danah boyd's writing

[Books] [Articles] [Talks] [Essays] [Reports]

Popular blog posts from 2004-2010 can be found at Best Of Apophenia

Books (Co-Authored and Monographs)

Henry Jenkins, Mimi Ito, danah boyd. (2015). Participatory Culture in a Networked Era. Polity Press. ISBN: 978-0-745-66070-7

danah boyd. (2014). It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN: 978-0-030-019900-0
Ito, Mizuko, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Martinez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp. (with Judd Antin, Megan Finn, Arthur Law, Annie Manion, Sarai Mitnick and Dan Schlossberg and Sarita Yardi). (2009). Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0-262-01336-9

Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers  

Sarathy, danah and danah boyd. (2024). Statistical Imaginaries, State Legitimacy: Grappling With the Arrangements Underpinning Quantification in the U.S. Census. Critical Sociology. DOI: 10.1177/08969205241270898
Angel, María P. and danah boyd. (2024). Techno-legal Solutionism: Regulating Children’s Online Safety in the United States. CSLAW '24: Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Science and Law, 86-97. DOI: 10.1145/3614407.3643705 [Draft]
Vertesi, Janet and danah boyd. (2023). The Resource Bind: System Failure and Legitimacy Threats in Sociotechnical Organizations. Sociologica 17(3). DOI: 10.6092/issn.1971-8853/18894
boyd, danah and Jayshree Sarathy. (2022). "Differential Perspectives: Epistemic Disconnects Surrounding the U.S. Census Bureau’s Use of Differential Privacy."  Harvard Data Science Review, Special Issue 2. DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.66882f0e [draft]
Bouk, Dan and danah boyd. (2021). "Democracy's Data Infrastructure: The Technopolitics of the US Census."  Knight First Amendment Institute, March 18. [html]
Wu, Angela Xiao, Harsh Taneja, danah boyd, Paul Donato, Matthew Hindman, Philip Napoli, and James Webster. (2020). "Computational social science: On measurement."  Science, 370(6521): December 4. DOI: 10.1126/science.abe8308
boyd, danah. (2020). "Questioning the legitimacy of data. Information Services and Use, 401(3): pp. 259-272. DOI: 10.3233/ISU-200098 (Presented at 2020 NISO Plus Conference on February 25, 2020)
Golebiewski, Michael and danah boyd. (2019). "Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited." Data & Society Report. October 29.
Donovan, Joan and danah boyd. 2019. “Stop the Presses? Moving from Strategic Silence to Strategic Amplification in a Networked Media Ecosystem.” American Behavioral Scientist, 65(2): pp. 333-350. DOI: 10.1177/0002764219878229
Metcalf, Jacob, Emanuel Moss, and danah boyd. 2019. “Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the institutionalization of ethics.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, (82,2): pp. 449-476. DOI: 10.1353/sor.2019.0022 [draft pdf]
Fish, Benjamin, Ashkan Bashardoust, danah boyd, Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian. (2019)."Gaps in Information Access in Social Networks." The Web Conference 2019, May: pp. 480-490. DOI: 10.1145/3308558.3313680 [draft pdf]
Selbst, Andrew D., danah boyd, Sorelle Friedler, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, and Janet Vertesi. (2019)."Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems." ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), 1(1). DOI: 10.1145/3287560.3287598 [draft]
Pitcan, Mikaela, Alice Marwick, and danah boyd. (2018)."Performing the Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 23(1). DOI: 10.1093/jcmc/zmy008
Caplan, Robyn and danah boyd. (2018).“Isomorphism Through Algorithms: Institutional Dependencies in the Case of Facebook.” Big Data & Society, 5(1). DOI: 10.1177/2053951718757253
Caplan, Robyn and danah boyd. (2018). “Who’s Playing Who? Media Manipulation in an Era of Trump.” Trump and the Media (eds. Pablo Boczkowski and Zizi Papacharissi). MIT Press. [book]
Elish, M.C. and danah boyd. (2018). “Situating Methods in the Magic of Big Data and AI.”Communication Monographs, 85(1): pp. 57-80. DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2017.1375130 [draft]
Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. (2018). “Understanding Privacy at the Margins.” International Journal of Communication, 12: pp. 1157-1165. [pdf]
Barocas, Solon, danah boyd, Sorelle Friedler, and Hanna Wallach. (2017). “Social and Technical Trade-Offs in Data Science.” Big Data, 5(2). DOI: 10.1089/big.2017.29020.stt
Barocas, Solon and danah boyd. (2017).“Engaging the Ethics of Data Science in Practice.”Communications of the ACM, 60(11): pp: 23-25. DOI: 10.1145/3144172 [draft]
boyd, danah. (2017). “Did Media Literacy Backfire?” Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 1(4). [draft]
Marwick, Alice, Claire Fontaine, and danah boyd. (2017). "‘Nobody sees it, nobody gets mad’: Social Media, Privacy, and Personal Responsibility among Low-SES Youth." Social Media and Society,, 3(2). DOI: 10.1177/2056305117710455
boyd, danah. (2016). “Undoing the Neutrality of Big Data.” Florida Law Review, 67: pp. 226-232. [pdf]
