danah boyd
Founder and President of the Board, Data & Society; Principal Researcher, Microsoft
danah boyd is the founder and president of Data & Society, a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, and a Visiting Professor at New York University. Her research is focused on making certain that society has a nuanced understanding of the relationship between technology and society, especially as issues of inequity and bias emerge. She is the author of “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” and has authored or co-authored numerous books, articles, and essays. She is a Trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, a Director of the Social Science Research Council, and a Director of Crisis Text Line. She has been recognized by numerous organizations, including receiving the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer/Barlow Award and being selected as a 2011 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Originally trained in computer science before retraining under anthropologists, danah has a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Information.
@zephoria
http://www.danah.org/
Projects
Journal Articles and Papers
Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics
Social Research | 09.10.19
Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss, danah boyd
Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*) | 12.05.18
Andrew D. Selbst, danah boyd, Sorelle Friedler, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Janet Vertesi
Performing a Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | 04.06.18
danah boyd, Alice Marwick, Mikaela Pitcan
Isomorphism through algorithms: Institutional dependencies in the case of Facebook
Big Data & Society | 02.14.18
Robyn Caplan, danah boyd
Sage Journals | 05.30.17
Alice Marwick, Claire Fontaine, danah boyd
Ten simple rules for responsible big data research
PLOS Computational Biology | 03.30.17
Matthew Zook, Solon Barocas, danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Alyssa Goodman, Rachelle Hollander, Barbara A. Koenig, Jacob Metcalf, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Frank Pasquale
Perspectives on Big Data, Ethics, and Society
paper | 05.23.16
Jacob Metcalf, Emily F. Keller, danah boyd
Dreams of Accountability, Guaranteed Surveillance: The Promises and Costs of Body-Worn Cameras
Surveillance & Society | 08.16.11
Alexandra Mateescu, Alex Rosenblat, danah boyd
Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media
New Media & Society | 07.21.14
Alice Marwick, danah boyd
Primers
Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited
primer | 05.11.18
Michael Golebiewski, danah boyd
primer | 08.04.16
danah boyd, Emily F. Keller, Bonnie Tijerina
Who Controls the Public Sphere in an Era of Algorithms? Questions and Assumptions
primer | 05.13.16
Laura Reed, danah boyd
Police Body-Worn Cameras – Updated
primer | 02.24.15
Alexandra Mateescu, Alex Rosenblat, danah boyd (with support from Jenna Leventoff and David Robinson)
Data & Civil Rights: Open Data, the Criminal Justice System, and the Police Data Initiative
primer | 10.27.15
Robyn Caplan, Alex Rosenblat, danah boyd
Data & Civil Rights: Social Media Surveillance and Law Enforcement
primer | 10.27.15
Alexandra Mateescu, Douglas Brunton, Alex Rosenblat, Desmond Patton, Zachary Gold, danah boyd
Data & Civil Rights: Courts and Predictive Algorithms
primer | 10.27.15
Angèle Christin, Alex Rosenblat, danah boyd
Data & Civil Rights: Biometric Technologies in Policing
primer | 10.27.15
Robyn Caplan, Ifeoma Ajunwa, Alex Rosenblat, danah boyd
Data & Civil Rights: Criminal Justice Primer
primer | 10.30.14
Alex Rosenblat, Kate Wikelius, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Corrine Yu
Data & Civil Rights: Education Primer
primer | 10.30.14
Andrea Alarcon, Elana Zeide, Alex Rosenblat, Kate Wikelius, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Corrine Yu
Data & Civil Rights: Consumer Finance Primer
primer | 10.30.14
Alex Rosenblat, Rob Randhava, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Corrine Yu
Data & Civil Rights: Housing Primer
primer | 10.30.14
Alex Rosenblat, Kate Wikelius, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Corrine Yu
Data & Civil Rights: Employment Primer
primer | 10.30.04
Alex Rosenblat, Kate Wikelius, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Corrine Yu
Data & Civil Rights: Technology Primer
primer | 10.30.14
Solon Barocas, Alex Rosenblat, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Corrine Yu
Data & Civil Rights: Health Primer
primer | 10.30.14
Alex Rosenblat, Kate Wikelius, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Corrine Yu
Future of Labor: Networked Employment Discrimination
primer | 10.08.14
Alex Rosenblat, Tamara Kneese, danah boyd
Future of Labor: Technologically Mediated Artisanal Production
primer | 10.08.14
Tamara Kneese, Alex Rosenblat, danah boyd
Future of Labor: Understanding Fair Labor Practices in a Networked Age
primer | 10.08.14
Tamara Kneese, Alex Rosenblat, danah boyd
Future of Labor: Understanding Intelligent Systems
primer | 10.08.14
Alex Rosenblat, Tamara Kneese, danah boyd
Op-eds and Blog Posts
Testimony, Interviews, Presentations
Re: “Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?”
testimony | 08.15.14
Seeta Peña Gangadharan, danah boyd, Solon Barocas
Press Coverage
danah boyd on the Spread of Conspiracies and Hate Online
Amanpour & Co. | 08.05.19
The World’s Top 50 Women in Tech
Forbes | 12.12.18
Most Experts Think AI Will Make the World a Better Place
Courthouse News | 12.10.18
Designing tech for the most vulnerable users
Marketplace.org | 07.25.18
The Walrus | 04.16.18
Misinformation on the Internet – Untangling the Web, an interview with danah boyd.
