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Talks

(An incomplete list of recent lectures, talks and panels. Current as of the last time I edited this page.)

Upcoming/Recent:

July 2010. Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme, Oxford University. (forthcoming).

July 2010. Annenberg-Oxford Summer Institute on Technology and Information Policy. Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy, Oxford University. (forthcoming).

(with Dawn Nafus and ShinJoung Yeo). June 2010. Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association. Singapore. (forthcoming).

April 2010. Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. (forthcoming).

Alien Infrastructures: Learning from Unusual Arrangements of Information and Communication Technology. March 23, 2010. Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars Working Group. Yale University. (forthcoming).

Past:

Alien Infrastructures: Learning from Unusual Arrangements of Information and Communication Technology. March 16, 2010. School of Information, University of Michigan.

A Plea for the Obscure Parts of Obvious Systems. February 4, 2010. Ethnographies of Large-Scale Technical Systems. iConference 2010. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (A Draft of this talk is online.)

A&R is the new R&D. November 2, 2009. Innovation Lab, Sloan School of Management, MIT.

Sandvig, C. (2009, November). Appropriation Toward Parity: Reluctant Producers of Network Infrastructure. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Association for the Social Studies of Science. Washington, DC, USA.

Networked Television Beyond Television Networks. July 23, 2009. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia / University of Texas at Austin Joint International School of Digital Transformation, Porto, Portugal.

Broadband Internet Infrastructure in the U.S. May 5, 2009. (one hour interview conducted by David Inge) Focus 580. Illinois Public Media. further details (including an outline with streaming and downloadable audio)

Sandvig, C. (2009, May). Place Marketing the Reservation: The Tribal Digital Village. Paper presented to the 59th annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

After the Windfall: Sustainable Broadband Infrastructure in the Long View. February 25, 2009. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [Audio Recording (requires RealAudio player)]

Addressing Internet Infrastructure. December 5, 2008. Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

Sandvig, C. (2008, October). "Trying to Create the Desire and the Need:" Community Resistance to Internet Community. Paper presented to the 9th annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Copenhagen, Denmark.

How Workable are "Serious Games" in Real Classrooms? August 29, 2008. People and Practices Research Lab, Intel Research, Portland, Oregon, USA.

When Everything is Wireless and Nothing is Planned. August 10, 2008. People and Practices Research Lab, Intel Research, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Shaw, E. & Sandvig, C. (2008, June). Does Infrastructure Require Policy? The Limits of Community-Based Broadband. Paper presented to the academic research preconference of the National Conference on Media Reform, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Sandvig, C. (2008, May). The Critical View of "Web 2.0." Paper presented to the preconference on Public Media at the 58th annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada.

Bad Neighborhoods of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. February 22, 2008. Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin.

Web 2.0. November 24, 2007. Testimony before the Advisory Committee on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS), Ministry of Information, Communication, and the Arts, Government of Singapore.

Sandvig, C. (2007, October). Alternative Infrastructure. Paper presented to the 8th annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Vancouver, Canada

Sandvig, C. (2007, October). Bad Neighborhoods of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: A Method for Predicting the Deployment of Unlicensed Devices. Paper presented to the 35th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

Sandvig, C. (2007, May). Cartography of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: A Review of Wireless Visualization and its Policy Consequences. Paper presented to the 57th annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), San Francisco, California, USA.

Lyon, E. and Sandvig, C. (2007, April). "Wireless Networks Detected: Right-Click Here for More Options:" Predictable Clustering in Wi-Fi. Paper presented to the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, California, USA.

Media Innovation After Stratification? The Critical View of "Web 2.0." November 23, 2007. Wee Kim Wee School of Information and Communication, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Convergence and Communications Policy. November 27, 2007. At the event, "Media Regulation and Globalization," Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. (Invited panelist.)

Spectrum Allocation After Digital Convergence. November 26, 2007. National Telecommunications Commission, Thailand.

What is the User Interface for the Electromagnetic Spectrum? September 13, 2007. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Streaming Video

Serious Games: The Use of Gaming in Undergraduate General Education. (convenor). May 2, 2007. Knight Auditorium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (A cross-campus discussion sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study.)