Zook, Matt, Solon Barocas, danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Emily Keller, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Alyssa Goodman, Rachelle Hollander, Barbara A. Koenig, Jacob Metcalf, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, and Frank Pasquale. (2017). “Ten Simple Rules for Responsible Big Data Research.” PLoS Computational Biology, 13(3): e1005399. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005399
Mateescu, Alexandra, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. (2016). “Dreams of Accountability, Guaranteed Surveillance: The Promises and Costs of Body-Worn Cameras.” Surveillance & Society, 14(1). [pdf]
Ybarra, Michele L., Dorothy L. Espelage, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Josephine D. Korchmaros, and danah boyd. (2016). “Lifetime Prevalence Rates and Overlap of Physical, Psychological, and Sexual Dating Abuse Perpetration and Victimization in a National Sample of Adolescents.” Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45(5). DOI: 10.1007/s10508-016-0748-9
boyd, danah. (2015). "Making Sense of Teen Life: Strategies for Capturing Ethnographic Data in a Networked Era." In Hargittai, E. & Sandvig, C. (Eds.) Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [pdf]
boyd, danah. (2015). “Untangling Research and Practice: What Facebook’s “Emotional Contagion” Study Teaches Us.” Research Ethics, 12(1): pp. 4-13. DOI: 10.1177/1747016115583379 [related blog post]
boyd, danah. (2015). “Social Media: A Phenomenon to be Analyzed.” Social Media + Society, 1(1). DOI: 10.1177/2056305115580148
Ybarra, Michele and danah boyd. (2015). “Can clans protect adolescent players of massively multiplayer online games from violent behaviors?”  International Journal of Public Health, 6(20): pp. 267-276. DOI: 10.1007/s00038-014-0637-8
Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. (2014). “Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media.” New Media & Society, 16(7): pp. 1051-1067. DOI:10.1177/1461444814543995
boyd, danah, Karen Levy, and Alice Marwick. (2014). “The Networked Nature of Algorithmic Discrimination.” Data & Discrimination: Collected Essays (Eds. Seeta Peña Gangadharan and Virginia Eubanks): pp. 43-57. [draft pdf]
Musto, Jennifer and danah boyd. (2014).  “The Trafficking-Technology Nexus.” Social Politics, 21(3): pp. 461-483. DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxu018
Yom-Tov, Elad and danah boyd. (2014). “On the link between media coverage of anorexia and pro-anorexic practices on the web.” International Journal of Eating Disorders, 47(2): pp. 196-202. DOI: 10.1002/eat.22195
Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. (2014). "'It's just drama': Teen perspectives on conflict and aggression in a networked era." Journal of Youth Studies, 17(9): pp. 1187-1204. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2014.901493 [draft pdf]
boyd, danah and Kelly McBride. (2013). "The Destabilizing Force of Fear." In The New Ethics of Journalism (Eds. Kelly McBride and Tom Rosentiel). CQ Press: pp. 177-188. [draft pdf]
boyd, danah and Eszter Hargittai. (2013). "Connected and Concerned: Variation in parents' online safety concerns." Policy & Internet,5(3): pp. 245–269. DOI: 10.1002/1944-2866.POI332
Thakor, Mitali and danah boyd. (2013). “Networked Trafficking: Reflections on Technology and the Anti-Trafficking Movement.” Dialectical Anthropology, 37(2): pp. 277-290. DOI: 10.1007/s10624-012-9286-6
Korchmaros, Josephine, Michele Ybarra, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, danah boyd, and Amanda Lenhart. (2013). “Perpetration of Teen Dating Violence in a Networked Society.” Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking,16(8): pp. 561-567. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2012.0627
Lingel, Jessa and danah boyd. (2013). “‘Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe’: Information Poverty, Information Norms, and Stigma.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(5): pp. 981-991. DOI: 10.1002/asi.22800 [draft pdf]
Monroy-Hernández, Andrés, Munmum De Choudhury, Emre Kiciman, danah boyd, Scott Counts. (2013). "The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Warfare." CSCW'13. DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441938 [draft pdf]
Ellison, Nicole and danah boyd. (2013). “Sociality through Social Network Sites.” In The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies (Ed. William H. Dutton). Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.013.0008 [draft pdf]
boyd, danah. (2013). "Networked Privacy." Surveillance & Society, 10(3/4): pp. 348-350. DOI: 10.24908/ss.v10i3/4.4529
Baym, Nancy and danah boyd. (2012). “Socially Mediated Publicness: An Introduction.” Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 56(3): pp. 320-329. DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2012.705200
Ybarra, Michele, danah boyd, Josephine Korchmaros, and Jay Koby Oppenheim. (2012) “Defining and Measuring Cyberbullying Within the Larger Context of Bullying Victimization” Journal of Adolescent Health, 51: pp. 53-58. DOI:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.12.031
boyd, danah. (2012). "The Politics of 'Real Names': Power, Context, and Control in Networked Publics." Communications of the ACM, 55(8): pp. 29-31. DOI: 10.1145/2240236.2240247[draft pdf]

