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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    Der Raum des Cyberspace

    Warnke, M., 2003, Räume riskieren: Reflexion, Gestaltung und Theorie in evangelischer Perspektive. Brandi-Hinrichs, F., Reitz-Dinse, A. & Grünberg, W. (eds.). Schenefeld: EB-Verlag, p. 271-294 24 p.

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    Der Quantencomputer - ein zukünftiger Gegenstand der Medienwissenschaft?

    Ernst, C., Schröter, J. & Warnke, M., 2020, In: MEDIENwissenschaft. Rezensionen. Reviews.. 38, 2-3, p. 130-150 21 p.

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    Der Pressejournalismus als Konstrukteur männlicher Dominanz: Geschlechterverhältnisse auf den Hauptnachrichtenseiten deutscher Tageszeitungen - eine Zwölf-Wochen-Analyse

    Röser, J., 2006, Präsenz von Frauen in den Nachrichten: Medienbeobachtungen 2005. Hesse, M. (ed.). Bonn: Journalistinnenbund, p. 27-36 10 p.

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    Der Präsident und die Herausforderin: Geschlechterkonstruktionen von Spitzenkräften in der Politik aus medienethischer Perspektive

    Grittmann, E. & Maier, T., 2014, Gender im medienethischen Diskurs. Grimm, P. & Zöllner, O. (eds.). 1 ed. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, p. 153-169 17 p. (Medienethik; vol. 12).

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    Der philosophische Knotenpunkt der ästhetischen Langeweile

    Gräfe, A., 11.02.2025, In: Zeitschrift Kunst Medien Bildung. 2025, p. 46-54 8 p.

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    Der dunkle Transhumanismus

    Hille, L., 2023, Kritik postdigital. Hille, L. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 117-132 16 p. (Digital Cultures Series).

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    Der Domestizierungsansatz und seine Potenziale zur Analyse alltäglichen Medienhandelns

    Röser, J., 2007, MedienAlltag: Domestizierungsprozesse alter und neuer Medien. Röser, J. (ed.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 15-30 16 p.

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    Der Delfin als Medium. Formation und Imagination in John C Lillys Kommunikationsexperimenten

    Müggenburg, J. K., 2016, Designing Thinking: Angewandte Imagination und Kreativität um 1960. Mareis, C. (ed.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 185–212 28 p. (Eikones).

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    Der Cyborg: Diskurse zwischen Körper und Technik

    Spreen, D., 2010, Die Figur des Dritten: Ein kulturwissenschaftliches Paradigma. Eßlinger, E., Schlechtriemen, T., Schweitzer, D. & Zons, A. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, p. 166-179 13 p.

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    Der blinde Fleck der Kritiker: der Diskurs über Mediengewalt als Paradox des Printjournalismus

    Röser, J., 2008, Paradoxien des Journalismus: Theorie - Empirie - Praxis ; Festschrift für Siegfried Weischenberg. Pörksen, B., Loosen, W. & Scholl, A. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 447-457 11 p.

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