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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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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Divide and Share: Taxonomies, Orders and Masses in Facebook's Open Graph
Kaldrack, I. & Röhle, T., 09.11.2014, In: Computational Culture -a journal of software studies. 4, 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Reflexitvität und System. Die Debatte über Ordnung und Selbstorganisation in den 1970er Jahren“
Esposito, E. & Hörl, E., 16.06.2015, In: Trivium. 20, p. 2-7 6 p., 1.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › 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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The technological condition
Hörl, E. & Enns, A., 2015, In: Parrhesia : a Journal of Critical Philosophy. 22, p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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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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Politik der Mikroentscheidungen: Edward Snowden, Netzneutralität und die Architekturen des Internets
Sprenger, F., 2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 130 p. (Digital Cultures Series)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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FEMINA POLITICAL - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, Heft 2-2014
Freudenschuß, M. (ed.) & Günther, J. (ed.), 11.2014, 2 ed. Verlag Babara Budrich. 196 p. (FEMINA POLITICAL - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft; vol. 23, no. 2)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Digitale Datenbanken: Eine Medientheorie im Zeitalter von Big Data
Burkhardt, M., 08.06.2015, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 388 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Ereignis
Engemann, C., Traue, B. & Scholz, R., 2014, DiskursNetz: Wörterbuch der interdisziplinäre Diskursforschung. Wrana, D., Ziem, A., Reisigl, M., Nonhoff, M. & Angermüller, J. (eds.). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, p. 134 1 p. (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft; vol. 2097).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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La Vita in movimento: Per una ludicizzazione creativa
Ruffino, P., 15.03.2016, Oltre il gioco : Critica della ludicizzazione urbana. Bittanti, M. & Zilio, E. (eds.). 1 ed. Mailand: Unicopli, Vol. 28. p. 146-160 15 p. (Ludologica).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture
Ruffino, P., 23.03.2018, London: Goldsmiths Press. 154 p. (Future Media )Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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IOCOSE: Art, Authority and Culture Jamming
Ruffino, P., Cremonesi, M., Cuttica, F. & Prati, D., 2017, Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance. De Laure, M. & M. F. (eds.). New York: NYU Press, p. 427-432 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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30 Years After Les Immatériaux: Art Science & Theory
Broeckmann, A. (ed.) & Hui, Y. (ed.), 2015, 1. ed. Lüneburg: meson press. 245 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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To See and to Be (With) - Reflections on the Ecology of Web Videos
Simons, S., 2014, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 1, 1, 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Politics after Networks: Editorial
Beverungen, A., Simons, S., Apprich, C., Feigelfeld, P., Freudenschuß, M. & Yoosuf, H., 11.11.2014, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 1, 1, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Free Labour, Social Media, Management: Challenging Marxist Organization Studies
Beverungen, A., Böhm, S. & Land, C., 04.2015, In: Organization Studies. 36, 4, p. 473-489 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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"If you like something, you want it to develop.": Zum Einsatz der Videokamera in den Filmen Lars von Triers
Kirchner, A., 2008, Abschied vom Zelluloid?: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Poetik des Videobildes. Kirchner, A., Prümm, K. & Richling, M. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 111-134 24 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Von der Leidenschaft, Bilder zu zeigen, die man so noch nicht gesehen hat: Die 11. Marburger Kameragespräche mit dem Träger des Marburger Kamerapreises 2009 Wolfgang Thaler
Kirchner, A., 2009, In: MEDIENwissenschaft. Rezensionen. Reviews.. 2, p. 109-114 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Vom Tableau zur entfesselten Kamera
Kirchner, A., 2011, In: Schnitt - Das Filmmagazin. 62, p. 82-83 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer › peer-review
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Der sensitive Blick: Zur Bildgestaltung in "Fremde Haut" (2005)
Kirchner, A., 2013, Nähe und Empathie: Die Bilderwelten der Kamerafrau Judith Kaufmann. Giesemann, B., Kirchner, A., Neubauer, M. & Prümm, K. (eds.). 1 ed. Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 120-142 23 p. (Marburger Kameragespräche; vol. 8).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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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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Die technologische Sinnverschiebung: Orte des Unermesslichen
Hörl, E. & Tatari, M., 2014, Orte des Unermesslichen: Theater nach der Geschichtsteleologie. Tatari, M. (ed.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 43-63 21 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Prostheses of Desire: On Bernard Stiegler's New Critique of Projection
Hörl, E. & De Boever, A., 2014, In: Parrhesia : a Journal of Critical Philosophy. 20, p. 2-14 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Herausforderungen und Potentiale bei online geführten Gruppendiskussionen
