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</ref>), is an [[United States|American]] social media researcher known for her public commentary on the use of [[social networking sites]] by youth. A 2009 article in ''[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]'' named |
</ref>) also known as '''danah boyd''', is an [[United States|American]] social media researcher known for her public commentary on the use of [[social networking sites]] by youth. A 2009 article in ''[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]'' named Boyd one of the most influential women in technology.<ref>{{ cite news | url=http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/132/the-most-influential-women-in-technology-the-evangelists.html | title=Women in Tech: The Evangelists | author=Fast Company Staff | work=[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]] | date=2009-02-01 | accessdate=2010-05-22 }}</ref> |
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== Biography == |
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Boyd grew up in [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]] and [[Altoona, Pennsylvania]],<ref name=age/> and attended [[Manheim Township High School]] from 1992–1996. Boyd has claimed that her initial ambition was to become an astronaut but that after an injury, she became more interested in the internet.<ref name=age>{{cite news|title=A space of her own - Encounter with Danah Boyd|work=[[The Age]]|date=August 4, 2007|author=Debelle, Penelope}}</ref> She initially studied [[computer science]] at [[Brown University]] where she worked with [[Andy van Dam]], and wrote an undergraduate thesis on how "3-D computer systems used cues that were inherently sexist."<ref name=age/> She then pursued her [[master's degree]] in sociable media with [[Judith Donath]] at the [[MIT Media Lab]]. She worked for the New York-based [[V-Day]], first as a volunteer (starting in 2004) and then as paid staff (2007-2009). She eventually moved to [[San Francisco, California]], where she met the individuals involved in creating the new [[Friendster]] service. She documented what she was observing via her blog, and this grew into a career.<ref>{{ cite news | work=[[The New York Times]] | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/technology/circuits/27frie.html | title=Decoding the New Cues in Online Society | last=Erard | first=Michael | date=2003-11-27 | accessdate=2010-05-22 }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> |
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Boyd enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the [[UC Berkeley School of Information]], advised by [[Peter Lyman]] (1940–2007) and [[Mizuko Ito]]. Her [[dissertation]], ''Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics'', completed in 2008, focused on the use of large social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace by U.S. teenagers, and was blogged on [[Boing Boing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/01/18/taken_out_of_co.html |title=Taken Out of Context -- my PhD dissertation |work=zephoria.org |date=January 18, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite web | url=http://boingboing.net/2009/01/19/danah-boyds-phd-thes.html | title=danah boyd's PhD thesis: Teen sociality online | last=Doctorow | first=Cory | publisher=[[Boing Boing]] | accessdate=2010-05-22 | date=2009-01-19 | authorlink=Cory Doctorow }}</ref> |
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During the 2006–07 academic year, Boyd was a fellow at the [[Annenberg Center for Communication]] at the [[University of Southern California]]. She has been a fellow at the [[Berkman Center for Internet & Society]] at Harvard University since 2007, where she co-directed the Internet Safety Technical Task Force,<ref>{{ cite web | url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/isttf/members | accessdate=2010-05-22 | title=Members of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force | publisher=[[Berkman Center for Internet & Society]] }}</ref> and then served on the Youth and Media Policy Working Group.<ref>{{ cite web | url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/digitalnatives/policy | title=Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative | accessdate=2010-05-022 | publisher=[[Berkman Center for Internet & Society]] }}</ref> In January 2009, Boyd joined [[Microsoft Research]] New England, in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], as a Social Media Researcher.<ref>{{cite web|title=Microsoft hires social-net scholar Danah Boyd|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10047795-36.html|date=September 22, 2008|accessdate=January 12, 2009|author=McCarthy, Caroline|publisher=[[CNET]]}}</ref> She was also involved with a three-year ethnographic project funded by the MacArthur Foundation and led by [[Mimi Ito]]; the project examined youths' use of technologies through interviews, focus groups, observations, and document analysis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://digitallearning.macfound.org/site/c.enJLKQNlFiG/b.4773555/k.27DE/Mizuko_Ito.htm |title=MacArthur Foundation Project Summary |accessdate=January 9, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report |title=Final Report |work=The Digital Youth Project |accessdate=January 9, 2009}}</ref> Her publications included an article in the "MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning, Identity Volume" called ''Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites:The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life''.