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

Teens, Video Games, and Civics

Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena in a Web2.0 Era

the Internet Lexicon

I will be joining Microsoft Research in January

Oprah, Senate Bill 1738, Child Porn, and Pedophiles

Facebook and Techcrunch: the costs of technological determinism and configuring users

how to throw a ballot party (for American voters)

public meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, Sept 23-24 at Harvard

United, my trip from hell, and karmic retribution

Community Forum on “Meeting the Public’s Information Needs for Silicon Valley”