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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A Dying Theory? A Critical Assessment of Some Aspects of Status Inconsistency Research 1950-1983
Wuggenig, U., 1986, Status inconsistency in modern societies. Proceedings of a Conference on "New Differentiations of Status Structures? On the Viability of the Concept of Status Inconsistency in Contemporary Society. Strasser, H. & Hodge, R. W. (eds.). Duisburg: Verlag der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Kooperative, p. 24-37 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Soziale Ungleichheit und legitime Kultur
Wuggenig, U., 1988, Kulturarbeit und Kulturpädagogik: Grundlagen, Praxisfelder, Ausbildung. Müller-Rolli, S. (ed.). München: Juventa Verlag, p. 33-64 32 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Das Amerikabild der Deutschen: Außenansichten I
Wuggenig, U., 1989, Aspekte amerikanischer Kultur. Beneke, J., Jarman, F. & Whybra, D. (eds.). Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, p. 17-44 28 p. ( Hildesheimer Beiträge zu den Erziehungs- und Sozialwissenschaften. Studien, Texte, Entwürfe; vol. 31).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Bildungskapital und berufliche Position: Streß und Intrapunitivität als Reaktionen auf Beschäftigungsprobleme
Engel, U. & Wuggenig, U., 1990, Empirischer Theorienvergleich: Erklärungen sozialen Verhaltens in Problemsituationen. Opp, K. D. & Wippler, R. (eds.). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, p. 147-190 44 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Eine strukturelle Version der Theorie der Statusinkonsistenz
Wuggenig, U., 1990, Empirischer Theorienvergleich: Erklärungen sozialen Verhaltens in Problemsituationen. Opp, K. D. & Wippler, R. (eds.). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, p. 37-70 34 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Statistische Auswertungsverfahren nominalskalierter Daten
Wuggenig, U. & Engel, U., 1991, Handbuch Qualitative Sozialforschung. Grundlagen, Konzepte, Methoden und Anwendungen. Flick, U., von Kardorff, E., Keupp, H., von Rosenstiel, L. & Wollf, S. (eds.). München: Psychologie Verlagsunion, p. 237-243 7 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Arbeitslosigkeit und Spaltungsprozesse in der Gesellschaft der BRD
Wuggenig, U. & Engel, U., 1991, Bewältigung von Arbeitslosigkeit im sozialen Kontext: Programme, Initiativen, Evaluationen. Kieselbach, T. & Wacker, A. (eds.). Weinheim: Deutscher Studien Verlag, p. 65-87 23 p. (Psychologie sozialer Ungleichhei; vol. 2).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Soziologie des Publikums / Sociology of the Audience
Wuggenig, U. & Kockot, V., 1993, Das Bild der Ausstellung: The Image of the Exhibition. Brüderlin, M. (ed.). Wien: Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst Wien, p. 82-90 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Öffentlichkeit und öffentliche Meinung: Die soziologische Perspektive
Wuggenig, U., 1993, Konzepte von Öffentlichkeit: 3. Lüneburger Kolloquium zur Medienwissenschaft. Faulstich, W. (ed.). Bardowick: Wissenschaftler-Verlag, p. 16-29 14 p. (IfAM-Arbeitsberichte; vol. 11).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