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
- Contribution of Exihibition catalogues › Research
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Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg
von Bismarck, B., Stoller, D. & Wuggenig, U., 1997, TESTOO MUSTER Messe: erscheint zur Ausstellung "Fabrice Hybert Testoo Muster" der Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig .... Stoller, D., Werner, K. & Winkelmann, J. (eds.). Leipzig: Messe-Verlag, p. 154-155 2 p. (Oumeurt; vol. 3).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contribution of Exihibition catalogues › Research
- Chapter › Research › Peer-reviewed
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AI and urban governance: from the perils of smart cities to Amazon Inc. urbanism
Antenucci, I. & Meissner, F., 21.06.2024, Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence. Paul, R., Carmel, E. & Cobbe, J. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 423-434 12 p. (Handbooks on Research on Public Policy).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Antworten
Beyes, T., 2015, Das bewegte Buch. Ein Katalog der gelesenen Bücher: mit 104 Beispielen aus dem Deutschen Literaturmuseum Marbach. Gfrereis, H. & Pias, C. (eds.). Marbach am Neckar: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e.V.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Authority and Authorship: Uncovering the Socio-Technical Regimes of Peer-To-Peer Tourism
Bialski, P., 03.05.2016, Re-Inventing the Local In Tourism: Producing, Consuming and Negotiating Place. Russo, A. P. & Richards, G. (eds.). Bristol, GB: Channel View Publications Ltd, p. 35-49 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Home for Hire: How the sharing economy commoditises our private sphere
Bialski, P., 01.01.2017, Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis: Practices, Politics and Possibilities. Ince, A. & Hall, S. M. (eds.). Oxford: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 83-95 13 p. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Introduction: Why does management education need reinventing?
Beyes, T., Parker, M. & Steyaert, C., 2016, The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Steyaert, C., Beyes, T. & Parker, M. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Liquid Democracy and the Futures of Governance
Ramos, J., 2015, The Future Internet: Alternative Visions. Winter, J. & Ono, R. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 173-191 19 p. (Public Administration and Information Technology; vol. 17).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Logistical futures the chinese dream, debordering labor, and migration
Altenried, M., Bojadžijev, M. & Wallis, M., 20.12.2021, Fake Hybrid Sites Palimpsest: Essays on Leakages. Dutta, M. & Heidenreich, N. (eds.). DE GRUYTER Poland, p. 158-172 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Organization
Beyes, T., 2021, Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data. Thylstrup, N. B., Agostinho, D., Ring, A., D'Ignazio, C. & Veel, K. (eds.). Cambridge: The MIT Press, p. 369 - 376 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Organizing the entrepreneurial city
Beyes, T., 2012, Handbook on Organisational Entrepreneurship. Hjorth, D. (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 320-337 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review