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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The Council for Big Data, Ethics, and SocietyThe Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society has released a comprehensive white paper consolidating conversations and ideas from two years of meetings and discussions: Today’s release marks a major milestone for the Council... Read moreMay 2016 -
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Surveillance & SocietyResearchers Alexandra Mateescu and Alex Rosenblat published a paper with D&S Founder danah boyd examine police-worn body cameras and their potential to provide avenues for police accountability and foster improved policy-co... Read on Surveillance & SocietyMay 2016 -
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Sage Journals"The phenomenon of 'social media' has more to do with its cultural positioning than its technological affordances. Rooted in the broader “Web 2.0” landscape, social media helped engineers, entrepreneurs, and everyday people rei... Read on Sage JournalsMay 2015 -
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Social PoliticsWithin some public policy and scholarly accounts, human trafficking is increasingly understood as a technological problem that invites collaborative anti-trafficking solutions. A growing cohort of state, non-governmental, and c... Read on Social PoliticsSeptember 2014 -
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Sage JournalsAbstract: While much attention is given to young people’s online privacy practices on sites like Facebook, current theories of privacy fail to account for the ways in which social media alter practices of information-sharing an... Read on Sage JournalsJuly 2014 -
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Data & Society(Conference draft). "Networked Rights and Networked Harms." Presented at Privacy Law School Conference (June 6, 2014) and Data & Discrimination (May 14, 2014). The goal of this paper (far from a finished product, filled ... Read moreMay 2014 -
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SSRNThis essay offers a multi-discplinary social analysis of the “Big Data" phenomenon with the goal of sparking a conversation, and it continues to provide a point of reference for the launch and development of Data & Society.... Read on SSRNSeptember 2011