Alexia is a sociologist of technology interested in the experience of digital community, human-technology encounters, and social change. She combines her passion for researching digital frontiers with an eclectic interest in research methodology and a commitment to translating research into public and policy conversations.

Her current work spans the impacts of emerging technologies, and she is actively contributing to public and policy debates around child online safety, digital rights, and the regulatory architectures being built — and contested — around social media and emerging technologies. She has been tracking Australia’s online safety regulatory landscape since before the Social Media Minimum Age Act passed in 2024, and her research predicted the compliance failures that eSafety has since confirmed. She is also examining the social impacts of artificial intelligence and its implications for learning — including how generative AI is reshaping pedagogy, knowledge work, and the conditions of digital participation for young people.

In the standards space, Alexia serves as Co-Chair of the IEEE Industry Connections Activity on User-Centred Principles for Artificial Intelligence Used in Evaluating Family Violence — working to ensure that AI deployed in family violence contexts is guided by principles that account for coercive control, vulnerable communities, and the limits of what automated systems can safely assess.

Her latest book “Insider and Outsider Cultures in Web3” unpacks the dynamics of this niche technology area and considers the implications for the future of the internet.

Alexia is a Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy and Education Futures at the School of Education, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. She continues to tinker at research that looks into the unfolding edges of society where we innovate and manifest social safety nets and sociality in liminal spaces.