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Alex is a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. Follow him on Twitter at @alexleavitt. Alex previously worked with danah boyd at Microsoft Research New England. Before that he was a researcher in the Comparative Media Studies department at MIT, where he worked on the Convergence Culture Consortium project.