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

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

PDF Talk: “The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online”

let’s define our terms: what is a “social networking technology”?

The Economist Debate on Social “Networking”

boyd’s law of social network sites

It’s Live! New JCMC on Social Network Sites

Race/ethnicity and parent education differences in usage of Facebook and MySpace

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

history of social network sites (a work-in-progress)

Research on Social Network Sites (Take 2)