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.
Relevant links:
- "best of" blog entries
- my research papers
- my dissertation
- me on twitter
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Best Of Apophenia
Over the years, i have written numerous posts about social media, social software, social networks and other industry-relevant topics. Colleagues often remark that it is difficult to sift through my personal blog to find relevant material. For that reason, i decided to put together a “best of” to highlight the essays that are most interesting to newcomers interested in social media. Right now, these are just recent essays and blog posts that deal with particular issues in depth. If you think that a particular entry should be listed here, please let me know! Better yet, add it to del.icio.us or to digg – i’m watching these sites to see what entries are particularly popular or useful.
Youth Culture and Mediated Practices
- Sociality is Learning – November 30, 2009
- is Facebook for old people? – May 18, 2009
- Living and Learning with Social Media – April 18, 2009
- Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies – December 31, 2008
- reflections on Lori Drew, bullying, and solutions to helping kids – November 30, 2008
- teens, dating, friendship, and school dances – October 5, 2008
- Teen Socialization Practices in Networked Publics – April 23, 2008
- how youth find privacy in interstitial spaces – March 9, 2008
- Just The Facts About Online Youth Victimization – May 11, 2007
- cyberbullying – April 7, 2007
- Ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens) – January 1, 2007
- What i mean when i say “email is dead” in reference to teens – November 7, 2006
- Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace – February 19, 2006
- MySpace blamed for alienated youth’s threats – November 10, 2005
- Growing up in a culture of fear: from Columbine to banning of MySpace – November 2, 2005
- A culture of feeds: syndication and youth culture – October 10, 2004
Social Network Sites – from Friendster to Twitter
(Note: full list of others’ research on SNSs here)
- Race and Social Network Sites: Putting Facebook’s Data in Context – December 29, 2010
- Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates – October 25, 2009
- Twitter: “pointless babble” or peripheral awareness + social grooming? – August 16, 2009
- Teens Don’t Tweet… Or Do They? – August 6, 2009
- Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What? – February 26, 2009
- Facebook and Techcrunch: the costs of technological determinism and configuring users – September 15, 2008
- let’s define our terms: what is a “social networking technology”? – January 18, 2008
- The Economist Debate on Social “Networking” – January 15, 2008
- Facebook’s “opt-out” precedent – December 11, 2007
- SNS visibility norms (a response to Scoble) – September 9, 2007
- Responding to Responses to: “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace” – July 25, 2007
- Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace – June 24, 2007
- Socializing digitally – June 2007
- Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What? – May 2007
- relationship performance in networked publics – April 2, 2007
- fame, narcissism and MySpace – March 17, 2007
- Friends, Friendsters and Top 8: Writing community in being on social network sites – December 5, 2007
- Social network sites: my definition – November 10, 2006
- A discussion with danah boyd (video) – September 14, 2006
- Facebook’s “Privacy Trainwreck”: Exposure, Invasion, and Drama – September 8, 2006
- Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) – May 24, 2006
- Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? – March 21, 2006
- Attention Networks vs. Social Networks – November 29, 2005
- Dealing with Culture – January 9, 2005
- Which YASNS is best? – February 26, 2004
- Revenge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles – February 11, 2004
- Venting my contempt for orkut – January 30, 2004
Blogging
- Blogging Outloud: Shifts in Public Voice – October 1, 2005
- The biases of links – August 7, 2005
- Turmoil in blogland – January 8, 2005
- The new blogocracy – June 28, 2004
- Echo-chambers and homophily – February 23, 2004
- Why Blogs Aren’t a Safe Space – January 19, 2004
Mobile and Communication Technologies
- Can the iPhone hit crucial network density for noticable cluster effects? – July 15, 2008
- gluttonous texting – November 16, 2007
- Tweet Tweet (some thoughts on Twitter) – March 18, 2007
- Innovating mobile social technologies (damn you helio) – May 3, 2006
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