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 & SocietyThis primer explores different types of data voids and how they can be exploited by those with ideological, economic, or political agendas. Read moreMay 2018 -
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Data & SocietyBackground: University campuses provide an ecosystem of support to technical researchers, including computer scientists, as they navigate emerging issues of privacy, ethics, security, and consent in big data research. These su... Read on Data & SocietySeptember 2016 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explores current and potential interactivity between librarians and computer science researchers at different phases of the research process as they come across questions of privacy, potential harms, and security in data storage. Read moreAugust 2016 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer articulates emerging concerns and tensions coming to the fore as social media platforms overtake traditional media forms, becoming the main way that news and information of cultural, economic, social and political significance is being produced and disseminated. Read moreMay 2016 -
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Data & SocietyIn this background primer, D&S Research Analyst Laura Reed and D&S Founder danah boyd situate the current debate around the role of technology in the public sphere within a historical context. Read moreMay 2016 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer offers an overview of what is currently known about body-worn cameras, and highlights the unanswered questions about how body-worn camera programs may impact civil rights and civil liberties. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer addresses a number of questions about the role open data can play within the criminal justice system. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer investigates the growing use of social media as a law enforcement tool for surveillance, as well as how social media surveillance affects First and Fourth Amendment rights. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer examines the construction of predictive algorithms; how they are are used in the court system; and the role of data in evidence-based sentencing. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer investigates the increasing use of biometric technologies in policing, and the civil liberties and civil rights concerns that need to be raised alongside these technological advances. Read moreOctober 2015