Hendrik Storstein Spilker (born 1965) is a Norwegian sociologist and

media studies Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but it mos ...

scholar. He is a professor of media and technology at the

Norwegian University of Science and Technology The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU; ) is a public university, public research university in Norway and the largest in terms of enrollment. The university's headquarters is located in Trondheim (city), Trondheim, with region ...

(NTNU).

Career

He earned his cand.polit. degree at NTNU in 1998 and his doctoral degree in sociology at the same institution in 2005, with a dissertation on the development of commercial Internet services in Norway from 1997. He was a postdoctoral researcher at NTNU from 2005 to 2007, when he became a tenured associate professor of sociology at NTNU. He was later promoted to full professor of media and technology. He received the Article of the Year – Scandinavian University Press Academic Journal Prize in 2020.

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Norwegian sociologists Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology 1965 births Living people {{Norway-sociologist-stub