Markus Brenn has been a research assistant and PhD Fellow at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg since the summer semester 2024. For his dissertation project, he is researching the production, distribution and consumption of podcasts as well as their socio-technical conditions and consequences.

He studied sociology with sub-majors in philosophy and modern German literature at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) from 2013 to 2019.

After his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the LMU in the winter semester 2019/2020 at the Chair of General Sociology and Social Theory. From 2020 to 2024, he worked at the Institute for Social Work and Social Pedagogy in Frankfurt am Main. As a research assistant, he was part of a team in the field of democracy promotion, which scientifically supported and evaluated the municipal democracy promotion of the federal program “Demokratie Leben!” in the funding period from 2020 to 2024.

Research interests

• Social theory
• Cultural Sociology/Media Sociology
• Qualitative research methods
• New materialism

Lectures

• Vertraute Stimmen. Eine soziologische Studie zu Podcasts (October 2024, University of Innsbruck, Annual Conference of the Sociological Theory section, the Austrian Sociological Association)
• Instagram als Identitätsgenerator. Grenzen und Formationsregeln der #Authentizität (2019, LMU München, Student Conference „Digital Humanities“)

Teaching

• Exercise: Materialismus und Soziologie. Eine Einführung (Winter semester 2019, LMU)
• Exercise: Einführung in die Jugendsoziologie (Summer semester 2020, the Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg)