AssociateProfessor Dr PetraMissomelius
Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
Department of Media, Society and Communication
Grey Bear, Universitätsstraße 5-7, A-6020 Innsbruck
Office 1S15, 1st floor
Missomelius, Petra, Dr phil. Mag phil., studied Modern German Literature and Media, European Ethnology and Cultural Research as well as Fine Arts at the Philipps University in Marburg. She completed her doctorate there in 2006 on "Digital Media Culture. Media Configurations and Perception". From 2001, she worked as a research assistant at the Department of German Studies at the Faculty of German Philology and Art Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg, researching media art, film analysis and film knowledge, digital photography and imaging processes in the natural sciences as well as media education.
She has been at Leopold Franzens University since 2012, initially at the Faculty of Education (Department of Media Education and Communication Culture). With the founding of the Department of Media, Society and Communication at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
She was involved in the development and implementation of the new school subject "Digital Basic Education" in Austria since 2022 and also teaches this as a teacher. Her habilitation thesis "Bildung in transformativen Medienkulturen. Building blocks for mature orientation in the binary" was published in 2021 under the title "Bildung - Medien - Mensch. Mündigkeit im Digitalen" is available for download in the GEI repository.
Main areas of work: Media education; media, body and technology theories; (moving) image cultures; emerging media; media practices, especially the use of wearables.
Focal points
- Socio-cultural aspects of media (practices and interfaces, media theory)
- Media dynamics and social change (emerging media, wearables and governmentality)
- Media education (education under the sign of digitality, knowledge media, knowledge of the media
Research activities
- Since 2023: Governmentality and techno-security. Ankle bracelets and near-body technologies in the health sector; cooperation with the Institute for the Sociology of Law and Crime, University of Innsbruck and Media Sociology, University of Paderborn
- Since 2023: Moving education. Development of new approaches to film education. Research collaborations with German, Swiss and Austrian partner institutions
- 2020: Monograph "Education - Media - People. Maturity in the digital age." Publication funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- 2019: Development of the "Frankfurt Triangle for Education in the Digitally Networked World" together with Torsten Brinda (University of Essen), Niels Brüggen (JFF Munich), Ira Diethelm (University of Oldenburg), Thomas Knaus (PH Ludwigsburg), Sven Kommer (RWTH Aachen), Christine Kopf (German Film Institute and Film Museum Frankfurt), Rainer Leschke (University of Siegen), Friederike Tilemann (PH Zurich), Andreas Weich (HBK Braunschweig)
- 2013-2017: Media education as school development. Collaboration with the Winter School at the University of Flensburg and the educational initiative Keine Bildung ohne Medien.
Monographs and editorships
Hug, Theo; Missomelius, Petra; Ortner, Heike (2024): Artificial intelligence in discourse. Interdisciplinary perspectives on the present and future of AI applications. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press
Missomelius, Petra (2022): Education - media - people. Maturity in the digital age. Göttingen: V&R unipress
Beinsteiner, Andreas; Blasch, Lisa; Hug, Theo; Missomelius, Petra; Rizzoli Michaela (2020): Augmented and virtual realities. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press
Barberi, Alessandro; Ballhausen, Thomas; Berger, Christian; Kaiser-Müller, Katharina; Missomelius, Petra; Sonderegger, Ruth; Swertz, Christian; Danner, Rosa (2019): Medienimpulse 2016 - 2017. vienna: new academic press.
Barberi, Alessandro; Ballhausen, Thomas; Berger, Christian; Missomelius, Petra; Kaiser-Müller, Katharina; Sonderegger, Ruth; Swertz, Christian; Trültzsch-Wijnen, Christine (2017): Medienimpulse 2014 - 2015. vienna: new academic press.
Hug, Theo; Pallaver, Günther; Missomelius, Petra (2017): Department of Media, Society and Communication. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press
Invited lectures
- 2024 Panel participation "Making, Coding & Media? How the Frankfurt Triangle helps to think it together".Munich Making Media! Coding pedagogy? 20th interdisciplinary conference of the JFF and the BLM,
- Media Education in School and Society: Digital Basic Education and Digital Competence Offensive. Schlierbach. Symposium: Free media in basic digital education
- 2022 Competence discourses in medial change. University of Basel. Event "Media competence. Education as a cultural technique".
