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.
danah boyd

danah boyd examines sociotechnical vulnerabilities at the interstices of technology and society in an effort to remedy structural inequities
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Data & Societycholars Dan Bouk, Kevin Ackermann, and danah boyd join forces on a thought-provoking resource that begins to explore the power of official numbers and public data. In A Primer on Powerful Numbers: Selected Readings in the Social Study of Public Data and Official Numbers, the authors touch on the power and authority that public numbers have in societies. Read moreMarch 2022 -
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Data & SocietyWhat are the infrastructures surrounding government data from multiple nations/states, and the epistemic battles over that data’s legitimacy? Read moreMarch 2021 -
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WiredIf our government wants to implement a tech-forward agenda, a broken infrastructure with a debugger's eye. Read on WiredDecember 2020 -
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Knight Foundation blogTwo such power centers, the tech industry, and contemporary philanthropy, will be key actors in the next decade of American democracy. We argue that American philanthropy must use its position and power to help design and put new forms of hard accountability for both sectors. Read on Knight Foundation blogNovember 2020 -
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PointsJill Lepore and danah boyd discuss how tech can’t fix democracy Read on PointsNovember 2020 -
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Data & SocietyAngèle Christin and Joseph Torres analyze racial divisions in media-making and its interplay with data-centric technologies. Read moreOctober 2020 -
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Brooklyn Public LibraryIn this talk co-presented by Data & Society and Brooklyn Public Library, historian Jill Lepore discusses her new book "If Then" in conversation with danah boyd, founder and president of Data & Society. Read moreSeptember 2020 -
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Data & SocietyThis "living document" explores a range of perspectives on differential privacy, a disclosure avoidance system designed to help the Census Bureau balance privacy & data utility. Read moreMay 2020 -
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Data & SocietyThis workshop sought participants prepared to think about the process by which data is undermined. Read moreMarch 2020