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
- 2013
- 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 anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Open Access und Open Educational Resources: Gemeinsames Handeln für die Öffnung von Wissen
Heise, C., 03.04.2013, Lernen in der digitalen Gesellschaft – offen, vernetzt, integrativ: Abschlussbericht. Ludwig, L., Narr, K., Frank, S. & Staemmler, D. (eds.). 1 ed. Berlin: Internet & Gesellschaft Collaboratory , p. 114-117 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
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As You Like It: Critique in the Era of an Affirmative Discourse
Bunz, M., 04.2013, Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Lovink, G. & Rasch, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Vol. 8. p. 137-145 (Inc Reader).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Free work
Beverungen, A., Otto, B., Spoelstra, S. & Kenny, K., 24.02.2013, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 13, 1, p. 1-9 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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#BWPWAP
Andersen, C. U., Bazzichelli, T., Beverungen, A., Cox, G. & Gansing, K., 31.01.2013, In: A Peer-reviewed Journal About --. 2, 1, p. 4-5 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Anschauen und Denken: Neue Perspektiven auf Materialität und Virtualität der Diagramme
Wentz, D., 2013, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 8, 1, p. 202-206 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Between the Ends of a Wire: Electricity, Instantaneity and the Globe of Telegraphy
Sprenger, F., 2013, Global Communication Electric: Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy. Hampf, M. & Müller-Pohl, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Frankfurt, M. [u.a.]: Campus Verlag, p. 355-381 27 p. (Globalgeschichte; vol. 15).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Bewegte Spiele: Zur Verschiebung des Verhältnisses von Spiel und Alltagswelt durch mobile Games
Schrape, N. & Fuchs, M., 2013, In: Sprache und Literatur. 44, 1, p. 69-83 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Blöde Sklaven oder lebhafte Artefakte ? Eine Debatte der 1960er
Müggenburg, J. & Pias, C., 2013, Automatismen - Selbst-Technologien. Bublitz, H., Kaldrack, I., Röhle, T. & Zeman, M. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 45-69 24 p. (Schriftenreihe des Graduiertenkollegs "Automatismen").Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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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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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Das Unvermeidliche vermeiden: Jayne Loaders, Kevin und Pierce Raffertys The Atomic Café (1982)
Simons, S., 2013, Das Undenkbare filmen: Atomkrieg im Kino. Nanz, T. & Pause, J. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 25-52 28 p. (Film).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Der Medienwandel der Serie
Wentz, D. (ed.) & Maeder, D. (ed.), 2013, Siegen: Universitätsverlag Siegen. 146 p. (Navigationen. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften; vol. 13, no. 1/2013)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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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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Der Skandal der Öffentlichkeit: Die “City of Change” als Kunst des Urbanen
Beyes, T., 2013, Die Enthüllung des Realen: Milo Rau und das International Institute of Political Murder. Bossart, R. (ed.). Berlin: Theater der Zeit, p. 132-143 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Die Macht der Verletzbarkeiten
Freudenschuß, M., 2013, In: Südlink. 164, p. 20-21 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer › peer-review
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Disrupting Business: Art and Activism in times of financial crisis
Cox, G. (ed.) & Bazzichelli, T. (ed.), 2013, New York City: Autonomedia. 256 p. (DATA browser)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research