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Amy Kristin Sanders is an award-winning journalist and licensed attorney. Her research focuses on the intersection of law and new technology. Dr. Sanders researches in the areas of online defamation, social media, and telecommunication regulation. Dr. Sanders regularly speaks about cyberspace law to journalism and civic groups, and her research has appeared in Communication Law and Policy, the Federal Communication Law Journal, the Journal of Media Law and Ethics and the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy. She is the co-author, along with T. Barton Carter, Marc A. Franklin and Jay B. Wright, of First Amendment and the Fourth Estate. She also contributed a chapter on obscenity, sexting and cyberbullying to the edited volume Social Media and the Law: A Guidebook for Communication Students and Professionals. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Sanders worked as a copy editor and page designer for the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, a New York Times Co. newspaper. She holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communication Law from the University of Florida. She obtained her MA in Professional Journalism and Juris Doctorate from the University of Iowa.