Danah Boyd

Danah Boyd , née Danah Michele Mattas (born November 24, 1977 in Altoona , Pennsylvania , USA ), spelling : danah boyd , is an American media and social researcher whose work moves at the intersection of technology, politics and society. Boyd is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research , Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society of Harvard University. Since 2013 she has been President of the Data & Society Research Institute in New York.

Danah Boyd (2009)

Life

Danah Boyd was born Danah Michele Mattas in Altoona, Pennsylvania . At university, she changed her last name to Boyd , her grandfather's family name.

Boyd wants her name to be lowercase.

In May 2018 she gave the opening lecture of the re: publica .

education

• 2000: B.A. in Computer Science from Brown University
• 2002: M.A. in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2008: Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Information

research

Danah Boyd deals with the online behavior of young people, the public and the private sphere in the age of the internet, as well as the social and methodological implications of big data . In her well-known essay "Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life", Boyd argues that young people move in so-called network publics. These differ from traditional publics in four dimensions:

1. Statements and content are permanently available,
2. they are searchable,
3. can be copied so easily and quickly that it is not possible to distinguish between original and copy and
4. Participants in these publics interact with an invisible audience.

Boyd advocates a critical look at big data . So she concluded in 2010:

• Larger amounts of data do not necessarily mean better data quality.
• Not all data is equally valuable and useful.
• “What” happens and “why” something happens are two different questions that should not be lumped together.
• Care must be taken when interpreting results.
• Just because data is available does not necessarily mean that it is ethically correct to use and analyze it .

Awards

Time magazine named Boyd one of the 40 most influential thinkers in technology in 2013. Foreign Policy ranked Boyd among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in 2012. The reason given by the magazine was that Boyd had shown that " big data doesn't necessarily mean better data". In 2010, Fortune magazine named Danah Boyd the most influential academic in technology and society. Fast Company magazine named Boyd one of the nine female thought leaders in 2009 who are changing the way we understand technology.

Fonts

• It's complicated: the social lives of networked teens . New Haven: Yale 2014

Web links

Commons : danah boyd  - collection of images

• Literature by and about Danah Boyd in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Danah Boyd's website
• Danah Boyd's opening address for the SXSW conference in 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} What's in a Name? Danah.org, accessed June 1, 2014 . 
2. ^ Danah Boyd: Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teen age Social Life. In: David Buckingham (Ed.): MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning: Identity Volume . Cambridge: MIT Press. 2007.
3. ^ Danah Boyd, Kate Crawford: Critical Questions for Big Data: Provocations for a Cultural, Technological, and Scholarly Phenomenon. In: Information, Communication, & Society 15: 5, 2012. p. 662-679.
4. ^ ^{A b} Danah Boyd: Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data. In: WWW 2010 conference. April 29, 2010, accessed on April 18, 2011 (English, Keynote WWW 2010). 
5. ↑ The Most Influential Minds in Tech. In: Time Magazine. June 15, 2013, accessed June 1, 2014 . 
6. ^ The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers . In: Foreign Policy . November 26th, 2012. Archived from the original on November 28th, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 28, 2012. 
7. ^ Jessi Hempel: Smartest Academic: Danah Boyd . In: Fortune , September 7, 2010. Archived from the original on July 24, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 8, 2010.  
8. ^ Fast Company Staff (February 1, 2009). Women in Tech: The Evangelists . Fast Company. Retrieved May 22, 2010