologie sozialer Ungleichhei; vol. 2).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research