Markus Spöhrer is a media scholar and research associate / postdoctoral researcher at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities of the University of Tübingen (Germany) and a lecturer at the media studies department of the University of Tübingen. His research interests include disability and digital games, history of game accessibility, diversity representation in media, surveillance studies, science and technology studies (STS).

Recent publications include:

(with Beate Ochsner) Disability and Video Games: Practices of En-/Disabling Modes of Digital Gaming, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

“From voyeur to overseer: Convergences between surveillance cinema and FMV games in the 1990s.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565251404979