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
- Journal articles › Research › Peer-reviewed
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Prostheses of Desire: On Bernard Stiegler's New Critique of Projection
Hörl, E. & De Boever, A., 2014, In: Parrhesia : a Journal of Critical Philosophy. 20, p. 2-14 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Reflexitvität und System. Die Debatte über Ordnung und Selbstorganisation in den 1970er Jahren“
Esposito, E. & Hörl, E., 16.06.2015, In: Trivium. 20, p. 2-7 6 p., 1.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Relationale Sozialtheorie und die Materialität des Sozialen 'Kontaktmedien' als Vermittlungsinstanz zwischen Infrastruktur und Lebenswelt
Traue, B. C., 2017, In: Soziale Welt. 68, 2-3, p. 243-260 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Secret Agents: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Apprich, C., 27.07.2018, In: Digital Culture & Society. 4, 1, p. 29-44 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Skin in the Game: Ästhetik der Dis/Korrelation: Über Shane Densons "Post-Cinematic Bodies“
Tollmann, V., 09.2023, In: CARGO Film/Medien/Kultur. 15, 59, p. 71-73 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Spacing organization: non-representational theory and performing organizational space
Beyes, T. & Steyaert, C., 2012, In: Organization. 19, 1, p. 45-61 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Staying with the Secret: The Public Sphere in Platform Society
Beyes, T., 01.07.2022, In: Theory, Culture & Society. 39, 4, p. 111-127 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Strangely Familiar: The Uncanny and Unsiting Organizational Analysis
Beyes, T. & Steyaert, C., 10.2013, In: Organization Studies. 34, 10, p. 1445-1465 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Strukturwandel des Geheimen: Öffentlichkeit im Überwachungskapitalismus
Beyes, T., 2021, In: Leviathan, Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft. 49, Sonderband 37, p. 91-114 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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'Summoning art to save the city': A Note: 'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice
Beyes, T., 2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 15, 1, p. 207-220 13 p., 15.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Szintetikus történelem
Pias, C., 16.11.2015, In: Tiszataj. 4, p. 83-92 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The Environmentalitarian Situation: Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital
Hörl, E., 01.07.2018, In: Cultural Politics. 14, 2, p. 153-173 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The financialisation of business ethics
Beverungen, A., Dunne, S. & Hoedemaekers, C., 01.01.2013, In: Business Ethics: A European Review. 22, 1, p. 102-117 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The media arcane
Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 01.05.2019, In: Grey Room. 75, Spring, p. 84-107 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The organizational powers of (digital) media
Beverungen, A., Beyes, T. & Conrad, L., 01.09.2019, In: Organization. 26, 5, p. 621-635 15 p., 867206.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The Organization is a Repair Shop
Conrad, L., 05.2019, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 19, 2, p. 303-324 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The performatization of space: Comments on the historicity of knowledge and technology in the construction of contemporary performance spaces
Leeker, M., Baumgärtel, S. A. & Corrêa, T., 24.09.2020, In: URDIMENTO-REVISTA DE ESTUDOS EM ARTES CENICAS. 2, 38, p. 1-27 27 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The poverty of journal publishing
Beverungen, A., Böhm, S. & Land, C., 01.11.2012, In: Organization. 19, 6, p. 929-938 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The total Archive On the Function of Not-Knowing in digital Culture
Bernard, A., 02.2016, In: Merkur. 70, 801, p. 5-17 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Three shades of 'urban-digital citizenship': borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town
Antenucci, I. & Tomasello, F., 2023, In: Citizenship Studies. 27, 2, p. 247-270 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the City
Bialski, P., 31.07.2017, In: The Fibreculture Journal. 29, p. 115-128 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Transparenz und Geheimnis
Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 2014, In: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. 8, 2, p. 111-117 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Uncanny matters: Kafka’s burrow, the unhomely and the study of organizational space
Beyes, T., 2019, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 19, 1, p. 179-192 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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...und natürlich kann geschlachtet werden! Wie die Geiselnahme einer Kuh als kritische Intervention in biopolitische Zeichensysteme zu verstehen ist
Apprich, C., 2011, In: Medien-Impulse: Beiträge zur Medienpädagogik. 2, 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Value struggles in the creative city: A 'People's Republic of Stokes Croft'?
