danah boyd, PhD Candidate / Fellow
School of Information, University of California-Berkeley / Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Three Expertise Keywords:
identity, myspace, networked-publics, publics, social-network-sites, youth-culture
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Why Digital Media and Learning?
I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for going online in high school.
Recent Posts:
- [Regblogged] danah boyd: how youth find privacy in interstitial space (March 27, 2008)
- danah boyd: net neutrality is critical for youth participation (December 14, 2006)
- danah boyd: coverage from MacArthur’s launch of the Digital Media and Learning Initiative (October 20, 2006)
- danah boyd: Culture Matters (and is overlooked) (October 18, 2006)
Description of Current Work:
My research focuses on how American youth negotiate identity and sociality using networked publics like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, etc. I am also generally interested in how teens adopt social technologies for their own needs.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
boyd, danah. 2007. “Why Youth | Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life”, MacArthur Series Volume Youth, Identity, and Digital Media.
Download Article here: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262524834.119
boyd, danah. 2007 (in press). “None of this is Real.” Structures of Participation (ed. Joe Karaganis). Duke University Press.
boyd, danah and Jeffrey Heer. 2006. “Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster.” In Proceedings of the Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39) , Persistent Conversation Track. Kauai, HI: IEEE Computer Society. January 4 - 7, 2006.
Donath, Judith and danah boyd. 2004. “Public displays of connection.” BT Technology Journal Vol 22, No 4. October 2004, pp 71-82.
