Christian Sandvig

Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D., Stanford University

Research Interests: Communication technology and public policy. The tension between legal, social, and technical imperatives in the development of communication systems. The regulation of non-instrumental media use. Social constructionism. Methodological triangulation.

Current Research: Professor Sandvig's current projects include an investigation of the migration of computer network engineering into normative policy debates, such as the use of "end-to-end principle" to reason about intermediary relationships in Internet architecture. Another project involves comparative policy analysis of state action to develop computer network infrastructure. A third employs spatial analysis of computer network traffic combined with an "ethnography of place" in an inner-city computer center to consider the dilemma between the state objectives for Internet access subsidy and the children who use the Internet in non-instrumental ways.

Representative Recent Publications:

Sandvig, C. (forthcoming). Shaping Infrastructure and Innovation on the Internet: The End-to-End network that Isn't. In D. Guston & D. Sarewitz (eds.), Shaping Science and Technology Policy: The Next Generation of Research. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Sandvig, C. (ed.) (2003). Special Issue: Policy, Politics and the Local Internet. The Communication Review, 6(3).

Sandvig, C. (2003). Welcome to 1927: The Creation of Property Rights and Internet Domain Name Policy in Historical Perspective. In P. Day & D. Schuler (eds.), Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action/Global Interaction. London: Routledge.

Sandvig, C. & Verhulst, S. (2003). The Internet and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective. In M. Price& H. Nissenbaum (eds.), The Academy and the Internet. New York: Peter Lang.

Sandvig, C. (2003). Public Internet Access for Young Children in the Inner City: Evidence to Inform Access Subsidy and Content Regulation. The Information Society, 19(2): 171-183.

Chaffee, S., Saphir, M.N., Graf, J., Sandvig, C. & Hahn, K.S. (2001). Attention to Counter-Attitudinal Messages in a State Election Campaign. Political Communication, 18(3).