Sasha Costanza-Chock
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
PhD student, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication, 2005-present
MA, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication; Communications, 2003
A.B.
Magna Cum Laude, Harvard College; Music, Technology, and Culture, 1999
AFFILIATIONS
International Association for Media and Communication Research [www.iamcr.net]
OURmedia/NUESTR@Smedios [www.ourmedianet.org]
Independent
Media Center [www.indymedia.org]
POLICY WORK
Editor, Access to Knowledge, 2005-2007 [www.access2knowledge.org]
US Liaison to International Organizing Committee, Communication Rights in the Information Society, 2004-2006 [www.crisinfo.org]
Project Manager, Media Trade Monitor, 2003-2006 [www.mediatrademonitor.org]
Coordinator, Global Communication Project, Free Press, 2003-2005 [www.freepress.net/global]
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Principal Investigator, Social Science Research Council grant, “Migrant Voices: Applying Communication for Social Change Methodology with Garment Workers and Day Laborers in Los Angeles,” 2007
Research assistant to Dr. Jonathan Aronson, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, 2006-2007
Research assistant to Dr. Manuel Castells, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, 2005-2006
Research assistant to Seán O Siochrú, Social Science Research Council, Program on Information Technology and International Cooperation, 2003
Research assistant to Dr. Larry Gross, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-2003
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching assistant to Jonathan Taplin, Comm Management 549: Digital Political Communication, University of Southern California, 2007 [weblogs.annenberg.edu/digipol/]
Teaching assistant to Jonathan Taplin, Comm 306: The Communications Revolution, Entertainment and Art, University of Southern California, 2006
Teaching assistant to Dr. Jay Douglas, Comm 202: Introduction to Communication Technology, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, 2006
Teaching assistant to Carrie Rickey, Comm 140: Film Forms and Contexts, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Teaching assistant to Dr. Vincent Price, Comm 125: Introduction to Communication Behavior, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
SERVICE
Translator and co-teacher, Garment Worker Center audiovisual workshop, Los Angeles, 2006-2007 [www.garmentworkercenter.org]
Adviser, Media Justice Network delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, Tunisia, 2005 [www.cultureisaweapon.org]
Conference consultant, 2nd Free Press National Conference on Media Reform, Global Communication strand, St. Louis, 2005 [www.freepress.net/conference/=2005]
Member, Working Group on Media Diversity, campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society, 2003-2005 [www.crisinfo.org]
Member, Civil Society Plenary, World Summit on the Information Society, 2002-2005 [www.worldsummit2005.org]
Producer, Unembedded Film Series, San Francisco, 2004 [www.unembedded.org]
Conference organizing committee and Polymedia Lab working group, OURmedia IV, Porto Alegre, 2004 [www.ourmedianet.org/om2004/]
Conference consultant, Free Press National Conference on Media Reform, Global Communication strand, Madison, 2003 [www.freepress.net/conference/2003/]
Working group, World Forum on Communication Rights, Geneva, 2003 [www.communicationrights.org]
Working group, Geneva03 Collective, WSIS? We Seize! conference and Polymedia Laboratory, Geneva, 2003 [www.geneva03.org]
Organizer, Free Trade Area of the Americas Independent Media Center, Miami, Florida, 2003 [www.ftaaimc.org]
Organizer, Cancún Independent Media Center, and working group member, Alternative Media-Tech Convergence, Cancún, México, 2003 [cancun.mediosindependientes.org]
Organizer, Show the World the Bodies, New York City, 2002
Organizer, March on the Media, Philadelphia, 2002
Cofounder, Free Palestine Action Network, University of Pennsylvania, 2001-2003
Mentor, Boston Center for the Arts Teen Mentors Program, 2000-2001
Assistant Director, Boston Cyberarts Festival, 2000-2001
Board Member, Education for Action at Radcliffe College, 1998-2000
CONFERENCES AND PANELS
“Migrant Voices: Towards A Stronger Communication Ecology Among Immigrant Worker Organizations In Los Angeles.” DIY Speaker Series, Annenberg Center for Communication, Los Angeles, California, 2007 [annenberg.edu/calendar/event.php?id=438]
“¡Gigante: Despierta!” Antioch University, Los Angeles, California, 2007
“Community Media and the Global Public Sphere.” Invited panelist, with Murali Shanmugavelan, Ethan Zuckerman, Natasha Primo, and Wijayananda Jayaweera, Access to Knowledge Conference 2007 (A2K2), Yale Information Society Project, Yale Law School, New Haven, 2007. [research.yale.edu/isp/eventsa2k2.html]
“Common Cause: Resistance to Intellectual Property Rights.” With Christine Schweidler. OurMedia VI conference, Sydney, Australia, 2007 [ourmedia07.net/]
