Sasha Costanza-Chock

Sasha Costanza-Chock (she/her or they/them) is a communications scholar, participatory designer, and activist. They are Associate Professor of Civic Media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Faculty Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.[1] Costanza-Chock is author of numerous publications about information and communication technologies and social movements, including the books Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement, and Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need.[2] Costanza-Chock is regularly cited in print and web media as an academic expert on issues involving media, design, and social movements.

Sasha Costanza-Chock
Sasha Costanza-Chock at International Communications Association conference in 2017
TitleAssociate Professor of Civic Media
Academic background
Education
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
Academic work
DisciplineCommunications
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Main interestsMedia, design, social movements
Notable worksOut of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement and Design Justice, Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Websitewww.schock.cc

Contributions

Costanza-Chock researches social movements, media, and communications technologies,[3] 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.[4] As an activist they have contributed to citizen media projects such as VozMob, Transmission, and Indymedia.[5]

Their first 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".[6] 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".[7] It was also made available for free download by the MIT Press under a Creative Commons license.[8]

In 2018, their paper, Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination won a $10,000 essay competition in the Journal of Design and Science.[9] Their second book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need was published in March 2020 by MIT Press and is available Open Access at https://design-justice.pubpub.org.[2]

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,[10] movements to unionize tech workers,[11] and the doxing of white supremacists.[12]

Education and career

Costanza-Chock received their A.B. from Harvard University, M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. After receiving their Ph.D. Costanza-Chock took up a position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they are currently Associate Professor of Civic Media.[4] They are also a board member of Allied Media Projects.[13]

Honors and awards
  • 2021 Engineering & Technology PROSE Award Finalist for her book Design Justice[14]
  • 2019 MIT John S.W. Kellett '47 Award, "for an exceptional and/or sustained commitment to creating a more welcoming environment at MIT" for LGBTQ+ individuals[15]

Bibliography
  • Costanza-Chock, Sasha (2014). Out of the Shadows, into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262028202.
  • Costanza-Chock, Sasha (2020). Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262043458.

References
  1. "Sasha Costanza-Chock | Berkman Klein Center". cyber.harvard.edu. 2018-11-26. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  2. Press, The MIT. "Design Justice | The MIT Press". mitpress.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  3. Henry Jenkins. DIY Video 2010: Activist Media. Retrieved 2011-10-03
  4. "Sasha Costanza-Chock". MIT Comparative Media Studies | Writing. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  5. 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.
  6. Olivas, Michael A. (2015). "DREAMers in Three Acts". The Journal of Higher Education. 86 (6): 955.
  7. 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.
  8. MIT Press.. Retrieved 2019-1-27
  9. Journal of Design and Science . Retrieved 2019-1-27
  10. Siegel, Rachel (March 2, 2018). "The Parkland shooting is different. The news coverage proves it". Washington Post. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  11. Bray, Hiawatha (July 13, 2018). "Tech community wrestles over working with government". Boston Globe. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  12. Madrigal, Alexis C. (August 22, 2017). "Would You Doxx a Nazi?". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  13. "People". Allied Media Projects. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
  14. "Association of American Publishers Announces Finalists for 2021 PROSE Awards". Association of American Publishers. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  15. "John S.W. Kellett '47 Award". MIT Awards Convocation. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
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