Alexander Cho / University of California, Santa Barbara

Alexander Cho is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses on Asian American media studies as well as gender and sexuality studies. He researches how people use digital media with a particular emphasis on issues of race, gender, and sexuality, combining approaches from critical media studies and human-centered design. His writing has appeared in New Media & Society, the Proceedings of CHI: The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and FDG: Foundations of Digital Games in addition to numerous anthologies. He is co-editor of a tumblr book: platform and cultures (University of Michigan Press) and co-author of The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality (New York University Press). Previous to UCSB, Cho was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. He received his PhD from UT Austin's Department of Radio-TV-Film.