danah boyd

Founder and President of the Board, Data & Society; Principal Researcher, Microsoft

danah boyd is the founder and president of Data & Society, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft, 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 2011 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, and a Director of Crisis Text Line. 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.

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Projects

Disinformation Action Lab

Algorithms and Publics

Reframing Privacy

Data & Fairness
Output
Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems
Dec 05, 2018
Don’t Believe Every AI You See
Nov 26, 2018
Media Manipulation, Strategic Amplification, and Responsible Journalism
Sep 14, 2018
Situating methods in the magic of Big Data and AI
Aug 09, 2018
Online Hate is Rampant. Here’s How to Keep it From Spreading
Aug 02, 2018
Designing tech for the most vulnerable users
Jul 25, 2018
The Messy Fourth Estate
Jun 20, 2018
The Case for Quarantining Extremist Ideas
Jun 01, 2018
Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited
May 11, 2018
Performing a Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World
Apr 06, 2018
You Think You Want Media Literacy…Do You?
Mar 09, 2018
Isomorphism through algorithms: Institutional dependencies in the case of Facebook
Feb 14, 2018
Beyond the Rhetoric of Algorithmic Solutionism
Jan 11, 2018
The Fake News Culprit No One Wants to Identify: You
Dec 06, 2017
Another toothless wonder? Why the UK.gov’s data ethics centre needs clout
Nov 24, 2017
The Radicalization of Utopian Dreams
Nov 20, 2017
Techonomy: How to Fix What’s Wrong with Google and Facebook
Nov 09, 2017
Engaging the Ethics of Data Science in Practice
Nov 01, 2017
Trump and the Media
Mar 16, 2018
Nobody Sees It, Nobody Gets Mad”: Social Media, Privacy, and Personal Responsibility Among Low-SES Youth
May 30, 2017
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
Jun 27, 2017
Ten simple rules for responsible big data research
Mar 30, 2017
Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear
Mar 27, 2017
Self-segregation: how a personalized world is dividing Americans
Jan 13, 2017
Hacking the Attention Economy
Jan 05, 2017
Why America is Self-Segregating
Jan 05, 2017
Did Media Literacy Backfire?
Jan 05, 2017
Transparency ≠ Accountability
Nov 30, 2016
Culture of Harassment
Nov 22, 2016
Media: End Reporting on Election Polls
Nov 10, 2016
Algorithmic Accountability and Transparency in the Digital Economy
Nov 07, 2016
The Internet: Saviour or Foe?
Oct 27, 2016
There was a bomb on my block.
Sep 20, 2016
Supporting Ethics in Data Research
Sep 19, 2016
Supporting Ethical Data Research: An Exploratory Study of Emerging Issues in Big Data and Technical Research
Sep 19, 2016
Undoing the neutrality of big data
Aug 10, 2016
Why Social Science Risks Irrelevance
Jul 24, 2016
Be Careful What You Code For
Jun 15, 2016
Perspectives on Big Data, Ethics, and Society
May 23, 2016
Facebook Must Be Accountable to the Public
May 13, 2016
Mediation, Automation, Power
May 13, 2016
Who Controls the Public Sphere in an Era of Algorithms? Questions and Assumptions
May 13, 2016
Dreams of Accountability, Guaranteed Surveillance: The Promises and Costs of Body-Worn Cameras
May 10, 2016
Where Do We Find Ethics?
Apr 05, 2016
It’s not Cyberspace anymore.
Feb 05, 2016
Which Students Get to Have Privacy?
May 22, 2015
Are We Training Our Students to be Robots?
Apr 07, 2015
What If Social Media Becomes 16-Plus?
Dec 18, 2015
Data & Civil Rights: Open Data, the Criminal Justice System, and the Police Data Initiative
Oct 27, 2015
Data & Civil Rights: Social Media Surveillance and Law Enforcement
Oct 27, 2015
Data & Civil Rights: Courts and Predictive Algorithms
Oct 27, 2015
Data & Civil Rights: Biometric Technologies in Policing
Oct 27, 2015
Data & Civil Rights: Predictive Policing
Oct 27, 2015
What is “fairness”?
Sep 03, 2014
What World Are We Building?
Jan 25, 2016
Social Media: A Phenomenon to be Analyzed
May 11, 2015
Blame Society, Not the Screen Time
Jul 16, 2015
It’s Not Too Late to Get Body Cameras Right
May 15, 2015
Police Body-Worn Cameras – Updated
Oct 27, 2015
Social Media Ethics
Jan 09, 2015
Data & Civil Rights: Criminal Justice Primer
Oct 30, 2014
Data & Civil Rights: Education Primer
Oct 30, 2014
Data & Civil Rights: Consumer Finance Primer
Oct 30, 2014
Data & Civil Rights: Housing Primer
Oct 30, 2014
Data & Civil Rights: Employment Primer
Oct 30, 2014
Data & Civil Rights: Technology Primer
Oct 30, 2014
Data & Civil Rights: Health Primer
Oct 30, 2014
Future of Labor: Networked Employment Discrimination
Oct 08, 2014
Future of Labor: Technologically Mediated Artisanal Production
Oct 08, 2014
Future of Labor: Understanding Fair Labor Practices in a Networked Age
Oct 08, 2014
