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 & 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 workshop sought participants prepared to think about the process by which data is undermined. Read moreMarch 2020 -
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Data & SocietyJoe Mulhall explores how the international far right is leveraging the current climate crisis. Read moreDecember 2019 -
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Data & SocietyTechnologist and digital media scholar, An Xiao Mina provides a global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on- and offline. Read moreJanuary 2019 -
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Data & SocietyAn academic workshop on the environmental impact of data-driven technologies. Read moreNovember 2018