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'''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.
'''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 is associate professor of [[political sociology]] at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spp.ceu.hu/people/austin-choi-fitzpatrick |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-01-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104133936/http://spp.ceu.hu/people/austin-choi-fitzpatrick |archivedate=2015-01-04 }}</ref> He is a global fellow at the [[Center for Media, Data and Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cmds.ceu.edu/faculty|title=Faculty {{!}} CMDS|website=cmds.ceu.edu|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref>
He is associate professor of [[political sociology]] at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spp.ceu.hu/people/austin-choi-fitzpatrick |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-01-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104133936/http://spp.ceu.hu/people/austin-choi-fitzpatrick |archivedate=2015-01-04 }}</ref>


Choi-Fitzpatrick holds a PhD in sociology from the [[University of Notre Dame]], where he was Assistant Director at the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cssm.nd.edu/|title=Center for the Study of Social Movements // University of Notre Dame|website=cssm.nd.edu|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref> Prior to academia he worked as a [[human rights]] advocate. From 2003 through 2009 he was on staff at [[Free the Slaves]], the sister organization of [[Anti-Slavery International]], itself the world's first and longest-running human rights NGO. He studied human rights and international security at the [[Josef Korbel School of International Studies]] at the University of Denver. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California - San Diego, Oxford, and Yale and is a global fellow at the [[Center for Media, Data and Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cmds.ceu.edu/faculty|title=Faculty {{!}} CMDS|website=cmds.ceu.edu|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref>
Social Movements and Human Rights
In ''What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do'',<ref>2017, [https://cup.columbia.edu/book/what-slaveholders-think/9780231181822 Columbia University Press]</ref> Choi-Fitzpatrick argues that slaveholders have been overlooked by the contemporary [[abolitionist]] movement. Taking them seriously, he suggests, advances scholarship on social movements, human rights, and anti-trafficking. Policy implications include the possibility that international development efforts recognize that some of their beneficiaries are also rights violators.<ref>Shorter articles along these lines can be found in [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-i-chose-to-research-what-slaveholders-think_us_58bef21be4b05386ddc0ca64 ''Huffington Post''], [https://aeon.co/essays/this-is-what-slavery-looks-like-today-in-the-eyes-of-slavers ''Aeon''], and ''[https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/apr/28/what-i-learned-from-india-slaveowners-austin-choi-fitzpatrick The Guardian]''.</ref> Early work along these lines can be found in a volume co-edited with [[Alison Brysk]]: ''From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery'' (University of Pennsylvania Press Series on Human Rights).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14907.html|title=From Human Trafficking to Human Rights {{!}} Alison Brysk, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick|website=www.upenn.edu|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref>


==Academic career==
Technology and Politics
Much of Choi-Fitzpatrick's work is focused on the interplay of politics and culture in the process of social change.
A new book, ''The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance'' (MIT Press) explores the ways social movements use new technologies. This project is notable for its path to publication—the book went through an open peer review process <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thegooddrone.pubpub.org/|title=The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance|website=The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance|language=en|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref> 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.
In ''What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do'',<ref>2017, [https://cup.columbia.edu/book/what-slaveholders-think/9780231181822 Columbia University Press]</ref> Choi-Fitzpatrick argues that slaveholders play an important but overlooked role in shaping the tactics and outcomes of the contemporary [[abolitionist]] movement. Taking them seriously, he suggests, advances scholarship on social movements, human rights, and anti-trafficking. Policy implications include the possibility that international development efforts recognize that some of their beneficiaries are also rights violators. Early work along these lines can be found in a volume co-edited with [[Alison Brysk]]: ''From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery'' (University of Pennsylvania Press Series on Human Rights).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14907.html|title=From Human Trafficking to Human Rights {{!}} Alison Brysk, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick|website=www.upenn.edu|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref>


More recent work has focused on the interplay of politics and technology in the process of technological innovation. In ''The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance'' (MIT Press) 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 ([https://www.lx.com/science-tech/lx-natl-the-science-behind-crowd-size-estimates-is-complicated-by-politics-and-privacy/28445/ NBC lx]). These efforts have been featured outlets like Fast Company and [https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/researchers-spy-signs-slavery-space Science].
This project focuses on the ways [[unmanned aerial vehicle]]s (UAVs, or "drones") are used by civil society actors as they work to hold both businesses and governments accountable. Early efforts to sketch an overview of public usage of the technology and to advance an ethical framework for its use can be found in the ''[[Journal of International Affairs]]''. With his colleagues he has developed an innovative method for estimating the size of protest events and other mass gatherings.<ref>{{Citation|title=SPP Drone Lab Crowd Estimation Methodology 2014|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTH5zDJdSuk|language=en|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sppdronelab.com/|title=Sppdronelab.com|website=www.sppdronelab.com|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref> Findings from this project have been presented at Harvard, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, and Central European University. Shorter essays on the topic have appeared in Slate, Al Jazeera, the Conversation, MIT Reader, and Medium, and can be found on [https://muckrack.com/austin-choi-fitzpatrick Muckrack]


