danah boyd

My name is danah boyd. I am the lead researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of Data & Society. I am also a visiting professor of the interactive communication program of New York University. I am a scholar and a scholar, and in my research I am investigating the intersection of technology and society.

For over a decade, my research has focused on how young people use social media as part of their daily lives. I wrote "Complexity: Social Life for Online Teenagers" (2014) to record my findings.

I co-authored two books - "wandering", "indiscriminate", "laughter": "New media life and learning children" (2009) and "Internet age participation culture" (2015 Various aspects of work

Recently I have focused on understanding how contemporary social inequality is related to technology and society. I am working with a network of wonderful researchers focused on media manipulation, future work, machine learning fairness and responsibility, data battle, and cultural dynamics surrounding artificial intelligence. These questions are the core requirements of the research institution Data & Society that I established in 2013.

Over the years, I have written many papers on social media, privacy, teen dramas, digital back channels, and social visual design themes. I also regularly post blogs and tweets about various topics.

In 2008 I got a doctorate degree from the Information Faculty of the University of California, Berkeley (iSchool). My research was conducted as part of the MacArthur Foundation's new media and learning program. My research was managed by the most amazing committee: Ito Mimi, Analy Saxenian, Hayden Coll, and Jenna Barrel. My beloved doctor counselor - Peter Riemann - lost his fight against brain tumors in July 2007. I miss him.

I got a master's degree from the Sociable Media Group and Judith Donath (director of Henry Jenkins and Genevieve Bell) at MIT Media Lab. My thesis thesis focuses on how people manage self expression related to social contextual information in an online environment. As an undergraduate student, I learned computer science at Brown University proposed by Andy van Dam. My bachelor thesis focuses on how the deep cue priority depends on the sex hormone levels in the body and how it affects participation in virtual reality.

Outside academia, I am working in various nonprofit organizations and companies. I am an officer of Crisis Text Line, an organization that is dedicated to supporting young people at risk through SMS. I am also a trustee of the American Indian National Museum, the Smithsonian Cultural Heritage Bureau, the Social Science Research Council. I have worked at V - Day, an organization aimed at preventing violence against women and girls all over the world for five years. I helped build an online community to support activists. For complete living things, please click here

On the web, I know two things: Ani DiFranco Lyrics Maintaining a website and blog. Personally, I like music, dancing, politics, reading, and all ambiguous things. In my core, I am both an activist and a scholar. I am also the mother of two children.

Danah Boyd is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, founder of Data and Society and a visiting professor at New York University. She wrote "Complexity: Social Life for Online Youth" and served as a director of the crisis text line, the American Indian Museum and the Social Science Research Council. She posted from zephoria.org/ blog or @ zephoria

In SXSW Edu, as technical social researcher Danah Boyd pointed out this year, attempts to improve school media literacy tend to be counterproductive. Checking the authenticity of articles in Fox News in classes may be regarded as an "elite" attack on their values ​​for working classes and evangelical adolescents. "When young people are encouraged to criticize the news media, they think that the media is telling lies," Boyd said.

Social media scholars Alice Marwick and danah boyd watched this and wrote this article in 2011. "Viewing and watching: celebrity customs on Twitter" explains how fundamentally the concept of traditional celebrities has changed by Twitter's era. These two people are not realized that they are not confused with real stars, as their own brand celebrities like MySpace's Tila Tequila and YouTube's Jenna Marbles have appeared, but as a learning mobile performance practice, the spectrum Observation, not static, famous / unknown binary