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

Race and Social Network Sites: Putting Facebook’s Data in Context

“Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media”

Sociality Is Learning

spectacle at Web2.0 Expo… from my perspective

Call for descriptions: online safety programs

Web2.0 Expo Talk: Streams of Content, Limited Attention

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out

Choosing the Right Grad School

Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates

teaching, nursing, and second wave feminism