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
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Totgesagte leben länger – Zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Renaissance und den Paradoxien von Authentizität: Eine Sammelrezension
Simons, S., 2013, In: KULT_online. 36, 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Visuelle Diskursanalyse: Ein programmatischer Vorschlag zur Untersuchung von Sicht- und Sagbarkeiten im Medienwandel
Traue, B. C., 2013, In: Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung. 1, 2, p. 117-136 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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WhatsApp und das prozessuale Interface: Zur Neugestaltung von Smartphone-Kollektiven.
Denecke, M. & Otto, I., 2013, In: Sprache und Literatur. 44, 1, p. 14-29 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Whose Change is it, Anyway? Towards a future of digital technologies and citizen action in emerging information societies
Shah, N., 2013, The Hague: Hivos, 40 p. (Hivos Knowledge Programm).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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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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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
- 2012
- Published
Eine Chronik zum Thema Elektronische Demokratie
Heise, C., 14.12.2012, Jahrbuch Netzpolitik 2012: Von A wie ACTA bis Z wie Zensur. Beckedahl, M. & Meister, A. (eds.). Berlin: epubli GmbH, p. 95-107 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Privacy is Dead – Ein Fünf-Jahres-Selbstversuch der bewussten Ortsbestimmung mittels GPS
Loebel, J-M., 12.12.2012, Automatismen - Selbst-Technologien. Bublitz, H., Kaldrack, I., Röhle, T. & Zeman, M. (eds.). 1. Auflage ed. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 143-163 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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"Being There!": Epistemologische Skizzen zur Smartphone-Fotografie
Hagen, W., 12.2012, Bildwerte: Visualität in der digitalen Medienkultur. Freyermuth, G. S. & Gotto, L. (eds.). transcript Verlag, p. 103-135 33 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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The poverty of journal publishing
Beverungen, A., Böhm, S. & Land, C., 01.11.2012, In: Organization. 19, 6, p. 929-938 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Das Kunstfeld: Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst am Beispiel von Zürich, Wien, Hamburg und Paris
Munder, H. (ed.) & Wuggenig, U. (ed.), 11.2012, Zürich: JRP Ringier Verlag. 460 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Die stille Revolution: Wie Algorithmen Wissen, Arbeit, Öffentlichkeit und Politik verändern, ohne dabei viel Lärm zu machen
Bunz, M., 10.2012, Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. 171 p. (edition unseld; no. 43)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Social Games: Privacy and Security
Fuchs, M., 10.2012, ICT Critical Infrastructure and Society: 10th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC10 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 27-28, 2012. Proceedings. Magda D., H., Whitehouse, D., McIver Jr., W. & Phahlamohlaka, J. (eds.). Amsterdam: Springer, p. 330-337 8 p. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; vol. 386 AICT).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Is Privacy Dead? An inquiry into GPS-based geolocation and facial recognition systems
Loebel, J-M., 26.09.2012, ICT Critical Infrastructures and Society: 10th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC10 2012, Proceedings. Hercheui, M. D., Whitehouse, D., McIver, W. & Phahlamohlaka, J. (eds.). Springer, Vol. IFIP AICT 386. p. 338-348 11 p. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; vol. 386 AICT).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Rezension: Krieg und Frieden im globalen Dorf, oder: Eine Faszinationsgeschichte des Schmerzes
Leeker, M., 16.09.2012, 10 p.Research output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research
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Motive vernetzen – Meta-Image als Bild-Zettelkasten: Bilddiskurse in Zeiten des Internet
Warnke, M., 09.2012, In: FIfF-Kommunikation. 29, 3, p. 50-52 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Unreine Bilder: Zur medialen (Selbst-)Inszenierung von school shootern
Grzeszyk, A., 01.08.2012, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 432 p. (Kultur- und Medientheorie)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Digitales Vergessen: Deletion Impossible?
Kurz, C. & Loebel, J-M., 15.07.2012, Potentiale des Vergessens. Blum, A., Georgen, T., Knapp, W. & Sellier, V. (eds.). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, p. 343-358 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Update wurde nicht ausgeführt: Mit „Drama und Regie. Lars von Triers Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville“ hat Georg Tiefenbach ein eigenartiges Buch zu drei Filmen des dänischen Regisseurs vorgelegt
Kirchner, A., 21.06.2012, 1 p. Verlag LiteraturWissenschaft.de.Research output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research
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RiB-Kit (RFID-in-a-Box): Eine mobile RFID-Lösung für neuartige Interaktionskonzepte
Loebel, J-M. & Kuper, H-G., 09.05.2012, Kultur und Informatik : Aus der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft. Sieck, J. & Franken-Wendelstorf, R. (eds.). 1. Auflage ed. vwh-Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, p. 187-196 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review