My name is danah boyd and I'm a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I live in Boston, MA. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.

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finding nemo

a social network caught in the web

mass moca

people can still surprise me

a quote by darwin

gossip blogging

graduation groaning

the familiar stranger

people are real

messaging research