Danah Boyd at the Web 2.0 Conference, 2005

Danah Michele Boyd (or danah boyd, born Danah Michele Mattas in 1977), is an American academic, researcher, and blogger best known for media appearances where she speaks about social networking sites such as Friendster and MySpace. Since 2003, she and her research have been quoted on the subject of social networking in dozens of different articles in media sources such as NPR,^[1] Wired, MSNBC, USA Today, Newsweek^[2] and The O'Reilly Factor.^[3] She was also the subject of a major profile in The New York Times in 2003^[4] and the Financial Times in 2006.^[5] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (695x1000, 195 KB) danah boyd (sic) at the Web 2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (695x1000, 195 KB) danah boyd (sic) at the Web 2. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... For the suburb of Melbourne, Australia, see Research, Victoria. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Friendster is an Internet social network service. ... MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ... NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ... For the news website, see msnbc. ... USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... The OReilly Factor is an American talk show on the Fox News Channel hosted by commentator Bill OReilly, who discusses current political and social issues with guests from opposing ends of the political spectrum. ... The Financial Times (FT) is a British international business newspaper. ...

Biography

Boyd grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. According to her website, starting from childhood her name was "Danah Michele Mattas Beard", but after her mother's divorce, she chose her maternal grandfather's name, Boyd, as her own last name and eventually settled on giving her name as "danah boyd".^[6] Nickname: Location of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania Location of Lancaster in Lancaster County Country United States State Pennsylvania County Lancaster Founded 1730 Incorporated March 10, 1818 Government  - Mayor Rick Gray (D) Area  - City  7. ...

She initially studied computer science at Brown University where she worked with Andy van Dam, and then pursued her Masters Degree in sociable media with Judith Donath at the MIT Media Lab. In 1999, she worked for the New York-based V-Day, first as a volunteer and then as paid staff. She eventually moved to San Francisco, California, where she became associated with individuals involved in creating the new Friendster service. She documented what she was observing via her blog, and this grew into a career. Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Andries Andy van Dam is a professor of computer science and Vice-President for Research at Brown University in Providence, RI. He was one of the founders of the Brown Computer Science Department and its first chairman from 1979 to 1985. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ... Judith Donath is a well-known professor at MITs Media Lab, and heads the Labs Sociable Media group. ... The building interior near the entrance The MIT Media Lab in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology engages in education and research in the digital technology used for expression and communication. ... The V-Day Logo V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. ... San Francisco redirects here. ... Friendster is an Internet social network service. ...

She advanced to Ph.D. candidacy in the UC Berkeley School of Information in 2006,^[7] and will be a non-resident fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society for the 2007-2008 academic year.^[8] Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... The UC Berkeley School of Information is a graduate school offering both a professional masters degree as well as a research-oriented PhD degree. ... The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a department of Harvard Law School, which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace. ...

Boyd has written over a dozen academic papers and op-ed pieces on various facets of online culture, and has presented papers or been a speaker on the subject at major conferences such as SIGGRAPH, CHI, Etech and the AAAS annual meeting. SIGGRAPH 2005 official logo SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group in Graphics) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. ... // Human–computer interaction (HCI), alternatively man–machine interaction (MMI) or computer–human interaction (CHI)This interactive computer allows the user to intergrate a reaction towards oneself and the primary source that is the http server, the port and Ip address show as the user connects to the imb harddrive , is... The OReilly Emerging Technology Conference (not to be confused with the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference) is OReilly Medias premier conference about the new technologies that are on the OReilly Radar. ... The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an organization that promotes cooperation between scientists, defends scientific freedom, encourages scientific responsibility and supports scientific education for the betterment of all humanity. ...

References

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External links

• danah.org - Boyd's personal website
• zephoria.org - Boyd's blog
• "Socializing digitally" article in vodafone-receiver magazine nr.18
• A talk on sociable media and the impact to modern culture (~230 MB)