Short-CV

Beate Ochsner is professor of Media Sciences at the University of Konstanz since 2008. Since October 2022 she is part of the Directorate of the Centre for Human | Data | Society. After earning her master’s degree in 1992 in Romance and German Studies, General Linguistics, studying at the University of Mannheim and the University of Nantes, she received her doctorate for a thesis on Roman Languages, Literature, and Media in 1996 (thesis: Charles Nodier. Digressionen), followed by the habilitation in 2002 (thesis: DeMONSTRAtion. Zur Repräsentation des Monsters in Literatur, Fotografie und Film). She has expert knowledge in the field of Digital Cultures, Media and Disability Studies, Assistive Technologies, and (Online) Gaming. Beate Ochsner was spokeswoman of the interdisciplinary Research Group “Media and Participation” (mediaandparticipation.com) supported by the German Research Foundation (2015-2022). Since 2021 she is a member of the Sensory Studies Research Directory (Montréal, Canada). She is founder of the Research Network “Social Serious Gaming” and member of the Expert Commission for the Evaluation of the Centre for Media Studies (Brandenburg).

Research-related publications

Articles

• Ochsner, Beate; Miyazaki, Shintaro. 2022. “The future is ear”: Infrastructures of “smart hearing”. In: Beate Ochsner; Michael Schillmeier; Robert Stock (eds.). Techniques of Hearing. London, Routledge, 90-101.
• Ochsner, Beate. 2022. Kulturwissenschaftliche Disability Studies. In: Anne Waldschmidt (ed.). Handbuch Disability Studies. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 201-217.
• Ochsner, Beate. 2021. Sonification of web tracking, Jasmine Guffond: listening back. Sound Studies 7 (2), 266–268. https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2021.1875292.
• Ochsner, Beate; Spöhrer, Markus; Waldrich, Harald (2020). Twitching Laborious Play or: How Game-Streaming Changes Modes of Playing. In: Markus Spöhrer; Harald Waldrich (eds.). Einspielungen. Prozesse und Situationen digitalen Spielens. Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 179-206.
• Ochsner, Beate; Stock, Robert. 2020. Introduction to the Special Issue “Media Practices Commoning”. Open Cultural Studies (1), 107-111. Available online at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/culture-2020-0010/html
• Ochsner, Beate. 2018. Oikos und Oikonomia oder: Selbstsorge- Apps als Technologien der Haushaltung. Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie (1), 123-146. Available online at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jbmp-2018-0008/html.
• Ochsner, Beate. 2018. „AudioVisual Accessibility (Ava) oder: Zur Herstellung prekärer Kommunikationsgemeinschaften“. In: Johannes Bennke, Johanna Seifert, Martin Siegler, Christina Terberl (eds.): Das Mitsein der Medien. Paderborn: Fink, 121-147
• Ochsner, Beate. 2017. Documenting Neuropolitics: Cochlear Implant Activation Videos. In: Catalin Brylla; Helen Hughes (eds.). Documentary and Disability. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 259-274.

Monographs

• Ochsner, Beate. 2010. DeMONSTRAtion. Zur Repräsentation des Monsters und des Monströsen in Literatur, Fotografie und Film. München: Synchron.
• Ochsner, Beate. 1998. Digressionen. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag.

Editorships

• Ochsner, Beate; Spöhrer, Markus (forthcoming). Disability and Video Games. Practices of en-/disabling Modes of Digital Gaming. Palgrave MacMillan: London.
• Ochsner, Beate; Schillmeier, Michael; Stock, Robert. 2022. Techniques of hearing: History, Theory, and Practices. Routledge: London.
• Ochsner, Beate; Spöhrer, Markus. 2016. Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies. PA: ICI Global.
• Ochsner, Beate; Stock, Robert. 2016. Sense/Ability. Mediale Praktiken des Sehens und Hörens. Bielefeld: transcript.
• Ochsner, Beate; Grebe, Anna. 2013. Andere Bilder. Zur Produktion von Behinderung in der visuellen Kultur. Bielefeld: transcript.