Dr. Gerrit Krueper

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.

Discipline

Film and Media Studies

Publications

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/  

Education

2019 – 2024 | University of British Columbia, Canada

  • PhD in Cinema and Media Studies

2017 – 2018 | University of Rochester, New York, USA

  • Master of Arts in Comparative Literature

2016 – 2017 | Research Master at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities

  • Prestigious Scholarship for high achieving students of the Humanities
  • Extra research-oriented classes to prepare for a PhD

2016 – 2017 | University of Cologne, Germany

  • Master of North American Studies

2014 – 2015 | State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), USA

  • 1-year exchange program
  • Undergraduate in American Studies

2012 – 2016 | University of Würzburg, Germany

  • Bachelor of Arts in American/English Studies and Linguistics (Major) and German Studies (Minor)
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