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Christian Sandvig

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Thanks for thinking I'm interesting enough to check up on. If you've come this far, I dare you to say hello before you leave.

OF INTEREST: Over several years I sued the Attorney General of the United States in order to protect researchers and journalists who investigate online platforms. A March 2020 ruling was hailed as "a major victory for civil liberties and civil rights enforcement."

AS OF JUNE 2021: The US Supreme Court has ruled that journalists & computing researchers who investigate online platforms aren't criminal hackers who "exceed authorized access." And they cited... us! Very exciting.

AS OF MAY 2022: The US Department of Justice has changed national policy on hacking prosecutions based on our research. This means we have successfully changed the definition of hacking.

NEW: AS OF APRIL 2024: Our team won the ICA Outstanding Public Research Award and the UM President's Award for Public Engagement for the "courageous and spirited defense of civil rights that changed the law of the United States." Hooray! I am very grateful.

(Here is an older summary of the case.)



I am the Director of ESC: the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing as well as the H. Marshall McLuhan Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan.

At Michigan I teach courses about computers, data science, and justice in the School of Information. I am jointly appointed in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research.

I am also in Communication & Media, Art & Design; Science, Technology, & Society; the Digital Studies Institute; and the Michigan Institute for Data & AI in Society.

My research investigates the consequences of AI systems that curate and organize culture and information. I have done a bunch of prior work on social media.

Usually, I read. Sometimes, I write. Often, I drink coffee. I might be found in a cafe drinking coffee and reading, or at home drinking coffee and writing. Or just drinking coffee. (This is supposed to be a fun, informal description of what I do. I also have a more formal one and introductory examples.)

 

 

US Mail:

Christian Sandvig
University of Michigan
School of Information
105 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285
USA

Mailbox:

Faculty mailboxes are in 4351 North Quad

Office:

4435 North Quad

office phone: (734) 763-0861
FAX: (734) 764-3288

E-mail:

csandvig@umich.edu


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