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Short bio:

danah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society, with an eye to how structural inequities shape and are shaped by technologies. She is currently conducting a multi-year ethnographic study of the US census to understand how data are made legitimate. Her previous studies have focused on media manipulation, algorithmic bias, privacy practices, social media, and teen culture. Her monograph "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens" has received widespread praise. She founded the research institute Data & Society, where she currently serves as an advisor. She is also a trustee of the Computer History Museum, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and on the advisory board of Electronic Privacy Information Center. She received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University, a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab, and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California, Berkeley.

Blog: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/
Twitter: @zephoria

Long bio:

danah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Dr. boyd's research focuses on the intersection of technology and society, with an eye to how structural inequities shape and are shaped by technologies. She is currently conducting a multi-year ethnographic study of the US census to understand how data are made legitimate.

Dr. boyd has published multiple books, dozens of papers, hundreds of essays, and given countless talks. Her monograph "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens" has received widespread praise from scholars, parents, and journalists and has been translated into 7 languages.  Her previous studies have focused on media manipulation, algorithmic bias and accountability, privacy practices, ethics in computing, disinformation, future of labor, social media and platform studies, and teen culture.

Dr. boyd founded the independent research institute Data & Society, where she currently serves as an advisor.  She is also a trustee of the Computer History Museum, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and on the advisory board of Electronic Privacy Information Center. She was also a founding director of Crisis Text Line, a mental health organization that serves people in crisis.  She is also a former trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian and a former director of Social Science Research Council.

Dr. boyd was selected by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to receive a 2019 Pioneer/Barlow Award and by the American Sociology Association to win the 2010 CITASA Award for Public Sociology. The Financial Times dubbed Dr. boyd "The High Priestess of Internet Friendship" while Fortune Magazine identified her as the smartest academic in tech. She was identified as one of Technology Review's 2010 Young Innovators under 35 (TR35) and selected by the World Economic Forum as a 2011 Young Global Leader.

Dr. boyd received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University (under Andy van Dam), a master's degree from MIT Media Lab (under Judith Donath), and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 (under Peter Lyman and Mimi Ito). She has worked as a researcher for various corporations, including Intel, Tribe.net, Google, and Yahoo! She also created and managed a large online community for V-Day, a non-profit organization working to end violence against women and girls worldwide. She has previously held fellowships or faculty appointments at USC, Harvard, and New York University.

To read more of her writing, visit her blog at http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ or check out her tweets @zephoria or read her papers.

 

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