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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From GUI to No-UI: Locating the interface for the internet of things
Shah, N., 26.06.2017, Digitisation: Theories and Concepts for Empirical Cultural Research. Koch, G. (ed.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 180-196 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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From engagement to life, or: How to do things with gamification?
Ruffino, P., 2014, Rethinking Gamification. Fuchs, M., Fizek, S., Ruffino, P. & Schrape, N. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 47-69 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › 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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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: E-Special Introduction
Parikka, J. & Feigelfeld, P., 12.2015, In: Theory, Culture & Society. 32, 7-8, p. 349-358 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › 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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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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Foul Play in Context: Cardsharps and Spoilsports
Fuchs, M., 2013, Context Matters!: Exploring and Reframing Games and Play in Context. Mitgutsch, K., Huber, S., Rosenstingl, H., Wagner, M. & Wimmer, J. (eds.). Wien: New Academic Press, p. 76 - 88 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Fort da. Ein Zirkular über bewegte Bücher: Fragen von Claus Pias. Antworten von Andreas Bernard, Timon Beyes, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Christian Kracht, Thomas Macho, Eckhart Nickel, Joseph Vogl und Sigrid Weigel
Pias, C., Bernard, A., Beyes, T., Gumbrecht, H. U., Kracht, C., Macho, T., Nickel, E., Vogl, J. & Weigel, S., 2015, Das bewegte Buch: ein Katalog der gelesenen Bücher; mit 104 Beispielen aus dem Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach. Gfrereis, H. & Pias, C. (eds.). Marbach: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e.V., p. 68-87 20 p. (Marbacher Magazin; vol. 150/151/152).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Filmische Moderne: 60 Fragmente
Fahle, O. (ed.), Gotto, L. (ed.), Neitzel, B. (ed.), Nowak, L. (ed.), Wagner, H. (ed.), Wendler, A. (ed.) & Wentz, D. (ed.), 27.02.2019, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 462 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Fictions of the Possible: Art, the City and Public Entrepreneurship
Beyes, T., 27.10.2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 24, 4, p. 445-449 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Feminismus und Film
Horstmann, F. (ed.), Wentz, D. (ed.) & Waack, L. (ed.), 12.04.2019, Bremen: Institut für Kunstwissenschaft – Filmwissenschaft – Kunstpädagogik, Universität Bremen. (Nach dem Film; no. 17)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › 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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Faszinosum Maschine: Die Roboterperformances von Louis Philipp Demers & Bill Vorn
Kaldrack, I. & Leeker, M., 2003, Es - das Wesen der Maschine. Demers, L. P. (ed.). Osnabrück: Europ. Media Art Festival, p. 10-33 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Faire de la recherche avec des artistes. La continuité entre l'art et la science
Wuggenig, U., 1996, In: Sociologie de l'art. 9, p. 95-119 25 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Eye Contact with the Machine: Gaze Correction in Video Conferencing
Rapoport, R. & Tollmann, V., 11.2023, Video Conferencing: Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics. Volmar, A., Moskatova, O. & Distelmeyer, J. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 209-231 23 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft; vol. 53).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Exposing the machinic present: Rimini Protokoll’s theatre of operations
Beyes, T., 2019, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics. Eckersall, P. & Grehan, H. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 219-223 5 p. (Routledge theatre and performance companions).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Explorations in Social Spaces: Gender, Age, Class Fractions and Photographical Choices of Objects
Wuggenig, U. & Mnich, P., 1994, Correspondence Analysis in the Social Sciences : Recent Developments and Applications. Blasius, J. & Greenacre, M. (eds.). London / San Diego / New York: Academic Press Inc., p. 302-324 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Explorations in social spaces: Gender, age, class fractions and photographical choices of objects
Wuggenig, U. & Mnich, P., 10.04.2006, Visual research methods: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods. Hamilton, P. (ed.). London: SAGE Publications Inc., Vol. IV. p. 339-364 26 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research