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. Article in conference proceedings › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    Für ein Bestiarium der Organisation – Kafkas Grenzwesen

    Beyes, T. & Holt, R. D., 2019, Kafka: Organisation, Recht und Schrift. Ortmann, G. & Schuller, M. (eds.). Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, p. 103-124 22 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Is Privacy Dead? An inquiry into GPS-based geolocation and facial recognition systems

    Loebel, J-M., 26.09.2012, ICT Critical Infrastructures and Society: 10th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC10 2012, Proceedings. Hercheui, M. D., Whitehouse, D., McIver, W. & Phahlamohlaka, J. (eds.). Springer, Vol. IFIP AICT 386. p. 338-348 11 p. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; vol. 386 AICT).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    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/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    RiB-Kit (RFID-in-a-Box): Eine mobile RFID-Lösung für neuartige Interaktionskonzepte

    Loebel, J-M. & Kuper, H-G., 09.05.2012, Kultur und Informatik : Aus der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft. Sieck, J. & Franken-Wendelstorf, R. (eds.). 1. Auflage ed. vwh-Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, p. 187-196 9 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Stadt am Netz: Virtuelle Gemeinschaften regieren

    Apprich, C., 2011, Das Mögliche regieren: Gouvernementalität in der Literatur- und Kulturanalyse. Innerhofer, R., Harrasser, K. & Rothe, K. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 249-270 21 p. (Edition Kulturwissenschaft; no. 5).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    The Truth Games of Radical Net Cultures

    Apprich, C., 2013, Idea of Radical Media: Ideja radikalnih medija. Medak, T. & Milat, P. (eds.). Multimedijalni institut, p. 15-39 25 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Workshop: Accessible interaction for visually impaired people

    Joisten, M., Zeng, L., Woletz, J., Brock, A. & Avila, M., 28.08.2015, Mensch und Computer 2015 - Workshop: 21st International Workshop on Intelligent and Personalized Human-Computer Interaction,. Weisbecker, A., Schmidt, A. & Burmester, M. (eds.). Oldenburg: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 379-381 3 p. (Mensch und Computer 2015 - Workshop).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  9. Article in conference proceedings › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  10. Published

    A Theory of Media as a History of Electricity: How McLuhans thoughts about mediation are thwarted by their negation

    Sprenger, F., 2010, McLuhan Galaxy Conference: Understanding Media Today : Conference Proceedings. Ciastellardi, M., Almeida, C. M. & Scolari, C. A. (eds.). Editorial UOC, p. 71-77 7 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  11. Published

    Das Thema ist die ganze Welt: Hypertext im Museum

    Warnke, M., 1990, Hypertext und Hypermedia: von theoretischen Konzepten zur praktischen Anwendung. Gloor, P. & Streitz, N. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 268-277 10 p. (Informatik-Fachberichte; vol. 249).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  12. Published

    Entgrenzung des künstlerischen Feldes durch Globalisierung ? Kontroverse Haltungen im Kunstfeld von Zürich

    Wuggenig, U. & Tarnai, C., 2012, Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen: Verhandlungen des 35. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Frankfurt am Main 2010. Söffner, H-G. (ed.). Springer, Vol. CD-ROM. 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  13. Published

    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/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  14. Published

    Selbstthematisierungen (in) der Kommunikationsgesellschaft

    Traue, B. C., 2017, Geschlossene Gesellschaften : Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Lessenich, S. (ed.). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Vol. 38. 6 p. (Verhandlungen der Kongresse der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie; vol. 38).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  15. Special Journal issue › Research
  16. Published

    50 Jahre Understanding Media

    Mangold, J. (ed.) & Sprenger, F. (ed.), 2014, Siegen: Universität-Gesamthhochschule Siegen. 124 p. (Navigationen : Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften; vol. 14, no. 2)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  17. Published

    Bis auf Weiteres. Pinnwand und Serie

    Engell, L. (ed.), Maeder, D. (ed.), Schröter, J. (ed.) & Wentz, D. (ed.), 2017, Marbug: Schüren Verlag. 92 p. (Augenblick. Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft; vol. 68)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  18. Published

    Der Medienwandel der Serie

    Wentz, D. (ed.) & Maeder, D. (ed.), 2013, Siegen: Universitätsverlag Siegen. 146 p. (Navigationen. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften; vol. 13, no. 1/2013)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  19. Published

    FEMINA POLITICAL - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, Heft 2-2014

    Freudenschuß, M. (ed.) & Günther, J. (ed.), 11.2014, 2 ed. Verlag Babara Budrich. 196 p. (FEMINA POLITICAL - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft; vol. 23, no. 2)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  20. Published

    Feminismus und Film

    Horstmann, F. (ed.), Wentz, D. (ed.) & Waack, L. (ed.), 12.04.2019, Bremen: Institut für Kunstwissenschaft – Filmwissenschaft – Kunstpädagogik, Universität Bremen. (Nach dem Film; no. 17)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  21. Published

