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

Globalization of norms: Facebook challenges Arab LGBT group

“Generation Me”

Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks (PEW Report)

cyberbullying

5 secrets to success

NYC talk April 13 w/ Ethan Zuckerman and Trebor Scholz

music to live by

Incantations for Muggles

relationship performance in networked publics