Hodkinson - from Lancashire, in the north of England - is a 2nd year PhD researcher in communication, at the Annenberg School for Communication, at the University of Southern California USC, in Los Angeles.

Interests:

• Political communication, power, and organisations in the public sphere: discourses of media, politics and any institutions' power, dependency and framing relations
• Network theory, social scientific and interpretive sociology
• Practical and aesthetic approaches to film, books, popular media and the Internet intended to enrich political and social discourses
• The problems of globalization and modern assumptions of individualism
• Resolutions to social and humanistic communication methodological disputes: including narrative; complexity models; language games
• Online social networks and their relationship to offline social events

Sample of specific current research paper areas: (email for more info)

• Blogs (weblogs), public goods, their network properties and relations.

I live in Los Angeles and London, working at USC as a teaching assistant on courses including: Interpreting Popular Culture, and Media, Culture and Technology...

Also participates in

• Understanding and enabling network dynamics in virtual communities , 2008-