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. 2013
  2. Published

    Ziele, Mittel, Vermittlungswege: Drei Erfolgsdimensionen von Politik – zum Aufbau des Bandes

    Eckert, G., Novy, L. & Schwickert, D., 2013, Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht: Facetten erfolgreicher Politik. Novy, L., Eckert, G. & Schwickert, D. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 47-58

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

  3. Published

    Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht: Facetten erfolgreicher Politik

    Eckert, G. (Editor), Novy, L. (Editor) & Schwickert, D. (Editor), 2013, Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 431 p. (Politik als Beruf)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  4. 2012
  5. Published

    Eine Chronik zum Thema Elektronische Demokratie

    Heise, C., 14.12.2012, Jahrbuch Netzpolitik 2012: Von A wie ACTA bis Z wie Zensur. Beckedahl, M. & Meister, A. (eds.). Berlin: epubli GmbH, p. 95-107 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    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/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    "Being There!": Epistemologische Skizzen zur Smartphone-Fotografie

    Hagen, W., 12.2012, Bildwerte: Visualität in der digitalen Medienkultur. Freyermuth , G. S. & Gotto, L. (eds.). transcript Verlag, p. 103-135 33 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    The poverty of journal publishing

    Beverungen, A., Böhm, S. & Land, C., 01.11.2012, In: Organization. 19, 6, p. 929-938 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Das Kunstfeld: Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst am Beispiel von Zürich, Wien, Hamburg und Paris

    Munder, H. (Editor) & Wuggenig, U. (Editor), 11.2012, Zürich: JRP Ringier Verlag. 460 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    Die stille Revolution: Wie Algorithmen Wissen, Arbeit, Öffentlichkeit und Politik verändern, ohne dabei viel Lärm zu machen

    Bunz, M., 10.2012, Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. 171 p. (edition unseld; no. 43)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  11. Published

    Social Games: Privacy and Security

    Fuchs, M., 10.2012, ICT Critical Infrastructure and Society: 10th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC10 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 27-28, 2012. Proceedings. Magda D., H., Whitehouse, D., McIver Jr., W. & Phahlamohlaka, J. (eds.). Amsterdam: Springer, p. 330-337 8 p. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; vol. 386 AICT).

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

  12. Published

    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/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Rezension: Krieg und Frieden im globalen Dorf, oder: Eine Faszinationsgeschichte des Schmerzes

    Leeker, M., 16.09.2012, 10 p.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

  14. Published

    Motive vernetzen – Meta-Image als Bild-Zettelkasten: Bilddiskurse in Zeiten des Internet

    Warnke, M., 09.2012, In: FIfF-Kommunikation. 29, 3, p. 50-52 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  15. Published

    Unreine Bilder: Zur medialen (Selbst-)Inszenierung von school shootern

    Grzeszyk, A., 01.08.2012, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 432 p. (Kultur- und Medientheorie)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  16. Published

    Digitales Vergessen: Deletion Impossible?

    Kurz, C. & Loebel, J.-M., 15.07.2012, Potentiale des Vergessens. Blum, A., Georgen, T., Knapp, W. & Sellier, V. (eds.). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, p. 343-358 16 p.

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

  17. Published
  18. Published

    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/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Vergessene Zukunft: Radikale Netzkulturen in Europa

    Apprich, C. (Editor) & Stalder, F. (Editor), 02.2012, Berlin: transcript Verlag. 343 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  20. Published

    Von Knoten zu Knoten: Eine Einleitung

    Apprich, C. & Stalder, F., 02.2012, Vergessene Zukunft: Radikale Netzkulturen in Europa. Apprich, C. & Stalder, F. (eds.). Berlin: transcript Verlag, p. 9-16 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  21. Published

    Affiziert werden: Städtische und mediale Atmosphären

    Beyes, T., 2012, Die Macht der Gefühle: Emotionen in Management, Organisation und Kultur. Metelmann, J. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Berlin: Berlin University Press, p. 97-108 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  22. Published

    Answers to seven questions

    Wuggenig, U., 2012, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark: Projekte 2010. Fenz, W., Kraus, E. & Kulterer, B. (eds.). Heidelberg, New York: Springer, p. 281-282 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherTransfer