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

MySpace blamed for alienated youth’s threats

election day: analysis of California Proposition 73

the power of social structure in World of Warcraft

what is “social software”?

growing up in a culture of fear: from Columbine to banning of MySpace

Jimmy Wales speaking at Berkeley tomorrow

on books

drowning during Halloween in the Castro