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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Just do it! Mimesis in technischem und künstlerischem Systems Engineering
Leeker, M., 2012, Mimesis. Balke, F., Siegert, B. & Vogl, J. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 153-166 13 p. (Archiv für Mediengeschichte; vol. 12).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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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Virtuelle Realität, 3D und Simulation
Warnke, M., 2014, Bild: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Günzel, S. & Mersch, D. (eds.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 273-277 5 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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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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Strangely Familiar: The Uncanny and Unsiting Organizational Analysis
Beyes, T. & Steyaert, C., 10.2013, In: Organization Studies. 34, 10, p. 1445-1465 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Intermediale Performances: Vom Umgang mit Medienkonvergenz 1966/2001
Leeker, M., 2011, Blickregime und Dispositive audiovisueller Medien. Elia-Borer, N., Sieber, S. & Tholen, G. C. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 87-110 24 p. (MedienAnalysen; no. 13).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Performativierung des Raums: Wissens- und technikgeschichtliche Aspekte zeitgenössischer Bühnenräume
Leeker, M., 2014, Bühne: Raumbildender Prozesse im Theater. Eke, N., Haß, U. & Kaldrack, I. (eds.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 149-170 22 p. (Automatismen).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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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Erfolgreiche Politik! Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht – eine Einleitung
Eckert, G., Novy, L. & Schwickert, D., 2013, Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht: Facetten erfolgreicher Politik. Eckert, G., Novy, L. & Schwickert, D. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 11-30 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Journalismus in der digitalen Moderne: Einsichten - Ansichten - Aussichten
Kramp, L. (ed.), Novy, L. (ed.), Ballwieser, D. (ed.) & Wenzlaff, K. (ed.), 2013, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. 251 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht: Facetten erfolgreicher Politik
Eckert, G. (ed.), Novy, L. (ed.) & Schwickert, D. (ed.), 2013, Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 431 p. (Politik als Beruf)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Britain and Germany Imagining the Future of Europe: National Identity, Mass Media and the Public Sphere
Novy, L., 12.09.2013, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 304 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book
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Jahrbuch Fernsehen 2013
Anschlag, D. (ed.), Cippitelli, C. (ed.), Hachmeister, L. (ed.), Kammann, U., Kubitz, P. P., Müller, P. (ed.) & Novy, L. (ed.), 2013, Berlin: Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik gHmbH. 464 p. (Jahrbuch Fernsehen)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Relationen im Raum: Visualisierung topographischer Klein(st)strukturen
Hüttenmeister, N., Kollatz, T., Rütenik, T., Warnke, M., Wedemeyer, C. & Ziai, T., 2013, In: Kalonymos. 16, 4, p. 4-6 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Changing societies, changing journalism
Novy, L., 2013, 2013 Social Media Guidebook. Möller, C. & Stone, M. (eds.). Wien: OSCE - The Representative on Freedom of the Media, p. 129-138 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Stiftung Journalismus: Zur Konkretion neuer medienpolitischer Strategien
Novy, L., 2013, Rundfunkpolitik und Netzpolitik: Strukturwandel der Medienpolitik in Deutschland. Hachmeister, L. & Anschlag, D. (eds.). Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, p. 140-149 10 p. (Edition Medienpraxis; vol. 10).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Journalismus als „creative industry“? Medienpolitische Möglichkeiten & kreativ-wirtschaftliche Strategien
Hachmeister, L., Novy, L. & Torun, O., 2013, Das Bauhaus kommt aus Thüringen: Kreativwirtschaft jenseits der Metropolen. Machnig, M. & Kiefer, D. (eds.). Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau Verlag GmbH, p. 93-111 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Das Ende der alten Zeitungsindustrie
Novy, L. & Wäscher, T., 2013, In: Berliner Republik : das Debattenmagazin. 14, 5, 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Eine Partei lebt
Novy, L. & Stauss, F., 2014, Wahl 2013: Macht, Medien, Milliardäre : Analysen zur Nationalratswahl. Hofer, T. & Tóth, B. (eds.). 2 ed. Münster: LIT Verlag, p. 125-135 (Politik Aktuell; no. 14).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Places of Memory, Topologies of Remembrance: On Still/Silence - Text for solo exhibition by Erika Matsunami & Antonis
Yoshida, M., 2011, Still = Silent. Matsunami, E. (ed.). Berlin: Revolver Publishing, p. 41-43 3 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
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Die Magischen Kanäle: Clemens Krümmel und Miya Yoshida über Joëlle De La Casinière bei Croy Nielsen
Krümmel, C. & Yoshida, M., 2006, In: Texte zur Kunst. 63, p. 221-224 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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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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Critical Reflections on "Democracy in Crisis': BETWEEN ACTIVISM AND ACADEMIA
Brunner, C., Burcar, L. & Freudenschuß, M., 01.06.2013, In: International Feminist Journal of Politics. 15, 2, p. 267-276 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research
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Liquid Democracy and the Futures of Governance
Ramos, J., 2015, The Future Internet: Alternative Visions. Winter, J. & Ono, R. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 173-191 19 p. (Public Administration and Information Technology; vol. 17).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Friedrich Kittler: E-Special Introduction
Parikka, J. & Feigelfeld, P., 12.2015, In: Theory, Culture & Society. 32, 7-8, p. 349-358 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Workshop: Accessible interaction for visually impaired people
Joisten, M., Zeng, L., Woletz, J., Brock, A. & Avila, M., 28.08.2015, Mensch und Computer 2015 - Workshop: 21st International Workshop on Intelligent and Personalized Human-Computer Interaction,. Weisbecker, A., Schmidt, A. & Burmester, M. (eds.). Oldenburg: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 379-381 3 p. (Mensch und Computer 2015 - Workshop).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Der Sinn der Lehre: Ethnographie, Affekt, sensemaking
Beyes, T. & Steyaert, C., 2015, Vom Sinn der Soziologie: Festschrift für Thomas S. Eberle . Maeder, C., Brosziewski, A. & Nentwich, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer, p. 197-211 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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A preliminary study on similarity-preserving digital book identifiers
Vladimir, K., Silic, M., Romic, N., Delac, G. & Srbljic, S., 2015, Proceedings of the 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities: LaTeCH 2015. Zervanou, K. A., van Erp, M. & Alex, B. (eds.). Beijing: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 78-83 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Fictions of the Possible: Art, the City and Public Entrepreneurship
Beyes, T., 27.10.2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 24, 4, p. 445-449 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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'Summoning art to save the city': A Note: 'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice
Beyes, T., 2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 15, 1, p. 207-220 13 p., 15.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Crowdfunding the Commons?
