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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Rezension: Krieg und Frieden im globalen Dorf, oder: Eine Faszinationsgeschichte des Schmerzes
Leeker, M., 16.09.2012, 10 p.Research output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research
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Rezension im erweiterten Forschungskontext: Macht & Medien
Denecke, M., 09.2016, In: MEDIENwissenschaft. Rezensionen. Reviews.. 2016, 3, p. 318-324 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Re/working Affect - Queer Feminist Engagements: A workshop report
Freudenschuß, M., Bargetz, B., Gammerl, B., Kleres, J. & Woltersdorff, V., 2013, In: Bulletin Info - Zentrum für Transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien. 24, 47, p. 46-50 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Rethinking Gamification
Fuchs, M. (ed.), Fizek, S. (ed.), Ruffino, P. (ed.) & Schrape, N. (ed.), 16.06.2014, Lüneburg: meson press. 344 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Resonanz-Bild und ikonische Politik: Eine visuelle Diskursanalyse partizipativer Propaganda
Traue, B. C., 2014, Hillarys Hand: Zur politischen Ikonographie der Gegenwart. Kauppert, M. & Leser, I. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 131-156 26 p. (Kulturen der Gesellschaft; vol. 11).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Repositionierungen: Von Machtverschiebungen im Kapitalismus und Feminismus
Bunz, M., 2013, In: Femina Politica. 21, 2, p. 161-162 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Remaking Media Practices: From Tactical Media to Post-Media
Apprich, C., 2013, Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology. Apprich, C., Berry Slater, J., Iles, A. & Schultz, O. L. (eds.). London: Mute Books, p. 122-140 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Relationen im Raum: Visualisierung topographischer Klein(st)strukturen
Hüttenmeister, N., Kollatz, T., Rütenik, T., Warnke, M., Wedemeyer, C. & Ziai, T., 2013, In: Kalonymos. 16, 4, p. 4-6 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Relationale Sozialtheorie und die Materialität des Sozialen 'Kontaktmedien' als Vermittlungsinstanz zwischen Infrastruktur und Lebenswelt
Traue, B. C., 2017, In: Soziale Welt. 68, 2-3, p. 243-260 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Reglementierte Fragilität und performende Unschärferäume
Leeker, M., 31.12.2022, Doing Research - Wissenschaftspraktiken zwischen Positionierung und Suchanfrage. Hofhues, S. & Schütze, K. (eds.). transcript Verlag, p. 224-237 14 p. (Science Studies).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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Refugee Recognition Regime. Country Profile: Niger (in French)
Lambert, L., 2023, (RefMig Working Paper ; no. 8).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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Refugee Recognition Regime. Country Profile: Niger
Lambert, L., 2023, Berlin/Oxford, (RefMig Working Paper ; no. 8).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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Réfléxivité et Système. Le débat sur l'ordre et L'auto-organisation dans les années 1970
Hörl, E. H. (ed.) & Esposito, E. (ed.), 2015, Paris: Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme. (Trivium - Deutsch-französische Zeitschrift für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften; vol. 20/2015)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Reflexitvität und System. Die Debatte über Ordnung und Selbstorganisation in den 1970er Jahren“
Esposito, E. & Hörl, E., 16.06.2015, In: Trivium. 20, p. 2-7 6 p., 1.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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ReClaiming Participation: Technology - Mediation - Collectivity
Denecke, M. (ed.), Ganzert, A. (ed.), Otto, I. (ed.) & Stock, R. (ed.), 02.2016, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 296 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Rassismusforschung in Deutschland. Prekäre Geschichte, strukturelle Probleme, neue Herausforderungen
Bojadzijev, M., Opratko, B., Braun, K. & Liebig, M., 2018, Leerstelle Rassismus? : Analysen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten nach dem NSU. Dürr, T. & Becker, R. (eds.). Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau-Verlag, p. 59-73Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Quantencomputer. Taktlos
Warnke, M., 2013, Kulturtechniken der Synchronisation. Kassung, C. & Macho, T. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 269-287 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Quantencomputer/Quantenkryptographie
