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Danah Michele Boyd (or danah boyd, born danah michele mattas[1] in Altoona, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1977[1]), is an American academic, researcher, and blogger best known for her research on youth and social networking sites. Since 2003, she and her research have been quoted in several different articles in media sources such as NPR,[2] Wired, MSNBC, USA Today, Newsweek[3] and The O'Reilly Factor.[4] She was also the subject of a major profile in The New York Times in 2003[5] and the Financial Times in 2006.[6] [edit] BiographyBoyd grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Altoona, Pennsylvania,[7] and attended Manheim Township High School from 1992–96. According to her website, she was born danah michele mattas, "spelled all funky because my mother loved typographical balance"[1]. But after her mother's divorce and subsequent remarriage, her family changed their names to Beard. Once she reached college though, she chose to change to her maternal grandfather's name, Boyd, as her own last name and eventually settled on giving her name as danah boyd, "to reflect my mother's original balancing and to satisfy my own political irritation at the importance of capitalization."[7][8] She became interested in computers through her younger brother, who was learning how to build computers in his teens. Boyd's initial ambition was to become an astronaut, but after an injury, she became more interested in the internet.[7] She has an "attraction to people of different genders," but as stated on her website, identifies as queer rather than lesbian or bi. "I very much attribute my comfortableness with my sexuality to the long nights in high school discussing the topic in IRC."[1] She initially studied computer science at Brown University where she worked with Andy van Dam, and wrote an undergraduate thesis on how "3-D computer systems used cues that were inherently sexist".[7] She then pursued her Master's degree in sociable media with Judith Donath at the MIT Media Lab. In 1999, she worked for the New York-based V-Day, first as a volunteer and then as paid staff. She eventually moved to San Francisco, California, where she became associated with individuals involved in creating the new Friendster service. She documented what she was observing via her blog, and this grew into a career. She advanced to Ph.D. candidacy with a designated emphasis in new media in the UC Berkeley School of Information in 2006,[9] with Ph.D. advisors including Peter Lyman (1940–2007) and Mizuko Ito. Her dissertation was entitled "Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics", and focused on the use of large social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace by U.S. teenagers.[10] Boyd's research is funded by the MacArthur Foundation. During the 2006–07 academic year, Boyd was a fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California. She has been a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society since 2007, [11] and in September 2008, Boyd joined the faculty of Microsoft Research New England, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[12] Boyd is also co-director of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, a group of Internet businesses, nonprofit organizations, academics and technology companies organized at Harvard University.[13][14] She is also involved with a very large three-year collaborative ethnographic project funded by the MacArthur Foundation and led by Mimi Ito; the project examined youths' use of technologies through interviews, focus groups, observations, and document analysis.[15][16] Her research culminated in an article in the "MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning, Identity Volume" called Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites:The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life.[17] This article analyzes many of the issues that youth are facing today in the online networked publics that have become a major part of their lives. It also deals with parent relationship's with their children in regards to these social network sites. In addition to blogging on her own site, she addresses issues of youth and technology use on the DMLcentral blog. Boyd has written over a dozen academic papers and op-ed pieces on various facets of online culture,[18] and has presented papers or been a speaker on the subject at major conferences such as SIGIR, SIGGRAPH, CHI, Etech and the AAAS annual meeting. [edit] References
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