Christian Sandvig

Faculty Associate

BIO

Christian Sandvig is the H. Marshall McLuhan Collegiate Professor of Digital Media and the Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing at the University of Michigan, where he teaches in both Information and Communication Studies. He is a researcher specializing in studying the consequences of algorithmic systems that curate and organize culture.

  • Sandvig, Christian E, Plantin, Jean-Christophe , Lagoze, Carl , Edwards, Paul N. 2018. Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook. New Media & Society 20(1):293-310.  
  • Sandvig, Christian E, Eslami, Motahhare , Krishna Kumaran, Sneha R, Karahalios, Karrie . 2018. Communicating Algorithmic Process in Online Behavioral Advertising. :432:1-432:13.  
  • Sandvig, Christian E, Vaccaro, Kristen , Huang, Dylan , Eslami, Motahhare , Hamilton, Kevin , Karahalios, Karrie . 2018. The Illusion of Control: Placebo Effects of Control Settings. :16:1-16:13.  
  • Sandvig, Christian E, Hamilton, Kevin , Karahalios, Karrie , Langbort, Cedric . 2016. When the Algorithm Itself is a Racist: Diagnosing Ethical Harm in the Basic Components of Software. International Journal of Communication 10:4972-4990.  
  • Sandvig, Christian E, Eslami, M , Karahalios, K , Vaccaro, K , Rickman, A , Hamilton, K , Kirlik, A . 2016. First I "like" it, then I hide it: Folk theories of social feeds. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems :2371-2382.  
  • Sandvig, Christian E, Lustig, Cindy, Pine, K , Nardi, B , Irani, L , Lee, Min Kyung, Nafus, D . 2016. Algorithmic authority: The ethics, politics, and economics of algorithms that interpret, decide, and manage. Proceedings of 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 07-12-May-2016:1057-1062.  
  • Sandvig, Christian E, Private: Wilson, Colwick Mervyn, Soeller, G , Karahalios, K . 2016. MapWatch: Detecting and monitoring international border personalization on online maps. Proceedings of 25th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2016 :867-878.  
  • Christian Sandvig, Lagoze, Carl , Edwards, Paul , Plantin, Jean-Christophe . 2015. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Alternative Infrastructures in Scholarly Publishing. International Journal of Communication 9:1052-1071.  
  • Sandvig, Christian E. 2015. The Social Industry. Social Media + Society 1(1):1-4.  
  • Eslami, M., Christian Sandvig, et al. 2015. 'I always assumed that I wan't really that close to her': Reasoning about Invisible Algorithms in News Feeds. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Christian Sandvig

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