Anna Zaglyadnova

Research focus

The real/the digital, configurations of the real, psyche, transcendentalism and their connection to technology, technology/metaphysics, configurations of political discourse in the media, philosophy of media, culture and language, horror, folklore and mythology as feministic/empowerment narratives

Bio

Anna Zaglyadnova is a Russian born researcher of media and cultural studies located in Berlin, Germany. She holds a degree in Foreign linguistics from Nizhny Novgorod State University, where her prime research centered around semiotic, semantics and language acquisition/loss. She finished her BA in Düsseldorf majoring in media and cultural studies. Her research focused around the audio-visual media and questions of the real as well the configurations of political discourse in the media.

She completed her master’s degree in the cooperative study programme European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam with a focus on knowledge cultures, discourse analysis and agential realism. Since the winter semester 2023/24, she has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Media Theory and Media Studies at EMW.

She is currently working on her dissertation on immersive technologies and is focussing on the relationship between simulated images and interaction.

Since October 2023, she has been the contact person for DIGAREC (Centre for Computer Game Research) together with Prof. Dr Jan Distelmeyer (FH Potsdam).

Lectures

“Pre/Post-apocalypse: The relationship between in game photography and the real”, lecture at the After Post-Photography 6 Conference, European University of Siant Petersburg, 03.06.2021.

Conferences

Graduates’ Conference “un:real Spaces of Interaction”, 4.-5.11.2022, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

EMW-Symposium 2021 “Pandemie, Digitalität und Alterität – Ich, Du, Wir, Ihr”, 6.11.2021, Schinkelhalle, Potsdam.

Awards

In 2022, Anna Zaglyadnova received the DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements of international students studying at German universities.

For further information, please refer to the personal page of Anna Zaglyadnova at European Media Studies (University of Potsdam and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam).