Danah Boyd

“Teens are desperate to have access to and make sense of public life; understanding the technologies that enable publics is just par…

— Danah Boyd

What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

— danah boyd

Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process…

— danah boyd

Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life

— danah boyd

“Just because teens can and do manipulate social media to attract attention and increase visibility does not mean that they are equally…

— Danah Boyd

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology,

— danah boyd

The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

— danah boyd

“Teen "addiction" to social media is a new extension of typical human engagement. Their use of social media as their primary site…

— Danah Boyd

Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates…

— danah boyd

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

— danah boyd

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state…

— danah boyd

LinkedIn is very good for browsing relationships and hooking into your contacts' networks. It re-connected me with high-level execs I hadn't talked…

— danah boyd

“The importance of friends in social and moral development is well documented.17 But the fears that surround teens’ use of social media…

— Danah Boyd

And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about…

— danah boyd

Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is…

— danah boyd

For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

— danah boyd

“I have learned one thing from my research, it’s this: social media services like Facebook and Twitter are providing teens with new…

— Danah Boyd

Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in,…

— danah boyd

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

— danah boyd

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

— danah boyd

I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

— danah boyd

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

— danah boyd

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

— danah boyd