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Benjamin Mako Hill is an Associate Professor in the University of Washington Department of Communication and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, the Information School, and the Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering. His research focuses on the social dynamics of online communities, particularly those producing digital public goods like Wikipedia and Linux. He is a founding member of the Community Data Science Collective and affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Education: PhD in Communication and Media Arts from MIT (2013), advised by Eric von Hippel, Yochai Benkler, Tom Malone, and Mitch Resnick. Notable for his dissertation on early collaborative encyclopedia projects, which won the Dordick Award for Best Dissertation in Communication & Technology.
Research interests include peer production, open source governance, algorithmic fairness, and computational social science. His work combines large-scale data analysis with qualitative methods, often addressing how technology design influences community outcomes. Key themes include underproduction in open source, gender disparities in tech, and the role of anonymity in collaboration.
He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in venues like ACM CHI, CSCW, and New Media & Society, with awards for contributions to understanding remix culture, computational thinking in education, and community moderation. Active in grants totaling over $2M from NSF, Sloan Foundation, and others.
Current roles include a 2023–2024 fellowship at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Engaged in projects like the Community Data Science Workshops, promoting data literacy, and advising Wikimedia Foundation initiatives. Maintains a prolific blog and contributes to free culture projects like AcaWiki.
