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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Exploding Images
Tollmann, V., 2014, Every Whisper is a crash on my ears. Missa, A. (ed.). London: Arcadia Missa, p. 190-204 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Explicit Art Historical Image Referencing on a Big Scale
Warnke, M., 2012, In: LIBREAS. Library Ideas. 21, Bilder, Graphen, Visualisierungen, 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Existential Graphs as Ontographic Media
Wentz, D., 2019, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 10, 1, p. 177-189 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Executive Dashboard
Beverungen, A., 12.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 225-237 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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EWMN: Towards a Cooperation of Self-organized Actors in Digital Cultures
Leeker, M., 2012, Sharon Lockhart / Noa Eshkol. Barron, S. & Salvesen, B. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 97-102 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
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Ertanzte Technikgeschichte(n): Beobachtungen zur zeitgenössischen Begegnung von Tanz und elektronisch-digitaler Technologie
Leeker, M., 2002, Tanz Theorie Text. Klein, G. & Zipprich, C. (eds.). Münster: LIT Verlag, p. 533 - 552 20 p. (Tanzforschung; vol. 12).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Erfolgreiche Politik! Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht – eine Einleitung
Eckert, G., Novy, L. & Schwickert, D., 2013, Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht: Facetten erfolgreicher Politik. Eckert, G., Novy, L. & Schwickert, D. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 11-30 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Ereignis
Engemann, C., Traue, B. & Scholz, R., 2014, DiskursNetz: Wörterbuch der interdisziplinäre Diskursforschung. Wrana, D., Ziem, A., Reisigl, M., Nonhoff, M. & Angermüller, J. (eds.). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, p. 134 1 p. (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft; vol. 2097).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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Entwickler
Bialski, P., 2017, Nach der Revolution : Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen . Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 140-148 9 p. ("Duisburger Dialoge" der Haniel Stiftung).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Entsolidarisierung und Rassismus
Bojadzijev, M., Opratko, B., Braun, K., Heiter, A. & Liebig, M., 2017, Forschungsbericht Forschungs-Interventions-Cluster „Solidarität im Wandel?“. Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM) (ed.). Berlin: Instituts für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM), p. 31-51 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to scientific reports › Research
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Entladene Massen: Zur Krise eines Begriffs
Hagen, W., 2014, Soziale Medien - Neue Massen: Medienwissenschaftliche Symposien der DFG. Pias, C., Baxmann, I. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Zürich / Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 125-134 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Entgrenzung des künstlerischen Feldes durch Globalisierung ? Kontroverse Haltungen im Kunstfeld von Zürich
Wuggenig, U. & Tarnai, C., 2012, Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen: Verhandlungen des 35. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Frankfurt am Main 2010. Söffner, H-G. (ed.). Springer, Vol. CD-ROM. 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Ende des ästhetischen Wohlfahrtsstaates?
Wuggenig, U., 1996, In: Kursiv. 3, 2, p. 40-47 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Empfehlungsregime: Zur Konvergenz von Subjektivierungsweisen im Coaching und in der digitalen Kultur
Traue, B. C., 2013, In: Psychotherapie & Sozialwissenschaft. 15, 2, p. 67-91 25 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Elevator as a mediating technology of organization
Bernard, A., 12.12.2019, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies . Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 214-224 11 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Ein Vorwort in zehn Thesen
Baxmann, I., Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 2014, Soziale Medien – neue Massen: Medienwissenschaftliches Symposion der DFG. Baxmann, I., Beyes, T. & Pias, C. (eds.). 1 ed. Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 9-15 7 p. (Medienwissenschaftliche Symposien der DFG).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Ein Medium namens McLuhan: 37 Befragungen eines Klassikers
Bexte, P. & Leeker, M., 2020, Lüneburg: meson press. 141 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Einleitung: Von der "Klein-Hypothese" zur Beratung der Gesellschaft
Pias, C. & Vehlken, S., 2010, Think Tanks : Die Beratung der Gesellschaft. Brandstetter, T., Pias, C. & Vehlken, S. (eds.). Zürich, Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7-15 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Einleitung - McLuhan neu lesen: Zur Aktualität des kanadischen Medientheoretikers
Leeker, M. & Schmidt, K., 2008, McLuhan neu Lesen: Kritische Analysen zu Medien und Kultur im 21. Jahrhundert. De Kerckhove, D., Leeker, M. & Schmidt, K. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 19-50 32 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Einleitung
Bublitz, H., Kaldrack, I., Röhle, T. & Zeman, M., 2013, Automatismen - Selbst-Technologien. Bublitz, H., Kaldrack, I., Röhle, T. & Zeman, M. (eds.). 1. ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 9-41 33 p. (Schriftenreihe des Graduiertenkollegs "Automatismen").Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review