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.

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visualizing the internet

Check out the Opte Project:

This project was created to make a visual representation of a space that is very much one-dimensional, a metaphysical universe. The data represented and collected here serves a multitude of purposes: Modeling the Internet, analyzing wasted IP space, IP space distribution, detecting the result of natural disasters, weather, war, and esthetics/art. This project is free and represents a lot of donated time, please enjoy.

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November 28th, 2003 | Category: visualization | Comments are closed

1 comment to visualizing the internet

  • Brayden King
    December 1st, 2003 at 8:09 am

    Friendster sociologist

    Thanks to Tina Fetner I’ve discovered another sociologist roaming around the blogosphere. Her name is Danah Boyd and she has some interesting things to say about everything from internet networks to European culture. The NY Times’ circuits …