“New Media and Youth.” University of Southern California Spectrum Panel Discussion, with Cory Doctorow, danah boyd, and Justin Hall, USC, Los Angeles, California, 2007
“The Indymedia Video Distribution Network.” DIY Video planning conference, Los Angeles, California, 2006
Panel organizer, “Social Movements and Horizontal Communication.” Annenberg Research Network on International Communication, High-level Workshop on Horizontal Communication, Los Angeles, California, 2006. [arnic.info/workshop06.php]
“Independent Media Centers.” Asia Commons conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 2006 [www.asia-commons.net/]
“Freedom of Movement and Freedom of Information: Indymedia's Fight against Informatized Borders, Surveillance, and Server Abductions,” Media Justice Network panel “Break the Silence: Community Security and Self Defense: U.S. Communities Fight Back against Surveillance, Political Imprisonment, and Harassment.” World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, Tunisia, 2005
“A Flotilla of post-WSIS Civil Society Projects.” World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, Tunisia, 2005
“Autonomous Tools and Communications Democracy.” Social Science Research Council, NY, NY, 2005 [programs.ssrc.org/media/publications/costanza-chock.7.final.doc]
Panel organizer and moderator, "Globalizing Media Policy Activism.” 2nd Free Press National Conference for Media Reform, St. Louis, MO, 2005 [Link to audio: www.freepress.net/conference/audio05/sat-1100-globalizing.mp3]
“ALCA contra Derechos a la Comunicación.” Americas Social Forum, Quito, Ecuador, 2004 [www.forosocialamericas.org/index.phtml.en]
“La Batalla de 2003 contra el FCC en los EEUU.” Americas Social Forum, Quito, Ecuador, 2004 [www.forosocialamericas.org/index.phtml.en]
“Tactical Wiki Activism.” OURmedia/NUESTR@Smedios IV, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2004 [docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NossoMidiaLabEn]
“The Convention on Cultural Diversity: Resisting the 'Free Trade' attack on Our Media." Action Coalition for Media Education Declarations of Media Independence Summit, San Francisco, 2004 [www.acmecoalition.org]
“Media Convergence Spaces: Key Nodes in the Globalization of Media Activism.” MediACT conference, Seoul, Korea, 2004 [mediact.org]
“Weaving the Web: Threads of Resistance to Corporate Control of Communication.” MediACT conference, Seoul, Korea, 2004 [mediact.org]
“Global Media Policy Reform.” LaborTech, San Francisco, 2004 [www.labortech.net]
“Our Media are Not for Sale!” Socialist Scholars Conference, NYC, 2003
Panel organizer and moderator, “Global Trade Agreements and Communications Control.” Free Press National Conference on Media Reform, Madison, 2003 [Link to audio: www.freepress.net/conference/2003/audio/MR_334.mp3]
“Communication Rights inside the WSIS.” Davies Forum on Digital Democracy, University of San Francisco, 2003 [ln-s.net/XlM]
“Free Trade vs. Communication Rights.” Hurakán Cancún Alternative Media-Tech Convergence, Cancún, 2003
“WSIS, the Neoliberal Agenda, and Counterproposals from Civil Society.” OURmedia/NUESTR@Smedios III, Barranquilla, 2003 [www.greenpeppermagazine.org/archives.html]
“The Campaign for Communication Rights.” Break the Media Blackout II, Philadelphia, 2002 [www.kwru.org/conference/index.html]
“Mapping the Repertoire of Electronic Contention.” IAMCR, Barcelona, 2002 [www.portalcomunicacion.com/bcn2002/n_eng/programme/prog_ind/asp4.asp?id_pre=1420]
“Holler With Your Dollar: A Preliminary Study of Boycott Activity Against Top Brands.” Capitalism and Communication in the 21st Century, University of Westminster, London, England, 2002 [www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0307/msg00090.html ]
“Netstrikes and Electronic Contention.” World Summit on the Information Society, Prepcom 1, Geneva, 2002
“The Communication Rights Campaign and the WSIS.” Community Media Association conference, Leeds, England, 2002 [www.commedia.org.uk]
“Arts & Media in CTCs.” Invited panelist, US Department of Education's Community Technology Centers Network/America Connects Consortium, 2001 [www.americaconnects.net/field/F1artspanel.asp]
“Art
and Technology: Policy Pitfalls and Parameters.” Invited artist/panelist, Harvard-Radcliffe
Arts Policy Forum, 1999 [www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/04.15/radcliffe.arts.policy.html]
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
University of Southern California Graduate School Fellowship in Digital Scholarship, 2007-2008
Social Science Research Council Grant, “Migrant Voices: Applying Communication for Social Change Methodology with Garment Workers and Day Laborers in Los Angeles,” 2007
Graduate Fellowship, Annenberg Center for Communication, 2006-2007
IAMCR Herbert Schiller Prize, Inaugural Recipient, 2002
Education for Action Social Action Grant, “EducArte,” fall 1999
Education for Action Social Action Grant “ACT of Lynn,” summer 1998
