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
- Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › Peer-reviewed
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Das Wissen des Profils: Über das Selbstdesign in der digitalen Kultur
Bernard, A., 2017, Profile: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge. Degeling, M., Othmer, J., Weich, A. & Westermann, B. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 27-36 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Das Wissen des Profils: Zur kriminalistischen und psychiatrischen Herkunft digitaler Selbstbeschreibung
Bernard, A., 11.2018, Das dokumentierte Ich: Wissen in Verhandlung. Hämmerling, C. & Zetti, D. (eds.). Zürich: Chronos, p. 113-126 14 p. (Interferenzen. Studien zur Kulturgeschichte der Technik; vol. 26).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Data traffic in theater and engineering: Between technical conditions and illusions
Leeker, M. & Steppat, M., 25.09.2015, Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices. Näser-Lather, M. & Neubert, C. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 160-179 20 p. (Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection ; vol. 88).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Datenbanken als Zitadellen des Web 2.0
Warnke, M., 2012, Sortieren, Sammeln, Suchen, Spielen.: Die Datenbank als mediale Praxis. Stefan, B., Nohr, R. F. & Wiemer, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Münster/Hamburg/Berlin/London: LIT Verlag, Vol. 18. p. 122-136 14 p. (Medien ' Welten. Braunschweiger Schriften zur Medienkultur; vol. 18).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Der sensitive Blick: Zur Bildgestaltung in "Fremde Haut" (2005)
Kirchner, A., 2013, Nähe und Empathie: Die Bilderwelten der Kamerafrau Judith Kaufmann. Giesemann, B., Kirchner, A., Neubauer, M. & Prümm, K. (eds.). 1 ed. Marburg: Schüren Verlag, p. 120-142 23 p. (Marburger Kameragespräche; vol. 8).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Der Sinn der Lehre: Ethnographie, Affekt, sensemaking
Beyes, T. & Steyaert, C., 2015, Vom Sinn der Soziologie: Festschrift für Thomas S. Eberle . Maeder, C., Brosziewski, A. & Nentwich, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer, p. 197-211 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die environmentalitäre Situation: Überlegungen zum Umweltlich-Werden von Denken, Macht und Kapital
Hörl, E., 09.2018, Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie: Ökonomie / Ökologie. Mersch, D. & Mayer, M. (eds.). Berlin, München, Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 4. p. 221-250 29 p. (Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie; vol. 4, no. 1).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Die Fernsehserie als Reflexion und Projektion des medialen Wandels
Wentz, D., Beil, B., Engell, L., Schröter, J. & Schwaab, H., 2012, Mediatisierte Welten. : Beschreibungsansätze und Forschungsfelder. Hepp, A. & Krotz, F. (eds.). Opladen: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 197-223 27 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › 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 (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 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 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 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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Digitale Kulturen
Bernard, A., Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 2018, Die Rolle der Universität in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft im Wandel. Henkel, A., Hobuß, S., Jamme, C. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). 1 ed. Berlin: Pro BUSINESS Verlag, p. 167-170 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Digitales Vergessen: Deletion Impossible?
Kurz, C. & Loebel, J-M., 15.07.2012, Potentiale des Vergessens. Blum, A., Georgen, T., Knapp, W. & Sellier, V. (eds.). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, p. 343-358 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Diskursanalyse
Traue, B. C., Pfahl, L. & Schürmann, L., 2014, Handbuch Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung. Baur, N. & Blasius, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 493-508 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Ecologies of Making: On Tim Ingold´s General-Ecological Critique of Worldmaking
Hörl, E., 2017, +ultra knowledge & gestaltung. Doll, N., Bredekamp, H. & Schäffner, W. (eds.). Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, p. 45-53 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Einleitung
Bublitz, H., Kaldrack, I., Röhle, T. & Zeman, M., 2013, Automatismen - Selbst-Technologien. Bublitz, H., Kaldrack, I., Röhle, T. & Zeman, M. (eds.). 1. ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 9-41 33 p. (Schriftenreihe des Graduiertenkollegs "Automatismen").Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Einleitung
Pias, C. & Rieger, S., 02.2016, Vollstes Verständnis: Utopien der Kommunikation. Pias, C. & Rieger, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Berlin / Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7-13 7 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Entladene Massen: Zur Krise eines Begriffs
Hagen, W., 2014, Soziale Medien - Neue Massen: Medienwissenschaftliche Symposien der DFG. Pias, C., Baxmann, I. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Zürich / Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 125-134 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review