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
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1+1=1: Bewegte Elemente im Werk Andrej Tarkowskijs
Sprenger, F., 2007, Philosophie des Films. Leitner, B. & Engell, L. (eds.). Weimar: Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, p. 128-141 14 p. (Philosophische Diskurse; vol. 8).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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30 Years After Les Immatériaux: Art Science & Theory
Broeckmann, A. (ed.) & Hui, Y. (ed.), 2015, 1. ed. Lüneburg: meson press. 245 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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#3 Unstable Infrastructures: spheres Editorial Collective
Apprich, C., Beverungen, A., Feigelfeld, P., Freudenschuß, M., Hille, L., Luchs, I., Simons, S., Wiedemann, C. & Yoosuf, H., 06.2016, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 3, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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50 Jahre Understanding Media
Mangold, J. (ed.) & Sprenger, F. (ed.), 2014, Siegen: Universität-Gesamthhochschule Siegen. 124 p. (Navigationen : Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften; vol. 14, no. 2)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Adorno’s Grey, Taussig’s Blue: Colour, organization and critical affect
Beyes, T. & De Cock, C., 01.01.2017, In: Organization. 24, 1, p. 59-78 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Agentenspiele. Crowd Management, Sozialsimulation und Big Data
Vehlken, S. & Pias, C., 01.02.2014, Managementperspektiven für die Zivilgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts: Management als Liberal Art. von Müller, C. & Zinth, C-P. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 167-182 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Algorithmic Trading, Artificial Intelligence and the Politics of Cognition
Beverungen, A., 01.10.2019, The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence: Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms. Sudmann, A. (ed.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 77-93 17 p. (KI-Kritik; vol. 1).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Algorithmisches Management
Beverungen, A., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 51-63 13 p. (Duisburger Dialoge).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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›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).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Another new museum? Imagining the space of art in the creative city
Beyes, T., Steyaert, C. & Michels, C., 2014, In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. 18, 3, p. 9-28 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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
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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/works › Other › Transfer
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Antworten
Beyes, T., 2015, Das bewegte Buch. Ein Katalog der gelesenen Bücher: mit 104 Beispielen aus dem Deutschen Literaturmuseum Marbach. Gfrereis, H. & Pias, C. (eds.). Marbach am Neckar: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e.V.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Antworten auf sieben Fragen
Wuggenig, U., 2012, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark: Projekte 2010: Art in Public Space Styria: Projects 2010. Fenz, W., Kraus, E. & Kulterer, B. (eds.). Heidelberg, New York: Springer, p. 279-280 2 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
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Apocalypse postponed: Discourses on video games from noxious objects to redemptive devices
Carbone, M. B. & Ruffino, P., 2012, In: GAME : the Italian journal of game studies. 1, 1, 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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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Arbeit, Migration und Logistik: Vermittlungsinfrastrukturen nach dem Sommer der Migration
Altenried, M., Bojadžijev, M., Höfler, L., Mezzadra, S. & Wallis, M., 2018, In: movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies . 4, 2, p. 35-55 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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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Architekturen des "environment": Reyner Banham und das Dritte Maschinenzeitalter
Sprenger, F., 2015, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 12, 1, p. 55-67 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Art, Aesthetics and Organization
Beyes, T., 26.08.2016, A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies. Czarniawska, B. (ed.). 1 ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 115-125 11 p. (Elgar research agendas).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Arttvism: Quando l'arte diventa consapevole ; intervista di Tatiana Bazzichelli
Bazzichelli, T., 2007, Artivismo Tecnologico: Scritti e interviste su arte, politica, teatro e tecnologie. Verde, G. (ed.). Pisa: BFS, p. 56-58 3 p. (Biblioteca universale Utopie; vol. 7).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Asia in the edges: a narrative account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore
Shah, N., 04.2014, In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 15, 2, p. 306-314 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Astro-Kulturen zwischen epistemisch-diskursiven Notwendigkeiten und schwachen Ontologien: Ein Nachwort
Leeker, M., 2014, Astroculture: Figurations of Cosmology in Media and Arts. Neef, S., Sussman, H. & Boschung, D. (eds.). 1. ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 217-231 15 p. (Morphomata; vol. 17).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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As You Like It: Critique in the Era of an Affirmative Discourse