boyd, danah and Kate Crawford. (2012). “Critical Questions for Big Data: Provocations for a Cultural, Technological, and Scholarly Phenomenon.” Information, Communication, & Society 15:5, p. 662-679. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878 [draft pdf]

Monroy-Hernández, Andrés, Emre Kiciman, danah boyd, Scott Counts. (2012) “Tweeting the Drug War: Empowerment, Intimidation, and Regulation in Social Media.” Human Computer Interaction Consortium 2012, June 25-29. [draft pdf]
Monroy-Hernández, Andrés, Emre Kiciman, danah boyd, Scott Counts. (2012) “Narcotweets: Social Media in Wartime.” ICWSM’12 poster paper: June 5-7.
danah boyd, Eszter Hargittai, Jason Schultz, and John Palfrey. (2011). “Why Parents Help Their Children Lie to Facebook: Unintended Consequences of the ‘Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act’.” First Monday, 16(11): November.
danah boyd. (2011). "White Flight in Networked Publics? How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook." In Race After the Internet (Eds. Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White). Routledge: pp. 203-222. [pdf]
Anabel Quan-Haase and danah boyd. (2011.)  "Teen Communities." Encyclopedia of Social Networks (eds. George Barnette). London: Sage. [draft pdf]
Gilad Lotan, Erhardt Graeff, Mike Ananny, Devin Gaffney, Ian Pearce, and danah boyd (2011). "The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions." International Journal of Communications 5, Feature 1375–1405. [pdf]
danah boyd. (2011). "Dear Voyeur, Meet Flâneur… Sincerely, Social Media." Surveillance and Society, 8(4): pp. 505-507. DOI: 10.24908/ss.v8i4.4187
Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Benjamin Mako Hill, Jazmin Gonzalez-Rivero, danah boyd. (2011). "Computers can't give credit: How automatic attribution falls short in an online remixing community." CHI 2011, Vancouver. (Honorable Mention) DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979452 [draft pdf]
Alice Marwick and danah boyd (2011). "To See and Be Seen: Celebrity Practice on Twitter." Convergence, 17(2): pp. 139-158. DOI: 10.1177/1354856510394539 [draft pdf]
danah boyd, Jenny Ryan, and Alex Leavitt. (2011). "Pro-Self-Harm and the Visibility of Youth-Generated Problematic Content." I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 7(1): pp. 1-31. [draft pdf]
Alice Marwick and danah boyd (2011). "I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, and the Imagined Audience." New Media and Society, 13: pp. 96-113. DOI: 10.1177/1461444810365313[draft pdf]
Schrock, Andrew and danah boyd (2011). "Problematic Youth Interaction Online: Solicitation, Harassment, and Cyberbullying." In Computer-Mediated Communication in Personal Relationships (Eds. Kevin B. Wright & Lynn M. Webb). New York: Peter Lang. [draft pdf]
Sarita Yardi and danah boyd (2010). "Dynamic Debates: An Analysis of Group Polarization over Time on Twitter." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 30(5): pp. 316-327. DOI: 10.1177/0270467610380011 [draft pdf]
danah boyd. (2010). "Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications." In Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites (ed. Zizi Papacharissi), pp. 39-58. [pdf]
danah boyd and Eszter Hargittai (2010). "Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares?" First Monday, 15(8). [pdf]
Sarita Yardi and danah boyd (2010). "Tweeting from the Town Square: Measuring Geographic Local Networks." Proceedings of Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 4(1), pp. 194-201.[draft pdf]
danah boyd, Scott Golder, and Gilad Lotan (2010). "Tweet Tweet Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter." Proceedings of HICSS-42, Persistent Conversation Track. Kauai, HI: IEEE Computer Society. January 5-8, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.412[pdf]
Sarita Yardi, Daniel Romero, Grant Schoenebeck, and danah boyd (2010). "Detecting Spam in a Twitter network." First Monday, 15(1). [draft pdf]
danah boyd and Alice Marwick (2009). "The Conundrum of Visibility." Journal of Children and Media, 3(4): 410-414. DOI: 10.1080/17482790903233465 [draft pdf]
danah boyd. (2008). "Friendship." In Ito, Mizuko, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Martinez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp. (with Judd Antin, Megan Finn, Arthur Law, Annie Manion, Sarai Mitnick and Dan Schlossberg and Sarita Yardi). (2009). Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, Forthcoming. Chapter DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8402.003.0006
danah boyd (2008). "How Can Qualitative Internet Researchers Define the Boundaries of Their Projects: A Response to Christine Hine." Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method (eds. Annette Markham and Nancy Baym). Los Angeles: Sage, pp. 26-32. [draft pdf]
