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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Medienidentitäten: Identität im Kontext von Globalisierung und Medienkultur
Winter, C. & Thomas, T. (Editor), 2003, Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag. 400 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Die Geschichte der E-Mail: Erfolg und Krise eines Massenmediums
Siegert, P. F., 27.03.2008, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 360 p. (Technik, Körper, Gesellschaft; vol. 1)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Media use in Germany around the attacks in the United States
Röser, J. & Schaefer, G., 2002, Communication and terrorism: Public and Media Responses to 9/11. Greenberg, B. S. (ed.). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, p. 85-97 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Ebstorfer Weltkarte: Kloster Ebstorf bei Lüneburg
von Tilbury , G. & Warnke, M., 2004, Deutschland in historischen Karten. Braunschweig: Archiv VerlagResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Nationale Selbst- und Fremdbilder in Talkshows: Konstruktionen im Kontext "Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft"
Thomas, T., 2002, Kultur(en) im Gespräch. Kotthoff, H. (ed.). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, p. 151-179 29 p. (Literatur und Anthropologie; vol. 14).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Banal militarism and the culture of war
Thomas, T. & Virchow, F., 2005, Bring 'em on: Media and Politics in the Iraq War. Artz, L. & Kamalipour, Y. R. (eds.). Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, p. 23-36 14 p. (COMMUNICATION, MEDIA, AND POLITICS).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Militär und Popmusik
Thomas, T. & Virchow, F., 2003, In: Ossietzky. 6, 17, p. 590-592 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Populäre Mediengewalt: Macht der Medienbilder oder Medienbilder der Macht?
Röser, J., 2002, In: Wir Frauen. 21, 1, p. 18-19 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Banal Militarism: zur interdisziplinären Erschliessung eines Forschungsfeldes
Virchow, F. & Thomas, T., 2006, Banal militarism. Thomas, T. (ed.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 25-48 24 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Joan kristin Bleicher / Bernhard Pörksen: Grenzgänger: Formen des New Journalism, Wiesbaden VS, 2004 - 443 Seiten, ISBN 3--531-14096-5
Peil, C., 01.01.2006, In: Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft. 54, 4, p. 684-687 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research