- Andrea_Acosta@pitzer.edu
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With Pitzer Since: 2023
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
- BA, Stanford University
Andrea Acosta is a digital media and critical race scholar with training in literature and media studies. Her teaching combines digital media studies and theory with her training in literary analysis to ask questions about race, inequality, and power in the digital era. Acosta's research focus is South Korean popular culture, most notably K-pop and its related media, through which she explores minoritarian and global/transcultural fan communities online. Her approach to South Korean popular culture positions it not as a niche interest or area of study but as one broadly relevant to the study of media at large: its global flows, its political potential (particularly for people of color), and its distributions of power. Acosta also has a sustained research interest in exploring cultural fictions surrounding algorithmic technology - bots, machine learning, and "AI" technology - to uncover the myriad ways these fictions sustain and produce narratives of race and (in)humanity today.
Digital Artifice, NYU Press, forthcoming.
"‘Unbelievably Quotable Nonsense’: Bot Poetics and Digital Non-Belonging,” ASAP Journal 11.1, 2026.
"#BlackOutBTS: Race and Self(ie) Display in Digital Fandom," Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS), 2023
Co-editor and co-founder of MENT Magazine, a digital and print publication on South Korean popular media and culture.
- Intro to Media Studies (MS 049)
- Digital Storytelling (MS 055)
- K-pop and Digital Culture (MS 124)
- Race and the Internet (MS 127)