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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Archive

why Orkut makes people insecure

banned from Orkut?

what is beta in the context of social software?

Genevieve on mobile culture

orkut pissyness, round 2

venting my contempt for orkut

identity reflection by identity construction

invites to Orkut on eBay

elements of blogging

on compliments (musings)