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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Die mediale Erfindung der Gesellschaft: Genealogie als soziologische Methode
Spreen, D., 2004, Die Medien und ihre Technik: Theorien – Modelle – Geschichte. Segeberg, H. (ed.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 43-55 12 p. (Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM); vol. 11).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Die Diskursstelle der Medien: Soziologische Perspektiven nach der Medientheorie
Spreen, D., 2001, Technologien als Diskurse: Konstruktionen von Wissen, Medien und Körpern. Lösch, A., Schrage, D., Spreen, D. & Stauff, M. (eds.). Heidelberg: Synchron, p. 21-41 20 p. (Diskusivitäten; vol. 5).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Disrupting Business: Art and Activism in times of financial crisis
Cox, G. (Editor) & Bazzichelli, T. (Editor), 2013, New York City: Autonomedia. 256 p. (DATA browser)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Technik – Magie – Medium: Geister, die erscheinen
Kümmel, A. (Editor) & Spreen, D. (Editor), 2004, Berlin: Ästhetik & Kommunikation e.V. 128 p. (Ästhetik & Kommunikation; vol. 35, no. 127)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Computerspiele
Hickethier, K. (Editor), Neitzel, B. (Editor) & Spreen, D. (Editor), 2001, Berlin: Ästhetik & Kommunikation e.V. 126 p. (Ästhetik & Kommunikation; vol. 32, no. 115)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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‚Permanenter Ausnahmezustand’, ‚Netzkrieg’ oder doch ‚Zivilgesellschaft’? Kritische Überlegungen zum analytischen Wert von Kriegsmetaphern
Spreen, D., 2010, Unsichere Zeiten: Herausforderungen gesellschaftlicher Transformationen. Verhandlungen des 34. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Jena 2008. Soeffner, H.-G. (ed.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für SozialwissenschaftenResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die Sicherheit der Weltgesellschaft: Zur politischen Konstitution von Gesellschaft
Spreen, D., 2010, Wege der Sicherheitsgesellschaft: Gesellschaftliche Transformationen der Konstruktion und Regulierung innerer Unsicherheiten. Groenemeyer, A. (ed.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 192-229 37 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Friedensbildlichkeit und Gesellschaftsbegriff zur Zeit der Romantik
Spreen, D., 2006, "Der Friede ist keine leere Idee...": Bilder und Vorstellungen vom Frieden am Beginn der politischen Moderne. Kater, T. (ed.). Essen: Klartext Verlag, p. 135-156 21 p. (Frieden und Krieg; vol. 6).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Menschliche Cyborgs und reflexive Moderne: Vom Jupiter zum Mars zur Erde – bis ins Innere des Körpers
Spreen, D., 2004, Vernunft – Entwicklung – Leben: Schlüsselbegriffe der Moderne. Festschrift für Wolfgang Eßbach. Bröckling, U., Kaufmann, S. & Paul, A. T. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 317-346 29 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Sabine Ritter: Facetten der Sarah Bartmann. Repräsentation und Rekonstruktionen der 'Hottentottenvenus'
Stammberger, B., 01.10.2012, In: Soziologische Revue. 35, 4, p. 477-479 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research