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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Das Wissen des Profils: Über das Selbstdesign in der digitalen Kultur
Bernard, A., 2017, Profile: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge. Degeling, M., Othmer, J., Weich, A. & Westermann, B. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 27-36 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator
Bernard, A., 01.01.2014, New York: NYU Press. 309 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book
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Home for Hire: How the sharing economy commoditises our private sphere
Bialski, P., 01.01.2017, Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis: Practices, Politics and Possibilities. Ince, A. & Hall, S. M. (eds.). Oxford: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 83-95 13 p. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge: Mediale Umschichtungen durch die Einführung von SAP
Conrad, L., 01.02.2017, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 210 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Relationale Sozialtheorie und die Materialität des Sozialen 'Kontaktmedien' als Vermittlungsinstanz zwischen Infrastruktur und Lebenswelt
Traue, B. C., 2017, In: Soziale Welt. 68, 2-3, p. 243-260 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Potentiale und Herausforderungen einer empirischen Subjektivierungsforschung
Traue, B., Pfahl, L. & Globisch, C., 2017, Geschlossene Gesellschaften: Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Lessenich, S. (ed.). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 5 p. (Verhandlungen der Kongresse der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie; vol. 38).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Selbstthematisierungen (in) der Kommunikationsgesellschaft
Traue, B. C., 2017, Geschlossene Gesellschaften : Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Lessenich, S. (ed.). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Vol. 38. 6 p. (Verhandlungen der Kongresse der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie; vol. 38).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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De-Anonymizing Anonymous: Review of: Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy. The Many Faces of Anonymous, London/New York, Verso, 2014.
Heinrichs, R., 08.2016, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 2, Ecologies of Change, 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Das Wissen des Profils
Bernard, A., 30.03.2016, In: Arch + : Zeitschrift für Archithektur und Städtebau. 222, p. 120-121 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Das Diktat der Fruchtbarkeit
Bernard, A., 2016, Fortpflanzungsmedizin in Deutschland: Entwicklungen, Fragen, Kontroversen. Woopen, C. (ed.). Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, p. 11-19 9 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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Sovereign Media, Critical Infrastructures, and Political Subjectivity
Rossiter, N. & Apprich, C., 31.12.2016, across & beyond: A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions. Bishop, R., Gansing, K., Parikka, J. & Wilk, E. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 270-289 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Computing the City: FCJ-212 Editorial
Beverungen, A. & Sprenger, F., 31.07.2017, In: The Fibreculture Journal. 29, p. 1-9 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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General Ecology
Hörl, E. H., 2018, Posthuman Glossary. Braidotti, R. & Hlavajova, M. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 172-175 4 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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Rassismusforschung in Deutschland. Prekäre Geschichte, strukturelle Probleme, neue Herausforderungen
Bojadzijev, M., Opratko, B., Braun, K. & Liebig, M., 2018, Leerstelle Rassismus? : Analysen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten nach dem NSU. Dürr, T. & Becker, R. (eds.). Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau-Verlag, p. 59-73Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Digitale Kulturen und Kritik nach ihrem Ende
Hille, L. & Wentz, D., 2023, Kritik postdigital. Hille, L. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 9-20 12 p. (Digital Cultures Series).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kritik postdigital
Hille, L. (ed.) & Wentz, D. (ed.), 2023, Lüneburg: meson press. 140 p. (Digital Cultures Series)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Kritik in digitalen Kulturen: Begegnungen zwischen Entsagung, Revolution und Affirmation
Leeker, M., 2023, Kritik postdigital. Hille, L. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 83-102 20 p. (Digital Cultures Series).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Elevator as a mediating technology of organization
Bernard, A., 12.12.2019, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies . Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 214-224 11 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research