Dr Alexia Maddox
Deakin University Researcher & Research librarian
Melbourne, Australia
Alexia is a sociologist interested in the experience of digital community, research methods and internet studies. Her passion for researching digital social frontiers has led her into digital ethnographic work with the cryptographic communities giving rise to Bitcoin and cryptomarkets. In addition to this, she is fascinated with the relationship between social media and new forms of big data analysis. Her recent book “Research Methods and Global Online Communities: A case study” explored the notion of community experience as it occurs in a spatially distributed, global context and how this experience is shaped by the mediation of technology and the internet. She is a Research Librarian at Deakin university library and Researcher at RMIT University.