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
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Ludic Interfaces
Fuchs, M., Russegger, G. & Mañas Carbonell, M., 2013, Exploring Videogames: Culture, Design and Identity . Webber, N. & Riha, D. (eds.). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, p. 31 - 40 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Media Genealogy: Back to the Present of Digital Cultures
Apprich, C. & Bachmann, G., 23.06.2017, Digitisation: Theories and Concepts for Empirical Cultural Research. Koch, G. (ed.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 293 - 306 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Mediatisierte Online-Kommunikation: Forschungspraktische Verwobenheit von Medientechnologie, Erhebungssituation und kontextsensitivem Auswertungsverfahren
Sander, N. & Schulz, M., 2014, Die qualitative Analyse internetbasierter Daten: Methodische Herausforderungen und Potenziale von Online-Medien. Schirmer, D., Sander, N. & Wenninger, A. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 161-198 38 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Medienästhetik und implizites Wissen: 1964/1991/2011
Leeker, M., 30.01.2017, Handbuch Schweigendes Wissen : Erziehung, Bildung und Sozialisation und Lernen. Kraus, A., Budde, J., Hietzge, M. & Wulf, C. (eds.). 1 ed. Basel: Beltz Juventa Verlag, p. 448-461 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Medien Atmosphären: Zur Remediation von Sozialität
Bachmann, G. & Beyes, T., 2013, Remediate: An den Rändern von Film, Netz und Archiv / At the borders of film, internet and archives. Doulis, M. & Ott, P. (eds.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 131-152 21 p. (Merz Akademie).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Medien und Performances: Konzeptionelle Aspekte einer angewandten Medienwissenschaft in der Theaterpädagogik
Leeker, M., 2003, Entwicklungen und Perspektiven der Spiel- und Theaterpädagogik: Festschrift für Hans-Wolfgang Nickel. Hentschel, U. & Nickel, H-W. (eds.). Berlin: Schibri-Verlag, p. 263 - 281 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Mit Pixel und Korn: DV-Ästhetik und DOGMA-Film
Kirchner, A., 2011, Film im Zeitalter "Neuer Medien": Fernsehen und Video. Segeberg, H. (ed.). 1 ed. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Vol. 1. p. 339-366 28 p. (Mediengeschichte des Films; vol. 7).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Mobility, Media, and the Experiences of Airbnb’s Aesthetic Regime
Bialski, P., 19.12.2017, Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities: Practices, Flows, Methods. Freundendal-Pedersen, M., Hartmann-Petersen, K. & Perez Fjalland, E. L. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 5 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Mobilizing Memes: The Contagious Socio-Aesthetics of Participation
Simons, S., 2016, ReClaiming Participation: Technology – Mediation – Collectivity. Mathias, D., Anne, G., Otto, I. & Stock, R. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 231–245 15 p. (Media Studies).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Mockular
Kaldrack, I. & Schmitt, T., 18.11.2013, Das Medium meiner Träume: Hartmut Winkler zum 60. Geburtstag. Adelmann, R. & Bergermann, U. (eds.). Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag, p. 283-303 21 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Motion Capture
Kaldrack, I., 2014, Wörterbuch kinematografischer Objekte. Göttel, D., Horstmann, F., Müller, J. P., Pantenburg, V., Waack, L., Wuzella, R. & Böttcher, M. (eds.). 1 ed. Berlin: August Verlag, p. 98-100 3 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Ökologien des Machens: Zur allgemein-ökologischen Kritik der Welterzeugung bei Tim Ingold
Hörl, E. H., 2016, +ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen. Doll, N., Bredekamp, H. & Schäffner, W. (eds.). 1 ed. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, p. 49-58 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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On Knowing Too Much: Technologists´Discourses Around Online Anonymity
Bialski, P., 2018, Non-Knowledge and Digital Cultures . Bernard, A., Koch, M. & Leeker, M. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 143-157 15 p. (Digital Culture Series ).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Online to offline social networking: contextualising sociality today through Couchsurfing.org
Bialski, P., 2013, Couchsurfing cosmopolitanisms: Can tourism make a better world?. Picard, D. & Buchberger, S. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 161-172 11 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Organizing Media: Security and Entertainment
Beyes, T., 10.2019, Organize. Beyes, T., Conrad, L. & Martin, R. (eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, p. 29-62 34 p. (In Search of Media).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Other Beginnings of Participative Sense Culture: Wild Media, Speculative Ecologies, Transgressions of the Cybernetic Hypothesis
Hörl, E. H., 2016, ReClaiming Participation: technology - mediation - collectivity. Denecke, M., Gatzert, A., Otto, I. & Stock, R. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 93-122 28 p. (Media studies).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Performativity, performance studies and digital cultures
Leeker, M., Schipper, I. & Beyes, T., 31.12.2016, Performing the Digital: Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures. v. Leeker, M., Schipper, I. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 9-18 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Performing (the) digital: Positions of critique in digital cultures