Warnke, M., 2014, Handbuch Medienwissenschaft. Schröter, J. (ed.). 1 ed. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 369-371 3 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology
Apprich, C. (ed.), Berry Slater, J. (ed.), Iles, A. (ed.) & Schultz, O. L. (ed.), 2013, London: Mute Books. 160 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Protokoll 28: Quatschmaschine macht Quatsch. Oder auch nicht
Müggenburg, J., Warnke, M. & Tollmann, V., 09.2023, ChatGPT und andere »Quatschmaschinen« : Gespräche mit Künstlicher Intelligenz. Tuschling, A., Sudmann, A. & Dotzler, B. J. (eds.). transcript Verlag, p. 246-254 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Protest 2.0 - Don't believe the Hype: Soziale Computernetzwerke als Gelegenheit und Herausforderung für politischen Aktivismus
Apprich, C., 2010, In: Kulturrisse : Zeitschrift für radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik. 2, p. 38-41Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
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Prostheses of Desire: On Bernard Stiegler's New Critique of Projection
Hörl, E. & De Boever, A., 2014, In: Parrhesia : a Journal of Critical Philosophy. 20, p. 2-14 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Profil
Bernard, A., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 38-48 11 p. (Duisburger Dialoge).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Privacy is Dead – Ein Fünf-Jahres-Selbstversuch der bewussten Ortsbestimmung mittels GPS
Loebel, J-M., 12.12.2012, Automatismen - Selbst-Technologien. Bublitz, H., Kaldrack, I., Röhle, T. & Zeman, M. (eds.). 1. Auflage ed. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 143-163 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Prekär ist wer? Der Prekarisierungsdiskurs als Arena sozialer Kämpfe
Freudenschuß, M., 2013, Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot. 333 p. (Arbeit - Demokratie - Geschlecht; no. 18)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Prekäre Subjekte - Prekäre Kritik
Freudenschuß, M., 2013, Krise, Kritik, Allianzen: Arbeits- und geschlechtersoziologische Perspektiven. Nickel, H. M. & Heilmann, A. (eds.). Weinheim/Basel: Beltz Juventa Verlag, p. 118-134 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Precarity, Vulnerability and the Commons: Feminist Reflections on the Politics of Commons
Freudenschuß, M., 2013, Democracy in Crisis: The Dynamics of Civil Protest and Civil Resistance: Peace Report 2012. Preiss, B. & Brunner, C. (eds.). Wien & Berlin: LIT Verlag, p. 135-152 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Pragmatism versus Artificial Art: Computer Stories
Leeker, M., 2009, Americanisms: Discourses of Exception, Exclusion, Exchange ; [conference on "Americanisms" at the University of Bayreuth between January 30 and February 1, 2008]. Steppat, M. (ed.). Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag, p. 67-84 18 p. (American Studies; vol. 173).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Potentiale und Herausforderungen einer empirischen Subjektivierungsforschung
Traue, B., Pfahl, L. & Globisch, C., 2017, Geschlossene Gesellschaften: Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Lessenich, S. (ed.). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 5 p. (Verhandlungen der Kongresse der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie; vol. 38).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Portraits von Underdogs. Bd. II: Protokolle der Intensiv- und Elterninterviews und der Fotobefragungen
Wuggenig, U., 1985, Hannover: Forschungsstelle Arbeit, Beruf, Bildung der Universität Hannover, 219 p.Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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Politik der Mikroentscheidungen: Edward Snowden, Netzneutralität und die Architekturen des Internets
Sprenger, F., 2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 130 p. (Digital Cultures Series)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Politics of Reproduction
spheres Editorial Collective, Trott, B., Beverungen, A., Apprich, C., Hille, L. & Heinrichs, R., 03.2020, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 2000, #6, p. 1-10 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Politics of Reproduction
spheres Editorial Collective, Trott, B. (ed.), Beverungen, A. (ed.), Apprich, C. (ed.), Luchs, I. (ed.), Hille, L. (ed.) & Heinrichs, R. (ed.), 03.2020, Lüneburg: Centre for Digital Cultures Lüneburg. (spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures; vol. 2000, no. 6)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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Politics, embodiment, everyday life: Lefebvre and spaces of organizing