<ref name=SocialNetwork>{{cite journal |last=boyd |first=danah |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor1-first=David |editor1-last=Buckingham |editor1-link= |date= |year= |month= |title=Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life |trans_title= |journal=Youth, Identity, and Digital Media |volume= |series=The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning |issue= |page= |pages= |at=119-142 |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |location=Cambridge |issn=978-0262026352 |pmid= |pmc= |doi=10.1162/dmal.9780262524834.119 |bibcode= |oclc= |id= |url=http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/dmal.9780262524834.119 |language= |format= |accessdate=16 May 2010 |laysummary= |laysource= |laydate= |quote= |ref= |postscript= }}</ref> The article focuses on social networks' implications for youth identity. The project culminated with a co-authored book "Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media." <ref name="HangingOut>{{cite book |last=Ito |first=Mimi |coauthors=et al. |title=Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |year=2009 |month=September |isbn=0-262-01336-3}}</ref> In addition to blogging on her own site, she addresses issues of youth and technology use on the [http://dmlcentral.net DMLcentral] blog. |
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Boyd has written academic papers and [[op-ed]] pieces on online culture,<ref>{{cite book |last=Shirky |first=Clay |authorlink=Clay Shirky |title=[[Here Comes Everybody]] |publisher=[[Penguin Group]] |date=February 28, 2008 |pages=224–5 |isbn=978-1-59420-153-0}}</ref> and has spoken at many academic conferences, including [[Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval|SIGIR]], [[SIGGRAPH]], [[Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems|CHI]], [[Emerging Technology Conference|Etech]]m [[Personal Democracy Forum]] and the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science|AAAS]] annual meeting. She gave the keynote addresses at [[South by Southwest|SXSWi]] 2010 and [[World Wide Web Conference|WWW]] 2010, discussing privacy, publicity and [[big data]].<ref>{{ cite pressrelease | url=http://sxsw.com/node/4604 | title=danah boyd's Opening Remarks on Privacy and Publicity | publisher=[[South by Southwest]] | date=2010-03-14 | accessdate=2010-05-22 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite news | url=http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/13/privacy-publicity-sxsw/ | title=Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity | date=03-13-2010 | accessdate=2010-05-22 | last=Kincaid | first=Jason | publisher=[[TechCrunch]] }}</ref><ref>{{ cite web | url=http://www2010.org/www/2010/04/www2010-keynote-tallk/ | title=Keynote Talk: danah boyd on “Publicity and Privacy in Web 2.0″ | accessdate=2010-05-22 | date=2010-04-29 | publisher=[[World Wide Web Conference|WWW 2010]] }}</ref> Boyd also appeared in the 2008 [[Frontline (U.S. TV series)|PBS Frontline]] documentary ''Growing Up Online'' providing commentary on youth and technology.<ref>{{ cite pressrelease | url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/3885 | title=PBS Frontline: "Growing Up Online" with danah boyd - January 22nd | accessdate=2010-05-22 | date=01-14-2008 | publisher=[[Berkman Center for Internet & Society]] }}</ref> In May 2010, she received the Award for Public Sociology from the [[American Sociological Association]]'s Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA) section.<ref>{{ cite web | url=http://citasa.org/awards | title=2010 CITASA Awards | accessdate=2010-05-30 | year=2010 | publisher=CITASA }}</ref> Also in 2010, ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' named her the smartest academic in the technology field<ref>{{ cite news | url=http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/26.html | title=Smartest Academic: Danah Boyd | accessdate=08-01-2010 | date=07-09-2010 | author=Jessi Hempel | coauthors=Beth Kowitt | work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] }}</ref> and "the reigning expert on how young people use the Internet."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1010/gallery.fast_risers_under_40.fortune/index.html | title=Ones to watch: Danah Boyd | accessdate=2010-10-14 | author=Hempel, Jessi | date=2010 | publisher=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]}}</ref> Boyd was included on the [[TR35]] list of top innovators under the age of 35 for 2010.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=948 | title=Danah Boyd, 32 | accessdate=2010-08-25 | author=Naone, Erica | date=2010 | work=[[Technology Review]]}}</ref> |
Boyd has written academic papers and [[op-ed]] pieces on online culture,<ref>{{cite book |last=Shirky |first=Clay |authorlink=Clay Shirky |title=[[Here Comes Everybody]] |publisher=[[Penguin Group]] |date=February 28, 2008 |pages=224–5 |isbn=978-1-59420-153-0}}</ref> and has spoken at many academic conferences, including [[Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval|SIGIR]], [[SIGGRAPH]], [[Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems|CHI]], [[Emerging Technology Conference|Etech]]m [[Personal Democracy Forum]] and the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science|AAAS]] annual meeting. She gave the keynote addresses at [[South by Southwest|SXSWi]] 2010 and [[World Wide Web Conference|WWW]] 2010, discussing privacy, publicity and [[big data]].