The ZeMKI Persons Dr. Miira Hill PostdocResearch staff Lab membershipLab Digital Communication and Information DiversityContactBuilding/room: Linzer Straße 6 (LINZ6) 61.030Phone: 49 (0) 421 218 676 36E-mail: mhill@uni-bremen.de Vita Miira Hill is a postdoctoral researcher at ZeMKI. Since 2020, she has been affiliated with the Chair of Communication and Media Studies with a focus on Digital Communication. She is a member of the “Digital Communication and Information Diversity” lab and coordinates the structured doctoral program of ZeMKI. From 2018 to 2020, she coordinated the interdisciplinary module “Science Uses Methods” at Leuphana University in Lüneburg. She studied Sociology, Technical Environmental Protection, and Psychology in Stuttgart, Bielefeld, San Francisco, and Berlin and earned her PhD on contemporary communication and legitimation practices in science within the context of transdisciplinary science communication at the Technical University of Berlin in the Department of General Sociology (Title: Slamming Science. The New Art Of Old Public Science Communication; Reviewers: Prof. Dr. Hubert Knoblauch and Prof. Dr. Martin Reinhart). In her work, she connected to the sociological theory of knowledge, feminist approaches of the Science and Technology Studies, and innovation research. After receiving her doctorate, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the interdisciplinary graduate program “Innovation Society Today” at TU Berlin. She has been teaching for many years in the areas of emotion research, gender studies, communicative constructivism, sociology of religion, qualitative methods, history of science, history of sexuality, and visual communication. She is keenly interested in exploring the dynamic relationship between science and the public within the digital society framework, alongside the developments occurring at German universities. Additionally, her focus encompasses the qualitative analysis of digital user data, as well as critical perspectives on power and domination within digital public spaces. Research Focus digital society power and domination public sphere theories postcolonial and feminist perspectives qualitative research methods digital methods in social science Memberships 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 Puschmann, C., Hill, M., Zerrer, P. (2024): “Digital trace data on breaking news use under a qualitative microscope: Information seeking during events connected to war”. Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)Hill, Miira (2023). Innovation und Kommunikation: Über die Entstehung einer kommunikativen Gattung. Innovationsgesellschaft heute. 231--258. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbadenhttps://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-39743-2_8Hill, Miira (2023). Science Slam. Eine kommunikative Gattung im Zeichen der Digitalisierung. Kommunikative Gattungen und Events. 193--218. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbadenhttps://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-41941-7_9Hill, Miira B (2022). The new art of old public science communication: the science slam. RoutledgeMiira 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 Budrichhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1jhvn3s?turn_away=trueHill, Miira (2020). Innovative Popular Science Communication? Materiality, Aesthetics, and Gender in Science Slams. Genealogy of Popular Science. 517--544. transcript Verlaghttps://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839448359-025/htmlWeiser, 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 Wiesbadenhttp://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-25312-7_12Wilke, 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--378http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077800418821531Hill, 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 Wiesbadenhttp://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-24958-8_20Hill, Miira (2018). Die Versinnbildlichung von Gesellschaftswissenschaft. Öffentliche Gesellschaftswissenschaften. 169--186. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbadenhttp://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-658-16710-3_9Der kommunikative Konstruktivismus bei der Arbeit. Beltz Juventahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3196-0851