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danah boyd
boyd in 2009
Born (1977-11-24) November 24, 1977 (age 46)
Altoona, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley,
MIT Media Lab,
Brown University
Known forCommentary on sociality, identity, and culture among youth on social networks[2]
AwardsTechnology Review TR35 Young Innovators 2010[1]
Scientific career
FieldsSocial media
InstitutionsMicrosoft Research
Harvard University
New York University
ThesisTaken out of context: American teen sociality in networked publics (2008)
Doctoral advisorPeter Lyman
Mizuko Ito
Websitewww.danah.org
twitter.com/zephoria

danah boyd (born November 24, 1977 as Danah Michele Mattas[3]) is a social media scholar,[4][5][6][7][8] youth researcher, and advocate working at Microsoft Research, New York University Media Culture & Communication and the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society. In 2009 boyd was named one of the most influential women in technology.[9]

Early life

boyd grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Altoona, Pennsylvania,[10] and attended Manheim Township High School from 1992–1996. According to her website, she was born danah michele mattas, "spelled all funky because my mother loved typographical balance."[3] Once she reached college, she chose to change to her maternal grandfather's name, Boyd, as her own last name, and eventually she settled on giving her name as danah boyd, "to reflect my mother's original balancing and to satisfy my own political irritation at the importance of capitalization."[10][11]

Her initial ambition was to become an astronaut but after an injury, she became more interested in the internet.[10]

Education

She initially studied computer science at Brown University where she worked with Andries van Dam, and wrote an undergraduate thesis on how "3-D computer systems used cues that were inherently sexist."[10] 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, 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.[12]

In 2008, boyd earned a PhD at the UC Berkeley School of Information,[13] advised by Peter Lyman (1940–2007) and Mizuko Ito (aka Mimi Ito). Her dissertation, Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics, focused on the use of large social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace by U.S. teenagers,[14] and was blogged on Boing Boing.[15][16]

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,[17] and then served on the Youth and Media Policy Working Group.[18]

Career

In January 2009, boyd joined Microsoft Research New England, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a Social Media Researcher.[19] 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.[20][21] 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.[22] 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."[23] 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.[24]

In early 2014, boyd published her book It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens at Yale University Press.[25]

Honors and awards

In 2009 Fast Company named boyd one of the most influential women in technology.[9] In May 2010, she received the Award for Public Sociology from the American Sociological Association's Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA) section.[26] Also in 2010, Fortune named her the smartest academic in the technology field[27] and "the reigning expert on how young people use the Internet."[28] In 2010, boyd was included on the TR35 list of top innovators under the age of 35.[29]

Boyd 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.[30][31][32] She also appeared in the 2008 PBS Frontline documentary Growing Up Online providing commentary on youth and technology.[33]

Foreign Policy named boyd one of its 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers "for showing us that Big Data isn't necessarily better data".[34]

Personal life

She has an "attraction to people of different genders," but as stated on her website, identifies as queer rather than lesbian or bi. "I very much attribute my comfortableness with my sexuality to the long nights in high school discussing the topic in IRC."[3] She had a child in July 2013 with partner Gilad Lotan, a male Israeli computer scientist.

References

  1. ^ MIT (2010). 2010 Young Innovators under 35, Danah Boyd, 32, Microsoft Research: Shaping the rules for social networks, Technology Review.
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  3. ^ a b c Boyd, Danah. "a bitty autobiography / a smattering of facts". danah.org. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
  4. ^ Danah boyd publications indexed by Google Scholar
  5. ^ Danah boyd publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  6. ^ Danah boyd at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
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  9. ^ a b Fast Company Staff (February 1, 2009). "Women in Tech: The Evangelists". Fast Company. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  10. ^ a b c d Debelle, Penelope (August 4, 2007). "A space of her own – Encounter with Danah Boyd". The Age. Australia.
  11. ^ Boyd, Danah. "What's in a Name?". danah.org. Retrieved March 30, 2008.
  12. ^ Erard, Michael (November 27, 2003). "Decoding the New Cues in Online Society". The New York Times. Retrieved May 22, 2010. [dead link]
  13. ^ boyd, danah (2008). Taken out of context: American teen sociality in networked publics (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley.
  14. ^ "Voices on Antisemtisim interview with danah boyd". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. October 22, 2009.
  15. ^ "Taken Out of Context – my PhD dissertation". zephoria.org. January 18, 2009.
  16. ^ Doctorow, Cory (January 19, 2009). "danah boyd's PhD thesis: Teen sociality online". Boing Boing. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  17. ^ "Members of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force". Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  18. ^ "Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative". Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Retrieved May 2, 20102. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  19. ^ McCarthy, Caroline (September 22, 2008). "Microsoft hires social-net scholar Danah Boyd". CNET. Retrieved January 12, 2009.
  20. ^ "MacArthur Foundation Project Summary". Retrieved January 9, 2009.
  21. ^ "Final Report". The Digital Youth Project. Retrieved January 9, 2009.
  22. ^ 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. ISBN 978-0262026352. Retrieved May 16, 2010.
  23. ^ Ito, Mimi; et al. (September 2009). Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-01336-3. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author2= (help)
  24. ^ Shirky, Clay (February 28, 2008). Here Comes Everybody. Penguin Group. pp. 224–5. ISBN 978-1-59420-153-0.
  25. ^ boyd, danah (2014). It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300166316.
  26. ^ "2010 CITASA Awards". CITASA. 2010. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
  27. ^ Jessi Hempel; Beth Kowitt (September 7, 2010). "Smartest Academic: Danah Boyd". Fortune. Retrieved January 8, 2010.
  28. ^ Hempel, Jessi (2010). "Ones to watch: Danah Boyd". Fortune. Retrieved October 14, 2010.
  29. ^ Naone, Erica (2010). "Danah Boyd, 32". Technology Review. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
  30. ^ "danah boyd's Opening Remarks on Privacy and Publicity" (Press release). South by Southwest. March 14, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  31. ^ Kincaid, Jason (March 13, 2010). "Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  32. ^ "Keynote Talk: danah boyd on "Publicity and Privacy in Web 2.0"". WWW 2010. April 29, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  33. ^ "PBS Frontline: "Growing Up Online" with danah boyd – January 22nd" (Press release). Berkman Center for Internet & Society. January 14, 2008. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  34. ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. November 26, 2012. Archived from the original on November 28, 2012. Retrieved November 28, 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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