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
  1. Published

    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 anthologiesMonographsResearch

  2. Published

    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 contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  3. Published

    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 anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  4. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    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 contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  6. Published

    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 anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  7. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransfer

  10. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  11. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  12. Published
  13. Published

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    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. 141021

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  15. Published

    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 anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  16. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  19. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  20. Published
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