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| | name = danah boyd | |||
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| | caption = boyd in 2008 | |||
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| | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|11|24}} | |||
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| | nationality = American | |||
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| | known_for = Commentary on sociality, identity, and culture among youth on ]s<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Heer | first1 = J. | last2 = Boyd | first2 = D. | authorlink2 = Danah boyd| doi = 10.1109/INFOVIS.2005.39 | chapter = Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks | title = Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (INFOVIS'05) | pages = 5 | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-7803-9464-X | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref> | |||
| | field = ] | |||
| | work_institution = ]<br>]<br>] | |||
| | alma_mater = ],<br />],<br />] | |||
| | thesis_title = Taken out of context: American teen sociality in networked publics | |||
| | thesis_year = 2008 | |||
| | thesis_url = http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/search~S1?/e308t+2008+1093 | |||
| | doctoral_advisor = ]<br />] | |||
| | doctoral_students = | |||
| | website = {{URL|www.danah.org}}<br>{{URL|twitter.com/zephoria}} | |||
| |awards = ] ] Young Innovators 2010<ref name="TR35">MIT (2010). , '']''.</ref>}} | |||
| '''danah boyd''' (styled lowercase, born November 24, 1977 as '''danah michele mattas''')<ref name=boyd_aboutme /> is a ] scholar,<ref name="googlescholar">{{GoogleScholar|BkGE4AsAAAAJ}}</ref><ref name="microsoft">{{AcademicSearch|299359}}</ref><ref name="dblp">{{DBLP|id=Boyd:Danah.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Donath | first1 = J. | last2 = Boyd | first2 = D. | authorlink2 = Danah boyd| doi = 10.1023/B:BTTJ.0000047585.06264.cc | title = Public Displays of Connection | journal = BT Technology Journal | volume = 22 | issue = 4 | pages = 71 | year = 2004 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Marlow | first1 = C. | last2 = Naaman | first2 = M. | last3 = Boyd | first3 = D. | authorlink3 = Danah boyd| last4 = Davis | first4 = M. | chapter = HT06, tagging paper, taxonomy, Flickr, academic article, to read | doi = 10.1145/1149941.1149949 | title = Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia - HYPERTEXT '06 | pages = 31 | year = 2006 | isbn = 1595934170 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref> youth researcher, and advocate working at ], ] Media Culture & Communication and the Harvard ]. | |||
| == Early life == | |||
| Boyd grew up in ] and ],<ref name=age/> and attended ] from 1992–1996. According to her website, she was born "danah michele mattas" as "spelled all funky because my mother loved typographical balance."<ref name="boyd_aboutme"/> 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 lowercase "danah boyd" so as "to reflect my mother's original balancing and to satisfy my own political irritation at the importance of capitalization."<ref name=age/><ref name="db_hompage_name"> | |||
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| | url = http://www.danah.org/name.html | |||
| | accessdate = March 30, 2008 | |||
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| After her parents' divorce, in 1982, she moved to ], ], with her mother and her brother. Her mother married again during Danah's third grade and the family moved to ]. She used online discussions forums to escape from high school. She called Lancaster a "religious and conservative" city. Thanks to some online discussions, she discovered herself as a queer (persons who do not want to be defined by their sexual orientation or their own sex).<ref name="lemonde.fr">http://www.lemonde.fr/festival/article/2014/08/20/danah-boyd-anthropologue-de-la-generation-numerique_4473731_4415198.html</ref> | |||
| A few years later, her brother taught her how to use ] and ]. As she was discovering the Internet, she noticed that some relationships were created between the different users and she began to speak about a few subjects (fears of teenagers as sex or identity) with anonymous users.<ref name="danah.org">http://www.danah.org/aboutme.html</ref> | |||
| She had a very difficult time when she was in middle school. She assigns her survival to her mother, Internet and a classmate who challenged her during this period. Internet became an open-door to multiple possibilities: it allowed her to meet her colleagues and find some ideas. Strangers helped her have a better knowledge of the world and herself.<ref name="danah.org"/> | |||
| Her initial ambition was to become an astronaut but 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 |location=Australia|date=August 4, 2007|author=Debelle, Penelope}}</ref> | |||
| ==Education == | |||
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| She initially studied ] at ] where she worked with ], 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 ] at the ]. She worked for the New York-based ], 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 ] 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=November 27, 2003 | accessdate=May 22, 2010 }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> | |||
| In 2008, boyd earned a ] at the ],<ref name="boydphd">{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=danah|last=boyd |title=Taken out of context: American teen sociality in networked publics|publisher=University of California, Berkeley |date=2008 |url=http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/search~S1?/e308t+2008+1093|authorlink=Danah boyd}}</ref> advised by ] (1940–2007) and ] (aka ]). Her ], ''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,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/index.php?content=20091022|title=Voices on Antisemtisim interview with danah boyd|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |date=2009-10-22}}</ref> and was blogged on ].<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=] | accessdate=May 22, 2010 | date=January 19, 2009 | authorlink=Cory Doctorow }}</ref> | |||
| During the 2006–07 academic year, boyd was a fellow at the ] at the ]. She has been a fellow at the ] 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=May 22, 2010 | title=Members of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force | publisher=] }}</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|publisher=}}</ref> | |||