Sander, N. & Schulz, M., 2015, In: Soziologie. 44, 3, p. 186 - 202 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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The total Archive On the Function of Not-Knowing in digital Culture
Bernard, A., 02.2016, In: Merkur. 70, 801, p. 5-17 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › 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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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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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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Authority and Authorship: Uncovering the Socio-Technical Regimes of Peer-To-Peer Tourism
Bialski, P., 03.05.2016, Re-Inventing the Local In Tourism: Producing, Consuming and Negotiating Place. Russo, A. P. & Richards, G. (eds.). Bristol, GB: Channel View Publications Ltd, p. 35-49 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Kultursoziologie in Großbritannien
Traue, B. C., 2016, Handbuch der Kultursoziologie: Band 1: Begriffe – Kontexte – Perspektiven – Autor_innen. Moebius, S., Nungesser, F. & Scherke, K. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Vol. 1. p. 123-139 16 p. ( Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften).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 Political Economy of Corporate Governance
Jansson, A., Larsson-Olaison, U., Veldman, J. & Beverungen, A., 02.2016, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 16, 1, p. 1-17 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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#3 Unstable Infrastructures: spheres Editorial Collective
Apprich, C., Beverungen, A., Feigelfeld, P., Freudenschuß, M., Hille, L., Luchs, I., Simons, S., Wiedemann, C. & Yoosuf, H., 06.2016, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 3, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Ora et labora (et lege): Zur Politik postdigitaler Handlungsfelder
Apprich, C., 2016, In: Kunstforum international. 242, p. 82 - 93 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Rózsa Farkas: Post-Internet? Deine Mudda! Ein Gespräch von Clemens Apprich
Apprich, C., 2016, In: Kunstforum international. 242, p. 132 - 141 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer › peer-review
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Rezension im erweiterten Forschungskontext: Macht & Medien
Denecke, M., 09.2016, In: MEDIENwissenschaft. Rezensionen. Reviews.. 2016, 3, p. 318-324 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Tactical Media
Apprich, C., 2016, In: Kritische Berichte. 44, 1, p. 50-53 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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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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"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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Mediengenealogie: Zurück in die Gegenwart digitaler Kulturen
Apprich, C. & Bachmann, G., 2017, Digitalisierung: Theorien und Konzepte für die empirische Kulturforschung. Koch, G. (ed.). Konstanz, München: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, p. 405-426 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Einleitung
Pias, C. & Rieger, S., 02.2016, Vollstes Verständnis: Utopien der Kommunikation. Pias, C. & Rieger, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Berlin / Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7-13 7 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Vollstes Verständnis: Utopien der Kommunikation
Pias, C. (ed.) & Rieger, S. (ed.), 02.2016, 1 ed. Berlin / Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 208 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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„Das scheint mir das Widersprüchliche in der Kybernetik zu sein: Im gleichen Atemzug mit einer De-Anthropologisierung wird ein neuer Humanismus gefeiert.“
Pias, C., 10.07.2017, Eine Genealogie des MedienDenkens: Siegfried Zielinski im Gespräch mit: Hans Belting, Knut Ebeling, Thomas Elsaesser, Wolfgang Ernst, VALIE EXPORT, Boris Groys, Sybille Krämer, Geert Lovink, Joachim Paech, Claus Pias, Hans Ulrich Reck, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Nils Röller, Otto Rössler, Florian Rötzer, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Henning Schmidgen, Peter Weibel und Hartmut Winkler.. Hadler, F. & Irrgang, D. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 491-520 30 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Szintetikus történelem
Pias, C., 16.11.2015, In: Tiszataj. 4, p. 83-92 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Friedrich Kittler und der »Mißbrauch von Heeresgerät«: Zur Situation eines Denkbildes 1964 – 1984 – 2014
Pias, C., 04.2015, In: Merkur. 69, 791, p. 31-34 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Friedrich Kittler und der „Mißbrauch von Heeresgerät“: Zur Situation eines Denkbilds 1964 / 1984 / 2014
Pias, C., 2016, Zweckentfremdung: 'Unsachgemäßer' Gebrauch als kulturelle Praxis. Keller, D. & Dillschnitter, M. (eds.). 1 ed. Parderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 63-80 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Collectives, Connectives, and the ‘Nonsense1 of Participation
Pias, C., 02.2016, ReClaiming participation: technology - mediation - collectivity . Denecke, M., Ganzert, A., Stock, R. & Otto, I. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 23-38 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die Zeit die aus der Kälte kam
Pias, C., 05.12.2015, Exploring Cybernetics : Kybernetik im interdisziplinären Diskurs. Jeschke, S., Schmitt, R. & Dröge, A. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, p. 227-236 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review