Future of Labor: Workplace Surveillance
Oct 08, 2014
Future of Labor: Understanding Intelligent Systems
Oct 08, 2014
The Trafficking-Technology Nexus
Sep 12, 2014
Re: “Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?”
Aug 15, 2014
Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media
Jul 21, 2014
Re: “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks”
Jul 09, 2014
Networked Rights and Networked Harms
May 14, 2014
Six Provocations for Big Data
Sep 21, 2011
Press Coverage
The World’s Top 50 Women in Tech
Dec 12, 2018
Most Experts Think AI Will Make the World a Better Place
Dec 10, 2018
“Enemy of the People”: how Trump makes the media into the opposition
Oct 30, 2018
re:publica 2018
May 04, 2018
The Enemy Next Door
Apr 16, 2018
Misinformation on the Internet – Untangling the Web, an interview with danah boyd.
Apr 10, 2018
Can you have your privacy and eat it too?
Apr 06, 2018
‘We didn’t spend enough time thinking about the risks,’ Zuckerberg admits
Apr 02, 2018
Why ‘Media Literacy’ Doesn’t Stand a Chance
Mar 26, 2018
Can a New Approach to Information Literacy Reduce Digital Polarization?
Mar 22, 2018
Day 3 at SXSWedu 2018: Media literacy not enough, school-to-prison pipeline disruption
Mar 07, 2018
danah boyd: How Critical Thinking and Media Literacy Efforts Are ‘Backfiring’ Today
Mar 07, 2018
Superfast Politics
Dec 08, 2017
Technical Difficulties
Nov 22, 2017
Tech Leaders Dismayed by Weaponization of Social Media
Nov 14, 2017
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met
Nov 07, 2017
Once considered a boon to democracy, social media have started to look like its nemesis
Nov 04, 2017
The Social Media Effect
Nov 01, 2017
Machine Learning’s Training Data is a Security Vulnerability
Oct 31, 2017
The First Rule of Data: Do No Harm
Oct 18, 2017
How Russian content ended up on Pinterest
Oct 11, 2017
Long Games
Oct 06, 2017
When Biased Data Holds a Potentially Deadly Flaw
Sep 27, 2017
A ‘Gathering Of Data Scientists’ Extends Its Influence
Sep 21, 2017
The Bizarre Second Life of the Utopian “Facebook Killer”
Sep 30, 2016
The Facebook “trending” controversy is really about the perception of objectivity, argue commentators.
May 19, 2016
Facebook Isn’t the Social Network Anymore
Apr 24, 2016
Technology exacerbates cultural divides
Feb 24, 2016
Why Monitoring Workers Could End Up Backfiring
Jan 21, 2016
The Hidden Environmental Cost Of Almost Everything You Do Online
Jan 21, 2016
The Great Silicon Valley Bubble Machine
Oct 20, 2015
Data for Humanity: An Open Letter
Oct 14, 2015
We Don’t Even Know How Best to Use Body Cameras—Let Alone Regulate Them
Sep 23, 2015
Texas pool party: Would a police body camera have made a difference?
Jun 09, 2015
Students: The One Group Missing From Student Data Privacy Laws and Bills
May 26, 2015
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Announces Top Data Leaders to Join New Data Advisory Council
Mar 04, 2015
Will Body Cameras Further Erode Freedoms In Heavily Policed Neighborhoods?
Feb 24, 2015
FTC warns of using big data to exclude consumers
Sep 15, 2014
Events
Between Likes and Lies: The Battle Against Media Manipulation
May 14, 2018
Online News Association Conference (ONA18)
Sep 13, 2018
ACM FAT* Conference
Jan 29, 2019
(Mis)information Overload: Living in Truth in the Post-Truth Age
Sep 19, 2017
Free Speech, Hate Speech: Regulating Online Conversation in the Platform Era
Oct 10, 2017
The People’s Disruption: Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges
Nov 10, 2017
Fairness and Accountability of Sociotechnical Algorithmic Systems
Dec 19, 2017
The Glass Room
Nov 29, 2016
Data & Society Workshop: Eclectic
Dec 09, 2016
Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2017
Jun 01, 2017
Who Controls the Public Sphere in an Era of Algorithms?
Feb 26, 2016
Enabling Connected Learning Workshop on Personalized Learning
Apr 07, 2016
SSRC presents: Social Science Knowledge and Its Future
May 09, 2016
9th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference
Jun 02, 2016
2016 EPIC Champions of Freedom Awards Dinner
Jun 06, 2016
Algorithmic accountability and transparency
Nov 07, 2016
Workshop on Data and Algorithmic Transparency
Nov 19, 2016
Knight News Challenge on Data Event & Happy Hour
Jan 26, 2016
Personal Democracy Forum 2016
Jun 09, 2016
Making Sense of Found Data
Dec 10, 2015
Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?
Sep 15, 2014
Algorithms and Accountability
Feb 28, 2015
Listening Machines
Jun 11, 2015
Knight News Challenge on Data: Information Session
Sep 08, 2015
Living in the culture of big data
Sep 15, 2015
Protecting the humanity in data II: Personalized crisis counseling/messiness of interpretation
Sep 30, 2015
The 2015 Everett C. Parker Lecture: Telecommunications and Ethics
Oct 20, 2015

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