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

cat predicts deaths, web folk LOL

Research on Social Network Sites (Take 2)

in-flight newstainment is paid-for advertising

responding to critiques of my essay on class

re: MySpace and sex offenders

Berkman Fellowship

Education.AU = me + Australia

processing Harry Potter

Israeli teen culture

RIP Peter Lyman