Centre for Digital Cultures
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) unites a large range of research and development activities dedicated to the digital shift. It engages in knowledge creation and transfer, experimental and interventionist media practices, and research in disciplines such as media, social and cultural studies. The CDC aims to both understand the epochal digital shift through excellent research, and to become one of the major European forces that shape digital cultures to come.
The CDC has seen a remarkable uptake of successful funding bids. The major projects are funded by the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE) and the State of Lower Saxony, by the German Research Council (DFG) and the VW Foundation respectively. Additional smaller projects are supported by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Transmediale, and the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). The CDC has by now more than 80 researchers and cultural producers from all over the world. They work on questions such as:
- Transmedia: How can we understand and develop new formats for entertainment as well as culture and education, merging different forms of production, participation, distribution and aesthetics?
- User and Audience Research: What kind of methods enable us to understand new usage and consumption patterns, addressing digital cultures’ both global and local audiences?
- Gamification: Computer games have a growing relevance in contemporary life, not only due to the games themselves, but also through their metaphors and methods. What new opportunities arise?
- Common Media: Which new forms of citizenship and cultural/political engagement are developing in the digital age, and how can we understand, enact and strengthen them?
- Net based Public Broadcast: How can publicly funded provision of information, education, culture and entertainment adapt to the internet? How can new versions of basic provision be realized?
- Hybrid Publishing: Which avenues for the communication and dissemination of knowledge beyond classrooms and research articles can be constructed, adapting the cultural and economic logic of the digital age?
- Computer Simulation: From climate change to mass panics: Knowledge production based on computer simulation is shaping our worldview. How can we analyse and understand its effects?
Research and development at the CDC traverse boundaries between the academic sector, culture and the arts, industry, governmental bodies and civil society. It is a conducive, productive and experimental research environment, in which researchers and entrepreneurs, activists and artists, producers and hackers, thinkers and doers broker dynamic connections. Visions, blueprints and experimental findings get exposed to real-world conditions. The development of innovative teaching formats is a further crucial part of the mix: Leuphana Digital School is bringing knowledge and education online, and a new English-speaking Bachelor in Digital Media started in autumn 2013, developed in cooperation with Leuphana’s Institute for the Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, Hamburg Media School and Hongkong City University. The result is a new, open and engaged form of research and development for Europe’s digital cultures.
Topics
- Transmedia
- User and Audience Research
- Gamification
- Common Media
- Net based Public Broadcast
- Hybrid Publishing
- Computer Simulation
- Artistic Research
- New Teaching Formats
- Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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The Island of the Day After. The Television Series Lost and the Post-9/11-Era
Niemeyer, K. & Wentz, D., 2018, Lost In Media. Wentz, D., Beil, B. & Schwaab, H. (eds.). Wien: LIT Verlag, p. 137-154 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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The Return of the Plague of Ornaments
Wuggenig, U., 2013, D.A. : A Transdisciplinary Handbook of Design Anthropology. Milev, Y. (ed.). Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, Vol. 1. p. 56-67 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Topografische Spurensuche in Köln entlang der Achse Berlin–Köln. Wiedergutmachung und Wiederaufbau (1945–1957): Leopold Reidemeister als Mittler und Streiter für die Moderne
Severin, I. L., 2017, Leopold Reidemeister. Ein Deutscher Museumsmann. . Moeller, M. M. (ed.). München: Hirmer, p. 114-165 52 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Toward a Kaleidoscopic Understanding of Anonymity
Bachmann, G., McHardy, J., Knecht, M. & Zurawski, N., 30.04.2021, Book of Anonymity. Collective, A. (ed.). Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, p. 16-34 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Trick 17 zur Einführung
