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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Algorithmisches Management
Beverungen, A., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 51-63 13 p. (Duisburger Dialoge).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Algorithmic Trading, Artificial Intelligence and the Politics of Cognition
Beverungen, A., 01.10.2019, The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence: Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms. Sudmann, A. (ed.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 77-93 17 p. (KI-Kritik; vol. 1).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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AI and urban governance: from the perils of smart cities to Amazon Inc. urbanism
Antenucci, I. & Meissner, F., 21.06.2024, Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence. Paul, R., Carmel, E. & Cobbe, J. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 423-434 12 p. (Handbooks on Research on Public Policy).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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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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Affiziert werden: Städtische und mediale Atmosphären
Beyes, T., 2012, Die Macht der Gefühle: Emotionen in Management, Organisation und Kultur. Metelmann, J. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Berlin: Berlin University Press, p. 97-108 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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A Dying Theory? A Critical Assessment of Some Aspects of Status Inconsistency Research 1950-1983
Wuggenig, U., 1986, Status inconsistency in modern societies. Proceedings of a Conference on "New Differentiations of Status Structures? On the Viability of the Concept of Status Inconsistency in Contemporary Society. Strasser, H. & Hodge, R. W. (eds.). Duisburg: Verlag der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Kooperative, p. 24-37 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Adorno’s Grey, Taussig’s Blue: Colour, organization and critical affect
Beyes, T. & De Cock, C., 01.01.2017, In: Organization. 24, 1, p. 59-78 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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50 Jahre Understanding Media
Mangold, J. (ed.) & Sprenger, F. (ed.), 2014, Siegen: Universität-Gesamthhochschule Siegen. 124 p. (Navigationen : Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften; vol. 14, no. 2)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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#3 Unstable Infrastructures: spheres Editorial Collective
Apprich, C., Beverungen, A., Feigelfeld, P., Freudenschuß, M., Hille, L., Luchs, I., Simons, S., Wiedemann, C. & Yoosuf, H., 06.2016, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 3, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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30 Years After Les Immatériaux: Art Science & Theory
Broeckmann, A. (ed.) & Hui, Y. (ed.), 2015, 1. ed. Lüneburg: meson press. 245 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research