Steven Losco

Phone: (916) 266-1075 Email: steven.losco@gmail.com

Website: www.stevenlosco.com Twitter: @godislobster

Steven specializes in (social media) user experience, studying the experiences of specific groups and their
adaptations of the platform. While his work is on mobile technologies, Stevens key anthropological insights
expand to a host of digital media. He has presented at international and national conferences, most recently at
Theorizing the Web, co-founded by Snapchat researcher Nathan Jurgenson.

Work on Digital Technologies

2015 Viral Martyrs: Gender Identity, Race, and the Digital Construction of Victimhood, Drexel University
Theorizing the Web 2015
Given with Dorian Adams
On Tumblr, Transgender issues
2014-2015 Masters Project, Drexel University

Quantitative correlation of dating-app profile demographics with HIV stigmatizing language, IRB
preparation

2014 Headless Horseman and Mobile Gay Men, Drexel University

Spinoffs of Mobility, International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility
On Grindr

2014 Tag, you are it!: Using Tags to Solidify the Fragmented Through Assemblages, Pitzer College/Drexel
University
[New] Media Cultures, Communication and Information Technology Section of ASA

2010-2011 Senior Thesis, Pitzer College

Ethnographic Research: Participant observation and data analysis of church services using author created
analysis technique using user-driven metadata

2010 Field Methods in Anthropology, Pitzer College

Ethnographic training course and research project: Participant observations of church services in Los
Angeles and interviews with pastors.

Skills
Data Collection: Participant observation/ethnography, mobile dating profile collection, interviewing; Project
Design: Start to Writeup , Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr (Viral Martyrs presentation, class paper on
curation of posts and how it creates a specific type of identity), Grindr (Headless Horseman, Masters project),
Google Earth, Dropbox, Adobe Photoshop, Zotero, Google Drive, STATA, Microsoft Office

Formal Research Positions Held

2014 Graduate Research Assistant, Ali Kenner, Drexel University

Ethnographic Research on environmental health risk conceptualization: Mapping, writing, literature

review

2009 Research Assistant, Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College

Qualitative research on faith and secularity: Transcription, literature review

Education
2015 (Expected) Drexel University, MS in Science, Technology, and Society
2011 Pitzer College, B.A. The Sociology and Anthropology of Religion