Alex Leavitt
aleavitt [at] usc [dot] edu
Alex Leavitt received a B.A. in English Literature and a minor in Japanese from Boston University in 2009. After graduating, he joined the Comparative Media Studies department at MIT to research with the Convergence Culture Consortium. Before joining USC, Alex was a research assistant to danah boyd at Microsoft Research New England and was a teaching assistant for a class on Internet & Society at Harvard Extension School. He continues to research with the Web Ecology Project, participates in Students for Free Culture, and helps run ROFLcon, the conference for Internet culture. His research interests focus on social media, Internet studies, and disruptive Technology (with a bit of globalized pop culture on the side).