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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Fort da. Ein Zirkular über bewegte Bücher: Fragen von Claus Pias. Antworten von Andreas Bernard, Timon Beyes, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Christian Kracht, Thomas Macho, Eckhart Nickel, Joseph Vogl und Sigrid Weigel
Pias, C., Bernard, A., Beyes, T., Gumbrecht, H. U., Kracht, C., Macho, T., Nickel, E., Vogl, J. & Weigel, S., 2015, Das bewegte Buch: ein Katalog der gelesenen Bücher; mit 104 Beispielen aus dem Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach. Gfrereis, H. & Pias, C. (eds.). Marbach: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e.V., p. 68-87 20 p. (Marbacher Magazin; vol. 150/151/152).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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From GUI to No-UI: Locating the interface for the internet of things
Shah, N., 26.06.2017, Digitisation: Theories and Concepts for Empirical Cultural Research. Koch, G. (ed.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 180-196 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Gefährdungen der Zukunft
Sprenger, F., 2010, Gefahrensinn. Engell, L., Siegert, B. & Vogl, J. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 79-91 13 p. ( Archiv für Mediengeschichte; vol. 9).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Global Immediacy
Sprenger, F., 2014, McLuhan's Global Village Today: Transatlantic Perspectives. Birkle, C., Krewani, A. & Küster, M. (eds.). London: Pickering & Chatto, p. 31-46 16 p. (Studies for the International Society for Cultural History; vol. 6).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Ich trage, wo ich gehe, stets eine Uhr bei mir - Oder: Mein Gott, was sind die Wissenschaften aufregend !
Warnke, M., 2012, Per Anhalter durch die Turing-Galaxis. Knaut, A., Kühne, C., Rehak, R., Stefan, U., Kurz, C. & Pohle, J. (eds.). Münster: MV Wissenschaft, p. 101-109 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Inkorporationskunst: Krise und Kuratoriat
Beyes, T., 2013, What’s Next?: Kunst nach der Krise: Ein Reader. Hedinger, J. M. & Meyer, T. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 63-67 5 p. 014Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Introduction: The Creativity Complex
Beyes, T. & Metelmann, J., 09.10.2018, The Creativity Complex: A Companion to Contemporary Culture. Beyes, T. & Mentelmann, J. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 9-18 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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It's the community, stupid! Urbane Regierungstechniken der Selbstverwaltung
Apprich, C., 2009, Phantom Kulturstadt. Becker, K. & Wassermair, M. (eds.). Wien: Löcker Verlag, p. 244-250 (Texte zur Zukunft der Kulturpolitik; no. 2).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Journalismus als „creative industry“? Medienpolitische Möglichkeiten & kreativ-wirtschaftliche Strategien
Hachmeister, L., Novy, L. & Torun, O., 2013, Das Bauhaus kommt aus Thüringen: Kreativwirtschaft jenseits der Metropolen. Machnig, M. & Kiefer, D. (eds.). Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau Verlag GmbH, p. 93-111 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Just do it! Mimesis in technischem und künstlerischem Systems Engineering
Leeker, M., 2012, Mimesis. Balke, F., Siegert, B. & Vogl, J. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 153-166 13 p. (Archiv für Mediengeschichte; vol. 12).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kinder in der Jugendhilfe
Wuggenig, U., 1993, Handbuch der Kindheitsforschung. Markefka, M. & Nauck, B. (eds.). Neuwied / Berlin: Luchterhand Verlag, p. 525-535 11 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kritik in digitalen Kulturen: Begegnungen zwischen Entsagung, Revolution und Affirmation
Leeker, M., 2023, Kritik postdigital. Hille, L. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 83-102 20 p. (Digital Cultures Series).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kulturelles Kapital und soziale Schließung in den Kunstfeldern von Hamburg, Wien und Paris
Wuggenig, U. & Drechsel, S., 1997, Kunst auf Schritt und Tritt : Public Art is Everywhere. Müller, C. P. & Könneke, A. (eds.). Hamburg: Kellner, p. 68-75 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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"Kulturinstrument Radio": Zur Genealogie der medialen Katastrophe der Weimarer Republik
Hagen, W., 2012, Populärkultur, Massemmedien, Avantgarde 1919-1933. Nitsche, J. & Werner, N. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 67-82 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kunstfeldforschung
Wuggenig, U., 2012, Das Kunstfeld: Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst am Beispiel von Zürich, Wien, Hamburg und Paris. Munder, H. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Zürich: JRP Ringier Verlag, p. 27-51 27 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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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Kunstkammer, Ostasiatische Weltkunst, Expressionistische Avantgarde neben Rokoko und Bauhaus-Moderne. Die Bildwelten des Leopold Reidemeister, visionärer Erbe Wilhelm von Bodes zwischen Kaiserreich und Avantgarde
Severin, I. L., 08.2017, Leopold Reidemeister: Ein deutscher Museumsmann. Moeller, M. M. (ed.). München: Hirmer, p. 14-67 43 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kunst und Globalisierung
Buchholz, L. & Wuggenig, U., 2012, Das Kunstfeld: Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst am Beispiel von Zürich, Wien, Hamburg und Paris. Munder, H. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Zürich: JRP Ringier Verlag, p. 163-188 26 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kunstzentren und Kunstmarktzentren: Paris, Wien, Zürich und Hamburg
Wuggenig, U., 2012, Das Kunstfeld: Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst am Beispiel von Zürich, Wien, Hamburg und Paris. Munder, H. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Zürich: JRP Ringier Verlag, p. 63-85 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research