NEIT2011-Speaker

**danah boyd** researches how social media like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube is integrated into people’s daily practices. Much of her work focuses on American youth practices, popular social network sites, and sociality. She was one of the researchers in a major 3-year study of digital youth funded by the MacArthur Foundation, resulting in the publication of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. She also studies blogging, tagging and social media more broadly.

danah boyd is a Social Scientist at Microsoft Research, a Research Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and an Associate Fellow at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society. She has worked as an ethnographer and social media researcher for various corporations, including Intel, Tribe. net, Google and Yahoo! She has advised and consulted for dozens of other companies. She is a Director on the board of the New Media Consortium, a non-profit consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. She is on the program committees of major academic and industry conferences, including the Digital Media & Learning Conference and SXSW-Interactive.

At the Berkman Center, danah co-directed the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, formed by the U.S. Attorney’s General and MySpace and organized by the Berkman Center to identify potential technical solutions for keeping children safe online. She is currently co-directing the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative, funded by the MacArthur Foundation. danah maintains a blog called [|Apophenia], a valuable resource for anyone interested in social media.

She also regularly writes academic publications and mainstream essays, published in a range of venues. danah was named one of the Most Influential Women in Technology by Fast Company. She was also named the smartest academic in tech by Fortune Magazine. She won CITASA’s Public Sociology Award.

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