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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Linked Out: blogging, equality and the future

Linked Out: blogging, equality and the future is an article in Mindjack that addresses some of the issues around blogging: When did it become a phenomenon? (Blood’s Law of Weblog History) Is it an equalizer? (danah and Clay disagree; Joi gets hopeful)

Fun overview of some of the current discussions that i’ve been having, even it makes me cringe to be called an A-list blogger.

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April 20th, 2004 | Category: yasns | Comments are closed

6 comments to Linked Out: blogging, equality and the future

  • mouse of anon
    April 22nd, 2004 at 12:48 am

    that article makes you sound pretentious.

  • Melanie McBride
    April 22nd, 2004 at 8:24 am

    What’s pretentious about being articulate about inequality? I didn’t *make* Danah Boyd sound like anything. She said what she said and what she says is powerful. Yes, I called her “a-list” … I did so because she is one of the most frequently cited bloggers around. I understand that it would make her shudder to be called this but I was trying to make the point that some of the more famous bloggers have a social conscience and Danah’s just happens to be one of the most interesting of all of them.

  • the iCite net development blog
    April 25th, 2004 at 12:27 pm

    Blogging as (imaginary?) public correspondence

    I’ve been reflecting on why / how I blog after reading this quote from danah boyd in the Linked Out: Blogging, Equality, and the Future article that I recently mentioned:

  • the iCite net development blog
    April 25th, 2004 at 12:27 pm

    Blogging as (imaginary?) public correspondence

    I’ve been reflecting on why / how I blog after reading this quote from danah boyd in the Linked Out: Blogging, Equality, and the Future article that I recently mentioned:

  • Orcmid's Lair
    May 3rd, 2004 at 8:10 pm

    Blogging, Equality, and the Future

    danah boyd pointed to this (with discomfort about A-list status), and I have learned in the echo here that there is something important to consider around perceived power relationships and people giving themselves the authority to speak. And beyond th…

  • free government grants
    July 3rd, 2004 at 12:23 am

    great page…im sure i’ll come back…best regards

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