danah boyd (2008). "Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence." Convergence, 14 (1). DOI: 10.1177/1354856507084416 [draft pdf]
danah boyd (2008). "None of this is Real." Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (ed. Joe Karaganis). New York: Social Science Research Council, pp. 132-157. [draft pdf]
danah boyd (2007). "Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life." MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning - Youth, Identity, and Digital Media Volume (ed. David Buckingham). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 119-142. [draft pdf]
danah boyd and Nicole Ellison (2007, October). "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13 (1), article 11. DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x [draft pdf] (Turkish)
danah boyd (2007). "The Significance of Social Software." BlogTalks Reloaded: Social Software Research & Cases (eds. Thomas N. Burg and Jan Schmidt). Norderstedt, pp. 15-30. [draft pdf]
danah boyd (2007). "Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?" Knowledge Tree, 13(1), 1-13. [draft pdf]
danah boyd (2006). "Friends, Friendsters, and MySpace Top 8: Writing Community Into Being on Social Network Sites." First Monday, 11(12). [draft pdf]
danah boyd (2006). “A Blogger’s Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium.” Reconstruction, 6(4), November. [draft pdf]
Cameron Marlow, Mor Naaman, danah boyd, and Marc Davis (2006). "HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, ToRead." Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2006, New York: ACM Press. DOI: 10.1145/1149941.1149949 [draft pdf]
Cameron Marlow, Mor Naaman, danah boyd, and Marc Davis (2006). "Position Paper, Tagging, Taxonomy, Flickr, Article, ToRead." Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop (at WWW 2006). Edinburgh, Scotland: May 22. DOI: 10.1145/1149941.1149949 [draft pdf]
danah boyd and Jeffrey Heer (2006). "Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster." Proceedings of the IEEE Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39), Persistent Conversation Track. Kauai, HI: January 4 - 7, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.394 [draft pdf]
danah boyd (2005). "Sociable Technology and Democracy." Extreme Democracy (eds. Jon Lebkowsky and Mitch Ratcliffe). Lulu. [draft pdf]
Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd (2005). "Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks." IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2005). Minneapolis, Minnesota: October 23-25. DOI: 10.1109/INFVIS.2005.1532126 [draft pdf]
danah boyd (2005). "Autistic Social Software." Best Software Writing I (ed. Joel Spolsky). Berkeley: Apress. [draft pdf]
Joseph McCarthy and danah boyd (2005). "Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces: Experiences at an Academic Conference." ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2005). Portland, Oregon: April 2-7. [draft pdf]
Judith Donath and danah boyd (2004, October). "Public displays of connection." BT Technology Journal, 22 (4), pp 71-82. DOI: 10.1023/B:BTTJ.0000047585.06264.cc[draft pdf]
danah boyd (2004). "Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networks." ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Vienna: April 24-29, 2004, 1279-1282. DOI: 10.1145/985921.986043 [draft pdf]
Fernanda Viegas, danah boyd, David Nguyen, Jeff Potter, and Judith Donath (2002). "Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling: PostHistory and Social Network Fragments." Proceedings of the IEEE Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), Persistent Conversation Track. Big Island, HI: January 5-8, 2002. [draft pdf]
danah boyd and Jeff Potter (2003). "Social Network Fragments: An Interactive Tool for Exploring Digital Social Connections." Sketch at ACM SIGGRAPH 2003. San Diego, California: ACM, July 27-31. DOI: 10.1145/965400.965437 [draft pdf]
danah boyd (2002). "Faceted Id/entity: Managing Representation in a Digital World." Cambridge, MA: MIT Master's Thesis. August 9, 2002. [pdf]
danah boyd, Hyun-Yeul Lee, Daniel Ramage, and Judith Donath (2002). "Developing Legible Visualizations for Online Social Spaces." Proceedings of the IEEE Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35), 4(4). Big Island, HI: January 7 - 10, 2002. [draft pdf]
Kelly Dobson, danah boyd, Wendy Ju, Judith Donath, and Hiroshi Ishii (2001). "Creating Visceral Personal and Social Interactions in Mediated Spaces." Interactive Poster at ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2001). Seattle, Washington: March 31 - April 5, 2001. [draft pdf]

