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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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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Geschlechtsneutralität: Vom Verschwinden von Geschlecht in Tanz-Performances in Kontexten digitaler Medien
Leeker, M., 2013, Choreographie – Medien – Gender. Angerer, M-L., Hardt, Y. & Weber, A-C. (eds.). Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 157-172 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Global Immediacy
Sprenger, F., 2014, McLuhan's Global Village Today: Transatlantic Perspectives. Birkle, C., Krewani, A. & Küster, M. (eds.). London: Pickering & Chatto, p. 31-46 16 p. (Studies for the International Society for Cultural History; vol. 6).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Goebbels's Voice
Hagen, W., 2013, In: Forum Modernes Theater. 28, 1, p. 69-79 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Google Books als Medium und Medium
Sprenger, F., 2012, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 6, p. 237-240 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Hacking Crowdfunding: Towards A New Commons
Ridgway, R., 2016, Hacking Habitat: Art of Control. Art, technology and social change. Gevers, I. (ed.). Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers, p. 98 - 112 15 p. 9Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Herausforderungen und Potentiale bei online geführten Gruppendiskussionen
Sander, N. & Schulz, M., 2015, In: Soziologie. 44, 3, p. 186 - 202 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Herausforderungen und Potenziale von Online-Medien für die qualitative Forschung: Eine Einführung
Schirmer, D., Sander, N. & Wenninger, A., 2015, Die qualitative Analyse internetbasierter Daten: Methodische Herausforderungen und Potenziale von Online-Medien. Schirmer, D., Sander, N. & Wenninger, A. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 7-32 26 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Home for Hire: How the sharing economy commoditises our private sphere
Bialski, P., 01.01.2017, Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis: Practices, Politics and Possibilities. Ince, A. & Hall, S. M. (eds.). Oxford: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 83-95 13 p. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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How should we fund open access monographs and what do you think is the most likely way that funding will happen?
Davies, M. C. R., Ayris, P., Stone, G., Cheshire, J., Jackson, R., Hacker, A., Bunz, M., Ferwerda, E., Newton, H., Dacos, M., Mounier, P. & Neuman, Y., 01.2014, In: Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community. 27, SUPPL. 1, p. 45-50 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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"Ich bin Neda": Zur Authentizität ästhetischer Brüche und ihrer sozialen Resonanz im Web 2.0
Simons, S., 2012, Authentisches Erzählen: Produktion, Narration, Rezeption. Weixler, A. (ed.). Berlin; Boston MA: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 291-319 29 p. (Narratologia; no. 33).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Ich trage, wo ich gehe, stets eine Uhr bei mir - Oder: Mein Gott, was sind die Wissenschaften aufregend !
Warnke, M., 2012, Per Anhalter durch die Turing-Galaxis. Knaut, A., Kühne, C., Rehak, R., Stefan, U., Kurz, C. & Pohle, J. (eds.). Münster: MV Wissenschaft, p. 101-109 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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"If you like something, you want it to develop.": Zum Einsatz der Videokamera in den Filmen Lars von Triers
Kirchner, A., 2008, Abschied vom Zelluloid?: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Poetik des Videobildes. Kirchner, A., Prümm, K. & Richling, M. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 111-134 24 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Image Match: Visueller Transfer, ›Imagescapes‹ und Intervisualität in globalen Bildkulturen
Baleva, M. (ed.), Reichle, I. (ed.) & Schultz, O. L. (ed.), 2012, 1. ed. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 332 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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IMAGE MATCH: Neue Indizes einer globalen Bildtheorie
Baleva, M., Reichle, I. & Schultz, O. L., 2012, Image Match: Visueller Transfer, ›Imagescapes‹ und Intervisualität in globalen Bildkulturen. Baleva, M., Reichle, I. & Lerone Schultz, O. (eds.). 1. ed. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 9-24 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Im Netz der Dinge: Zur Einleitung
Engemann, C. & Sprenger, F., 30.09.2015, Internet der Dinge: Über smarte Objekte, intelligente Umgebungen und die technische Durchdringung der Welt. Engemann, C. & Sprenger, F. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 7-57 51 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Inkorporationskunst: Krise und Kuratoriat
Beyes, T., 2013, What’s Next?: Kunst nach der Krise: Ein Reader. Hedinger, J. M. & Meyer, T. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 63-67 5 p. 014Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Insensible and Inexplicable: On the two Meanings of Occult
Sprenger, F., 2015, In: Communication +1. 4, 1, 24 p., 2.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Interfaces Ludiques
Fuchs, M., 01.12.2011, Jusqu'ici, tout va bien: Rencontres des arts numériques, électroniques et médiatiques. Bébié Valérian, G. (ed.). Le Vigan, France: Oudeis, p. 18 - 23 5 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Intermediale Performances: Vom Umgang mit Medienkonvergenz 1966/2001
Leeker, M., 2011, Blickregime und Dispositive audiovisueller Medien. Elia-Borer, N., Sieber, S. & Tholen, G. C. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 87-110 24 p. (MedienAnalysen; no. 13).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Internet der Dinge: Über smarte Objekte, intelligente Umgebungen und die technische Durchdringung der Welt
Engemann, C. (ed.) & Sprenger, F. (ed.), 2015, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 400 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Introducing ‘cultures of rejection’: an investigation of the conditions of acceptability of right-wing politics in Europe
Bojadžijev, M. & Opratko, B., 20.10.2022, In: Patterns of Prejudice. 56, 4-5, p. 205-218 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Introduction: Games and subcultural theory
Carbone, M. B. & Ruffino, P., 2014, In: GAME : the Italian journal of game studies. 3, 1, p. 5-20 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Introduction: Why does management education need reinventing?