Peer Production and Innovation in New Media. December 1, 2006. Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

Wi-Fi or I-Spy? November 4, 2006. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA. (Invited panelist.)

Municipal and Community Wireless Networks. September 29, 2006. At the 34th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy, Arlington, Virginia, USA. (Invited panelist.)

Community Wireless Outreach and Activism. April 1, 2006. The 2006 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. St. Charles, MO, USA. (Invited panelist.)

The Return of the Broadcast War. March 6, 2006. Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto.

Multimedia Blogs: Writing in a Large Lecture Class. March 15, 2006. Center for Writing Studies, Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Gender and Free/Libre/Open Source Software. February 11, 2006. To: The Workshop on Gender and Free/Libre/Open Source Software. King's College, Cambridge University. (Invited panelist.)

Envisioning a Multidisciplinary Field. February 3, 2006. To: The Social Science Research Council / Oxford Internet Institute Workshop on Information, Communication and New Media Studies: Networking a Multidisciplinary Field. Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University. (Invited panelist.)

The Return of the Broadcast War. January 26, 2006. Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bad Neighborhoods of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. January 18, 2006. Department of Communication Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

The Return of the Broadcast War. January 9, 2006. Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago.

The Return of the Broadcast War. December 20, 2005. Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

The Return of the Broadcast War. December 1, 2005. Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University.

Unlicensed Wireless Communication in the Developed World. November 10, 2005. School of International Service, American University.

The Political Economy of Peer Production Networks. October 15, 2005. A panel discussion with Larry Lessig, Jimmy Wales, Felix Stadler, Magnus Bergquist, and Yochai Benkler at RE:activism. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Audio Recording [mp3 format, ~48 MB] (my opening statement from 1:00-5:30, then discussion).

Activism and the Urban Fabric. October 14, 2005. A panel discussion with Giles Lane, Andrew Paterson, and Laura Forlano at RE:activism. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Audio Recording [mp3 format, ~45 MB] (my opening statement from 0:00-5:00, then discussion).

Using Multimedia Blogs to Manage and Encourage Writing and Revision. October 12, 2005. Teaching Showcase, Educational Technologies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Social Networks and Internet Connectivity Effects. June 20, 2005. Discussant to Caroline Haythornthwaite, The Information, Communication, & Society Webcast Series. (audio/video online)

The Return of the Broadcast War. May 16, 2005. Department of Telecommunications, Michigan State University.

Community Network(ing)s, Participatory Media, and Empowerment. May 6, 2005. To the First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, International Institute of Qualitative Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Invited panelist.)

Dreaming of Infrastructure. May 3, 2005. A public talk sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

An Initial Assessment of Cooperative Action in Wi-Fi Networking. March 3, 2005. To the Community Informatics Research Speaker Series, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Wirelessing the Revolution. March 3, 2005. To the 6th Annual Planning Institute, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Invited panelist.)

Origins of a Networked World: From World War II to the Internet. February 17, 2005. Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Invited panelist.)

Dreaming of Infrastructure, One Attic at a Time. January 10, 2005. Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

Wireless Infrastructure: Alternative Models. October 9, 2004. To Wireless Communication Policies and Prospects: A Global Perspective, a workshop of the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication. Los Angeles, CA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California.

Dreaming of Infrastructure: Moves and Countermoves to Control Wireless Internet and the Spectrum. October 5, 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan.

The Great Disasters of Community Wireless. August 21, 2004. To the 2004 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. Urbana, IL: Siebel Center for Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (A talk abstract is available, as are notes taken by participants.)

Mapping Wireless Internet Activism: "You Are Your Own Telecommunications Company" and other Utopias of the Wi-Fi Insurgency. April 9, 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan.

Does Wireless Rebellion Scale? To the Annenberg Research Seminar Series on International Communication. February 5, 2004. Los Angeles, CA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California.

"May Ten Thousand Autonomous Systems Bloom:" The Unwiring of New Infrastructure by Wi-Fi Co-Ops. November 10, 2003. Bloomington, IN: Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University.

Rising Issues: ICT Policy. Keynote Address to The ICT Policy Training Programme. August 26, 2003. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University.