Written Conference Talks

boyd, danah. (2021). “Statistical Imaginaries: An Ode to Responsible Data Science.” Microsoft Research Summit. Remote: October 19. [rtf script]
boyd, danah. (2021). “In the Pursuit of Knowledge, There Be Dragons.” IEEE Vis 2021. Remote: October 26. [rtf script]
boyd, danah. (2021). “Knitting a Healthy Social Fabric.” Educause. Remote: May 18. [rtf script]
Bouk, Dan and danah boyd. (2020). “Democracy’s Data Infrastructure: The Entanglement of Politics and Science.” 4S. Remote: August 20. [rtf script]
boyd, danah. (2020). “Data are Made, Not Found.” Association of Public Data Users. Virtual: July 30. [rtf script]
boyd, danah. (2019). “Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On.” Electronic Frontier Foundation. San Francisco, CA: September 12. [rtf script]
boyd, danah. (2019). “Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation.” Digital Public Library of America. Chicago, IL: April 26. [rtf script]
boyd, danah. (2019). “The Fragmentation of Truth.” Knight Media Forum. Miami, FL: February 23. [rtf script]
boyd, danah. (2018). “Media Manipulation, Strategic Amplification, and Responsible Journalism.” Online News Association. Austin, TX: September 13. [html script]
boyd, danah. (2018).“You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You?” SXSW-EDU. Austin, TX: March 7. [html script]
boyd, danah. (2017). “The Radicalization of Utopian Dreams.” The People’s Disruption. New York, NY: November 11.
boyd, danah. (2017). “Your Data is Being Manipulated.” Strata. New York, NY: September 30. [video]
danah boyd. (2016). "Transparency != Accountability." EU Parliament Roundtable on Algorithmic Accountability and Transparency. Brussels: November 7.
danah boyd. (2016). "Data, Algorithms, Fairness, Accountability." U.S. Department of Commerce, Data Advisory Council. Washington, DC: October 28.
boyd, danah. (2016). “Be Careful What You Code For.” Personal Democracy Forum. New York, NY: June 9.
danah boyd. (2015). "What World Are We Building?" Everett C. Parker Lecture. Washington, DC: October 20.
danah boyd. (2013). "Networked Norms: How Tech Startups and Teen Practices Challenge Organizational Boundaries." ASTD Tech Knowledge. San Jose, California: January 30.
danah boyd. (2012). "The Power of Fear in Networked Publics." SXSW. Austin, Texas: March 10.
danah boyd. (2011). "Teen Sexting and Its Impact on the Tech Industry." Read Write Web 2WAY Conference.New York, NY: June 13.
danah boyd. (2011). "Networked Privacy." Personal Democracy Forum.  New York, NY: June 6.
danah boyd and Kate Crawford. (2011). "Six Provocations for Big Data." Paper presented at the Oxford Internet Institute Decade in Internet Time Symposium. Oxford: September 22.
Alice Marwick and danah boyd. (2011). "The Drama! Teen Conflict in Networked Publics." Paper presented at the Oxford Internet Institute Decade in Internet Time Symposium. Oxford: September 22.
danah boyd and Alice Marwick. (2011). "Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies." Paper presented at the Oxford Internet Institute Decade in Internet Time Symposium. Oxford: September 22.
danah boyd and Alice Marwick. (2011). "Social Steganography: Privacy in Networked Publics." International Communication Association. Boston, MA: May 28.
danah boyd. (2010). "The Future of Privacy: How Privacy Norms Can Inform Regulation." International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners. Jerusalem, Israel: October 29.
danah boyd. (2010). "Living Life in Public: Why American Teens Choose Publicity Over Privacy." Association of Internet Researchers. Gothenburg, Sweden: October 23.
danah boyd (2010). "Transparency Is Not Enough." Gov 2.0 Expo.Washington, DC: May 27.
danah boyd (2010). "Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data." WWW. Raleigh, NC: April 29.
danah boyd (2010). "Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity." SXSW. Austin, TX: March 13.
