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
- Special Journal issue › Research
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Feminismus und Film
Horstmann, F. (ed.), Wentz, D. (ed.) & Waack, L. (ed.), 12.04.2019, Bremen: Institut für Kunstwissenschaft – Filmwissenschaft – Kunstpädagogik, Universität Bremen. (Nach dem Film; no. 17)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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"It´s All in the Game": Computerspiele zwischen Spiel und Erzählung
Beil, B. (ed.), Simons, S. (ed.), Sorg, J. (ed.) & Venus, J. (ed.), 2009, Marburg: Schüren Verlag. 169 p. (Navigationen – Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften; vol. 9, no. 1)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society
Beverungen, A. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.) & Conrad, L. (ed.), 09.2019, London: SAGE Publications Inc. 127 p. (Organization; vol. 26, no. 5)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Politics of Reproduction
spheres Editorial Collective, Trott, B. (ed.), Beverungen, A. (ed.), Apprich, C. (ed.), Luchs, I. (ed.), Hille, L. (ed.) & Heinrichs, R. (ed.), 03.2020, Lüneburg: Centre for Digital Cultures Lüneburg. (spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures; vol. 2000, no. 6)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Réfléxivité et Système. Le débat sur l'ordre et L'auto-organisation dans les années 1970
Hörl, E. H. (ed.) & Esposito, E. (ed.), 2015, Paris: Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme. (Trivium - Deutsch-französische Zeitschrift für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften; vol. 20/2015)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice
Bialski, P. (ed.), Derwanz, H. (ed.), Otto, B. (ed.) & Vollmer, H. (ed.), 02.2015, San Francisco, Califonia: MayflyBooks. 318 p. (Ephemera - theory & politics in organization; vol. 15, no. 1)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Schwerpunkt ›Die Serie‹
Wentz, D. (ed.), Beil, B. (ed.), Engell, L. (ed.), Schröter, J. (ed.) & Schwaab, H. (ed.), 2012, Diaphanes Verlag. 184 p. (ZfM, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft ; vol. 2/2012, no. 7)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
- Article in conference proceedings › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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A Theory of Media as a History of Electricity: How McLuhans thoughts about mediation are thwarted by their negation
Sprenger, F., 2010, McLuhan Galaxy Conference: Understanding Media Today : Conference Proceedings. Ciastellardi, M., Almeida, C. M. & Scolari, C. A. (eds.). Editorial UOC, p. 71-77 7 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Das Thema ist die ganze Welt: Hypertext im Museum
Warnke, M., 1990, Hypertext und Hypermedia: von theoretischen Konzepten zur praktischen Anwendung. Gloor, P. & Streitz, N. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 268-277 10 p. (Informatik-Fachberichte; vol. 249).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Entgrenzung des künstlerischen Feldes durch Globalisierung ? Kontroverse Haltungen im Kunstfeld von Zürich
Wuggenig, U. & Tarnai, C., 2012, Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen: Verhandlungen des 35. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Frankfurt am Main 2010. Söffner, H-G. (ed.). Springer, Vol. CD-ROM. 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Potentiale und Herausforderungen einer empirischen Subjektivierungsforschung
Traue, B., Pfahl, L. & Globisch, C., 2017, Geschlossene Gesellschaften: Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Lessenich, S. (ed.). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 5 p. (Verhandlungen der Kongresse der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie; vol. 38).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Selbstthematisierungen (in) der Kommunikationsgesellschaft
Traue, B. C., 2017, Geschlossene Gesellschaften : Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Lessenich, S. (ed.). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Vol. 38. 6 p. (Verhandlungen der Kongresse der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie; vol. 38).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
- Article in conference proceedings › Research › Peer-reviewed
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A preliminary study on similarity-preserving digital book identifiers
Vladimir, K., Silic, M., Romic, N., Delac, G. & Srbljic, S., 2015, Proceedings of the 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities: LaTeCH 2015. Zervanou, K. A., van Erp, M. & Alex, B. (eds.). Beijing: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 78-83 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Behind the Scenes of Automation: Ghostly Care-Work, Maintenance, and Interferences: Exploring participatory practices and methods to uncover the ghostly presence of humans and human labor in automation
Boeva, Y., Berger, A., Bischof, A., Doggett, O., Heuer, H., Jarke, J., Treusch, P., Søraa, R. A., Tacheva, Z. & Voigt, M. L., 19.04.2023, CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Schmidt, A., Väänänen, K., Goyal, T., Kristensson, P. O. & Peters, A. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 1-5 5 p. 332. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Für ein Bestiarium der Organisation – Kafkas Grenzwesen
Beyes, T. & Holt, R. D., 2019, Kafka: Organisation, Recht und Schrift. Ortmann, G. & Schuller, M. (eds.). Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, p. 103-124 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Is Privacy Dead? An inquiry into GPS-based geolocation and facial recognition systems
Loebel, J-M., 26.09.2012, ICT Critical Infrastructures and Society: 10th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC10 2012, Proceedings. Hercheui, M. D., Whitehouse, D., McIver, W. & Phahlamohlaka, J. (eds.). Springer, Vol. IFIP AICT 386. p. 338-348 11 p. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; vol. 386 AICT).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Privacy is Dead – Ein Fünf-Jahres-Selbstversuch der bewussten Ortsbestimmung mittels GPS
Loebel, J-M., 12.12.2012, Automatismen - Selbst-Technologien. Bublitz, H., Kaldrack, I., Röhle, T. & Zeman, M. (eds.). 1. Auflage ed. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 143-163 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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RiB-Kit (RFID-in-a-Box): Eine mobile RFID-Lösung für neuartige Interaktionskonzepte
Loebel, J-M. & Kuper, H-G., 09.05.2012, Kultur und Informatik : Aus der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft. Sieck, J. & Franken-Wendelstorf, R. (eds.). 1. Auflage ed. vwh-Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, p. 187-196 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Stadt am Netz: Virtuelle Gemeinschaften regieren
Apprich, C., 2011, Das Mögliche regieren: Gouvernementalität in der Literatur- und Kulturanalyse. Innerhofer, R., Harrasser, K. & Rothe, K. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 249-270 21 p. (Edition Kulturwissenschaft; no. 5).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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The Truth Games of Radical Net Cultures
Apprich, C., 2013, Idea of Radical Media: Ideja radikalnih medija. Medak, T. & Milat, P. (eds.). Multimedijalni institut, p. 15-39 25 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review