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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Email Sabbatical Has Begun

OMG. I have my PhD! OMG!!!!!

Warning: Email Sabbatical is Imminent .. and other random thoughts

CVS refused to fill my prescription; is this legal?

reflections on Lori Drew, bullying, and solutions to helping kids

Living and Learning with New Media: Findings from a 3-year Ethnographic Study of Digital Youth

Draft Version of the ISTTF Literature Review concerning Children’s Online Safety

post-Prop 8: seek an education-based reversal, not a legal challenge

Please support No on Prop 8

my views on California propositions (vote NO on 4 and NO on 8)