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Faculty

Sandvig, Christian

Former Researchers

Rodriguez, Max

Yu, Michelle

White, Jolene

Spain, Ryan

Kuppler, Katherine

Kim, Hye-Young

Hinkle, Lindsay

Daar, Rivka

Brandon, David

Wondra, Nick

Wondra, Matt

Kinzer, James

Hutchinson, Whitney

Research Associates

Shah, Rajiv

Meinrath, Sascha

Lyon, Elizabeth

Chan, Dave

Croke, Ryan

Researchers

Rickman, Aimee

Yeo, ShinJeong

Pradun, Mark

Stephens, Mike

Kolar, Jeff

Crain, Matt

Shaw, Emily

Raja, Siddhartha

Courses

Making the World Wireless: Service in Technology and Policy

Internet Law & Policy

Unorthodox Research Methods

Play & Technology

The Culture Industry

History of U.S. Telecommunications

New Media, Culture, and Society

Special Problems in Comm Tech

The Political Economy of Information

Graduate Seminar on Comm Tech

Honors Individual Study in Comm Tech & Public Policy

Comm Tech in the Workplace

Communicating Public Policy

Individual Study in Comm Tech & Public Policy

Communication Technology & Society

Downloads

Datasets

Census Tract 3/4, Champaign County, Illinois

Census Tract 7, Champaign County, Illinois

Scripts

Wireless Data Collection and Processing

Specifications

Handheld Wardriving Kit

Visualizations

Reliability and Validity of Wi-Fi Visualization

Example Standard Distance Center Plots

Kernel Grid Interpreted as Elevation

Tribal Digital Village Antenna Tower

Dave looks at unlicensed chart

News

Summer School on Digital Transformation

Sandvig to Present at ICA

The State of Broadband Infrastructure in the US

Sandvig Appointed Berkman Fellow at Harvard

Retrofitting the Internet for Mass Communication

PACT Lab profiled in I-Te@ch Magazine

Crain to speak on Search Engines at AoIR 2009

After the Windfall: Sustainable Broadband Infrastructure in the Long View

Lab launches new collaboration with Intel Research

Mismethodology site launched

"Bush Mechanics" investigates technology and indigeneity

Talk on Internet and Community at AoIR Copenhagen

"The Tailenders" depicts communication tech in developing countries

"Radiant City" questions urban systems and sustainability

Movies Even an Engineer Would Love

Gilbert, Karahalios, Sandvig win best paper at CHI

Sandvig to speak on the future of unlicensed spectrum

Sandvig to speak on 700MHz Spectrum Auction

Media Regulation and Globalization, Bangkok

Sandvig and Shaw to speak about San Diego Wildfires and Community Infrastructure

Engineering, Technology, & Culture

New service-learning course: "Making the World Wireless"

Sandvig to speak on "Alternative Infrastructure"

Our lab at the Broadband Best Practices Summit

"Structural Problems of the Internet" translated into Hungarian

Croke at the Digital Inclusion Roundtable

Lyon and Sandvig appear at AAG

Gaming in General Education!?

Our lab at the Radio Spectrum Working Group

Lab receives new funding from SSRC, ISOC

Sandvig featured on MacArthur Spotlight

PACT hosts Paul David Visit

Daily Student Cites Us on Citations

Elizabeth Lyon at the Earth Science Research Review

Our Group at NS4CWN

New York, Not-So-Wired City

Wi-Fi Projects in LAS College News

Playful Technology Design Awards

Visualization Workshop in Chicago

Students Map Wireless C-U

"Invisible Infrastructure" at the Humanities Gallery

"Open Interfaces?" asks The Economist

Information technology for development?

Research

New Book on Online Research Methods

Why Are Media Firms Failing Now?

Is there a "right to design" new communication patterns?

Is there a rural MySpace?

Are digital media innovations truly revolutionary?

What can Wi-Fi tell us about a spectrum commons?

Steps toward a national unlicensed spectrum prediction engine.

How telecom regulators should think about the next billion.

Do manufacturers control more Internet policy than regulators? (UPDATED)

Is "Network Neutrality" the wrong debate?

Why should local governments care about Wi-Fi experiments?

Is "end-to-end" useful as an Internet design principle or a regulatory principle?

Why the electromagnetic spectrum is crucial for international development.

How do we decide what the electromagnetic spectrum looks like?

Why should fans of culture care about the design of Internet infrastructure?

How do children play with the Internet in public places?

How was the development agenda of Indian satellites lost?

Are the "wavelength wars" of the 1920s returning?

Introductory Readings on Wi-Fi and Infrastructure

Do manufacturers control more Internet policy than regulators?

Why are Wi-Fi co-ops significant?

How hard is it to obtain interface information for commercial wireless systems?

How do domain names restrict the freedom of expression?

What are the dangers of private regulation on the Internet?

Can the policy challenges of convergence be simply conceptualized?

How are promises of "new media" transformations useful to politicians?

The Intentionally Selective and Incomplete Bibliography of Play and Video Games

Why isn't Internet policy based on evidence?