Affiliation
National Communication Association, Legislative Assembly
International Communication Association
Editorial Board Member:
- Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
tlsandel@um.edu.mo
Tel
+853 8822 8984
Office
Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS)
University of Macau
Avenida da Universidade,Taipa, Macao
Humanities & Social Sciences Building (E21B), 2034
Consultation Hours
Personal Website
Todd Lyle Sandel
Professor
Administrative Roles
Programme Coordinator of Bachelor of Social Sciences in Communication
PhD Programme Coordinator, Department of Communication
Chair, PhD Steering Committee, Department of Communication
Chair of the Sub-Panel on Human Subjects Research, University of Macau Ethics Panel
Academic Qualifications
Ph.D. (Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA)
M.A. (Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA)
B.A. (Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA)
Research Interests
Discourses of news, media, and culture in Bhutan
Perceptions of Japanese media and culture across Greater China
Teaching Areas
Qualitative Research Methods
Media & Society
Academic Writing
Publications
Books
Sandel, T. L. (2015). Brides on Sale: Taiwanese Cross Border Marriages in a Globalizing Asia. New York: Peter Lang.
K. Tracy, T. L. Sandel, C. Ilie (Eds.) (2015). The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, MA.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Sandel, T. L., Ou, C. Y., Wangchuk, D., Ju, B., & Duque, M. (2019). Unpacking and describing interaction on Chinese WeChat: A methodological approach. Journal of Pragmatics, 143, 228-241.
Sandel, T. L., Buttny, R., & Varghese, M. (2019). Online interaction across three contexts: An analysis of culture and technological affordances. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 48(1), 52-71.
Sandel, T. L. & Ju, B. (forthcoming). Social media, culture, and communication. In J. Nussbaum (Ed.) The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ju, B., Sandel, T. L., & Thinyane, H. (online first). WeChat use of Mainland Chinese dual migrants in daily border crossing. Chinese Journal of Communication, 1-18.
Ju, B., Sandel, T. L., & Fitzgerald, R. (2019). Understanding Chinese internet and social media: The innovative and creative affordances of technology, language and culture. In Marcel Burger (Ed.) Se Mettre en Scène en Ligne: La communication digitale, vol 2. (pp. 161-177). Cahiers de l’Institut de linguistique et des sciences du langage, No. 59. Lausanne, Switzerland: UNIL, University of Lausanne.
Ju, B., & Sandel, T. L. (2019). Adaptation of mainland Chinese labour migrants in Macao. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 48(3), 257-273.
Kelly, S., Croucher, S. M., Sandel, T. L., & Yu, F. (2018). Infusing infographics into the business Curriculum: A study of infographic interpretations in China, New Zealand, and the United States. Global Advances in Business Communication, 7(1), 1-21.
Ju, B., & Sandel, T. L. (2018). “Who am I”? A Case Study of Foreigners’ Identity in China via WeChat Moments. China Media Research, 14(2), 62-74
Sandel, T. L. (2017). Communication Modes, Taiwanese. In Y. Y. Kim & K. McKay-Semmler (Eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication (pp. 1-5). Malden, MA: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781118783665.ieicc0149
Sandel, T. L. (2017). Language and Intercultural Communication. In S. Croucher (Ed.) Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication (pp. 129-154). New York: Routledge.
Sandel, T. L., Yueh, S. H-I., & Lu, P. (2017) Some Taiwanese communication practices and their cultural meanings. In D. Carbaugh (Ed.) Handbook of Communication in Cross-cultural Perspective (pp. 118-128). New York: Routledge.
Sandel, T. L. (2017). Reflections on being a stranger in a foreign land. Spectra, 53(2), 28-31.
Sandel, T. L. (2017). Editor’s statement: Ten years of JIIC, looking back, looking ahead. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 10(1), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/17513057.2017.1264460
Ting, C., & Sandel, T. L. (2016). Methodological challenges to collecting primary data on Internet users in rural China. Information Development. 32(2), 117-126. doi:10.1177/0266666915626828
Sandel, T. L. (2015). Rich Points. In K. Tracy, T. L. Sandel, C. Ilie (Eds.). The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, MA.
Sandel, T. L. (2015). Dialects. In K. Tracy, T. L. Sandel, C. Ilie (Eds.). The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, MA.
Guan, X., & Sandel, T. L. (2015). The acculturation and identity of new immigrant youth in Macao. China Media Research, 11(1), 112-124.
