Centre for Digital Cultures
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
Contemporary culture is characterized by the ubiquity of digital media technologies and infrastructures, which are constantly configuring our techniques for processing, storing, and transmitting data. As a result, our everyday practices of connecting, relating, reading, writing, perceiving, sharing, competing, and communicating are undergoing significant changes. At the same time, these technologies are closely tied to major societal challenges such as climate change, global conflicts, digital divides and social unjustness. In this dynamic context, the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) directly addresses the emergence of new and complex qualities of vernacular socio-technical life. This involves the development of advanced theory and innovative study programmes. We are concerned with the question of how we can understand and shape digital cultures today.
Main research areas
The digital shift re-shapes the cultural sectors, and, indeed, everyday life, politics, law, and economics. the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), affiliated to Leuphana University of Lüneburg, examines this shift through a range of interdisciplinary methodologies, including media, cultural and social studies, through knowledge creation and transfer, as well as by developing experimental and interventionist media practices. Established in 2012, as one of the first research centres in Europe to research the emergence of digital cultures, the CDC continues to produce cutting-edge research on socio-technical regimes of inclusion and exclusion. Since its inception, the CDC has built an innovative network and research environment, where academic institutions, practitioners, and civil society stakeholders engage with new concepts, formats, and applications within digital cultures.
Current Research Areas
- Climate Futures
- (B)Orders, Identities and Belonging in the Digital Age
- Cities, Infrastructures, Logistics, Platforms
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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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Planning Table
Conrad, L., 10.12.2019, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 321-332 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › 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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Book Review: Giuliana Bruno "Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media" Chicago University Press, Chicago, 2014, 277 pages
Beyes, T., 06.2018, In: Organization Studies. 39, 5-6, p. 836-839 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › 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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Die environmentalitäre Situation: Überlegungen zum Umweltlich-Werden von Denken, Macht und Kapital
Hörl, E., 09.2018, Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie: Ökonomie / Ökologie. Mersch, D. & Mayer, M. (eds.). Berlin, München, Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 4. p. 221-250 29 p. (Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie; vol. 4, no. 1).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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On Knowing Too Much: Technologists´Discourses Around Online Anonymity
Bialski, P., 2018, Non-Knowledge and Digital Cultures . Bernard, A., Koch, M. & Leeker, M. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 143-157 15 p. (Digital Culture Series ).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Das Diktat des Hashtags: Über ein Prinzip der aktuellen Debattenbildung
Bernard, A., 24.10.2018, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag. 96 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Profil
Bernard, A., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 38-48 11 p. (Duisburger Dialoge).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Anschauen und Denken: Neue Perspektiven auf Materialität und Virtualität der Diagramme
Wentz, D., 2013, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 8, 1, p. 202-206 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research