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Faculty Profiles

Christian Sandvig

166 Coordinated Science Laboratory
(217) 265-6287
csandvig@illinois.edu

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University (Communication)
M.A., Stanford University (Communication)
B.A., University of California, Davis (Rhetoric and Communication)

Affiliations

Associate Professor, Communications (ICR)
Associate Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, College of LAS
Research Associate Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, College of Engineering

Course Specialties

New Media Technology
Communication Infrastructure
Communication Law and Policy
Human-Computer Interaction

Background

Sandvig previously served as Markle Foundation Information Policy Fellow in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford University. In 2002 Sandvig was named a "next-generation leader in science and technology policy" in a junior faculty competition organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2006 he received the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the US National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER) in the area of Human-Centered Computing. Sandvig's scholarly writing has received best paper awards at a variety of scholarly associations, including the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), and the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC). Sandvig serves on the editorial board of scholarly journals and is Associate Editor of The Information Society. Sandvig is also a computer programmer with industry experience consulting for a Fortune 500 company, a regional government, and a San Francisco Bay Area software start-up company. He is currently an Academic Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Research

Sandvig has published on the development of new communication infrastructure, wireless communication technologies, Internet law and policy, Internet research methods, and related topics in a variety of venues, including the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication; Telecommunications Policy; The Information Society; Media, Culture, and Society; Information, Communication, and Society; The Communication Review; Info: The Journal of Policy, Regulation, and Strategy for Telecommunications; and Vectors. His writing has also appeared in edited books and has been reprinted and translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Hungarian. His research has been financially supported by Intel Research, The Internet Society, The National Science Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the Social Science Research Council, the European Commission, and the MacArthur Foundation.

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