Sandel, T. L. (2014). Enacted Social Support and Cultural Practices Among Women and Families Observing a Postpartum Rest in Taiwan. China Media Research, 10(2), 48-59.
Sandel, T. L. (2014). “Oh, I’m here!” : Social media’s impact on the cross-cultural adaptation of students studying abroad. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. 43(1), 1-29.
Ting, C., & Sandel, T. L. (2014). Methodological challenges to collecting primary data on Internet users in rural China. Information Development. 30(2), 1-10
Homsey, D., & Sandel, T. L. (2012). The code of food and tradition: Exploring a Lebanese (American) speech code in practice in Flatland. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 41(1), 59-80.
Sandel, T. L., Wong Lowe, A., & Chao, W-Y. (2012). What does it mean to be Chinese?: Studying values as perceived by Chinese immigrants to the United States and by their children. In S. J. Kulich, M. H. Prosser, & L. P. Weng (Eds.), Value frameworks at the theoretical crossroads of culture. Intercultural research, Vol. 4 (pp.529-558). Shanghai, China: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Sandel, T. L. (2011). Is it just cultural?: Exploring (Mis)perceptions of individual and cultural differences of immigrants through marriage in contemporary Taiwan. China Media Research, 7(3): 43-55.
Sandel, T. L., & Liang, C-H. (2010). Taiwan’s fifth ethnic group: A study of the acculturation and cultural fusion of women who have married into families in Taiwan. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 3 (3), 249-275.
Sandel, T. L. (2010). “Tales of the Bitter and Sweet: A Study of a Taiwanese Master Story and Transgression Narratives as Shared Cross-generationally in Taiwanese Families.” Narrative Inquiry 20(2), 325-348.
Gries, P. H., Crowson, H. M., & Sandel, T. L. (2010). The Olympic effect on American attitudes towards China. Journal of Contemporary China, 19, 213-231.
Ivanov, B., Parker, K. A., Nicholas, C. L., & Sandel, T. L. (2010). Cohesiveness as ideoculture: An ethnography of a soccer team. The International Journal of the Arts in Society, 5 (3), 105-117.
Sandel, T. L., (2009). Review of Bilingualism: A Social Approach by Monica Heller. Language in Society, 38 (1), 95-98.
Sandel, T. L. (2008). Intimate talk: Family and friends. In W. Donsbach (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication: Volume VI (pp. 2521-2524). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Miller, P. J., Sandel, T. L., Liang, C. H., & Fung, H. Narrating Transgressions in U.S. and Taiwan. (2008). R. A. LeVine & R. S. New (Eds.) Anthropology and Child Developmen:t A Cross Cultural Reader (pp. 198-212) . Wiley-Blackwell.
Sandel, T., L., Cho, G.. E., Miller. P. J., & Wang, S. H. (2006). What it means to be a grandmother: A cross-cultural study of Taiwanese and Euro-American grandmothers’ beliefs. Journal of Family Communication, 6, 255-278.
Sandel, T. L., Liang, C. H., & Chao, W. Y. (2006) Language shift and language accommodation across family generations in Taiwan. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 27, 126-147.
Cho, G. E., Sandel, T. L., Miller, P. J., Wang, S. (2005). What do grandmothers think about self-esteem? American and Taiwanese folk theories revisited. Social Development, 14, 701-721.
Sandel, T. L. (2004). Narrated relationships: Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law justifying conflicts in Taiwan’s Chhan-chng. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37, 365-398.
Sandel, T. L. (2003). Linguistic capital in Taiwan: The KMT’s Mandarin language policy and its perceived impact upon the language practices of bilingual Mandarin and Tai-gi speakers. Language in Society, 32 (4), 523-551.
Sandel, T. L. (2002) Kinship address: Socializing young children in Taiwan. Western Journal of Communication, 66, 257-280.
Miller, P. J., Wang, S. H., Sandel, T. L., & Cho, G. E. (2002). Self-esteem as folk theory: A comparison of European-American and Taiwanese mothers’ beliefs. Special Issue: “Parental ethnotheories: Cultural practice and normative development” in Parenting: Science and Practice, 2, 209-239.
Miller, P. J., Sandel, T. L., Liang, C. H., & Fung, H. (2001). Narrating transgressions in Longwood: The discourses, meanings, and paradoxes of an American socializing practice. Ethos, 29, 159-186.