Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 2, 1977 |
| Nationality | PhD ) |
| Spouse |
Jenny Choi-Fitzpatrick
(m. 2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Social Movements |
| Institutions | Aspen Institute Yale University Kroc School of Peace Studies University of San Diego Rights Lab and School of Sociology and Social Policy (University of Nottingham) Central European University(2013-2015) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rory M. McVeigh |
| Other academic advisors | Christian Davenport |
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is an American scholar and writer. His work explores the interplay of social, economic, political, and technological forces in the process of social change. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, Oxford, and UCSD, and is currently Scholar in Residence at the Aspen Institute's Global Leadership Network and Co-Director of a Working Group at Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center.
He is Professor of political sociology at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego and concurrent Rights Lab associate professor of social movements and human rights at the University of Nottingham's School of Sociology and Social Policy. He was previously assistant professor of political sociology at the School of Public Policy at Central European University.[1]
Choi-Fitzpatrick holds a PhD in sociology from the
Academic career
| External videos | |
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 “Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick - Why Cities are Ground Zero for Democracy”, The Atlantic |
| External videos | |
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| “Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick - We Can Count Crowds Better”, NBC lx |
Most of Choi-Fitzpatrick's work, in one form or another, explores social change. In What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do,
Recent work on the interplay of politics and technology in the process of technological innovation produced The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance (MIT Press), in which Choi-Fitzpatrick argues that a host of technologies make contentious politics possible. While social media receives the most attention, a wider range of technology deserve causal credit for shaping socio-political change. A related project undertaken by Choi-Fitzpatrick's Good Drone Lab developed an award-winning method for estimating crowd sizes (NBC lx). These efforts have been featured outlets like Fast Company and Science.
NOTE: The Good Drone has been noted for its path to publication—the book went through an open peer review process[6] and the final publication is to be an open access PDF. It is one of the first books to be both open preview process _and_ open access publication. This process was highlighted in the podcast New Book Network.
Artistic engagements
Choi-Fitzpatrick is the co-founder of Art Builds, a collective that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration in participatory art installations. The collective has exhibited work at the Burning Man art festival, been commissioned to build art by the City of San Diego, and is using virtual reality technology to create mixed digital spaces for real-time artistic collaboration.
Bibliography
Books
- Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice. (2022) Oxford University Press.
- The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance. (2020) MIT Press.
- What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do. (2017) Columbia University Press.
- From Human Trafficking to Human Rights. (2012) Co-edited with Alison Brysk. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Drones for Good: How to Bring Sociotechnical Thinking into the Classroom. (2020) Co-authored with Gordon Hoople. Morgan & Claypool.
Articles
- Scholarly publications can be found at Google Scholar
Public writing
- Television appearances and public-facing writing can be found at Muckrack
References
- ^ "Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick | School of Public Policy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-04. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
- ^ "Center for the Study of Social Movements // University of Notre Dame". cssm.nd.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
- ^ "Faculty | CMDS". cmds.ceu.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
- ^ 2017, Columbia University Press
- ^ "From Human Trafficking to Human Rights | Alison Brysk, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
- ^ "The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance". The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance. Retrieved 2019-08-15.