Christian Sandvig
Contact Information
Office: 303 B Communication
Telephone: (217) 333-0141
Email: csandvig@illinois.edu
Web site: http://www.niftyc.org/
Associate Professor
Bio
Christian Sandvig's research investigates the development of new communication infrastructure. His research combines approaches from communication, law, and science and technology studies. In 2002 Sandvig was named a "next-generation leader in science and technology policy" by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2006 Sandvig received the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the US National Science Foundation. He is currently a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Curriculum Vitae
Experience
- Technology studies. Technology policy. Telecommunications law and policy. Social research methods.
Education
- Ph.D., Stanford University
Selected Publications
Sandvig, C. (2009). How Technical is Technology Research? In E. Hargittai (ed.), Research Methods from the Trenches. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Gilbert, E., Karahalios, K. & Sandvig, C. (2008). The Network in the Garden: An Empirical Analysis of Social Media in Rural Life. Proceedings of the 26th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): 1603-1612.
Shah, R. & Sandvig, C. (2008). Defaults as De Facto Regulation: The Case of Wireless Access Points. Information, Communication, and Society 11(1): 25-46.
Bar, F. & Sandvig, C. (2008). US Communications Policy After Convergence. Media, Culture, & Society 30(1): 531-550.
Sandvig, C. (2007). The RED Project: Rendering Electromagnetic Distributions. Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular 3(1).