Sasha Costanza-Chock
- costanza@usc.edu
- Telephone
- (607) 351.5559
- Personal website
- http://www-scf.usc.edu/~costanza/
- Interests
- Diversity / Inclusion, Communication rights, UNESCO, WTO, Intellectual property, Independent and Alternative Media, Community media, Telephony, Film/Television Production
- Role(s)
- Graduate Student
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
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Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA)
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Garment Worker Center
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Annenberg Center for Communication
University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA, United States
Discipline(s)
- Communications
Biography
Sascha Costanza-Chock is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California. He is affiliated with the International Association for Media and Communication Research, the Independent Media Center, and OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios. From 2005-2007, he was the Editor for Access to Knowledge, a website for news, analysis, commentary and conversation about how to reach the goal of access to knowledge for all. His prior policy work experience includes service as U.S. Liaison to the International Organizing Committee (Communication Rights in the Information Society), as Project Manager for Media Trade Monitor, and as Coordinator of the Global Communication Project at Free Press. His extensive community service experience includes, most recently, serving as a translator and co-teacher at the Garment Worker Center audiovisual workshop in Los Angeles and being a three-year member of the Civil Society Plenary for the World Summit on The Information Society. His research has been published in Media Development and CTheory: A Journal of Culture and Technology, and he has contributed book chapters to various works on media trends and movements. Also active in film and video, he is a collective member of the Indymedia Video Distribution Network and has experience directing, editing, and producing documentary and animation/mixed media works.
Publications and Resources
Journal Articles
- Sasha Costanza-Chock. The CRIS campaign: Mobilizations and Blind Spots. Media Development. 2002. http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_development
Working Papers
- Sasha Costanza-Chock. WSIS, the Neoliberal Agenda, and Counterproposals from Civil Society.
Reports
- Sean O'Siochru, Sasha Costanza-Chock. Global Governance of Information and Communication Technologies: Implications for Transnational Civil Society Networking. 2003.
- Sasha Costanza-Chock. Autonomist Tools and Communications Democracy.