Leeker, M., 11.2016, Performing the Digital: Performance Studies and Performances in Digital Cultures. Beyes, T., Schipper, I. & Leeker, M. (eds.). 1 ed. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, Vol. 11. p. 21-63 43 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Peter Sloterdijk (1947b)
Beyes, T., 2014, The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies. Helin, J., Hernes, T., Hjorth, D. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 567-584 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Planning Table
Conrad, L., 10.12.2019, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 321-332 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Politics, embodiment, everyday life: Lefebvre and spaces of organizing
Beyes, T., 2018, Organisational Space and Beyond: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organisation Studies. Wasserman, V., Dale, K. & Kingma, S. F. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 27-45 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Precarity, Vulnerability and the Commons: Feminist Reflections on the Politics of Commons
Freudenschuß, M., 2013, Democracy in Crisis: The Dynamics of Civil Protest and Civil Resistance: Peace Report 2012. Preiss, B. & Brunner, C. (eds.). Wien & Berlin: LIT Verlag, p. 135-152 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Prekäre Subjekte - Prekäre Kritik
Freudenschuß, M., 2013, Krise, Kritik, Allianzen: Arbeits- und geschlechtersoziologische Perspektiven. Nickel, H. M. & Heilmann, A. (eds.). Weinheim/Basel: Beltz Juventa Verlag, p. 118-134 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Protokoll 28: Quatschmaschine macht Quatsch. Oder auch nicht
Müggenburg, J., Warnke, M. & Tollmann, V., 09.2023, ChatGPT und andere »Quatschmaschinen« : Gespräche mit Künstlicher Intelligenz. Tuschling, A., Sudmann, A. & Dotzler, B. J. (eds.). transcript Verlag, p. 246-254 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Quantencomputer/Quantenkryptographie
Warnke, M., 2014, Handbuch Medienwissenschaft. Schröter, J. (ed.). 1 ed. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 369-371 3 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Remaking Media Practices: From Tactical Media to Post-Media
Apprich, C., 2013, Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology. Apprich, C., Berry Slater, J., Iles, A. & Schultz, O. L. (eds.). London: Mute Books, p. 122-140 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Resonanz-Bild und ikonische Politik: Eine visuelle Diskursanalyse partizipativer Propaganda
Traue, B. C., 2014, Hillarys Hand: Zur politischen Ikonographie der Gegenwart. Kauppert, M. & Leser, I. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 131-156 26 p. (Kulturen der Gesellschaft; vol. 11).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Sich in Gemenge verwickeln
Conrad, L., 12.2018, Wild Thing: Unordentliche Prozesse in Design und Wissenschaft. Mareis, C. & Windgätter, C. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 103-125 23 p. (DesignWissen; vol. 1).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Social Games: Privacy and Security
Fuchs, M., 10.2012, ICT Critical Infrastructure and Society: 10th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC10 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 27-28, 2012. Proceedings. Magda D., H., Whitehouse, D., McIver Jr., W. & Phahlamohlaka, J. (eds.). Amsterdam: Springer, p. 330-337 8 p. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; vol. 386 AICT).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Spaces with a temper: On atmospheres of teaching
Michels, C. & Beyes, T., 2016, The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Beyes, T., Steyaert, C. & Parker, M. (eds.). London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 312-329 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Spaces with a temper: On atmospheres of education
Michels, C. & Beyes, T., 17.06.2016, The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Steyaert, C., Beyes, T. & Parker, M. (eds.). London: Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 312-329 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Stadt im Fluss: Liquidierung des Tatorts in zwei Episoden
Wentz, D., 2010, Tatort Stadt. : Mediale Topographien eines Fernsehklassikers. Griem, J. & Scholz, S. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, p. 245-266 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Subversive Gamification
Fuchs, M., 27.02.2018, Playful Subversion of Technoculture. Cermak-Sassenrath, D. (ed.). Singapore: Springer, p. 198 - 208 11 p. (Gaming Media and Social Effects).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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"Technisches Leben": Simondons Denken des Lebendigen und die allgemeine Ökologie
Hörl, E. H., 08.2017, Black Box Leben. Muhle, M. & Voss, C. (eds.). Berlin: August Verlag, p. 239-266 27 p. (Schriften des Internationalen Kollegs für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie; vol. 28).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Teilmengen. Mengen teilen. Taxonomien, Ordnungen und Massen im Facebook Open Graph
Kaldrack, I. & Röhle, T., 16.07.2014, Soziale Medien - Neue Massen. Pias, C., Baxmann, I. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 77-103 27 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The Anthropocenic Illusion: Sustainability an the Fascination of Control.