Wi-Fi and the Prospects for Fast, Free, and Accidental Infrastructure. To the Institute for Socio-Technical Innovation and Research. August 11, 2003. Adastral Park, UK: Essex University.

The Internet: Institutionalizing Values Through Policy and Law. At After the Act: New Challenges for Communication Policy. August 7, 2003. Oxford, UK: Oxford University. (panel chair.)

Beyond the Bedtime Stories of IT4D. At: IT4D? Information Technologies for Development Workshop. July 18, 2003. Oxford, UK: Oxford University.

An Interview with Christian Sandvig (Listen in RealAudio; ~50 mins.). On Media Matters with Bob McChesney, June 1, 2003. Urbana, IL: WILL-AM Radio.

Wi-Fi: Fast, free and accidential wireless Internet infrastructure? At the Summer Doctoral Programme of the Oxford Internet Institute, Summer, 2003. Oxford, UK: Oxford University.

The Development of the Internet's Structure. At The Media Law Advocates Training Programme, organized by Oxford University and the Open Society Justice Initiative, Summer 2003. Oxford, UK: Oxford University.

The Structural Problems of the Internet for Cultural Policy. (External link.) At Critical Cyberculture Studies: Current Terrains, Future Directions, May, 2003. Seattle, WA: University of Washington. (There is also a full paper available from my research page.)

Wireless Fidelity and Architectural Questions. At Public Values, System Design, and the Public Domain, March 6, 2003. Bellagio, Italy: Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center.

802.11 and the Social History of Disorganized Communication Infrastructures. At the Information Technology Laboratory. November, 2002. Gaithersburg, MD: US National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The Role of the State in Internet Architecture. At The Next Challenges: Five Internet Problems for the Public Interest, October 2, 2002. New York, NY: Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.

The Problem of Broadcasting the Internet. At New Information and Communication Technologies: Perspectives from the Research Field, October 3, 2002. New York, NY: Markle Foundation.

Disorderly Infrastructure: Wi-Fi in the Shadow of the Rural Telephone Cooperative. At Casting a Wider Net: Integrating Research and Policy on the Social Impacts of the Internet. September 27, 2002. Oxford, UK: Oxford Internet Institute.

Communication Infrastructure and Innovation. Oxford Internet Institute Open Seminar Series, Summer 2002. Oxford, UK: Oxford University.

The Development of the Internet's Structure. At Legal Responses to New Communication Technologies, the Cardozo/Oxford Summer Programme on Comparative Media Law, Summer 2002. Oxford, UK: Oxford University. (also updated and presented in 2003.)

The Development of the Internet's Structure. At The Programme for Media Law Advocates from South-East Europe and the Southern Caucasus sponsored by the Open Society Institute, Summer 2002. Oxford, UK: Oxford University.

US Models for Regulating the Internet. At China, Media Policy, & the WTO, a joint summer programme between Peking University and Oxford University, Summer 2002. Haikou, Hainan, China: Peking University.

Reasoning About the Design of Infrastructure. At Infrastructure: Technological, Human, and the Intersection Between the Two, at the School of Communication, April, 2002, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University.

"New" Media Technology as Political. In Political Communication at the School of Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies, Fall 2001, Cardiff, UK: University of Wales.

Play and Policy in the Inner-City Children's Library. Michelmas Term Lunchtime Seminar Series, November 2001. Oxford, UK: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University.

Policy for the Information Poor. Research Studentship Seminar Programme, October 2001. Oxford, UK: Wolfson College, Oxford University.

Frontiers in Research Methods. At the Social Science Research Council Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation, and Global Security, Summer Institute, July 2001. Berkeley, CA: University of California.

Unobtrusive Web Traffic Analysis. At the Workshop on Web Site Analysis Methodology, June 2000, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

The Digital Divide and Play in the Children's Library. In Mass Communication and the Public, Dept. of Communication, Spring 2000, Davis, CA: University of California.

The Historical Development of Internet Systems: Interconnection, Transport, Accounting, and Control. In Media Economics, Dept. of Communication, Spring 1999, Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

The Ethical Implications of New Media Technologies. In Media Ethics, Dept. of Communication, Spring 1999, Stanford, CA: Stanford University.