Peter Krapp

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Peter Krapp (* 1970 ) is a German-American media and cultural scientist and translator; he teaches at the University of California, Irvine .

Life

Peter Krapp studied English, German, philosophy and musicology in Bonn, Stirling, Konstanz and Santa Barbara. He was a scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the DAAD as well as the DFG in the graduate college “Theory of Literature and Communication”. He received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a thesis on déjà-vu as a symptom of cultural memory in the media age. He taught at Bard College (New York) and the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) before becoming Professor of Media History at the Department of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine from 2004. There he was Department Chair from 2012–2019 and Senate President 2013–14, a founding member of the Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds and a member of the Advisory Board of the UCI eSport program.

Publications

  • Aberrations of Cultural Memory. University of Minnesota Press, 2004
  • Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 2011
  • Medium cool. Duke University Press, 2002: SAQ 101: 3 (with Andrew McNamara)
  • HSK (Handbook Language-Culture-Communication). Berlin: DeGruyter 2012 (together with Ludwig Jäger , Werner Holly, Samuel M Weber)
  • Between the madness and wisdom of the masses: computer games and the economy of diversion. Social Media - Neue Massen, Akademie Verlag 2014, edited by Inge Baxmann, Claus Pias, Timon Beyes
  • On collegiality: Kittler models Derrida. Thesis Eleven 107 (1): 21-32, November 2011
  • Terror and Play Or What Was Hacktivism ?. Gray Room 21 (8): 70-93, October 2005 link
  • The Future of Research and Challenges in Computer Games and Virtual World Environments link
  • Déjà-vu. The moment of hindsight in contemporary art. Austrian Gallery Belvedere, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://ivecg.uci.edu/uci-faculty-and-researchers/
  2. ↑ https://ce.uci.edu/areas/business_mgmt/esports/
personal data
SURNAME Krapp, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American media and cultural scientist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1970