Alexia Maddox (PhD) is a Research Librarian at Deakin University and a Research Assistant in the Graduate School of Business and Law at RMIT University in  Melbourne, Australia. As a practicing sociologist, her research interests are in digital frontiers, community studies and research methods. Her recent book, ?Research Methods and Global Online Communities: a case study? with Routledge combines these areas and forms the basis of her study of emerging communities forming through the internet and cryptography.