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

discrimination in gaming: World of Warcraft bans queer community

memories: capturing vs. creating

public check-in

on sex education

perpetually liminal: are we refusing to grow up? what does this mean?

register for Blogher 2006

a brilliant class

help me restore my Flickr data

sloppy speech acts

mutants and post secret confessors