Biography
Ronja Weidemann completed her dual bachelor’s degree in media studies and art history at the University of Bonn. She wrote her interdisciplinary bachelor’s thesis on the media and artistic representation of historical events. During her master’s degree in Media Culture Analysis at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, she focused on psychoanalytical and social science issues and further developed her skills in the field of game studies. This resulted in a master’s thesis on the duality of personal and social identity processes using the example of the relationship between Let’s Players, avatars, and communities in video games. Since January 2022, she has been a doctoral candidate at ZeMKI and part of the interdisciplinary collaboration between the “Media and Religion” and “Film, Media Art, and Popular Culture” labs.
Research interests
Colonialism in video games, identity processes in the context of avatar-player bonding, media- and actor-centered research, game studies