<ref>{{ cite pressrelease | url=http://sxsw.com/node/4604 | title=danah boyd's Opening Remarks on Privacy and Publicity | publisher=[[South by Southwest]] | date=2010-03-14 | accessdate=2010-05-22 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite news | url=http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/13/privacy-publicity-sxsw/ | title=Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity | date=03-13-2010 | accessdate=2010-05-22 | last=Kincaid | first=Jason | publisher=[[TechCrunch]] }}</ref><ref>{{ cite web | url=http://www2010.org/www/2010/04/www2010-keynote-tallk/ | title=Keynote Talk: danah boyd on “Publicity and Privacy in Web 2.0″ | accessdate=2010-05-22 | date=2010-04-29 | publisher=[[World Wide Web Conference|WWW 2010]] }}</ref> Boyd also appeared in the 2008 [[Frontline (U.S. TV series)|PBS Frontline]] documentary ''Growing Up Online'' providing commentary on youth and technology.<ref>{{ cite pressrelease | url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/3885 | title=PBS Frontline: "Growing Up Online" with danah boyd - January 22nd | accessdate=2010-05-22 | date=01-14-2008 | publisher=[[Berkman Center for Internet & Society]] }}</ref> In May 2010, she received the Award for Public Sociology from the [[American Sociological Association]]'s Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA) section.<ref>{{ cite web | url=http://citasa.org/awards | title=2010 CITASA Awards | accessdate=2010-05-30 | year=2010 | publisher=CITASA }}</ref> Also in 2010, ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' named her the smartest academic in the technology field<ref>{{ cite news | url=http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/26.html | title=Smartest Academic: Danah Boyd | accessdate=08-01-2010 | date=07-09-2010 | author=Jessi Hempel | coauthors=Beth Kowitt | work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] }}</ref> and "the reigning expert on how young people use the Internet."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1010/gallery.fast_risers_under_40.fortune/index.html | title=Ones to watch: Danah Boyd | accessdate=2010-10-14 | author=Hempel, Jessi | date=2010 | publisher=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]}}</ref> Boyd was included on the [[TR35]] list of top innovators under the age of 35 for 2010.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=948 | title=Danah Boyd, 32 | accessdate=2010-08-25 | author=Naone, Erica | date=2010 | work=[[Technology Review]]}}</ref> |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | UC Berkeley, MIT Media Lab, Brown University |
Known for | Commentary on sociality, identity, and culture among youth on social networks |
Scientific career | |
Fields | social media |
Institutions | Microsoft Research, Berkman Center for Internet & Society |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Lyman, Mizuko Ito |
Danah Michele Boyd (born Danah Michele Mattas[1]) also known as danah boyd, is an American social media researcher known for her public commentary on the use of social networking sites by youth. A 2009 article in Fast Company named Boyd one of the most influential women in technology.[2]
Biography
Boyd grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Altoona, Pennsylvania,[3] and attended Manheim Township High School from 1992–1996. Boyd has claimed that her initial ambition was to become an astronaut but that after an injury, she became more interested in the internet.[3] She initially studied computer science at Brown University where she worked with Andy van Dam, and wrote an undergraduate thesis on how "3-D computer systems used cues that were inherently sexist."[3] She then pursued her master's degree in sociable media with Judith Donath at the MIT Media Lab. She worked for the New York-based V-Day, first as a volunteer (starting in 2004) and then as paid staff (2007-2009). She eventually moved to San Francisco, California, where she met the individuals involved in creating the new Friendster service. She documented what she was observing via her blog, and this grew into a career.[4]
Boyd enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the UC Berkeley School of Information, advised by Peter Lyman (1940–2007) and Mizuko Ito. Her dissertation, Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics, completed in 2008, focused on the use of large social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace by U.S. teenagers, and was blogged on Boing Boing.[5][6]
During the 2006–07 academic year, Boyd was a fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California. She has been a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University since 2007, where she co-directed the Internet Safety Technical Task Force,[7] and then served on the Youth and Media Policy Working Group.[8] In January 2009, Boyd joined Microsoft Research New England, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a Social Media Researcher.[9] She was also involved with a three-year ethnographic project funded by the MacArthur Foundation and led by Mimi Ito; the project examined youths' use of technologies through interviews, focus groups, observations, and document analysis.[10][11] Her publications included an article in the "MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning, Identity Volume" called Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites:The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life.[12] The article focuses on social networks' implications for youth identity. The project culminated with a co-authored book "Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media." [13] In addition to blogging on her own site, she addresses issues of youth and technology use on the DMLcentral blog.
