My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I spend 1/3 of my time in Cambridge, MA, 1/3 in New York, NY, and 1/3 in the air. 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.

Relevant links:

Archive

quitting Friendster

How to write a Friendster message

off to siggraph

Who’s in Your Tribe?

LiveJournal behaviors

Single White Female sick of the Seattle scene flirts with Friendster.com

creating explicit connectors

more Friendster anxiety

It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know: Work in the Information Age

T-Shirts of random Friendster users