Sasha Costanza-Chock

Sasha Costanza-Chock
Sasha Costanza-Chock at International Communications Association conference in 2017
Title Associate Professor of Civic Media
Academic background
Education
Alma mater University of Southern California
Academic work
Discipline Communications
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Main interests Media, activism
Notable works Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement
Website schock.cc

Sasha Costanza-Chock is a communications scholar, participatory designer, and activist. She is Associate Professor of Civic Media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement. She is regularly cited in print and web media as an academic expert on issues involving media and activism.

Contributions

Costanza-Chock researches social movements, media, and communications technologies,[1] and has published work about Occupy Wall Street, the immigrant rights movement in the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission, the CRIS campaign for communication rights, and media policy, among other areas.[2] As an activist she has contributed to citizen media projects such as VozMob, Transmission, and Indymedia.[3]

Her book Out of the Shadows, into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement was published by The MIT Press in 2014. Writing about DREAM Act scholarship for The Journal of Higher Education, Michael Olivas called the book "a fascinating and liberating study of the social media used by various DREAMer factions".[4] In a review in Information, Communication & Society Koen Leurs called the book "a reflective, situated, historically and contextually aware account of rights movements in the United States".[5]

Costanza-Chock is regularly cited as an academic expert on media and activism topics, including the student response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting,[6] movements to unionize tech workers,[7] and the doxing of white supremacists.[8]

Education and career

Costanza-Chock received her A.B. from Harvard University, her M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. After receiving her Ph.D. Costanza-Chock took up a position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is currently Associate Professor of Civic Media.[2]

Bibliography

  • Costanza-Chock, Sasha (2014). Out of the Shadows, into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262028202.

References

  1. ↑ Henry Jenkins. DIY Video 2010: Activist Media. Retrieved 2011-10-03
  2. 1 2 "Sasha Costanza-Chock". MIT Comparative Media Studies | Writing. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ Costanza-Chock, Sasha (March 3, 2011). "Interview with Sasha Costanza-Chock". National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture. Interviewed by Vicki Callahan. Archived from the original on December 29, 2011. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Olivas, Michael A. (2015). "DREAMers in Three Acts". The Journal of Higher Education. 86 (6): 955.
  5. ↑ Leurs, Koen (2017). "Out of the shadows, into the streets! Transmedia organizing and the immigrant rights movement". Information, Communication & Society: 1777–1770. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2017.1349161.
  6. ↑ Siegel, Rachel (March 2, 2018). "The Parkland shooting is different. The news coverage proves it". Washington Post. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  7. ↑ Bray, Hiawatha (July 13, 2018). "Tech community wrestles over working with government". Boston Globe. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  8. ↑ Madrigal, Alexis C. (August 22, 2017). "Would You Doxx a Nazi?". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
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