Hörl, E., 2015, Art in the Periphery of the Center. Wuggenig, U., Behnke, C., Knoll, V. & Kastelan, C. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 352-368 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Theater – Raum – Medien: Optionen für einen reflexiven Umgang mit Medienkulturen
Leeker, M., 2013, Vom Straßenkind zum Medienkind: Raum- und Medienforschung im 21. Jahrhundert. Westphal, K. & Jörissen, B. (eds.). 1 ed. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa Verlag, p. 87-106 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Theatre and Engineering: Kontrolle und Macht in medialen Umwelten in den 1960er Jahren, und heute?
Leeker, M., 2016, Räume und Medien des Regierens. Balke, F. & Muhle, M. (eds.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 198-217 20 p. (Merz Akademie).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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”The Machine Could Swallow Everything”: Satin Island and Performing Organization
Beyes, T., 31.12.2016, Performing the Digital: Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures. v. Leeker, M., Schipper, I. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 229–244 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The organizational a priori: Critique of the digital as critique of organization
Beyes, T., 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnholdt, C. L. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 229-248 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The Ornament of Mass Customization: On the Collective Consciousness of Dispersed Examiners
Simons, S., 2016, Social Media: New Masses. Baxmann, I., Beyes, T. & Pias, C. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 225-246 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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The Power of Information: A Journey Back in Time to the Faultlines of Globalization, Art, and Media in the Early 1990s
Bunz, M., 2013, The whole earth: California and the disappearance of the outside. Diederichsen, D. & Franke, A. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 172-176 5 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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There is no Software, there are just Services: Introduction
Kaldrack, I. & Leeker, M., 2015, There is no Software, there are just Services. Kaldrack, I. & Leeker, M. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 9-19 11 p. (Digital Cultures).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Variations on Klee’s Cosmographic Method
Hörl, E., 2014, Grain, Vapor, Ray: Textures of the Anthropocene. Klingan, K., Sepahvand, A., Rosol, C. & Scherer, B. M. (eds.). London: The MIT Press, Vol. Ray: Vol. III. p. 180-192 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Volkszählung
Bernard, A., 2016, Nach Feierabend: Wissen, ca. 1980. Pratschke, M., Stadler, M. & Güttler, N. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 189 - 196 8 p. (Zürch Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte; vol. 11).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Zeitlichkeit und Kognition im Hochfrequenzhandel
Beverungen, A. & Lange, A. C., 2017, Medien der Finanz. Balke, F., Siegert, B. & Vogl, J. (eds.). Weimar: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Vol. 17. p. 9-20 11 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Ziele, Mittel, Vermittlungswege: Drei Erfolgsdimensionen von Politik – zum Aufbau des Bandes
Eckert, G., Novy, L. & Schwickert, D., 2013, Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht: Facetten erfolgreicher Politik. Novy, L., Eckert, G. & Schwickert, D. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 47-58Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Zur Einleitung: Die Macht der Gefühle
Beyes, T. & Metelmann, J., 2012, Die Macht der Gefühle: Emotionen in Management, Organisation und Kultur. Metelmann, J. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Berlin: Berlin University Press, p. 7-22 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Education › Not peer-reviewed
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Krise oder goldenes Zeitalter? Befunde zum Status der Kritiker/innen und zur Lage der Kunstkritik
Wuggenig, U., 02.12.2013, WHAT’S NEXT?: Kunst nach der Krise. Ein Reader. Hedinger, J. M. & Meyer, T. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 610-615 6 p. 172Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Education
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Denken als Handwerk
Conrad, L., 01.11.2016, Schöner lehren: gegendert und gequeert. Eckert, L. & Martin, S. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 17-29 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Education › peer-review