Ridgway, R., 2015, MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy. Lovink, G., Tkacz, N. & de Vries, P. (eds.). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, p. 281 - 294 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Personalisation as currency
Ridgway, R., 01.06.2015, In: A Peer-reviewed Journal About --. 4, 1, p. 17-28 12 p., 2.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Data traffic in theater and engineering: Between technical conditions and illusions
Leeker, M. & Steppat, M., 25.09.2015, Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices. Näser-Lather, M. & Neubert, C. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 160-179 20 p. (Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection ; vol. 88).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Das Fleisch der Diskurse: Zur Verbindung von Biographie- und Diskursforschung in der wissenssoziologischen Subjektivierungsanalyse am Beispiel der Behindertenpädagogik
Pfahl, L., Schürmann, L. & Traue, B. C., 2015, Erziehungswissenschaftliche Diskursforschung: Empirische Analysen zu Bildungs- und Erziehungsverhältnissen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 89-106 18 p. (Interdisziplinäre Diskursforschung).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Kinder machen: Neue Reproduktionstechnologien und die Ordnung der Familie ; Samenspender, Leihmütter, Künstliche Befruchtung
Bernard, A., 27.03.2014, 1. Aufl. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag. 544 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Transfer › peer-review
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Ecologies of Change: Editorial
Freudenschuß, M., Feigelfeld, P., Apprich, C., Beverungen, A., Simons, S. & spheres Editorial Collective, 15.12.2015, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 2, p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Vernetzt: Zur Entstehung der Netzwerkgesellschaft
Apprich, C., 2015, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 210 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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La vie, la nature, la technique
Hörl, E. H. & Gorz, A., 2015, Le fil rouge de l’écologie: Entretiens inédites en francais, édition établie et présentée par Willy Gianinazzi. Gorz, A. (ed.). Paris: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, p. 19-81 53 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Other › Research
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Les Adieux
Hörl, E. H., 2015, Le fil rouge de l’écologie: Entretiens inédites en francais, édition établie et présentée par Willy Gianinazzi. Gorz, A. (ed.). Paris: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, p. 103-106 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Other › Research
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Réfléxivité et Système. Le débat sur l'ordre et L'auto-organisation dans les années 1970
Hörl, E. H. (ed.) & Esposito, E. (ed.), 2015, Paris: Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme. (Trivium - Deutsch-französische Zeitschrift für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften; vol. 20/2015)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice
Bialski, P. (ed.), Derwanz, H. (ed.), Otto, B. (ed.) & Vollmer, H. (ed.), 02.2015, San Francisco, Califonia: MayflyBooks. 318 p. (Ephemera - theory & politics in organization; vol. 15, no. 1)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Collective low-budget organizing and low carbon futures: An interview with John Urry
Bialski, P., Urry, J. & Otto, B., 2015, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 15, 1, p. 221-228 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice
Bialski, P., Derwanz, H., Otto, B. & Vollmer, H., 03.2015, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 15, 1, p. 1-19 19 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Im Netz der Dinge: Zur Einleitung
Engemann, C. & Sprenger, F., 30.09.2015, Internet der Dinge: Über smarte Objekte, intelligente Umgebungen und die technische Durchdringung der Welt. Engemann, C. & Sprenger, F. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 7-57 51 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Internet der Dinge: Über smarte Objekte, intelligente Umgebungen und die technische Durchdringung der Welt
Engemann, C. (ed.) & Sprenger, F. (ed.), 2015, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 400 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Insensible and Inexplicable: On the two Meanings of Occult
Sprenger, F., 2015, In: Communication +1. 4, 1, 24 p., 2.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The Politics of Micro-Decisions: Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality and the Architecture of the Internet
Sprenger, F., 2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 127 p. (Digital Cultures Series)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Architekturen des "environment": Reyner Banham und das Dritte Maschinenzeitalter
Sprenger, F., 2015, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 12, 1, p. 55-67 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Die Vergangenheit der Zukunft: Kommentar zu »Das kommende Zeitalter der Calm Technology«
Sprenger, F., 2015, Internet der Dinge: Über smarte Objekte, intelligente Umgebungen und die technische Durchdringung der Welt. Sprenger, F. & Engemann, C. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 73 - 87 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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There is no software, there are just services
Kaldrack, I. (ed.) & Leeker, M. (ed.), 2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 114 p. (Digital Cultures)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research