title: Hendrik Storstein Spilker
text: # Hendrik Storstein Spilker
  
  Hendrik Storstein Spilker (born 1965) is a Norwegian sociologist and media studies scholar. He is a professor of media and technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (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.
  
  