danah boyd (2010). "Privacy, Publicity, and Visibility." Microsoft Research TechFest. Redmond, WA: March 4.
danah boyd (2009). "Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media." Supernova. San Francisco, CA: December 1.
danah boyd (2009). "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information Through Sociality." Web2.0 Expo. New York, NY: November 17.
danah boyd (2009). "The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online." Personal Democracy Forum. New York, NY: June 30.

danah boyd (2009). "MySpace Vs. Facebook: A Digital Enactment of Class-Based Social Categories Amongst American Teenagers." International Communications Association. Chicago, IL: May 23.

danah boyd (2009). "Living and Learning with Social Media." Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. State College, PA: April 18.

danah boyd (2009). "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?" Microsoft Research TechFest. Redmond, WA: February 26.

danah boyd (2008). "Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena in a Web2.0 Era." Talk given to MSR New England. Cambridge, MA: September 22.
danah boyd (2008). "Teen Socialization Practices in Networked Publics." Talk at MacArthur Forum. Palo Alto, CA: April 23.
danah boyd (2007). "Information Access in a Networked World." Talk given to Pearson Publishing. Palo Alto, CA: November 2. [html]
danah boyd (2007). "Choose Your Own Ethnography: In Search of (Un)Mediated Life." Paper presented at 4S. Montreal, Canada: October 13. [html]
danah boyd (2007). "Digital Handshakes on Virtual Receiving Lines." Talk at Personal Democracy Forum. New York, New York: May 18. [html]
danah boyd (2007). "Film and the Audience of Tomorrow." Talk at Cannes Film Festival Opening Forum: "Cinema: The Audiences of Tomorrow." Cannes, France: May 16. [html]
danah boyd (2007). "Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life." Talk at Emerging Tech 2007. San Diego, California: March 28. [html]
danah boyd (2006). "The Significance of Social Software." Talk at BlogTalk Reloaded. Vienna, Austria: October 2. [html]
danah boyd (2006). "G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide." Talk at Emerging Tech 2006. San Diego, California: March 6. [html]
danah boyd (2006). "Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace." Talk at American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS-2006). St. Louis, Missouri: February 19.
danah boyd (2005). "Blogging Outloud: Shifts in Public Voice." Talk at Library and Information Technology Association . San Jose, California: October 1. [html]
danah boyd (2005). "Broken Metaphors: Blogging as Liminal Practice." Presented at Media Ecology Association Conference (MEA 2005). New York, New York: June 22-26. [draft pdf]
danah boyd (2005). "Revenge of the Social Network: Lessons from Friendster." Talk at Stanford's HCI Seminar. Palo Alto, California: February 4. [html]
danah boyd (2004). "Autistic Social Software." Talk at Supernova2004. Santa Clara, California: June 24. [html]
danah boyd (2004). "Revenge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles." Talk at Emerging Tech 2004. San Diego, California: February 11. [html]
danah boyd, Jeff Potter (2003). "Social Network Fragments: An Interactive Tool for Exploring Digital Social Connections." Sketch talk at ACM SIGGRAPH 2003. San Diego, California: July 30. [ppt]
danah boyd, Jeff Potter, and Fernanda Viegas (2002). "Fragmentation of Identity through Structural Holes in Email." Paper talk at International Sunbelt Social Network Conference XXII. New Orleans, LA: February 14. [ppt]
danah boyd (2001). "Sexing the Internet: Reflections on the role of identification in online communities." Presented at Sexualities, medias and technologies: theorizing old and new practices. University of Surrey: June 21-22. [pdf]

