Dr. Gerrit Krueper is a member of the Killam Family of Scholars and graduated with a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia in November 2024. Specializing in New Media Studies, his research interrogates the socio-political implications of livestreaming platforms and media audiences that draws upon new media theory frameworks to critique paradigms of audience engagement and agency. His work extends to the study of video games, focusing on themes of play, leisure, and anti-work as ideological constructs in capitalism.
Film and Media Studies
Krueper, Gerrit. The dialectical stream : a new media theory of live streaming and its political and social potentials (T). University of British Columbia. Retrieved from
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0445564
Krueper, Gerrit. “Becoming Cyborg: Liberating One’s Real Species-Being. A Materialist Ontology of the Posthuman.” Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics. IOS Press: 2020. 501-509.
Print. https://www.iospress.nl/book/culturally-sustainable-social-robotics/
2019 – 2024 | University of British Columbia, Canada
2017 – 2018 | University of Rochester, New York, USA
2016 – 2017 | Research Master at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities
2016 – 2017 | University of Cologne, Germany
2014 – 2015 | State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), USA
2012 – 2016 | University of Würzburg, Germany