Angelica Martinez Ochoa
Lecturer & Critical Media Studies Researcher
Welcome!
I am Angelica Martinez Ochoa, a researcher, writer, and lecturer whose work moves across art, technology, and critical media studies to examine how digital infrastructures and global markets are reshaping the lives of women, mothers, and those who care for one another. My research explores the intersections of transnational labor markets, platform capitalism, and feminist science and technology studies, tracing how the design of digital platforms mediates motherhood, work, and social reproduction.
Through the lens of critical media theory, I study how emerging technologies, from gig-care platforms to generative AI, are redefining the meaning of labor, care, and value in contemporary life. I situate these transformations within broader histories of welfare, globalization, and post-industrial economies, revealing how the global care economy operates as both a site of extraction and resistance.
Ultimately, I am interested in how technological design, discourse, and international cooperation in a multipolar world can help us imagine more equitable technological futures, ones that sustain all of us, and especially the mothers and women whose labor continues to hold our societies together.
Teaching & Research Trajectory
Lecturer, Transnational Film and Video
The University of Texas at Dallas
August 2024 – Present
Teaching Associate, Art Appreciation and Design 1
Dallas Community College
August 2023 – Present
Teaching Associate, Technoculture
The University of Texas at Dallas
Summer 2023 and Summer 2024
Teaching Associate, Digital Art and Social Practice
The University of Texas at Dallas
August 2022 – May 2024
Teaching Associate, Writing for Arts, Technology and Emerging Communications
The University of Texas at Dallas
August 2021 – May 2022
Research Assistant, Critical Media Studies Project
The University of Texas at Dallas
August 2019 – July 2020
- Special Project related to Critical Media Studies for the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communications.
Academic Background
Ph.D. in Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication
The University of Texas at Dallas (ATEC)
Graduated: June 2024
Dissertation: The Work of New Motherhood: Technocapitalism and Postpartum Labor (Committee Chair: Dr. Josef Nguyen).
M.S. in International Business Development
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Graduated: June 2015
Thesis on Job Opportunities for International Graduates in the Russian and German Labor Markets.
B.A. in Communications Science
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Graduated: December 2012
Publications
1. Book Review: Going into Labor: Childbirth in Capitalism by Anna Fielder
Martinez Ochoa, A. Gender and Society. (October 2025)
2. Perspectives on motherhood, labor, and emerging technologies
Martinez Ochoa, A., Alzate, C. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative. (March 2025)
3. Uncovering the Politics Behind Adobe Stock
Martinez Ochoa, A. OTESSA 2021 Conference Proceedings. (December 2021)
4. Job Opportunities for International Graduates in the Russian and German Labor Markets
Martinez Ochoa, A., Schegolev, V., Lassleben, H. Business Perspectives and Research. (2016)
Conferences & Creative Work
Conference Presentations
Gender and Labor in the Gig Economy
Presented at the Panel "(Un/Re) Making Gendered Platforms," at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Seattle.
September 2025
Technosolutionsims and the Care Crisis
Panel: Caring for Care: Robotics and Care, at the Science and Technology (STS) Italia.
June 2025
Mother User-Mother Work (Panel organizer)
End-of-year event at the LaborTech Research Network.
December 2024
Postpartum Pressures: How FemTech and Silicon Valley Are Shaping Contemporary Motherhood
Virtual talk at the LaborTech Speaker Series.
October 2024
Nurture: Online Digital Platforms of Milk Sharing
Paper presentation at the Datafied Family Conference, University of Surrey, UK. Panel: Fetus, Infant, Child.
June 2024
Corporate Troubleshooting of Motherhood in the Digital Age: Exploring Virtual Clinics' Role in Shaping Contemporary Motherhood
Paper presentation at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
November 2023
Mobilizations of the Female Body in Online Communities of Breastmilk Exchange: Differences and Tensions
Panel discussion: (A) Moral Policing: Social Gaze Towards Female Bodies at the Research, Art, Writing (RAW) Conference, UTD.
February 2023
Uncovering the Politics Behind Adobe Stock
Paper presentation at the OTESSA Conference, University of Alberta, Canada.
December 2021
Art Exhibitions
Art exhibitions developed in collaboration with the Critical Anatomies Lab, led by Prof. Catalina Alzate at the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Techno-Motherhood (A Poster Series exhibition with Catalina Alzate)
Exhibited at the Perspective Gallery at Virginia Tech.
March 2025
Motherhood and the Gig Economy (A Poster series exhibition with Catalina Alzate)
Exhibited at the 20th Anniversary Academic & Arts Conference, Museum of Motherhood.
March 2025
Awards and Honors
Best Dissertation Award
Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas
April 2025
Dean of Graduate Education Dissertation Research Award
Office of Graduate Education, The University of Texas at Dallas
May 2023
The Jess Hay Endowment for Chancellor's Graduate Student Research Fellowship (ATEC Nominee)
The University of Texas at Dallas
May 2021
CONACYT Doctoral Fellowship
Mexico: National Council of Science and Technology
September 2020
Betty and Gifford Johnson Travel Award
Office of Graduate Education, The University of Texas at Dallas
May 2020
Service, Certifications, and Development
Service
- Speaker Series Coordinator, Labor Tech Research Network (July 2024 - Present)
- Reading Group Collaborator, Care, Code and Control (August 2025 - Present)
- AHT School Representative for the Graduate Student Assembly, UTD (August 2022 - May 2023)
- Workshop Organizer for Platforms to the World, UTD (February 2020)
Certifications
- Graduate Teaching Certificate, UTD (December 2022)
- Online Teaching Certification, Dallas Community College (October 2023)
Professional Development
- Digital IDEAS Summer Institute, University of Michigan (Summer 2023)
- Intern for a Venture Capital Principal, Fellowship Program, Capital Factory (August 2021 - December 2021)
- Professional Associations: Association of Internet Research (AoIR), Labor Tech Research Network