Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Gender as a Category of Knowledge

Daniela Wentz

PhD Project:

Frauentausch (Wife Swap)

 

 

Description of the Project

Based on the reality tv-program »Frauentausch« (»Wife Swap«, RTL 2, since 2003), the aim of the project was the analysis of the relationship between symbolic and economic exchange, combining gender and media theoretical perspectives.

                                                     

Particulars

Daniela Wentz studied European media culture at Bauhaus-University Weimar and University Lumière, Lyon II. She has been an associated member at the research training group from 2005-2006. Since 2007, she has been working as a lecturer at Bauhaus-University. She currently works as a researcher in the DFG-research-project „TV series as reflection and projection of change“. She submitted her thesis, entitled Con/sequences of images. A  Diagrammatology of the Television Series, in may 2013.

   

Selected Publications

 

zus. m. Benjmain Beil, Lorenz Engell, Jens Schröter u.a.: Themenschwerpunkt »Die Serie«. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 7/2 (2012).

Bilder/Räume denken. Zum diagrammatischen Bild. In: Raum Wissen Medien. Zur raumtheoretischen Reformulierung des Medienbegriffs, hg. v. Dorit Müller u. Sebastian Scholz, Bielefeld 2012. S. 253 – 269.

zus. m. André Wendler (Hg.): Die Medien und das Neue, Marburg 2010.

   

Contact

http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/medien/medienphilosophie/personen/daniela-wentz.html