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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Variations on Klee’s Cosmographic Method
Hörl, E., 2014, Grain, Vapor, Ray: Textures of the Anthropocene. Klingan, K., Sepahvand, A., Rosol, C. & Scherer, B. M. (eds.). London: The MIT Press, Vol. Ray: Vol. III. p. 180-192 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Value struggles in the creative city: A 'People's Republic of Stokes Croft'?
Frenzel, F. & Beverungen, A., 18.05.2015, In: Urban Studies. 52, 6, p. 1020-1036 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › 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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Unzeitgemäße Techniken. Historische Narrative künstlerischer Verfahren, (Interdependenzen. Die Künste und ihre Techniken, 4), (Hg.) Bushart, Magdalena - Haug, Henrike - Stallschus, Stefanie: Köln, Böhlau 2019
Severin, I. L., 16.12.2019, onlineResearch output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › 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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...und natürlich kann geschlachtet werden! Wie die Geiselnahme einer Kuh als kritische Intervention in biopolitische Zeichensysteme zu verstehen ist
Apprich, C., 2011, In: Medien-Impulse: Beiträge zur Medienpädagogik. 2, 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Uncanny matters: Kafka’s burrow, the unhomely and the study of organizational space
Beyes, T., 2019, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 19, 1, p. 179-192 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Über symbolische Grenzen: Legitimität und sozialer Gebrauch der Photographie
Wuggenig, U., 1996, Games, Fights, Collaborations: Das Spiel von Grenze und Überschreitung ; Kunst und cultural studies in den 90er Jahren. von Bismarck, B., Stoller, D. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 36-51 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Über die Freiheit der Kunst
Wuggenig, U., 1996, In: Vor der Information. 3, 5/6, p. 113-114 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Über das Essen
Bernard, A., 2002, Salzburg: Jung und Jung. 84 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Trick 17 zur Einführung
Vehlken, S., Müggenburg, J. K., Sprenger, F. & Müller-Helle, K., 2016, Trick 17: Mediengeschichten zwischen Zauberkunst und Wissenschaft. Vehlken, S., Müller-Helle, K., Müggenburg, J. & Sprenger, F. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 7-14 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Trick 17: Mediengeschichten zwischen Zauberkunst und Wissenschaft
Vehlken, S. (ed.), Müller-Helle, K. (ed.), Müggenburg, J. K. (ed.) & Sprenger, F. (ed.), 2016, Norderstedt: meson press. 118 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Transparenz und Geheimnis
Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 2014, In: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. 8, 2, p. 111-117 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the City
Bialski, P., 31.07.2017, In: The Fibreculture Journal. 29, p. 115-128 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Tracing Concepts: In, Out and Through Computing
Romic, N. & Gardner, E., 15.07.2011, In: Volume. 28, p. 1-24 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Toward a Kaleidoscopic Understanding of Anonymity
Bachmann, G., McHardy, J., Knecht, M. & Zurawski, N., 30.04.2021, Book of Anonymity. Collective, A. (ed.). Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, p. 16-34 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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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To See and to Be (With) - Reflections on the Ecology of Web Videos
Simons, S., 2014, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 1, 1, 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Topografische Spurensuche in Köln entlang der Achse Berlin–Köln. Wiedergutmachung und Wiederaufbau (1945–1957): Leopold Reidemeister als Mittler und Streiter für die Moderne
Severin, I. L., 2017, Leopold Reidemeister. Ein Deutscher Museumsmann. . Moeller, M. M. (ed.). München: Hirmer, p. 114-165 52 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Three shades of 'urban-digital citizenship': borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town
Antenucci, I. & Tomasello, F., 2023, In: Citizenship Studies. 27, 2, p. 247-270 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review