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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Die Bedeutung transdisziplinärer Kooperationen an Hochschulen
Japsen, A., Wuppermann, M. & Riedel, M. S., 2018, Die Rolle der Universität in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft im Wandel. Henkel, A., Hobuß, S., Jamme, C. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). 1. ed. Berlin: Pro BUSINESS Verlag, p. 138-141 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
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Zurück in die Zukunft: Digitale Heimarbeit
Wallis, M. & Altenried, M., 12.2018, In: Ökologisches Wirtschaften. 33, 4, p. 24-26 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Vom Wahn- und Wahrsprechen des technologisch Unbewussten
Apprich, C., 01.01.2018, In: Le Foucaldien. 4, 1, 20 p., 7.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Secret Agents: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Apprich, C., 27.07.2018, In: Digital Culture & Society. 4, 1, p. 29-44 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Ecologies of Making: On Tim Ingold´s General-Ecological Critique of Worldmaking
Hörl, E., 2017, +ultra knowledge & gestaltung. Doll, N., Bredekamp, H. & Schäffner, W. (eds.). Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, p. 45-53 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The Environmentalitarian Situation: Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital
Hörl, E., 01.07.2018, In: Cultural Politics. 14, 2, p. 153-173 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Planning Table
Conrad, L., 10.12.2019, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 321-332 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The Organization is a Repair Shop
Conrad, L., 05.2019, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 19, 2, p. 303-324 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › 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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Entwickler
Bialski, P., 2017, Nach der Revolution : Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen . Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 140-148 9 p. ("Duisburger Dialoge" der Haniel Stiftung).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Die environmentalitäre Situation: Überlegungen zum Umweltlich-Werden von Denken, Macht und Kapital
Hörl, E., 09.2018, Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie: Ökonomie / Ökologie. Mersch, D. & Mayer, M. (eds.). Berlin, München, Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 4. p. 221-250 29 p. (Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie; vol. 4, no. 1).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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On Knowing Too Much: Technologists´Discourses Around Online Anonymity
Bialski, P., 2018, Non-Knowledge and Digital Cultures . Bernard, A., Koch, M. & Leeker, M. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 143-157 15 p. (Digital Culture Series ).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Das Diktat des Hashtags: Über ein Prinzip der aktuellen Debattenbildung
Bernard, A., 24.10.2018, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag. 96 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Profil
Bernard, A., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 38-48 11 p. (Duisburger Dialoge).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › 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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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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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Wozu Senden? Sendevisionen im Ersten und Dritten Fernsehzeitalter
Wentz, D., 2015, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 6, 2, p. 109-122Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Die Medien und das Neue
Wendler, A. (ed.) & Wentz, D. (ed.), 02.2009, Marburg: Schüren Verlag. 284 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › 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
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Der Medienwandel der Serie
Wentz, D. (ed.) & Maeder, D. (ed.), 2013, Siegen: Universitätsverlag Siegen. 146 p. (Navigationen. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften; vol. 13, no. 1/2013)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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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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Lost in Media
Beil, B. (ed.), Schwaab, H. (ed.) & Wentz, D. (ed.), 2018, LIT Verlag. 192 p. (Medien'Welten. Braunschweiger Schriften zur Medienkultur; vol. 19)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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The Corrupt State of Artificial Intelligence: Clemens Apprich on Machine Learning and Bias
Apprich, C., 03.2018, In: Texte zur Kunst. 109, p. 136-141 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Entsolidarisierung und Rassismus
Bojadzijev, M., Opratko, B., Braun, K., Heiter, A. & Liebig, M., 2017, Forschungsbericht Forschungs-Interventions-Cluster „Solidarität im Wandel?“. Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM) (ed.). Berlin: Instituts für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM), p. 31-51 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to scientific reports › 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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Das Wissen des Profils: Zur kriminalistischen und psychiatrischen Herkunft digitaler Selbstbeschreibung
Bernard, A., 11.2018, Das dokumentierte Ich: Wissen in Verhandlung. Hämmerling, C. & Zetti, D. (eds.). Zürich: Chronos, p. 113-126 14 p. (Interferenzen. Studien zur Kulturgeschichte der Technik; vol. 26).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Who's Hacking Whom?
Ridgway, R., 02.2017, Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches. Coleman, E. G. & Kelty, C. M. (eds.). United States: CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Vol. 8. p. 120-126 7 p. (Limn; vol. 8).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Paranoia
Apprich, C., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 78-86 9 p. (Duisburger Dialoge).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Media and Migration: Editorial
Apprich, C., Beverungen, A., Freudenschuß, M., Hille, L., Simons, S., Wiedemann, C., Heinrichs, R. & Yoosuf, H., 2017, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 4, 2, 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Mobility, Media, and the Experiences of Airbnb’s Aesthetic Regime
Bialski, P., 19.12.2017, Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities: Practices, Flows, Methods. Freundendal-Pedersen, M., Hartmann-Petersen, K. & Perez Fjalland, E. L. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 5 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Witless slaves or lively artifacts? A debate of the 1960s
Müggenburg, J. K. & Pias, C., 08.11.2017, In: arq: Architectural Research Quarterly. 21, 1, p. 33–44 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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From GUI to No-UI: Locating the interface for the internet of things
Shah, N., 26.06.2017, Digitisation: Theories and Concepts for Empirical Cultural Research. Koch, G. (ed.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 180-196 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Topografische Spurensuche in Köln entlang der Achse Berlin–Köln. Wiedergutmachung und Wiederaufbau (1945–1957): Leopold Reidemeister als Mittler und Streiter für die Moderne
Severin, I. L., 2017, Leopold Reidemeister. Ein Deutscher Museumsmann. . Moeller, M. M. (ed.). München: Hirmer, p. 114-165 52 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kunstkammer, Ostasiatische Weltkunst, Expressionistische Avantgarde neben Rokoko und Bauhaus-Moderne. Die Bildwelten des Leopold Reidemeister, visionärer Erbe Wilhelm von Bodes zwischen Kaiserreich und Avantgarde
Severin, I. L., 08.2017, Leopold Reidemeister: Ein deutscher Museumsmann. Moeller, M. M. (ed.). München: Hirmer, p. 14-67 43 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Non Knowledge and Digital Cultures
Bernard, A. (ed.), Leeker, M. (ed.) & Matthias, K. (ed.), 2018, Lüneburg: meson press. 160 p. (Digital Cultures Series )Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes: Das Selbst in der digitalen Kultur
Bernard, A., 2017, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. 236 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Daten, Wahn, Sinn
Apprich, C., 05.10.2017, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 9, 17-2, p. 54-62 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm
Hörl, E. H. (ed.), 05.2017, 1 ed. London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 384 p. (Theory)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Die Fernsehserie als Agent des Wandels
Beil, B., Engell, L., Maeder, D., Schröter, J., Schwaab, H. & Wentz, D., 2017, Münster: LIT Verlag. 248 p. (Medien'Welten. Braunschweiger Schriften zur Medienkultur; vol. 18)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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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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Technotopia. A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures
Apprich, C., 10.2017, London: Rowman & Littlefield International. 212 p. (Media Philosophy)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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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