Beyes, T., 2018, Organisational Space and Beyond: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organisation Studies. Wasserman, V., Dale, K. & Kingma, S. F. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 27-45 19 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Politics after Networks: Editorial
Beverungen, A., Simons, S., Apprich, C., Feigelfeld, P., Freudenschuß, M. & Yoosuf, H., 11.11.2014, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 1, 1, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Plants, Androids and Operators: A Post-Media Handbook
Apprich, C. (ed.), Berry Slater, J. (ed.), Iles, A. (ed.) & Schultz, O. L. (ed.), 2014, London: Mute Books. 188 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Plantafel-Planung
Conrad, L., 03.2017, Bis auf Weiteres. Pinnwand und Serie. Engell, L., Maeder, D., Schröter, J. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 65-78 14 p. (Augen-Blick : Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft; vol. 68).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Planning Table
Conrad, L., 10.12.2019, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 321-332 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Places of Memory, Topologies of Remembrance: On Still/Silence - Text for solo exhibition by Erika Matsunami & Antonis
Yoshida, M., 2011, Still = Silent. Matsunami, E. (ed.). Berlin: Revolver Publishing, p. 41-43 3 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
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Pinboard | Storyboard
Wentz, D., 03.2017, Bis auf Weiteres. Pinnwand und Serie. Engell, L., Maeder, D., Schröter, J. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 29-44 16 p. (Augen-Blick : Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft; vol. 68).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Peter Sloterdijk (1947b)
Beyes, T., 2014, The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies. Helin, J., Hernes, T., Hjorth, D. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 567-584 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Perspective as Practice. Renaissance Cultures of Optics, (About the development of optics and perspective between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries) (TECHNE 1) Dupré, Sven (ed.): Brepols, Turnhout 2019
Severin, I. L., 29.07.2020, onlineResearch output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research
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Personalisation as currency
Ridgway, R., 01.06.2015, In: A Peer-reviewed Journal About --. 4, 1, p. 17-28 12 p., 2.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Performing university space: Multiplicity, Relationality, Affect
Beyes, T. & Michels, C., 01.01.2014, The Physical University: Contours of Space and Place in Higher Education. Temple, P. (ed.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 15-33 19 p. 141021Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Performing the Digital: Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures
Leeker, M. (ed.), Schipper, I. (ed.) & Beyes, T. (ed.), 01.03.2017, Bielefeld : transcript Verlag. 300 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft; vol. 11)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Performing (the) digital: Positions of critique in digital cultures
Leeker, M., 11.2016, Performing the Digital: Performance Studies and Performances in Digital Cultures. Beyes, T., Schipper, I. & Leeker, M. (eds.). 1 ed. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, Vol. 11. p. 21-63 43 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Performativity, performance studies and digital cultures
Leeker, M., Schipper, I. & Beyes, T., 31.12.2016, Performing the Digital: Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures. v. Leeker, M., Schipper, I. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 9-18 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Performativität in digitalen Environments
Leeker, M., 1999, Schreiben auf Wasser: Performative Verfahren in Kunst, Wissenschaft und Bildung. Seitz, H. & K. G. E. V. . B. (eds.). Essen: Klartext Verlag, p. 162 - 177 16 p. (Dokumentation; vol. 54).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Performativierung des Raums: Wissens- und technikgeschichtliche Aspekte zeitgenössischer Bühnenräume
Leeker, M., 2014, Bühne: Raumbildender Prozesse im Theater. Eke, N., Haß, U. & Kaldrack, I. (eds.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 149-170 22 p. (Automatismen).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Paul Graupe (1881–1953). Ein Berliner Kunsthändler zwischen Republik, Nationalsozialismus und Exil, (2016) Patrick Golenia/ Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier/ Isabelle le Masne de Chermont (Hg.) Vorwort, Bénédicte Savoy, Böhlau Verlag
Severin, I. L., 13.03.2019, onlineResearch output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research