- 2022 Digital together at school: related disciplines of media education, media science and Computer Science. Munich (online). Conference "Digital Together - Shaping education in a digital world
- 2022 From the digital roadmap to basic digital education. Media education in Austria. University of Halle an der Saale. Conference "School's On! - Digital scope for modern media education", University of
- 2021 'Digital education' and the IT industry. University of Siegen
- 2018 Austrian Curriculum development on the basis of competence frameworks. Eisenstadt. Digital Education Expert Conference: Digital strategies for school education: barriers, enablers and success factors.
Conference presentations
- 2024 The digital form as a socio-technocratic media form between button and destiny. Innsbruck. Austrian Linguistics Conference 2024
- 2024 Data doubles and smart public safety. Innsbruck. Foucault World Congress - 40 Years After. Rethinking Foucault's Historical Ontology of Ourselves: Subjects, Subjectivation, Self-Practices
- 2023 (with Lukas Engelsberger) The GPS Anklet: Surveillance and Control through Near-Body Technology. Innsbruck. Materiality and Immateriality in Digital Capitalism: Art and Literature from Humanities, Social Sciences, Law and Economics Perspectives
- 2021 Knowledge institutionalisation and the education industry. Marburg. 9th Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Colloquium (IDK): Scientific Cultures in Comparison: Canonisation and Institutionalisation of Knowledge
- 2021 Video Cultures and Digital Online Sharing - Mourning and Commemoration in the Pandemic. Amsterdam. Aurora Research Conference - Digital Society and Global Citizenship
- 2021 Quotas, Curves, Diagrams - the Visualisation of the Pandemic. Innsbruck. Understanding Corona. Understanding Corona. The pandemic from the perspective of the humanities, cultural and social sciences / Take 2, Innsbruck, hybrid
- 2020 The educational oblivion of media studies. Technical University of Braunschweig Workshop Digitalisation and Education: Theory - Analysis - Transfer
- 2020 The visual meme - form of digital media culture and marketing tool. Innsbruck. Symposium: Read again. Hermann K. Ehmer's analysis of a DOORNKAAT advertisement
- 2019 Digitality & the media function of processing in the field of education. Linz ÖFEB Congress 2019: Measured? On the relationship between educational research, educational policy and educational practice
Functions
- Since 2024: Spokesperson of the Innsbruck Media Studies Research Centre
- Since 2024: Delegate of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences in the Digital Community of the University of Innsbruck
- 2021-2024: Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
- Since 2023: Member of the expert committee for the creation and updating of the National Reference Framework for Digital Education (OeAD, BMBWF), Vienna
- 2023: Member of the working group for referencing the curriculum. Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF), Vienna
- Since 2023: Member of the Advisory Board of the Digital Competence Offensive Austria (BKA, BMKOES, BMAW, BMBWF) Vienna
- 2019: Head of the Curriculum Group Sek.1 Digital Basic Education. Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF), Vienna
- 2018: Expert committee "Sounding Board" Digital Austria (BMBWF) Vienna
- Since 2017: Deputy Head of the Department of Media, Society and Communication
- Since 2017: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) Braunschweig
- Since 2017: Expert Advisory Board of the Frankfurt Technology Centre (ftzm) Frankfurt am Main
- 2019-2023: Spokesperson of the Education Forum of the Society for Media Studies (together with Andreas Weich)
- 2014-2020: Spokesperson (together with Sven Kommer) of the education initiative "No education without media"
- 2012-2020: Spokesperson of the working group Media Culture and Education of the Society for Media Studies (together with Rainer Leschke)
Peer review activities for
- Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna
- Austrian Exchange Service (OeAD), Vienna
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Berlin
- Journal for Media Studies, Bielefeld
- MedienPädagogik - Journal for Theory and Practice of Media Education, Zurich
- Journal.kommunikation-medien, Salzburg
- Journal Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung, Leverkusen-Opladen
- Journal for Disability Studies, Innsbruck
- Scientific Committee of the Digital Humanities Conferences from 2023
- Organisation of conferences and workshops (selection)
- 2025 "Streifzüge an den Nahtstellen von Medien, Bildung und Philosophie" (Media - Knowledge - Education 2025). University of Innsbruck
- 2021 "Knowledge Ecology" Annual Conference of the Society for Media Studies, University of Innsbruck
- 2018 "Complexity and Reduction: Academic Research between Science and Public Science" Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Colloquium (IDK) "Science Cultures in Comparison". University of Innsbruck
- Bildungsmediale 2016: Digital change - paths into the future, Mainz
Memberships in professional societies
- Society for Media Studies (GfM)
- European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (necs)
- Consortium for Research Data on Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage (NFDI4Culture)
- European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)