Beate Ochsner

Beate Ochsner is a professor for media studies, University of Constance (Germany). His research areas are Media and participation (www.mediaandparticipation.com/); audiovisual production of dis/ability; practices of hearing and seeing; monster and monstrosities; mediality/intermediality. His recent publications include Monography: DeMONSTRAtion. Munich 2010. Collected volume: Andere Bilder: Zur medialen Produktion von Behinderung (Other Pictures. On mediatic production of disability), B. Ochsner/A. Grebe (eds.), Bielefeld 2013. Periodical: AugenBlick. Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft 58 (2013). Themenheft: Objekte medialer Teilhabe (Objects of medial participation), Beate Ochsner/Isabell Otto/Markus Spöhrer (eds.). Articles: Together with Robert Stock:”Translations of Blind Perception in the Films Monika (2011) and Antoine (2011)”, in: Invisible Culture. Special Issue: Blind Spots (Peer Reviewed Journal) 19 (2013), http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/portfolio/translations-of-blind-perception-in-the-films-monika-2011-and-antoine-2011/. Together with Robert Stock: “Schnittstellen zwischen Hören und Mehr-Hören – das CI als Quasi-Objekt” (Interfaces between hearing and better hearing – the CI as a quasi-object), appears in: Sybille Nikolow et al. (eds.): Superabled. Technisches Enhancement durch Prothetik (Superabled. Technical enhancement through prothetics). Together with Robert Stock und Markus Spöhrer: Human, Non-Human, and Beyond: Cochlear Implants in Socio-Technological Environments.” In: NanoEthics 9.3, 237-250. Mapping the Brain: Neuropolitics and the design of Cochlear-Implant-Activation-Videos, in: Documentary and disability, ed. by Catalin Brylla and Helen Hughes, Palgrave McMillan (forthcoming).

Publications

Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies
Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies
Markus Spöhrer, Beate Ochsner. © 2017. 315 pages.
Actor-Network Theory (ANT), originally a social theory, seeks to organize objects and non-human entities into social networks. Its most innovative claim approaches these networks...
Talking about Associations and Descriptions or a Short Story about Associology
Talking about Associations and Descriptions or a Short Story about Associology
Beate Ochsner. © 2017. 14 pages.
In 1999, Bruno Latour advocated for “abandoning what was wrong with ANT, that is ‘actor,' ‘network,' ‘theory' without forgetting the hyphen.” However, it seems that...