Alexia is a sociologist interested in the experience of digital community and thinking into how to visualise social form. She combines her passion for researching digital frontiers with an eclectic interest in research methodology and exploring ways to bring these two passions together to shed new insights into our social worlds. Her recent book “Research Methods and Global Online Communities: A case study” explored the notion of community experience as it occurs in a spatially distributed, global context and how this experience is shaped by the mediation of technology and the internet. Her day job is as a Lecturer in Communication at Deakin University and 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.