Brittany Anne Chozinski
Bio
| Brittany is currently completing her PhD in sociology at the New School for Social Research, where she also completed her Masters in sociology. By day, she works as a multimedia specialist for a not-for-profit adoption agency, handling everything from social media to digital video and web editing. She has taught as an adjunct professor of sociology at Marymount Manhattan College and is currently entering her second year as a research assistant for Dr. Jaeho Kang on his work involving propaganda, the Frankfurt School and communications studies. |
Abstract
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Digital Bodies, Digital Labor: De/Reconstructing the Post-Human Subject. Brittany will be moderating on the student panel on digital labor and the body, exploring the questions: How does this invisible interaction labor affect our bodies? What were key steps in the history of interaction design that managed to mobilize and structure the social participation of bodies and psyches in order to capture value? Her work revolves around media and subjectivity, with particular interest in the digital screen, alterity and mimesis, and the body and subject is highly mediated digital environments. Though labor has not been a key focus of her work, it is a reoccuring them, and she has previous written on televisual labor and how this shifts with battles of convergence with the internet and mobile media. Brittany has a strong background in cinema studies and the Frankfurt School and seeks to apply critical theoretical analysis to media and technology studies within sociology. |