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
  1. Published

    Der Schwerkraft entkommen: Letatlin und andere utopische Flugapparate in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts – fünf Marginalien

    Broeckmann, A., 2012, Tatlin – neue Kunst für eine neue Welt: Internationales Symposium. M. T. (ed.). Ostfildern, Basel: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 84-87 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  2. Published

    Charity and finance in the university

    Beverungen, A., Hoedemaekers, C. & Veldman, J., 01.02.2014, In: Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 25, 1, p. 58-66 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    The communism of capital?

    Beverungen, A., Murtola, A-M. & Schwartz, G., 25.08.2013, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 13, 3, p. 483-495 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. Published

    Citizen Action in the Time of the Network

    Shah, N., 05.2013, In: Development and Change. 44, 3, p. 665-681 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Gamification - die Ausweitung der Spielzone

    Fuchs, M., 2013, In: DU - das Kulturmagazin. 839, 9, p. 82 - 87 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Explorations in social spaces: Gender, age, class fractions and photographical choices of objects

    Wuggenig, U. & Mnich, P., 10.04.2006, Visual research methods: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods. Hamilton, P. (ed.). London: SAGE Publications Inc., Vol. IV. p. 339-364 26 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  7. Published

    Für das Politische in der politischen Ökonomie: Einleitung

    Freudenschuß, M. & Scheele, A., 2013, In: Femina Politica. 1, p. 9-20 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Die Macht der Verletzbarkeiten

    Freudenschuß, M., 2013, In: Südlink. 164, p. 20-21 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  9. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Prekär ist wer? Der Prekarisierungsdiskurs als Arena sozialer Kämpfe

    Freudenschuß, M., 2013, Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot. 333 p. (Arbeit - Demokratie - Geschlecht; no. 18)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  11. Published

    Kunsthochschulen, Universitäten und der Bologna-Prozess

    Wuggenig, U., 08.04.2008, Hamburg : Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kritik e.V. .

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

  12. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Portraits von Underdogs. Bd. II: Protokolle der Intensiv- und Elterninterviews und der Fotobefragungen

    Wuggenig, U., 1985, Hannover: Forschungsstelle Arbeit, Beruf, Bildung der Universität Hannover, 219 p.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

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  15. Published

    A Dying Theory? A Critical Assessment of Some Aspects of Status Inconsistency Research 1950-1983

    Wuggenig, U., 1986, Status inconsistency in modern societies. Proceedings of a Conference on "New Differentiations of Status Structures? On the Viability of the Concept of Status Inconsistency in Contemporary Society. Strasser, H. & Hodge, R. W. (eds.). Duisburg: Verlag der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Kooperative, p. 24-37 14 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  16. Published

    Soziale Ungleichheit und legitime Kultur

    Wuggenig, U., 1988, Kulturarbeit und Kulturpädagogik: Grundlagen, Praxisfelder, Ausbildung. Müller-Rolli, S. (ed.). München: Juventa Verlag, p. 33-64 32 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  17. Published

    Das Amerikabild der Deutschen: Außenansichten I

    Wuggenig, U., 1989, Aspekte amerikanischer Kultur. Beneke, J., Jarman, F. & Whybra, D. (eds.). Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, p. 17-44 28 p. ( Hildesheimer Beiträge zu den Erziehungs- und Sozialwissenschaften. Studien, Texte, Entwürfe; vol. 31).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  18. Published

    Bildungskapital und berufliche Position: Streß und Intrapunitivität als Reaktionen auf Beschäftigungsprobleme

    Engel, U. & Wuggenig, U., 1990, Empirischer Theorienvergleich: Erklärungen sozialen Verhaltens in Problemsituationen. Opp, K. D. & Wippler, R. (eds.). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, p. 147-190 44 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  19. Published

    Eine strukturelle Version der Theorie der Statusinkonsistenz

    Wuggenig, U., 1990, Empirischer Theorienvergleich: Erklärungen sozialen Verhaltens in Problemsituationen. Opp, K. D. & Wippler, R. (eds.). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, p. 37-70 34 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  20. Published

    Statistische Auswertungsverfahren nominalskalierter Daten

    Wuggenig, U. & Engel, U., 1991, Handbuch Qualitative Sozialforschung. Grundlagen, Konzepte, Methoden und Anwendungen. Flick, U., von Kardorff, E., Keupp, H., von Rosenstiel, L. & Wollf, S. (eds.). München: Psychologie Verlagsunion, p. 237-243 7 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

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