Veronika Pöhnl is a research associate at the Department of Literature with Art and Media Studies, University of Konstanz. She is associated with SP 2 „Techno-sensory processes of participation. App-practices and Dis/Ability“.

 

Veronika Pöhnl studied art history and indo-european linguistics at the University of Regensburg (2003-2004), BA and received her MA degree in literature, art and media studies at the University of Konstanz (2007-2013). In her MA thesis „Denkwege. Bilder zwischen Erkenntnis und Existenz“, she analysed the media theory foundation of visual theory, world and self-constitution in art theory and STS.

In her PhD project “Aesthetic Scanning Electron Microskopy”, she explores the transposition of SEM-images in science, STS, popular science and art.

 Research interests

• Media theory/media aesthetics
• Art and Visual Studies
• Science and Technology studies
• Media conditions of individuation

 Publications

Recent publications include “Transportation, Transformation, and Metaphoricity: Concepts of Transmission in ANT and German Media Theory”, in: M. Spöhrer: Analytical Frameworks, Applications, and Impacts of ICT and Actor-Network Theory. Hershey, PA: IGI Global 2019 and “Mind the Gap: On Actor-Network Theory and German Media Theory”, in: M. Spöhrer, B. Ochsner (eds.): Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017 as well as “Apply for Invitation. Exklusion, Inklusion und Individuation durch Praxen der Sichtbarmachung am Beispiel der Internetplattform TED.com“, in: Augenblick. Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft: Objekte der Teilhabe 58 (2013).

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