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.
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danah boyd examines sociotechnical vulnerabilities at the interstices of technology and society in an effort to remedy structural inequities
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PointsThis piece is adapted, with permission, from “Data, Algorithms, Fairness, Accountability,” danah boyd’s talk at the October 28, 2016, meeting of the U.S Department of Commerce Data Advisory Council. Read on PointsApril 2017 -
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Pointsdanah boyd reflects on "fake news", problematic solutionism, and America's culture and information wars. Read on PointsMarch 2017 -
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BackchannelD&S researcher danah boyd discusses the problem with asking companies like Facebook and Google to 'solve' fake news - boyd insists the context of complex social problems are missing in this problematic solutionism of solvin... Read on BackchannelMarch 2017 -
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Pointsdanah boyd responds to criticism of her essays, "Did Media Literacy Backfire?" and "Hacking the Attention Economy." Read on PointsFebruary 2017 -
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Pointsdanah boyd responds to Data & Society's report, The Legacy of inBloom, which traces the demise of the educational technology initiative. Read on PointsFebruary 2017 -
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PointsD&S founder danah boyd begins to sketch out how hacking culture evolved from playful efforts to game the media ecosystem to more complex and politicized projects of social engineering, propaganda, and activism in "Hacking t... Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsData & Society releases six new essays on the networked public sphere written by danah boyd, Robyn Caplan, Caroline Jack, and Alice Marwick. Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsIn “Why America is Self-Segregating,” D&S founder danah boyd looks back at the unraveling of two historical institutions through which social, racial, and class-based diversification of social networks was achieved — the US... Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsIn “Did Media Literacy Backfire?” D&S founder danah boyd argues that the thorny problems of fake news and the spread of conspiracy theories have, in part, origins in efforts to educate people against misinformation. At the ... Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsD&S founder danah boyd's prepared remarks for a public roundtable in the European Parliament on algorithmic accountability and transparency in the digital economy were adapted in this Points piece. "I believe that algori... Read on PointsNovember 2016