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

    Pattern Discrimination

    Apprich, C., Kyong Chun, W. H., Cramer, F. & Steyerl, H., 2019, Lüneburg: meson press. 124 p. (In Search of Media Book Series)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  2. Published

    Paranoia

    Apprich, C., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 78-86 9 p. (Duisburger Dialoge).

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

  3. Published

    Paradoxe Kritik

    Wuggenig, U., 2008, In: transversal / EIPCP multilingual webjournal. 8, 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. Published

    Overhead Projector

    Pias, C., 12.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 286-300 15 p.

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

  5. Published

    Otto Mueller, Brücke-Museum Berlin, (2014) Hirmer Verlag, München, Christiane Remm (Hg.)

    Severin, I. L., 28.03.2017

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

  6. Published

    Other Beginnings of Participative Sense Culture: Wild Media, Speculative Ecologies, Transgressions of the Cybernetic Hypothesis

    Hörl, E. H., 2016, ReClaiming Participation: technology - mediation - collectivity. Denecke, M., Gatzert, A., Otto, I. & Stock, R. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 93-122 28 p. (Media studies).

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

  7. Published

    Ornament der Mass Customization: Zum Kollektivbewusstsein verstreuter Examinatoren

    Simons, S., 2014, Soziale Medien - Neue Massen. Baxmann, I., Beyes, T. & Pias, C. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 237-259 23 p. (Medienwissenschaftliche Symposien der DFG).

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

  8. Published

    Organizing the entrepreneurial city

    Beyes, T., 2012, Handbook on Organisational Entrepreneurship. Hjorth, D. (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 320-337 18 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  9. Published

    Organizing Media: Security and Entertainment

    Beyes, T., 10.2019, Organize. Beyes, T., Conrad, L. & Martin, R. (eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, p. 29-62 34 p. (In Search of Media).

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

  10. Published

    Organizing Colour: Toward a Chromatics of the Social

    Beyes, T., 01.03.2024, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 292 p. (Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Organize

    Beyes, T., Conrad, L. & Martin, R., 10.2019, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 128 p. (In Search of Media)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  12. Published

    Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society

    Beverungen, A. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.) & Conrad, L. (ed.), 09.2019, London: SAGE Publications Inc. 127 p. (Organization; vol. 26, no. 5)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  13. Published

    Organization

    Beyes, T. & Metelmann, J., 09.10.2018, The Creativity Complex: A Companion to Contemporary Culture. Beyes, T. & Mentelmann, J. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 177-183 7 p.

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

  14. Published

    Organization

    Beyes, T., 2021, Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data. Thylstrup, N. B., Agostinho, D., Ring, A., D'Ignazio, C. & Veel, K. (eds.). Cambridge: The MIT Press, p. 369 - 376 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  15. Published

    Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge: Mediale Umschichtungen durch die Einführung von SAP

    Conrad, L., 01.02.2017, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 210 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Organisation

    Beyes, T., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 127-137 11 p.

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

  17. Published

    Organisation

    Beyes, T., 2018, Der Kreativitätskomplex: Ein Vademecum der Gegenwartsgesellschaft. Beyes, T. & Metelmann, J. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 197-203 7 p.

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

  18. Published

    Organisation

    Beyes, T., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 128-137 10 p.

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

  19. Published

    Ora et labora (et lege): Zur Politik postdigitaler Handlungsfelder

    Apprich, C., 2016, In: Kunstforum international. 242, p. 82 - 93 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

  20. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransfer

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