Anna Zaglyadnova
About
Anna Zaglyadnova is a scholar of media and cultural studies. Since the 2023–24 winter semester, she has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Media Theory and Media Studies at the European Media Studies study program, where she is working on her doctoral dissertation. The project examines the processes of meaning-making and becoming in immersive technologies (mixed reality). She studied media studies in Düsseldorf and Potsdam. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining perspectives from media studies, philosophy, STEM, and artistic research.
Research Interests
The research interests lie at the intersection of technology, materiality/digitality and phenomenology as well as political, art and media studies (in particular, on the topics of exile, resistance, activism and information dissemination).
Publications
- Kindler-Mathôt, Clara/Didem Leblebici/Giacomo Marinsalta/Till Rückwart/Anna Zaglyadnova (Hg.) (2025): Un/Reale Interaktionsräume. Formen sozialer Ordnung im Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
- Distelmeyer, Jan/Anna Zaglyadnova (i.E.): Games! Spielräume zwischen Medialität und Digitalität. DIGAREC SERIES, Bd. 10. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.
Conferences
- Postgraduate Conference un:reale Interaktionsräume: Formen sozialer Ordnung im Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion, 4.-5.11.2022, Fachhochschule Potsdam.
- EMW-Symposium 2021 Pandemie, Digitalität und Alterität – Ich, Du, Wir, Ihr, 6.11.2021, Schinkelhalle, Potsdam.
Lectures
- Pre/Post-apocalypse: The relationship between in game photography and the real, lecture [EN] at the international conference After Post-Photography 6, Europäische Universität St.-Petersburg, 03.06.2021.
- Zur Frage der Bedingungen des Online-Studiums und der Wiederkehr zu der Präsenz, keynote presentation at the EMW-Symposium 2021 Pandemie, Digitalität und Alterität – Ich, Du, Wir, Ihr, 6.11.2021, Schinkelhalle, Potsdam.
- Kalibrierung als Bedingung des Spielens, lecture at the conference Game-Interfaces: digitale Schnittstellen sozialer Welten, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 13.12.2024.
- Beyond Self: Avatars as Relational Bridges in Immersive Multiplayer Experiences, lecture [EN] at the international conference Avatars, Assistants, Chatbots – New Fictional Characters in Contemporary Culture (From Literature to New Media), The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 8.-9.04.2025.
- Jenseits des Selbst: Avatare als Beziehungsbrücken in immersiven Multiplayer-Erfahrungen, lecture at the DGS-Kongress, section event Digitale Körper in Transition: Avatare in Spiel und Gesellschaft der AG Soziologie digitaler Spiele, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 25.09.2026.