Beyes, T., Parker, M. & Steyaert, C., 2016, The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Steyaert, C., Beyes, T. & Parker, M. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Introduction: The Creativity Complex
Beyes, T. & Metelmann, J., 09.10.2018, The Creativity Complex: A Companion to Contemporary Culture. Beyes, T. & Mentelmann, J. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 9-18 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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"Introduction," communication +1
Vagt, C. & Sprenger, F., 2014, In: Communication +1. 3, p. 1-4 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Introduction to General Ecology: The Ecologization of Thinking
Hörl, E. H. & Schott, N. F. (Translator), 05.2017, General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm. Hörl, E. & Burton, J. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 1 – 75 75 p. (Theory).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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IOCOSE: Art, Authority and Culture Jamming
Ruffino, P., Cremonesi, M., Cuttica, F. & Prati, D., 2017, Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance. De Laure, M. & M. F. (eds.). New York: NYU Press, p. 427-432 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › 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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"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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It's the community, stupid! Urbane Regierungstechniken der Selbstverwaltung
Apprich, C., 2009, Phantom Kulturstadt. Becker, K. & Wassermair, M. (eds.). Wien: Löcker Verlag, p. 244-250 (Texte zur Zukunft der Kulturpolitik; no. 2).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Jahrbuch Fernsehen 2013
Anschlag, D. (ed.), Cippitelli, C. (ed.), Hachmeister, L. (ed.), Kammann, U., Kubitz, P. P., Müller, P. (ed.) & Novy, L. (ed.), 2013, Berlin: Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik gHmbH. 464 p. (Jahrbuch Fernsehen)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Jenseits von links und rechts? Stimmen zum Methodenstreit
Wuggenig, U., 1998, In: Texte zur Kunst. 8, 29, p. 81-83 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Journalismus als „creative industry“? Medienpolitische Möglichkeiten & kreativ-wirtschaftliche Strategien
Hachmeister, L., Novy, L. & Torun, O., 2013, Das Bauhaus kommt aus Thüringen: Kreativwirtschaft jenseits der Metropolen. Machnig, M. & Kiefer, D. (eds.). Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau Verlag GmbH, p. 93-111 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Journalismus in der digitalen Moderne: Einsichten - Ansichten - Aussichten
Kramp, L. (ed.), Novy, L. (ed.), Ballwieser, D. (ed.) & Wenzlaff, K. (ed.), 2013, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. 251 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Just do it! Mimesis in technischem und künstlerischem Systems Engineering
Leeker, M., 2012, Mimesis. Balke, F., Siegert, B. & Vogl, J. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 153-166 13 p. (Archiv für Mediengeschichte; vol. 12).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
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Kinder machen: Neue Reproduktionstechnologien und die Ordnung der Familie ; Samenspender, Leihmütter, Künstliche Befruchtung
Bernard, A., 27.03.2014, 1. Aufl. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag. 544 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Transfer › peer-review
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Kinects Bühne: Selbstorganisierte Mimesis
Kaldrack, I., 19.02.2014, Bühne: Raumbildende Prozesse im Theater. Eke, N. O., Haß, U. & Kaldrack, I. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 191-204 13 p. (Schriftenreihe des Graduiertenkollegs 'Automatismen').Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Klingen des W. Gelächter
Beyes, T., 2020, WH - Stimmen hören. Klaut, M., Pias, C. & Schnödl, G. (eds.). Berlin: ciconia ciconia Verlag, p. 25-29 5 p. (Ciconia ciconia; vol. 34).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Kollegialität: Eine Ethnographie der Belegschaftskultur im Kaufhaus
Bachmann, G., 2014, Frankfurt/New York : Campus Verlag. 449 p. (Arbeit und Alltag : Beiträge zur ethnografischen Arbeitskulturenforschung; vol. 3)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › 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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Krise der Kunstkritik? Teil I
Wuggenig, U., 2013, In: Kunstforum international. 40, 221, p. 80-91 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Krise der Kunstkritik? Teil II
Wuggenig, U., 2013, In: Kunstforum international. 40, 221, p. 114-123 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Krisen und Diskurse - das Kunstjahr 2023 aus Berliner Sicht
Tollmann, V., 30.03.2024, In: POP. Kultur und Kritik. 13, 1, p. 46-57 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Krise oder goldenes Zeitalter? Befunde zum Status der Kritiker/innen und zur Lage der Kunstkritik
Wuggenig, U., 02.12.2013, WHAT’S NEXT?: Kunst nach der Krise. Ein Reader. Hedinger, J. M. & Meyer, T. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 610-615 6 p. 172Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Education
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Kritik in digitalen Kulturen: Begegnungen zwischen Entsagung, Revolution und Affirmation
Leeker, M., 2023, Kritik postdigital. Hille, L. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 83-102 20 p. (Digital Cultures Series).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kritik postdigital
Hille, L. (ed.) & Wentz, D. (ed.), 2023, Lüneburg: meson press. 140 p. (Digital Cultures Series)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Kritische Öffentlichkeit und ihre Herstellung
Bunz, M., 2013, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 4, 2, p. 63-70 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Kulturelles Kapital und soziale Schließung in den Kunstfeldern von Hamburg, Wien und Paris
Wuggenig, U. & Drechsel, S., 1997, Kunst auf Schritt und Tritt : Public Art is Everywhere. Müller, C. P. & Könneke, A. (eds.). Hamburg: Kellner, p. 68-75 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research