Alex Leavitt

PhD Researcher

USC Annenberg

Alex Leavitt is a Ph.D. researcher at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, where he studies networked technologies, digital communication, and Internet culture. Alex's specialties revolve around alternative uses of new media, such as niche online communities, emergent "viral" behavior, and hyperpopular media ecosystems.

Previously, he worked with danah boyd at Microsoft Research and with Henry Jenkins at the Comparative Media Studies department at MIT.

Alex will be speaking at SXSW in the special Future15 sessions on Monday March 12 at 11:45am. More info here: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP11577

You can read more about Alex's research at http://alexleavitt.com and follow him on Twitter at @alexleavitt.