They[a] are an associate professor at Northeastern University and a faculty affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Writing about DREAM Act scholarship for The Journal of Higher Education, Michael Olivas called the book "a fascinating and liberating study of the social media used by various DREAMer factions".

[5] In a review in Information, Communication & Society Koen Leurs called the book "a reflective, situated, historically and contextually aware account of rights movements in the United States".

[8] Their second book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need was published in March 2020 by MIT Press.

[9] Costanza-Chock is regularly cited as an academic expert on media and activism topics, including the student response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting,[10] movements to unionize tech workers,[11] and the doxing of white supremacists.