Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The ICAM researches the conditions, effects and aesthetics of digital media in connection with processes of culturalization, the technologization of social and economic relations, and the generation and archiving of knowledge. Our studies reflect on how (digital) media always also contribute to shaping the signs and objects they store, transmit or process in a specific way. At the same time, we are interested in how certain cultural techniques contribute to shaping the usage and areas of application of digital media.
Researchers at the ICAM explore the cultural and technological history of digital media—from cybernetics and the beginnings of the computer all the way to present-day network technologies, from textual and acoustic to visual forms of media representation, and from the classics to current concepts of media theory formation.
Main research areas
The ICAM researches the conditions, effects and aesthetics of digital media in connection with processes of culturalization, the technologization of social and economic relations, and the generation and archiving of knowledge. Our studies reflect on how (digital) media always also contribute to shaping the signs and objects they store, transmit or process in a specific way. At the same time, we are interested in how certain cultural techniques contribute to shaping the usage and areas of application of digital media.
In the different core areas researchers at the ICAM explore the cultural and technological history of digital media—from cybernetics and the beginnings of the computer all the way to present-day network technologies, from textual and acoustic to visual forms of media representation, and from the classics to current concepts of media theory formation.
The ICAM maintains close institutional contact and cooperates with the Leuphana, e.g., the Moving Image Lab of the Innovation Incubator, the Leuphana College, the Leuphana Arts Program and the Leuphana Graduate School. Furthermore, the ICAM is responsible for the Audio and Video Labs of the Computer and Media Center of Leuphana.
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Weltmilitär
Spreen, D., 2012, Die Reform der Bundeswehr: Von Menschen für Menschen. Buch, D. (ed.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 51-60 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die politisch-normativen Strukturen globaler Sicherheit und Probleme der Kommunikation ordnungskonstitutiver militärischer Gewalt
Spreen, D., 2011, Den Krieg erklären: Sicherheitspolitik als Problem der Kommunikation. Zowislo-Grünewald, N. & Schulz, J. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 17-36 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Jugend und gewalthaltige Massenkultur: Zur Soziologie der Unterhaltung und der Sozialisationsfunktion der Medien
Spreen, D., 2012, Wissen sie, was sie tun? : Zur filmischen Inszenierung jugendlicher Gewalt. Herrmann, J., Metelmann, J. & Schwandt, H.-G. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 16-48 32 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Cyborgs und andere Techno-Körper: Ein Essay im Grenzbereich von Bios und Techne
Spreen, D., 2000, 2. ed. Passau: Erster Deutscher Fantasy Club. 184 p. (Sekundärliterarische Reihe; vol. 27)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Tausch, Technik, Krieg: Die Geburt der Gesellschaft im technisch-medialen Apriori
Spreen, D., 1998, Berlin: Argument Verlag. 199 p. (Argument-Sonderband; vol. N.F. 261)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Referenzgemetzel: Geschlechterpolitik und Biomacht. Festschrift für Gerburg Treusch-Dieter
Ossege, B. (Editor), Spreen, D. (Editor) & Wenner, S. (Editor), 1999, 1. ed. Tübingen: Konkursbuch-Verlag. 160 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Spurensuche im All: Perry Rhodan Studies
Bollhöfener, K. (Editor), Farin, K. (Editor) & Spreen, D. (Editor), 2003, 1. ed. Berlin: Tilsner. 182 p. (Archiv der Jugendkulturen)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Monstrous Bodies in Rudolf Virchow's Medical Collection in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Stammberger, B., 12.2012, Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and Enfreakment. Zittlau, A. & Kerchy, A. (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 129-149 21 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Körper - Medien - Geschlecht: Diskursivierungen von Materialität. Festschrift für Hannelore Bublitz
Riegraf, B. (Editor), Spreen, D. (Editor) & Mehlmann, S. (Editor), 2012, 1. ed. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 287 p. (Sozialtheorie)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Kriegsvergessenheit in der Mediengesellschaft
Spreen, D. (Editor) & Galling-Stiehler, A. (Editor), 2011, 1. ed. Berlin: Ästhetik & Kommunikation e.V. 205 p. (Ästhetik & Kommunikation; vol. 152/153)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research