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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Die Zeit die aus der Kälte kam
Pias, C., 05.12.2015, Exploring Cybernetics : Kybernetik im interdisziplinären Diskurs. Jeschke, S., Schmitt, R. & Dröge, A. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, p. 227-236 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart. Nationalismus, (Neo)Rassismus und Heterophobie im ästhetischen Feld.
Wuggenig, U., 1994, In: Vor der Information. 19, 1, p. 58-87 30 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Die Vergangenheit der Zukunft: Kommentar zu »Das kommende Zeitalter der Calm Technology«
Sprenger, F., 2015, Internet der Dinge: Über smarte Objekte, intelligente Umgebungen und die technische Durchdringung der Welt. Sprenger, F. & Engemann, C. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 73 - 87 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Die übertragene Revolution
Apprich, C., 2011, In: Kulturrisse : Zeitschrift für radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik. 4/2011, p. 7 1 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Die technologische Sinnverschiebung: Orte des Unermesslichen
Hörl, E. & Tatari, M., 2014, Orte des Unermesslichen: Theater nach der Geschichtsteleologie. Tatari, M. (ed.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 43-63 21 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die technologische Bedingung des sozialen Selbst
Traue, B. C. & Schünzel, A., 2015, Mediatisierung (in ) der sozialen Arbeit. Kutscher, N., Ley, T. & Seelmeyer, U. (eds.). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, p. 39 - 55 17 p. (Grundlagen der sozialen Arbeit; vol. 38).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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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Die qualitative Analyse internetbasierter Daten: Methodische Herausforderungen und Potenziale von Online-Medien
Schirmer, D. (ed.), Sander, N. (ed.) & Wenninger, A. (ed.), 2014, Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 284 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Die (Psycho-)Macht des Therapeutischen und die Optionalisierung des Handelns
Traue, B. C., 01.2016, Handbuch Therapeutisierung und Soziale Arbeit. Anhorn, R. & Balzereit, M. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 249-261 13 p. (Perspektiven kritischer Sozialer Arbeit; vol. 23).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die Ökologisierung des Denkens
Hörl, E. H., 2016, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 14, 1, p. 33-45 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Die nächste Wirtschaftsuniversität
Beyes, T. & Metelmann, J., 2018, Welzers Welt. Störungen im Betriebsablauf. Giesecke, D., Soeffner, H-G. & Wiegandt, K. (eds.). 1 ed. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, p. 151-156 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die Medien und das Neue
Wendler, A. (ed.) & Wentz, D. (ed.), 02.2009, Marburg: Schüren Verlag. 284 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Die Maschine auf der Couch. Oder: Was ist schon 'künstlich' an Künstlicher Intelligenz?
Apprich, C., 09.2019, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 11, 2, p. 20-28 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Die Maker*innen Bewegung: Was die Mikroökonomie, die Feldtheorie und die Praxistheorie über sie zu sagen haben
Conrad, L. & Maier, M., 18.01.2021, DIY, Subkulturen und Feminismen. Czerney, S., Eckert, L. & Martin, S. (eds.). Hamburg: Alma Marta Verlag, p. 196-232 37 p. (Aspekte).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Die Magischen Kanäle: Clemens Krümmel und Miya Yoshida über Joëlle De La Casinière bei Croy Nielsen
Krümmel, C. & Yoshida, M., 2006, In: Texte zur Kunst. 63, p. 221-224 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Die Macht der Verletzbarkeiten
Freudenschuß, M., 2013, In: Südlink. 164, p. 20-21 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer › peer-review
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Die Macht der Gefühle: Emotionen in Management, Organisation und Kultur
Metelmann, J. (ed.) & Beyes, T. (ed.), 2012, Berlin: Berlin University Press. 211 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Die Kunst und der neue Kapitalismus: Analysen und Befunde der rezenten französischen Soziologie – eine kritische Rezeption und Diskussion
Wuggenig, U., 2006, In: Angewandte Sozialforschung. 24, 1/2, p. 16-18 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Die Kunst in der konnexionistischen Welt: Besprechungsessay zu Alfed Smudits "Die Funktion des Kulturschaffens im digitalen Zeitalter"
Wuggenig, U., 2006, In: Angewandte Sozialforschung. 24, 1-2, p. 115-144 30 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Die Kontingenz des Gegebenen: Zur Zeit der Datenkritik
Sprenger, F., 2014, In: Mediale Kontrolle unter Beobachtung. 3, 1, 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review