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) The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online by Judith Donath, for Bulletin of Science
Technology & Society
Losco, Steven. (2014) Tag, you are it!: Using Tags to Solidify the Fragmented Through Assemblages, for
Information, Communication & Society
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/program-
philadelphia/
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 Deans 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, Youre 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 Schechners theories of Entertainment and Efficacy play off each,
through the perception and conception of the arts during Sunday services.