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Adjunct Assistant Professor, OCAD University

Dino Sossi has produced media for AOL, CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes, CNN, The New York Times, and VH1 at Viacom. His documentary films have screened at festivals in New York and Los Angeles as well as Berkeley, Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard, Oxford, and Pennsylvania. Dino’s work has been broadcast on CBC, CTV, DiscoveryUSA, Globe & Mail, IFC, Life, MTV Canada, MuchMoreMusic, One, Pridevision, and PrimeTV. His digital storytelling has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Dino earned his doctorate in Instructional Technology and Media at Columbia University where he was a teaching assistant and digital media consultant. He earned his Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Cambridge where he performed with the Footlights. Dino studied at Columbia Law School’s School Law Institute and the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme. He was also a research fellow and affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Dino has taught at Adelphi, Columbia, CUNY, Hunter College, NYU, OCAD, The College of New Jersey, and the University of Toronto.

He edited "Social Media, Democracy, & Human Rights Mobilization" for TMU and OCAD.

For more information, please visit www.DinoSossi.com

Experience

  • –present
    Instructional Assistant, University of Toronto
  • –present
    Adjunct Assistant Professor , OCAD University
  • –present
    Research Assistant, TMU
  • –present
    Learning Experience Designer, TMU

Education

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    University of Cambridge, Master of Philosophy
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    Columbia University, Instructional Technology & Media-Ed.D.
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    Columbia University, Instructional Technology & Media-M.A.
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    Columbia University, Instructional Technology & Media-M.Ed.
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    Queen's University, Juris Doctor

Publications

  • 2023
    Plugged In: Youth Computer-Mediated Civic Action and Interaction Through the Prism of Modern Protest Movements, https://www.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7472-3.ch002
  • 2022
    Social Media, Democracy, & International Human Rights Mobilization, https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/extraocadsmhr/
  • 2022
    Public Policy Responses to the Pandemic, and Building Back Better, https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/pandemicpublicpolicy/

Professional Memberships

  • American Educational Research Association