Miles O'Brien Productions | 04.10.18
Can you have your privacy and eat it too?
The Economic Times | 04.06.18
‘We didn’t spend enough time thinking about the risks,’ Zuckerberg admits
Columbia Journalism Review | 04.02.18
Why ‘Media Literacy’ Doesn’t Stand a Chance
The Chronicle of Higher Education | 03.26.18
Can a New Approach to Information Literacy Reduce Digital Polarization?
EdSurge | 03.22.18
Day 3 at SXSWedu 2018: Media literacy not enough, school-to-prison pipeline disruption
Education Dive | 03.07.18
press coverage | 12.08.17
Another toothless wonder? Why the UK.gov’s data ethics centre needs clout
The Register UK | 11.24.17
Civicist | 11.22.17
Tech Leaders Dismayed by Weaponization of Social Media
IEE Spectrum | 11.14.17
Techonomy: How to Fix What’s Wrong with Google and Facebook
PC Magazine | 11.09.17
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met
Gizmodo | 11.07.17
Once considered a boon to democracy, social media have started to look like its nemesis
The Economist | 11.04.17
Financial Times | 11.01.17
Machine Learning’s Training Data is a Security Vulnerability
TechTarget | 10.31.17
The First Rule of Data: Do No Harm
Information Week | 10.18.17
How Russian content ended up on Pinterest
The Washington Post | 10.11.17
Civicist | 10.06.17
When Biased Data Holds a Potentially Deadly Flaw
Forbes | 09.27.17
A ‘Gathering Of Data Scientists’ Extends Its Influence
Forbes | 09.21.17
The Bizarre Second Life of the Utopian “Facebook Killer”
Backchannel | 09.30.16
Medium | 05.19.16
Facebook Isn’t the Social Network Anymore
Slate | 04.24.16
Technology exacerbates cultural divides
The University Star | 02.24.16
Why Monitoring Workers Could End Up Backfiring
Huffington Post | 01.21.16
The Hidden Environmental Cost Of Almost Everything You Do Online
Huffington Post | 01.21.16
The Great Silicon Valley Bubble Machine
The Atlantic | 09.20.15
Data for Humanity: An Open Letter
Frankfurt Big Data Lab | 10.14.15
We Don’t Even Know How Best to Use Body Cameras—Let Alone Regulate Them
The Nation | 09.23.15
Texas pool party: Would a police body camera have made a difference?
CS Monitor | 06.09.15
Students: The One Group Missing From Student Data Privacy Laws and Bills
Huffington Post | 05.26.15
US Department of Commerce | 03.04.15
Will Body Cameras Further Erode Freedoms In Heavily Policed Neighborhoods?
Fast Company | 02.24.15
FTC warns of using big data to exclude consumers
PCWorld | 09.15.14
Related Events
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12.04.19 | Databite No. 126: Joe Mulhall
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09.26.19 | Technology & Justice Series
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05.02.19 | Global Privacy Summit 2019
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04.17.19 | DPLAfest 2019
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04.12.19 | Theorizing the Web
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01.29.19 | ACM FAT* Conference
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09.13.18 | Online News Association Conference (ONA18)
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05.14.18 | Between Likes and Lies: The Battle Against Media Manipulation
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12.19.17 | Fairness and Accountability of Sociotechnical Algorithmic Systems
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11.10.17 | The People’s Disruption: Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges
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10.10.17 | Free Speech, Hate Speech: Regulating Online Conversation in the Platform Era
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09.19.17 | (Mis)information Overload: Living in Truth in the Post-Truth Age
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06.01.17 | Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2017
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12.09.16 | Data & Society Workshop: Eclectic
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11.29.16 | The Glass Room
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11.19.16 | Workshop on Data and Algorithmic Transparency
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11.07.16 | Algorithmic accountability and transparency
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06.09.16 | Personal Democracy Forum 2016
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06.06.16 | 2016 EPIC Champions of Freedom Awards Dinner
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06.02.16 | 9th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference
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05.09.16 | SSRC presents: Social Science Knowledge and Its Future
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04.07.16 | Enabling Connected Learning Workshop on Personalized Learning
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02.26.16 | Who Controls the Public Sphere in an Era of Algorithms?
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01.26.16 | Knight News Challenge on Data Event & Happy Hour
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12.10.15 | Making Sense of Found Data
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10.20.15 | The 2015 Everett C. Parker Lecture: Telecommunications and Ethics
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09.30.15 | Protecting the humanity in data II: Personalized crisis counseling/messiness of interpretation
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09.15.15 | Living in the culture of big data
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09.08.15 | Knight News Challenge on Data: Information Session
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06.11.15 | Listening Machines
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02.28.15 | Algorithms and Accountability
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09.15.14 | Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?