Hey there!
My name is Alex Leavitt, and I'm a social scientist and internet researcher. I currently work for Facebook Research, and I reside in San Francisco, after living in Los Angeles, Kyoto, and Boston.
Background
In 2016, I finished my PhD at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California, where I was advised by Henry Jenkins and Dmitri Williams.
Previously, I worked with danah boyd at Microsoft Research New England. Before that, I was a researcher in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Comparative Media Studies department, where I worked on the Convergence Culture Consortium project.
Research
I frequently work across industry and academia, publishing my research in venues like ACM CSCW (Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing) and ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction). Spanning my research career, I have been part of a number of data science and user experience research teams with a handful of major media and analytics companies, like Facebook, Sony PlayStation, Disney Interactive, and SocialFlow.
Numerous outlets have also featured my research, such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNN, and the Huffington Post.
You can also read some of my non-peer-reviewed writing:
- White papers from the Web Ecology Project: [PDFs]
- White papers from the Convergence Culture Consortium: [PDF]
(the full list of reports from all C3 Fellows are available here) - Blog posts from the Convergence Culture Consortium: [HTML]
Contact
You can email me at work: alexleavitt @fb. Talk with me directly on Twitter at @alexleavitt. For consulting, lectures, or other business opportunities, connect with me on LinkedIn.
