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
- Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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Der Schwerkraft entkommen: Letatlin und andere utopische Flugapparate in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts – fünf Marginalien
Broeckmann, A., 2012, Tatlin – neue Kunst für eine neue Welt: Internationales Symposium. M. T. (ed.). Ostfildern, Basel: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 84-87 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Der Skandal der Öffentlichkeit: Die “City of Change” als Kunst des Urbanen
Beyes, T., 2013, Die Enthüllung des Realen: Milo Rau und das International Institute of Political Murder. Bossart, R. (ed.). Berlin: Theater der Zeit, p. 132-143 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Die Maker*innen Bewegung: Was die Mikroökonomie, die Feldtheorie und die Praxistheorie über sie zu sagen haben
Conrad, L. & Maier, M., 18.01.2021, DIY, Subkulturen und Feminismen. Czerney, S., Eckert, L. & Martin, S. (eds.). Hamburg: Alma Marta Verlag, p. 196-232 37 p. (Aspekte).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Die Vergangenheit der Zukunft: Kommentar zu »Das kommende Zeitalter der Calm Technology«
Sprenger, F., 2015, Internet der Dinge: Über smarte Objekte, intelligente Umgebungen und die technische Durchdringung der Welt. Sprenger, F. & Engemann, C. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 73 - 87 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Digitale Kulturen und Kritik nach ihrem Ende
Hille, L. & Wentz, D., 2023, Kritik postdigital. Hille, L. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 9-20 12 p. (Digital Cultures Series).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Divisionen des Individuums: Selbstgespräche am Ende der Zeit
Sprenger, F., 2013, Im Netz der Eindeutigkeiten: Unbestimmte Figuren und die Irritation von Identität. Andreas, M. & Frankenberg, N. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 291-313 23 p. (Kultur- und Medientheorie).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Eine Chronik zum Thema Elektronische Demokratie
Heise, C., 14.12.2012, Jahrbuch Netzpolitik 2012: Von A wie ACTA bis Z wie Zensur. Beckedahl, M. & Meister, A. (eds.). Berlin: epubli GmbH, p. 95-107 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Eine Partei lebt
Novy, L. & Stauss, F., 2014, Wahl 2013: Macht, Medien, Milliardäre : Analysen zur Nationalratswahl. Hofer, T. & Tóth, B. (eds.). 2 ed. Münster: LIT Verlag, p. 125-135 (Politik Aktuell; no. 14).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Eine strukturelle Version der Theorie der Statusinkonsistenz
Wuggenig, U., 1990, Empirischer Theorienvergleich: Erklärungen sozialen Verhaltens in Problemsituationen. Opp, K. D. & Wippler, R. (eds.). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, p. 37-70 34 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Einleitung - McLuhan neu lesen: Zur Aktualität des kanadischen Medientheoretikers
Leeker, M. & Schmidt, K., 2008, McLuhan neu Lesen: Kritische Analysen zu Medien und Kultur im 21. Jahrhundert. De Kerckhove, D., Leeker, M. & Schmidt, K. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 19-50 32 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Einleitung: Von der "Klein-Hypothese" zur Beratung der Gesellschaft
Pias, C. & Vehlken, S., 2010, Think Tanks : Die Beratung der Gesellschaft. Brandstetter, T., Pias, C. & Vehlken, S. (eds.). Zürich, Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7-15 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Ein Vorwort in zehn Thesen
Baxmann, I., Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 2014, Soziale Medien – neue Massen: Medienwissenschaftliches Symposion der DFG. Baxmann, I., Beyes, T. & Pias, C. (eds.). 1 ed. Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 9-15 7 p. (Medienwissenschaftliche Symposien der DFG).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Elevator as a mediating technology of organization
Bernard, A., 12.12.2019, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies . Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 214-224 11 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Entwickler
Bialski, P., 2017, Nach der Revolution : Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen . Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 140-148 9 p. ("Duisburger Dialoge" der Haniel Stiftung).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Ertanzte Technikgeschichte(n): Beobachtungen zur zeitgenössischen Begegnung von Tanz und elektronisch-digitaler Technologie
Leeker, M., 2002, Tanz Theorie Text. Klein, G. & Zipprich, C. (eds.). Münster: LIT Verlag, p. 533 - 552 20 p. (Tanzforschung; vol. 12).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Executive Dashboard
Beverungen, A., 12.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 225-237 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Exploding Images
Tollmann, V., 2014, Every Whisper is a crash on my ears. Missa, A. (ed.). London: Arcadia Missa, p. 190-204 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Explorations in social spaces: Gender, age, class fractions and photographical choices of objects
Wuggenig, U. & Mnich, P., 10.04.2006, Visual research methods: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods. Hamilton, P. (ed.). London: SAGE Publications Inc., Vol. IV. p. 339-364 26 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Explorations in Social Spaces: Gender, Age, Class Fractions and Photographical Choices of Objects
Wuggenig, U. & Mnich, P., 1994, Correspondence Analysis in the Social Sciences : Recent Developments and Applications. Blasius, J. & Greenacre, M. (eds.). London / San Diego / New York: Academic Press Inc., p. 302-324 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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