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
  1. Published

    Tracing Concepts: In, Out and Through Computing

    Romic, N. & Gardner, E., 15.07.2011, In: Volume. 28, p. 1-24 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  2. Published

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Colour and Organization Studies

    Beyes, T., 01.10.2017, In: Organization Studies. 38, 10, p. 1467 - 1482 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Social Media - New Masses

    Baxmann, I. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.) & Pias, C. (ed.), 2016, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 348 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  5. Published

    Performing the Digital: Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures

    Leeker, M. (ed.), Schipper, I. (ed.) & Beyes, T. (ed.), 01.03.2017, Bielefeld : transcript Verlag. 300 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft; vol. 11)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education

    Steyaert, C. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.) & Parker, M. (ed.), 31.05.2016, London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 550 p. (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  7. Published

    Die Ökologisierung des Denkens

    Hörl, E. H., 2016, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 14, 1, p. 33-45 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Mobilizing Memes: The Contagious Socio-Aesthetics of Participation

    Simons, S., 2016, ReClaiming Participation: Technology – Mediation – Collectivity. Mathias, D., Anne, G., Otto, I. & Stock, R. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 231–245 15 p. (Media Studies).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Hacking Crowdfunding: Towards A New Commons

    Ridgway, R., 2016, Hacking Habitat: Art of Control. Art, technology and social change. Gevers, I. (ed.). Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers, p. 98 - 112 15 p. 9

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Other Beginnings of Participative Sense Culture: Wild Media, Speculative Ecologies, Transgressions of the Cybernetic Hypothesis

    Hörl, E. H., 2016, ReClaiming Participation: technology - mediation - collectivity. Denecke, M., Gatzert, A., Otto, I. & Stock, R. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 93-122 28 p. (Media studies).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Communication Regimes and Creativity

    Traue, B. C., 2014, Culture, Communication, and Creativity: Reframing the Relations of Media, Knowledge, and Innovation in Society. Knoblauch, H., Jacobs, M. & Tuma, R. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 227-246 20 p. 31

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    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, 2

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Die technologische Bedingung des sozialen Selbst

    Traue, B. C. & Schünzel, A., 2015, Mediatisierung (in ) der sozialen Arbeit. Kutscher, N., Ley, T. & Seelmeyer, U. (eds.). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, p. 39 - 55 17 p. (Grundlagen der sozialen Arbeit; vol. 38).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Die (Psycho-)Macht des Therapeutischen und die Optionalisierung des Handelns

    Traue, B. C., 01.2016, Handbuch Therapeutisierung und Soziale Arbeit. Anhorn, R. & Balzereit, M. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 249-261 13 p. (Perspektiven kritischer Sozialer Arbeit; vol. 23).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Das totale Archiv: Zur Funktion des Nicht-Wissens in der digitalen Kultur

    Bernard, A., 2016, In: Merkur. 801, 70, p. 5-17 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  17. Published

    Theatre and Engineering: Kontrolle und Macht in medialen Umwelten in den 1960er Jahren, und heute?

    Leeker, M., 2016, Räume und Medien des Regierens. Balke, F. & Muhle, M. (eds.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 198-217 20 p. (Merz Akademie).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Medienästhetik und implizites Wissen: 1964/1991/2011

    Leeker, M., 30.01.2017, Handbuch Schweigendes Wissen : Erziehung, Bildung und Sozialisation und Lernen. Kraus, A., Budde, J., Hietzge, M. & Wulf, C. (eds.). 1 ed. Basel: Beltz Juventa Verlag, p. 448-461 14 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Denken als Handwerk

    Conrad, L., 01.11.2016, Schöner lehren: gegendert und gequeert. Eckert, L. & Martin, S. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 17-29 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesEducationpeer-review

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