School of Culture and Society

Organisational unit: Faculty

Organisation profile

The School of Culture and Society continues an almost thirty-year tradition of teaching and research in cultural studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.  At the faculty, more than one hundred scholars from disciplines such as art history, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, geography and history teach and conduct research in a total of five institutes. The faculty currently offers three majors ("Cultural Studies," "Studium Individuale", and "Digital Media") and four minors ("Philosophy," "Digital Media / Information Technology and Culture", and "Studium Individuale") at Leuphana College and four master's degrees ("Critical Studies - Arts - Theory - History", "Media and Digital Cultures", "Culture and Organization" and "Theory and History of Modernity").

Topics

Die Wissenschaftsinitiative Kulturforschung fragt nach den historischen und kulturellen Grundlagen, Praktiken und Werten der Zivilgesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Aus der Perspektive der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften verbindet die Initiative zwei anwendungsorientierte Forschungsschwerpunkte (Kunst & visuelle Kultur, Medienkultur & Kommunikation) mit einem starken Kernbereich Integrativer Kulturforschung. Beteiligt sind derzeit etwa 20 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Kunst, Medien, Philosophie, Geschichte, Literatur, Soziologie, Politik, Informatik und Geographie/Raumwissenschaft.

  1. Published

    The Politics of Micro-Decisions: Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality and the Architecture of the Internet

    Sprenger, F., 2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 127 p. (Digital Cultures Series)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Die Vergangenheit der Zukunft: Kommentar zu »Das kommende Zeitalter der Calm Technology«

    Sprenger, F., 2015, Internet der Dinge: Über smarte Objekte, intelligente Umgebungen und die technische Durchdringung der Welt. Sprenger, F. & Engemann, C. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 73 - 87 15 p.

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

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    Big Data: Gibt es bald mehr Antworten als Fragen?

    Vehlken, S., 07.09.2015, Lexikon der offenen Fragen. Kaube, J. & Laakmann, J. (eds.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 37-38 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaTransfer

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    There is no software, there are just services

    Kaldrack, I. (ed.) & Leeker, M. (ed.), 2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 114 p. (Digital Cultures)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    There is no Software, there are just Services: Introduction

    Kaldrack, I. & Leeker, M., 2015, There is no Software, there are just Services. Kaldrack, I. & Leeker, M. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 9-19 11 p. (Digital Cultures).

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

  7. Published

    Divide and Share: Taxonomies, Orders and Masses in Facebook's Open Graph

    Kaldrack, I. & Röhle, T., 09.11.2014, In: Computational Culture -a journal of software studies. 4, 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Walter Benjamin zur Einführung

    Kramer, S., 2013, 4. ergänzte ed. Hamburg: Junius Verlag . 160 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

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    Transformation der Gewalt im Film: über Riefenstahl, Améry, Cronenberg, Egoyan, Marker, Kluge, Farocki

    Kramer, S., 2014, Berlin: Bertz+Fischer Verlag. 183 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Konvivialismus als Kunst und Komplexität als Erfahrung

    Kagan, S., 2015, Konvivialismus. Eine Debatte. Adloff, F. & Heins, V. M. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 167-177 11 p.

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