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 & SocietyJoe Mulhall explores how the international far right is leveraging the current climate crisis. Read moreDecember 2019 -
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American Behavioral ScientistA historical look at the news media ecosystem and the deployment of strategic silence and strategic amplification. Read on American Behavioral ScientistNovember 2019 -
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Data & Society"Data Voids" demonstrates how manipulators expose people to problematic content by exploiting search-engine results. Read moreOctober 2019 -
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Social ResearchData & Society Researchers Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss, and Founder and President danah boyd investigate the tensions that arise when adapting ethics initiatives at Silicon Valley tech companies. "By talking with people ... Read moreSeptember 2019 -
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KQEDA short video explainer on YouTube's algorithm, created in partnership with PBS's KQED Above the Noise series. Read on KQEDJune 2019 -
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PointsA transcript of danah boyd's talk at the Digital Public Library of America conference. Read on PointsApril 2019 -
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PointsOn February 23, 2019, danah boyd gave a talk at the Knight Media Forum; this text is the written version of her talk. Read on PointsApril 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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SSRNIn this paper, authors identify the challenges to integrating fairness into machine learning based systems and suggest next steps. "In this paper, however, we contend that these concepts render technical interventions ineffect... Read on SSRNDecember 2018 -
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New AmericaData & Society Founder and President danah boyd and Researcher Madeleine Clare Elish lay the groundwork for questioning AI and ethics. "Without comprehensively accounting for the strengths and weaknesses of technical pract... Read on New AmericaNovember 2018