Biography summary
My background is as a sociologist of technlogy and my research interests include the social impacts of technology, such as social media and digital networked technologies.
I study digital frontiers and generally conduct communities studies with stigmatised populations using technology to create and connect in emerging spaces online.
To do this work, I have specialised in research methods and am fascinated by the different ways that we can conduct research in these frontier spaces of social experimentation.
My book, ‘Research Methods and Global Online Communities: a case study’ presents an approach to mixed-methods research and is written to support postgraduate and early career researchers in exploring these evolving social spaces through a myriad of techniques.
Affiliations
Deakin University, Lecturer in Communications
Canela Consulting, Research Associate
Knowledge areas
Digital community; Social ecology; Digital networked technologies; Social Science research methodology including survey design, social media analysis, mixed methods studies, participant observation and digital ethnography.
Publications
Digging in Crypto-Communities' Future-Making: From Dark to Doge
Alexia Maddox, Luke Heemsbergen
(2021), Vol. 24, pp. 1-9, M/C Journal, Brisbane, Qld., C1
The electrified social and its dark alternatives: policing and politics in the computational age
A Maddox, L Heemsbergen
(2021), Vol. 35, pp. 692-705, Continuum, C1
Alexia Maddox
(2020), Vol. 2, pp. 20-38, Journal of digital social research, Umeå, Sweden, C1
Blockchained to what (end)? A socio-material provocation to check distributed futures
Luke Heemsbergen, Alexia Maddox, Robbie Fordyce
(2019), pp. 144-158, Blockchain and Web 3.0 : social, economic, and technological challenges, London, Eng., B1
The application of digital methods in a life course approach to family studies
A Maddox
(2018), pp. 95-110, Connecting families? : information & communication technologies, generations, and the life course, Bristol, Eng., B1
Beyond digital dualism: modeling digital community
A Maddox
(2017), pp. 29-45, Digital sociologies, Chicago, Ill., B1
A Maddox, L Zhao
(2017), Vol. 23, pp. 125-135, New review of academic librarianship, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Designing library learning space: an evaluation of the student experience
A Maddox, B Lingham, C Bates
(2017), Geelong, Vic., A6
Constructive activism in the dark web : cryptomarkets and illicit drugs in the digital 'demimonde'
A Maddox, M Barratt, M Allen, S Lenton
(2016), Vol. 19, pp. 111-126, Information, communication & society, Abingdon, Eng., C1
M Barratt, S Lenton, A Maddox, M Allen
(2016), Vol. 35, pp. 50-57, International journal of drug policy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Active engagement with stigmatised communities through digital ethnography
M Barratt, A Maddox
(2016), Vol. 16, pp. 701-719, Qualitative research, London, Eng., C1
An ethnography of bitcoin: towards a future research agenda
A Maddox, S Singh, H Horst, G Adamson
(2016), Vol. 4, pp. 1-1, Australian journal of telecommunications and the digital economy, Melbourne, Vic., C1-1
Embedded library services : beyond chance encounters for students from low SES backgrounds
A Horn, A Maddox, P Hagel, M Currie, S Owen
(2013), Vol. 44, pp. 235-250, Australian academic & research libraries, Kingston, ACT, C1
Reassessing the theorisation of community experience within the digitally mediated, global context
A Maddox, B Warren
(2011), pp. 2-20, TASA 2011 : Local lives/global networks : Proceedings of The Australian Sociological Association 2011 conference, Newcastle, N.S.W., E1-1
An ethnography of Bitcoin: Towards a future research agenda
Alexia Maddox, Supriya Singh, Heather Horst, Greg Adamson
(), Vol. 4, pp. 65-78, Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
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Supervisions
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