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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Archive

do you remember cathartic processing?

beware the steam vac

Postal Service Mocks Gmail

masculine anger

The Dark Side of Numbers: The Role of Population Data Systems in Human Rights Abuses.

why privacy issues matter… to me

GMail – the good, the bad and the ugly

driving votes: affecting swing states in 2004

NY vs. SF

happy easter