Steven Losco Phone: (916) 266-1075 Email: steven.losco@gmail.com Website: www.stevenlosco.com
Education 2015 (Expected) M.S. Science, Technology, and Society, Drexel University 2011 B.A. Sociology and Anthropology of Religion, Pitzer College
Publications Under Review Losco, Steven. (2014) “Tag, you are it!: Using Tags to Solidify the Fragmented Through Assemblages,” for Information, Communication & Society In progress Losco, Steven. BOOK REVIEW: The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online by Judith Donath, for Bulletin of Science Technology & Society Losco, Steven. Untitled Abstract: “Psychosomatic” Illness in Popular Culture edited by Carol-Ann Farkas
Presentations 2014
Losco, Steven, “Headless Horseman and Mobile Gay Men: The disciplining of masculinity on Grindr, Growlr and Scuff,” International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility: Spinoffs of Mobility, Philadelphia, PA, http://t2m.org/conferences/2014-philadelphia-spinoffsof-mobility/programphiladelphia/
2014
Losco, Steven, (2014): “Tag, you are it!: Using Tags to Solidify the Fragmented Through Assemblages,” Communication and Information Technology Section of ASA Symposium: [New] Media Cultures, Berkeley, CA www.citasasymposium.info
Research Interests HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ studies, Smartphone apps, Stigma, Biopolitics, Sociology of Sciencific Knowledge, Internet studies
Positions Held 2014 Graduate Research Assistant, Alison Kenner, History and Politics & Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Drexel University “Mapping Perceptions of Environmental Health Risk: A Comparison of Three Philadelphia Communities” 2011 Assistant, Karen Yonemoto, Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College Syllabus Construction for CMC RSLT 084 “Religion, Race and the Civil Rights Movement” Spr. ‘12 2009 Research Assistant, Phil Zuckerman, Sociology, Pitzer College Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion, Oxford University Press Nov ’11, Experience credited in Acknowledgements
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Professional Membership American Sociological Association -
Sections: Medical Sociology, Science, Knowledge and Technology, Sexualities, Computing and Information Technology
Society for Social Studies of Science
Honors 2011 Theta Alpha Kappa, Religious Studies Honors Society, The Claremont Colleges 2009 Honors Scholar, Sacramento City College 2007 – 2009 Highest Honors, Sacramento City College 2006 Dean’s List, Wagner College 2006 California Scholarship Federation Lifetime Member 2006 National Honor Roll
Professional Service 2014 Presider, Theorizing the Web 2014, New York, NY, theorizingtheweb.tumblr.com Moderating the panel: The New Flesh: Bodies and Biopolitics 2010 – 2011 Student Senator for Campus Life Committee
Appropriating funds for academic and recreational events for the Pitzer community along with general Student Senate duties
2010 - 2011 College Council Voting Member as Student Representative of Campus Life Committee, Pitzer College governance board made up of Faculty, Staff, and Student Senators
Teaching Experience 2010 Citizenship Coaching, SOC 112: Contemporary Social Theory, Pitzer College
Working with ESL residents of Monterey Park, CA and surrounding areas to obtain U.S. citizenship
2008 – 2009 Biological Anthropology Tutoring, Sacramento City College,
Working with students in introduction level Biological Anthropology course
Including tutoring for study and test taking skills.
Skills Microsoft Office Suite, Google Drive, Google Earth, Dropbox, Adobe Photoshop, STATA, Zotero,
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Field work 2010 – 2011 “”Tag, You’re It!”: Using Social Media “Tags” to Help Solve the Problem of Church Classification in Sociology of Religion“ Pitzer College/Claremont McKenna College/Pomona College Participant Observation - Senior Thesis/capstone project, looking at the change over time of a Los Angeles megachurch service in Downtown LA. The project looked at using social metadata/folksonomies in order to categorize and track fluid phenomena, suggesting the need for more flexible categories or less mutually exclusive ones. For more current reflections on tagging and categories please see my blog, Tagging Reflections, which is linked at the above web address. Readers: Phil Zuckerman Pitzer College; Gaston Espinosa Claremont McKenna College 2010 “A Third Performance: Worship Refined Through Enterprise” Pitzer College/Claremont McKenna College Participant Observation/Interviews – Paper for Independent Study/Performance of Worship (Claremont McKenna) and Ethnographic Field Methods (Pitzer College). The project looked at how the use of arts as a form of performance in two Evangelical churches in Costa Mesa, CA and Sacramento, CA. I named this Enterprise, which showed how Richard Schechner’s theories of Entertainment and Efficacy play off each, through the perception and conception of the arts during Sunday services.