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

    Maulwurf

    Fuchs, M., 2012, Lexikon der Raumphilosophie. Günzel, S. (ed.). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft - WBG, p. 248 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  2. Published

    Databases as citadels in the web 2.0

    Warnke, M., 2013, Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and the Their Alternatives. Lovink, G. & Rasch, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, p. 76-89 13 p. (INC Reader; no. 8).

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

  3. Published

    Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte: Der Computer als Medium für selbstbestimmtes Lernen

    Warnke, M., 1992, In: Computer + Unterricht. 2, 5, p. 27-31 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. Published

    Das Thema ist die ganze Welt: Hypertext im Museum

    Warnke, M., 1990, Hypertext und Hypermedia: von theoretischen Konzepten zur praktischen Anwendung. Gloor, P. & Streitz, N. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 268-277 10 p. (Informatik-Fachberichte; vol. 249).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  5. Published

    The financialisation of business ethics

    Beverungen, A., Dunne, S. & Hoedemaekers, C., 01.01.2013, In: Business Ethics: A European Review. 22, 1, p. 102-117 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Accepted/In press

    Kulturfreie Bilder: Erfindungen der Voraussetzungslosigkeit

    Pias, C. (ed.), 29.05.2013, (Accepted/In press) 1 ed. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos . 215 p. (Copyrights; no. 19)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  7. Published

    How should we fund open access monographs and what do you think is the most likely way that funding will happen?

    Davies, M. C. R., Ayris, P., Stone, G., Cheshire, J., Jackson, R., Hacker, A., Bunz, M., Ferwerda, E., Newton, H., Dacos, M., Mounier, P. & Neuman, Y., 01.2014, In: Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community. 27, SUPPL. 1, p. 45-50 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Asia in the edges: a narrative account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore

    Shah, N., 04.2014, In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 15, 2, p. 306-314 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Mysterium? Mysteria!

    Bachmann, G., 2014, In: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. 8, 2, p. 123–126 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Kollegialität: Eine Ethnographie der Belegschaftskultur im Kaufhaus

    Bachmann, G., 2014, Frankfurt/New York : Campus Verlag. 449 p. (Arbeit und Alltag : Beiträge zur ethnografischen Arbeitskulturenforschung; vol. 3)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  11. Published

    Performing university space: Multiplicity, Relationality, Affect

    Beyes, T. & Michels, C., 01.01.2014, The Physical University: Contours of Space and Place in Higher Education. Temple, P. (ed.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 15-33 19 p. 141021

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  12. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Another new museum? Imagining the space of art in the creative city

    Beyes, T., Steyaert, C. & Michels, C., 2014, In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. 18, 3, p. 9-28 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Transparenz und Geheimnis

    Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 2014, In: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. 8, 2, p. 111-117 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Diskursanalyse

    Traue, B. C., Pfahl, L. & Schürmann, L., 2014, Handbuch Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung. Baur, N. & Blasius, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 493-508 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Astro-Kulturen zwischen epistemisch-diskursiven Notwendigkeiten und schwachen Ontologien: Ein Nachwort

    Leeker, M., 2014, Astroculture: Figurations of Cosmology in Media and Arts. Neef, S., Sussman, H. & Boschung, D. (eds.). 1. ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 217-231 15 p. (Morphomata; vol. 17).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Zwischen Umwelt und milieu: Zur Begriffsgeschichte von environment in der Evolutionstheorie

    Sprenger, F., 2014, In: Forum interdisziplinäre Begriffsgeschichte. 3, 2, p. 7-19 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  19. Published

    Sehr geehrten Damen und Herren Abgeordneten, tun Sie endlich etwas für offene (Verwaltungs-)Daten!

    Heise, C., 12.2014, Jahrbuch Netzpolitik 2014: Fight for your digital rights. Beckedahl, M., Biselli, A. & Meister, A. (eds.). epubli GmbH, p. 157-164 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransferpeer-review

  20. Published

    Die Enden des Kabels: Kleine Mediengeschichte der Übertragung

    Gethmann, D. & Sprenger, F., 2014, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos . 144 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

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