Frenzel, F. & Beverungen, A., 18.05.2015, In: Urban Studies. 52, 6, p. 1020-1036 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Visuelle Diskursanalyse: Ein programmatischer Vorschlag zur Untersuchung von Sicht- und Sagbarkeiten im Medienwandel
Traue, B. C., 2013, In: Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung. 1, 2, p. 117-136 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Visueller Aktivismus und affektive Öffentlichkeiten: Die Inszenierung von Körperwissen in 'Pro-Ana' und 'Fat acceptance'-Blogs
Traue, B. C., 01.09.2014, In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie. 39, 1, p. 121-142 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Vom Wahn- und Wahrsprechen des technologisch Unbewussten
Apprich, C., 01.01.2018, In: Le Foucaldien. 4, 1, 20 p., 7.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Von der Leidenschaft, Bilder zu zeigen, die man so noch nicht gesehen hat: Die 11. Marburger Kameragespräche mit dem Träger des Marburger Kamerapreises 2009 Wolfgang Thaler
Kirchner, A., 2009, In: MEDIENwissenschaft. Rezensionen. Reviews.. 2, p. 109-114 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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We build this city on rocks and (feminist) code: hacking corporate computational designs of cities to come
Voigt, M-L., 24.07.2023, In: Digital Creativity. 34, 2, p. 162-177 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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WhatsApp und das prozessuale Interface: Zur Neugestaltung von Smartphone-Kollektiven.
Denecke, M. & Otto, I., 2013, In: Sprache und Literatur. 44, 1, p. 14-29 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Witless slaves or lively artifacts? A debate of the 1960s
Müggenburg, J. K. & Pias, C., 08.11.2017, In: arq: Architectural Research Quarterly. 21, 1, p. 33–44 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Wozu Senden? Sendevisionen im Ersten und Dritten Fernsehzeitalter
Wentz, D., 2015, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 6, 2, p. 109-122Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Zur Kritik der Fähigkeiten: Ableism als neue Forschungsperspektive der Disability Studies und ihrer Partner_innen.
Buchner, T., Pfahl, L. & Traue, B. C., 2016, In: inklusion online. 9, 2Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Betriebssysteme der Wissenschaft
Warnke, M., 2012, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 7, 2, p. 152-156 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Das Empire, der Nordwesten und der Rest der Welt: die "internationale zeitgenössische Kunst" im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
Wuggenig, U., 2002, In: transversal / EIPCP multilingual webjournal. 2002, 9, 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Daten tanzen: Zum Projekt Choreography and Cognition von Wayne McGregor
Leeker, M., 2009, In: Ästhetik & Kommunikation. 40, 146, p. 31-38 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Die Bühne als Display: Prekäre Trennschärfen zwischen kontinuierlichem Messen und diskretem Zählen
Leeker, M., 2007, In: Navigationen. 7, 2, p. 49-70 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte: Der Computer als Medium für selbstbestimmtes Lernen
Warnke, M., 1992, In: Computer + Unterricht. 2, 5, p. 27-31 5 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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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 Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart. Nationalismus, (Neo)Rassismus und Heterophobie im ästhetischen Feld.
Wuggenig, U., 1994, In: Vor der Information. 19, 1, p. 58-87 30 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Digitale Operativität und Performance: Geschichte der Mensch-Computer-Schnittstelle im Moment ihrer Hinterfragung, noch bevor sie anfing
Leeker, M., 2005, In: Paragrana. 14, 2, p. 25-52 28 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Ende des ästhetischen Wohlfahrtsstaates?
Wuggenig, U., 1996, In: Kursiv. 3, 2, p. 40-47 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Explicit Art Historical Image Referencing on a Big Scale
Warnke, M., 2012, In: LIBREAS. Library Ideas. 21, Bilder, Graphen, Visualisierungen, 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Faire de la recherche avec des artistes. La continuité entre l'art et la science
Wuggenig, U., 1996, In: Sociologie de l'art. 9, p. 95-119 25 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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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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Jenseits von links und rechts? Stimmen zum Methodenstreit
Wuggenig, U., 1998, In: Texte zur Kunst. 8, 29, p. 81-83 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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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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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