Harvard Office For the Arts Grant, “Concerto for Electronic Noise Toys,” 1996
Ford Foundation Research Grant at Harvard University, “Syncretic Aspects of Rave Culture,” 1995
Harvard Office for the Arts Grant, “Manipulating the Built Sonic Environment,” 1995
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Globalization of Resistance to Capitalist Communication,” in Graham Murdock and Janet Wasko (eds.), Media in the Age of Marketization. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, in press. [docs.indymedia.org/pub/Global/InfoSocVideo/Globalize_Resistance.sxw]
“Piracy,” (coauthored with Christine Schweidler) in Alain Ambrosi, Valerie Peugeot, and Daniel Pimienta (eds.), Word Matters: Multicultural Perspectives on Information Societies. Caen, France: C&F Editions, 2005. [www.vecam.org/article694.html]
“The Globalization of Media Policy,” in Robert McChesney, Russell Newman, and Ben Scott (eds.), The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005. [www-scf.usc.edu/~costanza/globalization_media_policy.pdf]
“The Whole World is Watching: Online Surveillance of Social Movement Organizations,” in Pradip Thomas and Zaharom Nain (eds.), Who Owns the Media? Global Trends and Local Resistance. London: WACC & Southbound, 2004. [www.southbound.com.my/SB_WhoOwnstheMedia.htm]
“The West and The Rest: A Drama in Two Acts and an Epilogue,” (coauthored with Larry Gross) in Peter van der Veer and Shoma Munshi (eds.), After September 11: Media and Public Debate in Asia. London: Routledge-Curzon, 2004. [www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780415331401]
“Mapping the Repertoire of Electronic Contention,” in Andrew Opel and Donnalyn Pompper (eds.), Representing Resistance: Media, Civil Disobedience and the Global Justice Movement. NJ: Greenwood, 2003. [Earlier version of this article available online at: www-scf.usc.edu/~costanza/electronic_rep_draft.pdf. Or purchase the book at: www.greenwood.com/catalog/GM2385.aspx]
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“The CRIS campaign: Mobilizations and Blind Spots,” in Media Development, Issue 4. London: WACC, 2002. [www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_development/2002_4/the_cris_campaign_mobilizations_and_blind_spots]
Land Warrior: Resisting the Neoliberal Discourse of Technology," in CTheory: A Journal of Culture and Technology, 1999. [www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=206]
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Autonomist Tools and Communications Democracy," Background Paper for the Social Science Research Council's Program on Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere. New York: SSRC, 2005. [www.ssrc.org/programs/media/publications/costanza-chock.7.final.doc]
“Global Governance of Information and Communication Technologies: Implications for Transnational Civil Society Networking,” (with Sean O Siochru), Knowledge Report for the Social Science Research Council's Program on Information Technology and International Cooperation. New York: SSRC, 2003. [www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/publications/knowledge_report/osiochrureport.pdf]
“Data Slaves,” MA Thesis, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
“coyBOTt: Background and Context for the Application of coyBOTt Software to Systematic Analysis of Branding, Boycott, and Cultural Sponsorship,” White Paper #1. London: MSDM/SOFT, 2002. [www.msdm.org.uk/strategies/outsourcing/txt04.html]
"Cybernetic Delirium: Splice Edit," in Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (eds.), Digital Delirium. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
FILM & VIDEO
Collective member, Indymedia Video Distribution Network [video.indymedia.org]
Producer/Coeditor: “¡Gigante: Despierta! / Giant: Awake!” Collection of short films, produced by Indymedia (120 minutes; documentary; DVD; USA 2007) [www.gigantedespierta.org]
Director/Editor: “State of the Union 2007 / Iraq War Coalition Fatalities Mashup” (2 minutes; video; USA 2007) [www.youtube.com/watch?v=grIocpfceEs]
Coproducer/Editor/Camera: “The Miami Model” by FTAA Indymedia (92 minutes; documentary; DV; USA 2004) [ftaaimc.org/miamimodel]
Coproducer/Director/Editor: “The Great Communicator” (2 minutes; documentary; mixed media; USA 2004) [www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxkwPEAdZTw]
Coproducer/Editor/Camera: “Infowar” (12 minutes; documentary; DV; USA 2003)
Camera: “Kilometer Zero – The WTO in Cancún” (50 minutes; DV; documentary; México 2003) [www.bignoisefilms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=27]
Editor: "Fruits of the Revolution" (66 minutes; DV; documentary; Iran 2001)
Director/Editor: "Infrasound" (mixed media; installation/performance; USA 1999)
Director/Editor: "Untitled" (3.5 minutes; animation; mixed media; USA 1998)
Director/Editor: “Circuitry” (4.5 minutes; animation; mixed media; USA 1997)
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish: fluent speaking, reading, writing
References available
upon request.