Boyd has written academic papers and op-ed pieces on online culture,[14] and has spoken at many academic conferences, including SIGIR, SIGGRAPH, CHI, Etechm Personal Democracy Forum and the AAAS annual meeting. She gave the keynote addresses at SXSWi 2010 and WWW 2010, discussing privacy, publicity and big data.[15][16][17] Boyd also appeared in the 2008 PBS Frontline documentary Growing Up Online providing commentary on youth and technology.[18] In May 2010, she received the Award for Public Sociology from the American Sociological Association's Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA) section.[19] Also in 2010, Fortune named her the smartest academic in the technology field[20] and "the reigning expert on how young people use the Internet."[21] Boyd was included on the TR35 list of top innovators under the age of 35 for 2010.[22]
References
- ^ boyd, danah. "a bitty autobiography / a smattering of facts". danah.org. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
- ^ Fast Company Staff (2009-02-01). "Women in Tech: The Evangelists". Fast Company. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^ a b c Debelle, Penelope (August 4, 2007). "A space of her own - Encounter with Danah Boyd". The Age.
- ^ Erard, Michael (2003-11-27). "Decoding the New Cues in Online Society". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-22. [dead link]
- ^ "Taken Out of Context -- my PhD dissertation". zephoria.org. January 18, 2009.
- ^ Doctorow, Cory (2009-01-19). "danah boyd's PhD thesis: Teen sociality online". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^ "Members of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force". Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^ "Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative". Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Retrieved 2010-05-022.
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(help) - ^ McCarthy, Caroline (September 22, 2008). "Microsoft hires social-net scholar Danah Boyd". CNET. Retrieved January 12, 2009.
- ^ "MacArthur Foundation Project Summary". Retrieved January 9, 2009.
- ^ "Final Report". The Digital Youth Project. Retrieved January 9, 2009.
- ^ boyd, danah. Buckingham, David (ed.). "Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life". Youth, Identity, and Digital Media. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge: MIT Press. 119-142. doi:10.1162/dmal.9780262524834.119. ISSN 978-0262026352. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
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- ^ "danah boyd's Opening Remarks on Privacy and Publicity" (Press release). South by Southwest. 2010-03-14. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^ Kincaid, Jason (03-13-2010). "Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
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(help) - ^ "Keynote Talk: danah boyd on "Publicity and Privacy in Web 2.0″". WWW 2010. 2010-04-29. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^ "PBS Frontline: "Growing Up Online" with danah boyd - January 22nd" (Press release). Berkman Center for Internet & Society. 01-14-2008. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
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(help) - ^ "2010 CITASA Awards". CITASA. 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-30.
- ^ Jessi Hempel (07-09-2010). "Smartest Academic: Danah Boyd". Fortune. Retrieved 08-01-2010.
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- ^ Naone, Erica (2010). "Danah Boyd, 32". Technology Review. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
External links
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- danah boyd's homepage
- Boyd, Danah (February 19, 2006). "Socializing Digitally". Vodafone Receiver. Retrieved March 10, 2008.
- Boyd, Danah (September 14, 2006). "A Discussion with Danah Boyd". Ibiblio Speaker Series. Retrieved March 10, 2008.
- Boyd, Danah (March 26, 2008). "An interview with Danah Boyd". Women of Web 2.0 Show. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
- "Interview: Danah Boyd" (video). Discover magazine. Retrieved January 12, 2009.
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- Danah Boyd Interview at YouTube
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