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Sandvig appears on Marketplace

Christian Sandvig, an associate professor in the College of Media and an affiliated faculty member at GSLIS, appeared recently on American Public Media's Marketplace. Sandvig is a frequent guest on the program.

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In addition to his appointments in Media and GSLIS, Sandvig is a research associate professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a researcher specializing in communication technology and public policy. Sandvig is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

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