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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Topografische Spurensuche in Köln entlang der Achse Berlin–Köln. Wiedergutmachung und Wiederaufbau (1945–1957): Leopold Reidemeister als Mittler und Streiter für die Moderne
Severin, I. L., 2017, Leopold Reidemeister. Ein Deutscher Museumsmann. . Moeller, M. M. (ed.). München: Hirmer, p. 114-165 52 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Kunstkammer, Ostasiatische Weltkunst, Expressionistische Avantgarde neben Rokoko und Bauhaus-Moderne. Die Bildwelten des Leopold Reidemeister, visionärer Erbe Wilhelm von Bodes zwischen Kaiserreich und Avantgarde
Severin, I. L., 08.2017, Leopold Reidemeister: Ein deutscher Museumsmann. Moeller, M. M. (ed.). München: Hirmer, p. 14-67 43 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Non Knowledge and Digital Cultures
Bernard, A. (ed.), Leeker, M. (ed.) & Matthias, K. (ed.), 2018, Lüneburg: meson press. 160 p. (Digital Cultures Series )Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes: Das Selbst in der digitalen Kultur
Bernard, A., 2017, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. 236 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Daten, Wahn, Sinn
Apprich, C., 05.10.2017, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 9, 17-2, p. 54-62 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm
Hörl, E. H. (ed.), 05.2017, 1 ed. London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 384 p. (Theory)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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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 anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Bilderfolgen. Diagrammatologie der Fernsehserie
Wentz, D., 2017, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 348 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Technotopia. A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures
Apprich, C., 10.2017, London: Rowman & Littlefield International. 212 p. (Media Philosophy)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Babylonian Dreams: From Info-Cities to Smart Cities to Experimental Collectivism
Apprich, C., 31.07.2017, In: The Fibreculture Journal. 29, p. 10-30 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Introduction to General Ecology: The Ecologization of Thinking
Hörl, E. H. & Schott, N. F. (Translator), 05.2017, General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm. Hörl, E. & Burton, J. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 1 – 75 75 p. (Theory).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
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Online to offline social networking: contextualising sociality today through Couchsurfing.org
Bialski, P., 2013, Couchsurfing cosmopolitanisms: Can tourism make a better world?. Picard, D. & Buchberger, S. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 161-172 11 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Train Ticket Sharing: Alternative Forms of Computing in the City
Bialski, P., 31.07.2017, In: The Fibreculture Journal. 29, p. 115-128 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Denk mal! 2016
Pfaller, R., Horn, E., Klein, S., Bernard, A. & Rammler, S., 2015, Frankfurt am Mainz: S. Fischer Verlag. 268 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Transfer
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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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Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator
Bernard, A., 01.01.2014, New York: NYU Press. 309 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Book
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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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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 anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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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