    "It´s All in the Game": Computerspiele zwischen Spiel und Erzählung

    Beil, B. (ed.), Simons, S. (ed.), Sorg, J. (ed.) & Venus, J. (ed.), 2009, Marburg: Schüren Verlag. 169 p. (Navigationen – Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften; vol. 9, no. 1)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  22. Published

    Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society

    Beverungen, A. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.) & Conrad, L. (ed.), 09.2019, London: SAGE Publications Inc. 127 p. (Organization; vol. 26, no. 5)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  23. 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

  24. Published

    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 anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  25. Published

    'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice

    Bialski, P. (ed.), Derwanz, H. (ed.), Otto, B. (ed.) & Vollmer, H. (ed.), 02.2015, San Francisco, Califonia: MayflyBooks. 318 p. (Ephemera - theory & politics in organization; vol. 15, no. 1)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  26. Published

    Schwerpunkt ›Die Serie‹

    Wentz, D. (ed.), Beil, B. (ed.), Engell, L. (ed.), Schröter, J. (ed.) & Schwaab, H. (ed.), 2012, Diaphanes Verlag. 184 p. (ZfM, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft ; vol. 2/2012, no. 7)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  27. Monographs › Transfer › Peer-reviewed
  28. Published

    Kinder machen: Neue Reproduktionstechnologien und die Ordnung der Familie ; Samenspender, Leihmütter, Künstliche Befruchtung

    Bernard, A., 27.03.2014, 1. Aufl. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag. 544 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsTransferpeer-review

  29. Monographs › Research › Peer-reviewed
  30. Published
  31. Published

    Bilderfolgen. Diagrammatologie der Fernsehserie

    Wentz, D., 2017, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 348 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Digitale Datenbanken: Eine Medientheorie im Zeitalter von Big Data

    Burkhardt, M., 08.06.2015, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 388 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  33. Published

    Markets

    Beverungen, A., Mirowski, P., Nik-Khah, E. & Schröter, J., 2019, Minneapolis und Lüneburg: meson press. 116 p. (In Search of Media)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  34. Published

    Medien des Immediaten: Elektrizität, Telegraphie, McLuhan

    Sprenger, F., 2012, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos . 514 p. (Kaleidogramme; vol. 87)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  35. Published

    Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking

    Bazzichelli, T., 2013, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. 261 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge: Mediale Umschichtungen durch die Einführung von SAP

    Conrad, L., 01.02.2017, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 210 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Organizing Colour: Toward a Chromatics of the Social

    Beyes, T., 01.03.2024, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 292 p. (Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  38. Published

    Technotopia. A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures

    Apprich, C., 10.2017, London: Rowman & Littlefield International. 212 p. (Media Philosophy)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  39. Published

    The Politics of Micro-Decisions: Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality and the Architecture of the Internet

    Sprenger, F., 2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 127 p. (Digital Cultures Series)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  40. Published

    The Silent Revolution: How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism, and Politics Without Making too Much Noise

    Bunz, M., 2013, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 134 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  41. Published

    Über das Essen

    Bernard, A., 2002, Salzburg: Jung und Jung. 84 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  42. Monographs › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  43. Published

    Das akademische Prekariat: Leben zwischen Frist und Plan

    Sander, N., 2012, 1 ed. Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. 426 p. (Analyse und Forschung : Sozialwissenschaften)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  44. Published

    Das Diktat des Hashtags: Über ein Prinzip der aktuellen Debattenbildung

    Bernard, A., 24.10.2018, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag. 96 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  45. Published

    Die Enden des Kabels: Kleine Mediengeschichte der Übertragung

    Gethmann, D. & Sprenger, F., 2014, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos . 144 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  46. Published

    Die Fernsehserie als Agent des Wandels

    Beil, B., Engell, L., Maeder, D., Schröter, J., Schwaab, H. & Wentz, D., 2017, Münster: LIT Verlag. 248 p. (Medien'Welten. Braunschweiger Schriften zur Medienkultur; vol. 18)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  47. Published

    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 anthologiesMonographsResearch

  48. Published

    Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture

    Ruffino, P., 23.03.2018, London: Goldsmiths Press. 154 p. (Future Media )

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  49. Published

    Kollegialität: Eine Ethnographie der Belegschaftskultur im Kaufhaus

    Bachmann, G., 2014, Frankfurt/New York : Campus Verlag. 449 p. (Arbeit und Alltag : Beiträge zur ethnografischen Arbeitskulturenforschung; vol. 3)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  50. Published

    Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes: Das Selbst in der digitalen Kultur

    Bernard, A., 2017, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. 236 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  51. Published
  52. Published

    McLuhan neu lesen: Kritische Analysen zu Medien und Kultur im 21. Jahrhundert

    de Kerckhove, D. (ed.), Leeker, M. (ed.) & Schmidt, K. (ed.), 2008, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 508 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  53. Published

    Mime, Mimesis und Technologie

    Leeker, M., 1995, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 348 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  54. Published

    Networking: La rete come arte

    Bazzichelli, T., 2006, Milano: Costa & Nolan. 333 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  55. 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

  56. Published

    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 anthologiesMonographsResearch

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