Bunz, M., 04.2013, Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Lovink, G. & Rasch, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Vol. 8. p. 137-145 (Inc Reader).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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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Atomare Hinterlassenschaften: Die strahlende Zukunft des kalten Krieges
Sprenger, F., 2014, Den Kalten Krieg denken.: Beiträge zur sozialen Ideengeschichte seit 1945.. Bernhard, P. & Nehring, H. (eds.). Essen: Klartext Verlag, p. 337-358 22 p. (Frieden und Krieg; vol. 19).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Aufmerksamkeit. Passagen der Filmphilosophie in die Phänomenologie
Sprenger, F., 2007, Medien - Zeit - Zeichen.: Dokumentation des 19. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums 2006. Hissnauer, C. & Jahn-Sudmann, A. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 195-202 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Authority and Authorship: Uncovering the Socio-Technical Regimes of Peer-To-Peer Tourism
Bialski, P., 03.05.2016, Re-Inventing the Local In Tourism: Producing, Consuming and Negotiating Place. Russo, A. P. & Richards, G. (eds.). Bristol, GB: Channel View Publications Ltd, p. 35-49 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Automatismen im Tanz: Vom Agenten-Züchten
Leeker, M., 2011, Unsichtbare Hände: Automatismen in Medien-, Technik- und Diskursgeschichte. Bublitz, H., Kaldrack, I., Röhle, T. & Winkler, H. (eds.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 111-140 30 p. (Schriftenreihe des Graduiertenkollegs "Automatismen").Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Babylonian Dreams: From Info-Cities to Smart Cities to Experimental Collectivism
Apprich, C., 31.07.2017, In: The Fibreculture Journal. 29, p. 10-30 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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(Be-)gründungen und Figurprobleme: Marshall McLuhans Denken über Medien und seine Folgen
Sprenger, F., 2009, Die Medien und das Neue: 21. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium. Wentz, D. & Wendler, A. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 81-97 17 p. (Schriften des Internationalen Kollegs für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie; vol. 3).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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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"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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Betriebssysteme der Wissenschaft
Warnke, M., 2012, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 7, 2, p. 152-156 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Between the Ends of a Wire: Electricity, Instantaneity and the Globe of Telegraphy
Sprenger, F., 2013, Global Communication Electric: Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy. Hampf, M. & Müller-Pohl, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Frankfurt, M. [u.a.]: Campus Verlag, p. 355-381 27 p. (Globalgeschichte; vol. 15).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Bewegte Spiele: Zur Verschiebung des Verhältnisses von Spiel und Alltagswelt durch mobile Games
Schrape, N. & Fuchs, M., 2013, In: Sprache und Literatur. 44, 1, p. 69-83 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Bilderfolgen. Diagrammatologie der Fernsehserie
Wentz, D., 2017, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 348 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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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Biopolitical Interventions in the Urban Data Space
Apprich, C., 2012, Activist media and biopolitics: critical media interventions in the age of biopower. Sützl, W. & Hug, T. (eds.). Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, p. 39-46 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Bis auf Weiteres. Pinnwand und Serie
Engell, L. (ed.), Maeder, D. (ed.), Schröter, J. (ed.) & Wentz, D. (ed.), 2017, Marbug: Schüren Verlag. 92 p. (Augenblick. Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft; vol. 68)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Bis auf Weiteres: Pinnwand und Serie – Einleitung
Engell, L., Maeder, D., Schröter, J. & Wentz, D., 03.2017, Bis auf Weiteres. Pinnwand und Serie. Engell, L., Maeder, D., Schröter, J. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 5-10 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Other › Research
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Blitzlicht
Müller-Helle, K. (ed.) & Sprenger, F. (ed.), 2012, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 142 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Blöde Sklaven oder lebhafte Artefakte ? Eine Debatte der 1960er
Müggenburg, J. & Pias, C., 2013, Automatismen - Selbst-Technologien. Bublitz, H., Kaldrack, I., Röhle, T. & Zeman, M. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 45-69 24 p. (Schriftenreihe des Graduiertenkollegs "Automatismen").Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › 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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Britain and Germany Imagining the Future of Europe: National Identity, Mass Media and the Public Sphere
Novy, L., 12.09.2013, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 304 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book
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Bühne: Raumbildende Prozesse im Theater
Eke, N. O., Haß, U. & Kaldrack, I., 2014, Bühne : raumbildende Prozesse im Theater. Haß, U., Eke, N. O., Kaldrack, I., Keil, R., Winkler, H. & Ecker, G. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 9 - 12 4 p. (Schriftenreihe des Graduiertenkollegs "Automatismen").Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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#BWPWAP
Andersen, C. U., Bazzichelli, T., Beverungen, A., Cox, G. & Gansing, K., 31.01.2013, In: A Peer-reviewed Journal About --. 2, 1, p. 4-5 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research