NOTE: The Good Drone has been noted for its path to publication—the book went through an open peer review process <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thegooddrone.pubpub.org/|title=The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance|website=The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance|language=en|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref> 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 [https://newbooksnetwork.com/discussion-of-massive-online-peer-review-and-open-access-publishing New Book Network].
Choi-Fitzpatrick holds a PhD in sociology from the [[University of Notre Dame]], where he was Assistant Director at the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cssm.nd.edu/|title=Center for the Study of Social Movements // University of Notre Dame|website=cssm.nd.edu|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref> Prior to academia he worked as a [[human rights]] advocate. From 2003 through 2009 he was on staff at [[Free the Slaves]], the sister organization of [[Anti-Slavery International]], itself the world's first and longest-running human rights NGO. He studied human rights and international security at the [[Josef Korbel School of International Studies]] at the University of Denver. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California - San Diego, Oxford, and Yale.


==Artistic engagements==
==Selected publications and features==
Choi-Fitzpatrick is the co-founder of [https://www.sandiego.edu/artbuilds/ Art Builds], a collective that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration in participatory art installations. The collective has [https://www.instagram.com/art_builds/ 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.
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*[http://thegooddrone.pubpub.org ''The Good Drone.'' (2019) MIT Press.]
==Bibliography==
*[https://cup.columbia.edu/book/what-slaveholders-think/9780231181822 ''What Slaveholders Think.'' (2017) Columbia University Press.]
Books
*[http://thegooddrone.pubpub.org ''The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance.'' (2020) MIT Press.]
*[https://cup.columbia.edu/book/what-slaveholders-think/9780231181822 ''What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do.'' (2017) Columbia University Press.]
*[http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14907.html ''From Human Trafficking to Human Rights.'' (2012) Co-edited with Alison Brysk. University of Pennsylvania Press.]
*[http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14907.html ''From Human Trafficking to Human Rights.'' (2012) Co-edited with Alison Brysk. University of Pennsylvania Press.]
*[https://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/product_info.php?products_id=1511 ''Drones for Good: How to Bring Sociotechnical Thinking into the Classroom.'' (2020) Co-authored with Gordon Hoople. Morgan & Claypool.]
*[http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/12/01/drone_technology_can_help_estimate_crowd_size.html "Drones Will Change The Way We Estimate Crowd Sizes, and That’s a Big Deal"] at [[Slate (magazine)|''Slate'']].
*[http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/09/how_the_faa_s_drone_policy_will_affect_the_rest_of_the_world.html "How the FAA’s Drone Policy Will Affect the Rest of The World"] at [[Slate (magazine)|''Slate'']].
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150104134009/http://www.austinchoifitzpatrick.com/published/choi-fitzpatrick-2014-salvation-narrative-ejcps/ "To seek and save the lost: human trafficking and salvation schemas among American evangelicals"] at the ''European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology'', 2014
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150104134326/http://www.austinchoifitzpatrick.com/published/choi-fitzpatrick-2014-managing-democracy-sms/ "Managing Democracy in Social Movement Organizations"] at Social Movement Studies


Articles
==References==
* Scholarly publications can be found at [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MEUtCZYAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar]
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Public writing
* Television appearances and public-facing writing can be found at [https://muckrack.com/austin-choi-fitzpatrick Muckrack]


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 23:26, 31 January 2021

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Born (1977-07-02) July 2, 1977 (age 47)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Denver (BA)
University of Notre Dame (MA, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsHuman Rights
Sociology
InstitutionsKroc 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 advisorRory M. McVeigh
Other academic advisorsChristian 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 is associate professor of political sociology at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the 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 University of Notre Dame, where he was Assistant Director at the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change.[2] Prior to academia he worked as a human rights advocate. From 2003 through 2009 he was on staff at Free the Slaves, the sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, itself the world's first and longest-running human rights NGO. He studied human rights and international security at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California - San Diego, Oxford, and Yale and is a global fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society.[3]

Academic career

Much of Choi-Fitzpatrick's work is focused on the interplay of politics and culture in the process of social change. In What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do,[4] Choi-Fitzpatrick argues that slaveholders play an important but overlooked role in shaping the tactics and outcomes of the contemporary abolitionist movement. Taking them seriously, he suggests, advances scholarship on social movements, human rights, and anti-trafficking. Policy implications include the possibility that international development efforts recognize that some of their beneficiaries are also rights violators. Early work along these lines can be found in a volume co-edited with Alison Brysk: From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press Series on Human Rights).[5]

More recent work has focused on the interplay of politics and technology in the process of technological innovation. In The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance (MIT Press) 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

Articles

Public writing

  • Television appearances and public-facing writing can be found at Muckrack
  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-04. Retrieved 2015-01-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Center for the Study of Social Movements // University of Notre Dame". cssm.nd.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  3. ^ "Faculty | CMDS". cmds.ceu.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  4. ^ 2017, Columbia University Press
  5. ^ "From Human Trafficking to Human Rights | Alison Brysk, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  6. ^ "The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance". The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance. Retrieved 2019-08-15.