Centre for Digital Cultures
Contemporary culture is characterised by the ubiquity of digital media technologies. Techniques of processing, storing, and transmitting data are continuously reconfigured and with them our everyday practices of connecting, relating, sharing, competing, and communicating. In this dynamic context, The Center for Digital Cultures (CDC) directly engages the emergence of new and complex qualities of socio-technical (in-)formed life. This includes the development of advanced theory and innovative study programmes. The question we pose is: How can we understand and shape digital cultures today?
The events at the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) are dedicated to central questions of digital culture as well as the effects of the current polycrisis on social life and, more broadly, on questions and research topics in digital media and cultural studies. Particular attention is paid to the involvement of digital media technologies in these crises.
The following events took place in the summer semester 2024: Download poster CDC Forum, please see also sub-page semester topics.
Interested persons who would like to be invited to the videoconferences can register by e-mail to cdcforum@leuphana.de
Past video conferences are available on vimeo: Channel “CDC Forum”
The digital shift re-shapes the cultural sectors, and, indeed, everyday life, politics, law, and economics. The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), affiliated to Leuphana University of Lüneburg, examines this shift through a range of inter-disciplinary methodologies, including media, cultural and social studies, through knowledge creation and transfer, as well as by developing experimental and interventionist media practices. Emerging from the Lüneburg Innovation Incubator in 2012, the CDC currently includes 23 university teachers and 86 research affiliates. Since its inception, the CDC has built an innovative network and research environment, where academic institutions, industry partners, and civil society stakeholders cooperate and develop new concepts, formats, and applications within digital cultures. The Center is committed to public dialogue and impact, organizing over 50 public talks and presentations, as well as 50 publications each year.
