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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Archive

this is your mouse brain on drugs

Blogher has begun

DOPA passed

aggregating the “best of” blog entries

an ode to a math teacher: benevolent dictators and urban tribes

best of?

furniture for sale

feigning injuries for insurance companies

from architecture to urban planning: technology development in a networked age

education and Skywalker Ranch