Vehlken, S., Müggenburg, J. K., Sprenger, F. & Müller-Helle, K., 2016, Trick 17: Mediengeschichten zwischen Zauberkunst und Wissenschaft. Vehlken, S., Müller-Helle, K., Müggenburg, J. & Sprenger, F. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 7-14 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Über symbolische Grenzen: Legitimität und sozialer Gebrauch der Photographie
Wuggenig, U., 1996, Games, Fights, Collaborations: Das Spiel von Grenze und Überschreitung ; Kunst und cultural studies in den 90er Jahren. von Bismarck, B., Stoller, D. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 36-51 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Vom Nutzen enger Kanäle – Diskursverknappung als Methode
Warnke, M., 2012, Öffentliche Wissenschaft und Neue Medien: Die Rolle der Web 2.0-Kultur in der Wissenschaftsvermittlung. Robertson-von Trotha, C. Y. & Muñoz Morcillo, J. (eds.). Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing, p. 91-99 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Von der Performance mit Musik zur Performanz rückgekoppelter Maschinengeräusche: Töne, Klänge und Geräusche in Installationen und Performances in den achtziger Jahren und um 2000
Leeker, M., 2006, Reflexzonen, Migration. Brüstle, C. & Rebstock, M. (eds.). 1 ed. Saarbrücken: Pfau Verlag, p. 165-177 13 p. (Musik im Dialog; vol. 6)(Jahrbuch der Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik; vol. 2003/2004).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Von Knoten zu Knoten: Eine Einleitung
Apprich, C. & Stalder, F., 02.2012, Vergessene Zukunft: Radikale Netzkulturen in Europa. Apprich, C. & Stalder, F. (eds.). Berlin: transcript Verlag, p. 9-16 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Was ist Kunst? Antworten aus soziologischer Perspektive
Wuggenig, U., 1994, Was ist Kunst?. Fein, M. & Freis, M. (eds.). Lüneburg: Universität Lüneburg, p. 5-13 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Weibliche Medien um 1900: Über okkulte Herkünfte der Medienwissenschaft
Leeker, M., 2008, Gendermedia: Zum Denken einer neuen Disziplin. Wagner, H. (ed.). Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften - VDG Weimar, p. 117 - 140 24 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Welche Öffentlichkeiten? Einleitung
Beyes, T., 2014, Soziale Medien – neue Massen: Medienwissenschaftliches Symposion der DFG. Baxmann, I., Beyes, T. & Pias, C. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 231-235 5 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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„Wer Bücher hört, kann auch Klänge sehen“: Bemerkungen zur Synästhesie des Hörbuchs.
Hagen, W., 2014, Das Hörbuch: Audioliteralität und akustische Literatur. Binczek, N. & Epping-Jäger, C. (eds.). 1 ed. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 179-192 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Who's Hacking Whom?
Ridgway, R., 02.2017, Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches. Coleman, E. G. & Kelty, C. M. (eds.). United States: CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Vol. 8. p. 120-126 7 p. (Limn; vol. 8).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Wir sind drin. Zur Gegenwart digitaler Kulturen
Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 5-11 7 p. (Edition Speersort)(Duisburger Dialoge).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Agentenspiele. Crowd Management, Sozialsimulation und Big Data
Vehlken, S. & Pias, C., 01.02.2014, Managementperspektiven für die Zivilgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts: Management als Liberal Art. von Müller, C. & Zinth, C-P. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 167-182 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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›A moving picture of thought‹: Diagrammatisches Schließen im Kino
Wentz, D., 2014, Wissensraum Film. Gradinari, I., Müller, D. & Pause, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Reichert, p. 39-60 22 p. (Trierer Beiträge zu den historischen Kulturwissenschaften; vol. 13).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Art, Aesthetics and Organization
Beyes, T., 26.08.2016, A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies. Czarniawska, B. (ed.). 1 ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 115-125 11 p. (Elgar research agendas).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Astro-Kulturen zwischen epistemisch-diskursiven Notwendigkeiten und schwachen Ontologien: Ein Nachwort
Leeker, M., 2014, Astroculture: Figurations of Cosmology in Media and Arts. Neef, S., Sussman, H. & Boschung, D. (eds.). 1. ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 217-231 15 p. (Morphomata; vol. 17).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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As You Like It: Critique in the Era of an Affirmative Discourse
Bunz, M., 04.2013, Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Lovink, G. & Rasch, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Vol. 8. p. 137-145 (Inc Reader).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review