• Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse Research
• Digital Communication and Public Spheres
• Power, Visibility, and Social Order
• Science and Media Communication
• Qualitative and Computational Methods

Since 08/2026
Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Associate, Chair of Sociology, University of Augsburg

2020–2025
Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Associate, ZeMKI – Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen

2018–2020
Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Associate, College, Leuphana University Lüneburg; Module Coordinator, “Science Uses Methods”

2015–2016
Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Associate, DFG Research Training Group “Innovation Society Today”, Institute of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin

2012–2015
Doctoral Researcher and DFG Fellow, Research Training Group “Innovation Society Today”, Technische Universität Berlin

Education

2016 PhD (Dr. phil.) in Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin

2011 Diploma in Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin, specialization in Sociology of Technology

2008 Study Abroad Semester, San Francisco State University, USA

2004–2006 Studies in Sociology, Bielefeld University

Monograph

Hill, M. B. (2022). The New Art of Old Public Science Communication: The Science Slam. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172635

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Hill, M. & Puschmann, C. (2025). Nostalgic for a better democracy? Publizistik, 70(1), 181–204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-025-00891-w

Runge, L., Katzenbach, C. & Hill, M. (2026). Governing Sexism on TikTok. Feminist Media Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2026.2697472

Hill, M. Buying Big Numbers. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research. [accepted]

Wilke, R. & Hill, M. (2019). On New Forms of Science Communication. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(4), 363–378. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800418821531

Selected Book Chapters

Puschmann, C., Hill, M. & Zerrer, P. (forthcoming). Seeing them scroll. Towards a qualitative perspective on digital tracking. Oxford University Press.

Hill, M. (2026). The Role of 'Unspoken Rules' in Shaping Public Discourse. In: Communicative Constructivism and the Social Construction of Material Reality. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003600619

Hill, M. (2026). The data interview. Reflexive integration of large language models in qualitative content analysis. In: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science. transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839447529

Hill, M. (2025). Communicatively constructing lines between Publics and Science. In: Video-Analysis in Action. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003279259

Hill, M. (2023). Kommunikative Gattungen im Zeichen der Digitalisierung. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41941-7_1

Hill, M. (2023). Innovation und Kommunikation. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39743-2

Hill, M. & Kirn, K. (2021). Die Nahbarkeit des Digitalen. Verlag Barbara Budrich. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1jhvn3s

2026
“Buying Big Numbers. The practice of buying Followers, Plays and Likes.” 27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Mexico City, Mexico.

2026
“Nachrichtenvermeidung als soziale Praxis: Digitale Spurdaten und die Resilienz von Medienroutinen am 7. Oktober 2023.” 43rd Congress of the German Sociological Association, University of Mainz.

2026
“LLMs als epistemische Systeme in der qualitativen Sozialforschung: Kritische Reflexionen zur KI-Integration in Analysesoftware.” 43rd Congress of the German Sociological Association, University of Mainz.

2025
“Nostalgic for a better democracy? How German right-wing social media commentators (mis)remember the past.” 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Denver, USA.

2025
“LLM as non-human Informant.” Association of Internet Researchers FlashPoint Symposium, University of Bremen.

2025
“Interpreting digital trace data under a subjective microscope.” Authors’ Conference, Why the Data Revolution Needs Qualitative Research, University of Bremen.

2024
“Queer Feminist Perspectives on TikTok: A Critical Analysis Platform Governance.” 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Porto, Portugal.

2024
“Digital Methods in Qualitative Research: Integrating AI and Tracking Data to Uncover Social Dynamics in Crisis Contexts.” Qualitative Digital Methods Conference, Ruhr University Bochum.