“Orkut thinks danah is a school bus.”
This is Clay’s conclusion about Orkut at the MSR Symposium. ::BLUSH:: (More later…)
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 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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I disagree with Clay on this example but think his point is excellent. I actually could read quite a bit about the school bus, not as much as a person, but still a fair bit. For example, it was a rural school bus, not an urban one. It had lead a fairly long life without much abuse. It was not pretending to be something it wasn’t, nor was it looking to date someone new. But icons having some meaning, linearly measure, in Ockurt is another matter. Those are just plain silly. I think they are interesting in that they point to an obsession of measurement/accounting (as M Strathern calls it) as the only way of knowing some one or something. BTW I give this blog 4stars
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