| ==Career== | |||
| In January 2009, boyd joined ] New England, in ], 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=]}}</ref> She was also involved with a three-year ethnographic project funded by the MacArthur Foundation and led by ]; 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 |editor1-first=David |editor1-last=Buckingham |editor1-link= |title=Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life |journal=Youth, Identity, and Digital Media |series=The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning |at=119–142 |publisher=] |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0262026352 |doi=10.1162/dmal.9780262524834.119 |url=http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/dmal.9780262524834.119 |accessdate=May 16, 2010 |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 |title=Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media |publisher=] |date=September 2009 |isbn=0-262-01336-3|display-authors=etal}}</ref> In addition to blogging on her own site, she addresses issues of youth and technology use on the blog. Boyd has written academic papers and ] pieces on online culture.<ref>{{cite book |last=Shirky |first=Clay |authorlink=Clay Shirky |title=] |publisher=] |date=February 28, 2008 |pages=224–5 |isbn=978-1-59420-153-0}}</ref> | |||
| As of today, boyd has been working for ] (since 2007), ] (since 2009) and ] (since 2011). She's also the founder of the Data & Society Research Institute (since 2013)<ref>http://www.danah.org/danahCV.pdf</ref> and the director of Crisis Text Line (since 2012).<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/danahboyd</ref> | |||
| She begins to look into social media in the early 2000 when she was still at the ] in Cambridge. She has a major interest in youth's uses of social medias as Friendster, MySpace and Facebook. | |||
| Her career as a fellow at the ] starts in 2007. She published an untraditional research on youth using Facebook and MySpace the same year. She demonstrated that Facebook was at the time, more used by white and well-offs kids and on the other hand, MySpace members were mostly lower class and black teenagers. A lot of medias translated and relayed her research.<ref name="lemonde.fr"/> | |||
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| In early 2014, boyd published her book ''It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens'' at ].<ref>{{cite book | url=http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300166316 | title=It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens | publisher=Yale University Press | author=boyd, danah | year=2014 | isbn=9780300166316}}</ref> | |||
| She was interviewed in the 2015 web documentary about internet privacy, '']''.<ref name=Davis>{{cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/brett-gaylor-do-not-track-interactive-documentary-privacy|title=Do not Track: an online, interactive documentary about who’s watching you|last=Davis|first=Nicola|date=14 April 2015|work=The Guardian|accessdate=15 April 2015}}</ref> | |||
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| ==Honors and awards== | |||
| In 2009 '']'' named boyd one of the most influential women in technology.<ref name="fastcompany.com">{{ 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=] | date=February 1, 2009 | accessdate=May 22, 2010 }}</ref> In May 2010, she received the Award for Public Sociology from the ]'s Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA) section.<ref>{{ cite web | url=http://citasa.org/awards | title=2010 CITASA Awards | accessdate=May 30, 2010 | year=2010 | publisher=CITASA }}</ref> Also in 2010, '']'' 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=January 8, 2010 | date=September 7, 2010 | author=Jessi Hempel |author2=Beth Kowitt | work=] }}</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=October 14, 2010 | author=Hempel, Jessi | year=2010 | publisher=]}}</ref> In 2010, boyd was included on the ] list of top innovators under the age of 35.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=948 | title=Danah Boyd, 32 | accessdate=August 25, 2010 | author=Naone, Erica | year=2010 | work=]}}</ref> | |||
| Boyd has spoken at many academic conferences, including ], ], ], ]m ] and the ] annual meeting. She gave the keynote addresses at ] 2010 and ] 2010, discussing privacy, publicity and ].<ref>{{ cite pressrelease | url=http://sxsw.com/node/4604 | title=danah boyd's Opening Remarks on Privacy and Publicity | publisher=] | date=March 14, 2010 | accessdate=May 22, 2010 }}</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=2010-03-13 | accessdate=May 22, 2010 | last=Kincaid | first=Jason | publisher=] }}</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=May 22, 2010 | date=April 29, 2010 | publisher=] }}</ref> She also appeared in the 2008 ] 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=May 22, 2010 | date=2008-01-14 | publisher=] }}</ref> | |||
| '']'' named boyd one of its 2012 ] "for showing us that Big Data isn't necessarily better data".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,54 |title=The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers|date=26 November 2012 |work=Foreign Policy |accessdate=28 November 2012 |archivedate=28 November 2012|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CViUyRpk |deadurl=no}}</ref> | |||
| ==Personal life == | |||
| She has an "attraction to people of different genders," but as stated on her website, identifies as ] rather than ] or ]. "I very much attribute my comfortableness with my sexuality to the long nights in high school discussing the topic in ]."<ref name="boyd_aboutme"/> With her partner Gilad Lotan, a male Israeli computer scientist, she has two children. | |||
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| == References == | |||
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| }} She noted her mother added lowercase 'h' in birth name "danah" for typographical balance, reflecting the lowercase first letter 'd' and later changed her last name to lowercase "boyd" in 2000. | |||
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| == External links == | |||
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| * , Ibiblio Speaker Series, 2006 | |||
| * , Women of Web 2.0 Show, 2008 | |||
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| * , Brown Alumni Magazine, 2012 | |||
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