Dr. Miira Hill

Vita

Miira Hill is a postdoctoral researcher at ZeMKI and has been affiliated with the Chair of Communication and Media Studies with a focus on Digital Communication since 2020. She is a member of the “Digital Communication and Diversity of Information” lab, led by Prof. Cornelius Puschmann, and co-coordinates the structured doctoral program at ZeMKI with him. From 2018 to 2020, she led the interdisciplinary module “Science Uses Methods” at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Hill studied Sociology, Technical Environmental Protection, and Psychology in Stuttgart, Bielefeld, San Francisco, and Berlin. Her Ph.D. in General Sociology from the Technical University of Berlin focused on contemporary communication and legitimation practices in transdisciplinary science communication (Hill, M.B. (2022). The New Art of Old Public Science Communication: The Science Slam. Milton Park: Routledge). Her research is grounded in the sociology of knowledge, feminist approaches to Science and Technology Studies, and innovation research. After completing her doctorate, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the interdisciplinary research training group “Innovation Society Today” at TU Berlin.

Her teaching focuses on imparting qualitative methods, analyzing the transformation of the public sphere in digital contexts, exploring human-technology relationships, and critically engaging with power and dominance structures.

Her research is dedicated to the analysis of societal digitalization, with a particular focus on media as social phenomena. She combines theoretical and empirical approaches from media sociology, communication and media studies, and science and technology studies to illuminate the complex interactions between media, technology, and society. A central aspect of her work is the advancement of media sociological theories and the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Research Focus

• digital society
• power and domination
• public sphere theories
• postcolonial and feminist perspectives
• qualitative research methods
• digital methods in social science

Memberships

• International Communication Association (ICA)
• Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
• Interdisciplinary Network for Studies Investigating Science and Technology (INSIST)
• European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) /  DGS-Sektion Wissenssoziologie

Upcoming Publications

Hill, M. (in press): The Role of ‘Unspoken Rules’ in Shaping Public Discourse: The Communicative Constructions on TikTok and Facebook. In: „Communicative Constructivism and the Social Construction of Material Reality: Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Studies“. Joschua Schröder und Hubert Knoblauch (Hrsg.). Milton Park: Routledge.

Hill, M. (in press): Communicatively constructing lines between Publics and Science. Video analysis in the field of Science Communication. In: „Video-Analysis in Action. Contributions to social theory and the analysis of society“. Ajit Singh, Christian Meier zu Verl, Rene Tuma (eds.). Milton Park: Routledge.

Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)

• Hill, Miira (2023). Science Slam. Eine kommunikative Gattung im Zeichen der Digitalisierung. Kommunikative Gattungen und Events. 193--218. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
  https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-41941-7_9
• Hill, Miira (2023). Innovation und Kommunikation: Über die Entstehung einer kommunikativen Gattung. Innovationsgesellschaft heute. 231--258. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
  https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-39743-2_8
• Hill, Miira B (2022). The New Art of Old Public Science Communication. The Science Slam. Routledge. Routledge
  https://www.routledge.com/The-New-Art-of-Old-Public-Science-Communication-The-Science-Slam/Hill/p/book/9781032000800?srsltid=AfmBOoqH6AUcszvXbhFNe5b8qtn8e-5VId2iMpMIg4iySbxc3yqVl-Nr
• Miira Hill and Katharina Kirn (2021). Die Nahbarkeit des Digitalen. Zur Verminderung von Technikangst durch (weibliche) Vergemeinschaftung. Buzzword Digitalisierung: Relevanz von Geschlecht und Vielfalt in digitalen Gesellschaften. 47--68. Verlag Barbara Budrich
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1jhvn3s?turn_away=true
• Hill, M. (2020). Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit im Zeichen der Digitalisierung. Die Produktion und Kommunikation des Science-Slams
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-28861-7_9
• Hill, Miira (2020). Innovative Popular Science Communication? Materiality, Aesthetics, and Gender in Science Slams. Genealogy of Popular Science. 517--544. transcript Verlag
  https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839448359-025/html
• Weiser, Annika and Hill, Miira and Picht, Laura and Prien-Ribcke, Sven and Lbcke, Eileen and Heudorfer, Anna (2019). Forschendes Lernen an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg: Das Leuphana Semester. Forschendes Lernen in der Studieneingangsphase. 193--207. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
  http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-25312-7_12
• Wilke, Ren and Hill, Miira (2019). On New Forms of Science Communication and Communication in Science: A Videographic Approach to Visuality in Science Slams and Academic Group Talk. Qualitative Inquiry. 25 (4). 363--378
  http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077800418821531
• Hill, Miira and Braunisch, Lilli and Fernndez, Bernardo and Gobo, Giampietro and Hornidge, Anna-Katharina and Endre, Martin and Schrder, David Joshua and Zifonun, Dariu and Botsi, Elena and Hero, Markus and Rammert, Werner and Schrer, Norbert and Keller, Reiner and Nassehi, Armin (2019). S. Kleines Al(e)phabet des Kommunikativen Konstruktivismus. 385--444. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
  http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-24958-8_20
• Hill, Miira (2018). Die Versinnbildlichung von Gesellschaftswissenschaft. Öffentliche Gesellschaftswissenschaften. 169--186. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
  http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-16710-3_9

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3196-0851