Prof. Dr. Beate Ochsner
Professor of Media Studies
Since 2008, research in the field of media studies with a focus on the Interconnections between Media/Critical Data Studies and Dis/Ability Studies, Media and Participation, Gaming (Dis/abled Gaming, Serious Gaming), Practices and Infrastructures of Hearing/Listening.
Since 2021, deputy director of the Centre for Human | Data | Society.
Member of the research project Transforming Infrastructure - Cultural Perspectives.
From 2015-2022, spokesperson for the DFG research group "Media and Participation" (www.mediaandparticipation.com).
Publications
Identifier/ORCID: 0000-0002-6041-9968
Recent publication:
Beate Ochsner, Michael Schillmeier & Robert Stock: Techniques of hearing. History, Theory, and Practices. Routledge 2022 (https://www.routledge.com/Techniques-of-Hearing-History-Theory-and-Practices/Schillmeier-Stock-Ochsner/p/book/9780367713973)
Forthcoming publication:
Beate Ochsner & Markus Spöhrer (eds.): Disability and Video Games. Enabling and Disabling Modes of Digital Gaming. Palgrave MacMillan.
Current courses
| Title | Type |
|---|---|
| Research Colloquium Media Studies | Research Colloquium |
| Konstanz University Broadcast | Workshop |
| From Videoactivism to „Auteur film“. Pepe and Didi Danquart and the Media Center Freiburg | Advanced Seminar |
| Main texts in feminist film theory | Advanced Seminar |
| „Taking our bodies Back“ – Women’s Health in media historical dimensions | Advanced Seminar |
| "Taking Our Bodies Back” – women’s health from a media-historical perspective (19th/20th century) | Seminar |
Previous courses
| Title | Type |
|---|---|
| Research Colloquium Media Studies | Research Colloquium |
| Konstanz University Broadcast | Workshop |
| When measuring becomes presumptuous: On the power of metrics and metrisation | Advanced Seminar |
| Risk-taking ! Research and practice in art and media (studies) | Lecture/Seminar |
| Is Barbie a feminist film? Reflections on recent feminist movements from girlbosses to bimbofeminism and #girl.failure | Advanced Seminar |
winter semester 2023/24
summer semester 2023
winter semester 2022/23
summer semester 2022
winter semester 2021/22
summer semester 2021
winter semester 2020/21
summer semester 2020
winter semester 2019/20
summer semester 2019
winter semester 2018/19
summer semester 2018 / Winter term 2017/18
Research sabbaticals