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. 2015
  2. Published

    Wozu Senden? Sendevisionen im Ersten und Dritten Fernsehzeitalter

    Wentz, D., 2015, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 6, 2, p. 109-122

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. 2014
  4. Published

    Sehr geehrten Damen und Herren Abgeordneten, tun Sie endlich etwas für offene (Verwaltungs-)Daten!

    Heise, C., 12.2014, Jahrbuch Netzpolitik 2014: Fight for your digital rights. Beckedahl, M., Biselli, A. & Meister, A. (eds.). epubli GmbH, p. 157-164 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransferpeer-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

    Divide and Share: Taxonomies, Orders and Masses in Facebook's Open Graph

    Kaldrack, I. & Röhle, T., 09.11.2014, In: Computational Culture -a journal of software studies. 4, 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. 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

  8. Published
  9. Published

    Soziale Medien: Neue Massen

    Baxmann, I. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.) & Pias, C. (ed.), 01.09.2014, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 368 p. (Medienwissenschaftliche Symposien der DFG)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    Visueller Aktivismus und affektive Öffentlichkeiten: Die Inszenierung von Körperwissen in 'Pro-Ana' und 'Fat acceptance'-Blogs

    Traue, B. C., 01.09.2014, In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie. 39, 1, p. 121-142 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Das Datenhandeln: Zur Wissensordnung und Praxeologie des Online-Handels

    Kaldrack, I. & Köhler, C., 09.2014, In: Mediale Kontrolle unter Beobachtung. 3.1, 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Teilmengen. Mengen teilen. Taxonomien, Ordnungen und Massen im Facebook Open Graph

    Kaldrack, I. & Röhle, T., 16.07.2014, Soziale Medien - Neue Massen. Pias, C., Baxmann, I. & Beyes, T. (eds.). Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 77-103 27 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Loopdiver: Getaktetes Bewegungsstottern als entautomatisierende Automatismen?

    Kaldrack, I., 18.06.2014, Entautomatisierung. Brauerhoch, A., Zechner, A., Eke, N. O. & Wieser, R. (eds.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 281-289 9 p. (Automatismen).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Rethinking Gamification

    Fuchs, M. (ed.), Fizek, S. (ed.), Ruffino, P. (ed.) & Schrape, N. (ed.), 16.06.2014, Lüneburg: meson press. 344 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  15. Published

    MOOC: Zukunft der Bildung oder Robo-Uni?

    Heise, C., Kießl, M., Kral, C. & Peters, H., 12.04.2014, Jahrbuch Netzpolitik 2013. Beckedahl, M. (ed.). 1 ed. Berlin: newthinking communications, Berlin, p. 153-172 20 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  16. Published

    Wissenschaftliche Kommunikation im Netz 2013: Von Open Access zu Open Science

    Heise, C., 12.04.2014, Jahrbuch Netzpolitik 2013. Beckedahl, M. (ed.). 1 ed. Berlin: newthinking communications, Berlin, p. 142-152 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransferpeer-review

  17. Published

    Sternenstaub: Zur Anschaulichkeit elektrischer Phänomene Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts

    Sprenger, F., 01.04.2014, Zwischen Sichtbarkeit und Unsichtbarkeit: Visualität in Wissenschaft, Literatur und Kunst um 1800. Kaufmann, J., Kirves, M. & Uhlmann, D. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 39-64 26 p. (Laboratorium Aufklärung; vol. 24).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  18. Published

    Asia in the edges: a narrative account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore

    Shah, N., 04.2014, In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 15, 2, p. 306-314 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  19. 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

  20. Published

    Kinects Bühne: Selbstorganisierte Mimesis

    Kaldrack, I., 19.02.2014, Bühne: Raumbildende Prozesse im Theater. Eke, N. O., Haß, U. & Kaldrack, I. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 191-204 13 p. (Schriftenreihe des Graduiertenkollegs 'Automatismen').

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Agentenspiele. Crowd Management, Sozialsimulation und Big Data

    Vehlken, S. & Pias, C., 01.02.2014, Managementperspektiven für die Zivilgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts: Management als Liberal Art. von Müller, C. & Zinth, C-P. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 167-182 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Charity and finance in the university

    Beverungen, A., Hoedemaekers, C. & Veldman, J., 01.02.2014, In: Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 25, 1, p. 58-66 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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