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 
  1. Published

    Das neue Fernsehen und die Historizität des Dispositivs

    Wentz, D., 2010, Die Medien und das Neue: 21. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium. Wentz, D. & Wendler, A. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 151-164 14 p.

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  2. Published

    Stadt im Fluss: Liquidierung des Tatorts in zwei Episoden

    Wentz, D., 2010, Tatort Stadt. : Mediale Topographien eines Fernsehklassikers. Griem, J. & Scholz, S. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, p. 245-266 22 p.

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  3. Published

    Bilder/Räume denken. Zum diagrammatischen Bild

    Wentz, D., 2012, Raum Wissen Medien. : Zur raumtheoretischen Reformulierung des Medienbegriffs. Müller, D. & Scholz, S. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 253-270 18 p.

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  4. Published

    Die Fernsehserie als Reflexion und Projektion des medialen Wandels

    Wentz, D., Beil, B., Engell, L., Schröter, J. & Schwaab, H., 2012, Mediatisierte Welten. : Beschreibungsansätze und Forschungsfelder. Hepp, A. & Krotz, F. (eds.). Opladen: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 197-223 27 p.

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  5. Published

    Nostalgia is not what it used to be: Serial Nostalgia and Nostalgic Series

    Wentz, D. & Niemeyer, K., 2014, Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, the Present and the Future. Niemeyer, K. (ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 129-138 10 p.

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  6. Published

    Digital Seriality as Structure and Process

    Maeder, D. & Wentz, D., 2014, In: Eludamos - Journal for Computer Game Culture. Vol 8 (1), p. 129-149 21 p.

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  7. Published

    ›A moving picture of thought‹: Diagrammatisches Schließen im Kino

    Wentz, D., 2014, Wissensraum Film. Gradinari, I., Müller, D. & Pause, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Reichert, p. 39-60 22 p. (Trierer Beiträge zu den historischen Kulturwissenschaften; vol. 13).

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  8. Published

    Wozu Senden? Sendevisionen im Ersten und Dritten Fernsehzeitalter

    Wentz, D., 2015, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 6, 2, p. 109-122

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  9. Published

    Pinboard | Storyboard

    Wentz, D., 03.2017, Bis auf Weiteres. Pinnwand und Serie. Engell, L., Maeder, D., Schröter, J. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 29-44 16 p. (Augen-Blick : Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft; vol. 68).

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  10. Published

    The Island of the Day After. The Television Series Lost and the Post-9/11-Era

    Niemeyer, K. & Wentz, D., 2018, Lost In Media. Wentz, D., Beil, B. & Schwaab, H. (eds.). Wien: LIT Verlag, p. 137-154 18 p.

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