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Sasha Costanza-Chock

Faculty Associate

Internet Health Education, Libraries, & Digital Humanities Governance of Technology & the Internet Media, Democracy, & Public Discourse Technology & the Law Ethics and Governance of AI
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Email
schock@cyber.harvard.edu
Sasha Costanza-Chock's Homepage
http://schock.cc
Twitter
https://twitter.com/schock

Sasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar, activist, and media-maker, and currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. They are a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Faculty Affiliate with the MIT Open Documentary Lab and the MIT Center for Civic Media, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio (codesign.mit.edu).

Their work focuses on social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha’s first book, Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement was published by the MIT Press in 2014. They are a board member of Allied Media Projects (AMP); AMP convenes the annual Allied Media Conference and cultivates media strategies for a more just, creative and collaborative world (alliedmedia.org).

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Publications

Dec 17, 2012

Youth and Social Movements: Key Lessons for Allies

We have much to learn from young people who are already engaged in mobilizing their peers, families, and communities towards positive social transformation. This paper discusses… More

News

Aug 24, 2018

#MoreThanCode: Practitioners reimagine the landscape of technology for justice and equity

A new report analyzes the current technology ecosystem through interviews and focus groups with almost 200 technology practitioners. More

Feb 15, 2011

Questions for Secretary Clinton concerning "Internet freedom"

Faculty associate Matthew Hindman provoked an energetic email exchange among members of the extended Berkman Center community today, in anticipation of Secretary Clinton's … More

Community

Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination

Listening to the voices of the most marginalized people "is essential if we want to make space for many worlds, many ways of being, knowing, and doing, in our visions of A.I. and…

Jul 27, 2018

Events

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group
Mar 30, 2011 @ 6:00 PM

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group

at Yale Law School

Charlie DeTar of MIT on "Research, Service, and Ethics in contested spaces: How definitions can go wrong"; Seeta Peña Gangadharan of Yale on "Data integration and segregation:… More

Transmedia Mobilization
Mar 1, 2011 @ 12:30 PM

Transmedia Mobilization

Sasha Costanza-Chock, Berkman Fellow

Media scholar/activist Sasha Costanza-Chock will discuss Transmedia Mobilization: "Don't ask 'is teh internets + or - for social movements?', look @ what movements r doing 2… More