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.

Relevant links:

Archive

how will the military vote?

blogging and assumptions about class

waving to Dana H. Boyd

Lakoff and the language of politics

relaxation and chillness

Ronald Burt, structural holes and creativity

blog/author limits and MT

ethnography, ethics and the Internet

* Hallelujah *

paying for my sins