Working Papers, Essays, Op-Eds, and Other Writings

Haven, Janet and danah boyd. (2020). "Philanthropy's Techno-Solutionism Problem."" Knight Foundation. November.
boyd, danah. (2020). "Balancing Data Utility And Confidentiality In The 2020 Us Census." Data & Society Primer. May.
boyd, danah. (2019). "Differential Privacy in the 2020 Decennial Census and the Implications for Available Data Products." SSRN Working Paper. July.
boyd, danah, Emily Keller, Bonnie Tijerina. (2016). "Supporting Ethical Data Research: An Exploratory Study of Emerging Issues in Big Data and Technical Research." Data & Society Working Paper. August 4.
Caplan, Robyn, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. (2015). "Open Data, the Criminal Justice System, and the Police Data Initiative." Data & Civil Rights Primer. October 27.
Christin, Angele, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. (2015). "Courts and Predictive Algorithms." Data & Civil Rights Primer. October 27.
Brayne, Sarah, danah boyd, and Alex Rosenblat. (2015). "Predictive Policing." Data & Civil Rights Primer. October 27.
Caplan, Robyn, Ifeoma Arjunwa, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. (2015). "Biometric Technologies in Policing." Data & Civil Rights Primer. October 27.
Mateescu, Alexandra, Douglas Brunton, Alex Rosenblat, Desmond Patton, Zachary Gold, and danah boyd. (2015). "Social Media Surveillance & Law Enforcement." Data & Civil Rights Primer. October 27.
Rosenblat, Alex, Tamara Kneese, and danah boyd. (2014). "Understanding Intelligent Systems." Data & Society Working Paper, Future of Labor Project, October 8.
Tamara Kneese, Rosenblat, Alex, and danah boyd. (2014). "Technologically Mediated Artisanal Production." Data & Society Working Paper, Future of Labor Project, October 8.
Tamara Kneese, Rosenblat, Alex, and danah boyd. (2014). "Understanding Fair Labor Practices in a Networked Age." Data & Society Working Paper, Future of Labor Project, October 8.
Rosenblat, Alex, Tamara Kneese, and danah boyd. (2014). "Networked Employment Discrimination." Data & Society Working Paper, Future of Labor Project, October 8.
Rosenblat, Alex, Tamara Kneese, and danah boyd. (2014). "Workplace Surveillance." Data & Society Working Paper, Future of Labor Project, October 8.
Data & Society. (2014). "Algorithmic Accountability." Data & Society Working Paper, The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of “Big Data", March 17.
Data & Society. (2014). "Data Supply Chains." Data & Society Working Paper, The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of “Big Data", March 17.
Data & Society. (2014). "Inequalities and Asymmetries." Data & Society Working Paper, The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of “Big Data", March 17.
Data & Society. (2014). "Inferences and Connections." Data & Society Working Paper, The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of “Big Data", March 17.
Data & Society. (2014). "Interpretation Gone Wrong." Data & Society Working Paper, The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of “Big Data", March 17.
Data & Society. (2014). "Predicting Human Behavior." Data & Society Working Paper, The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of “Big Data", March 17.
Human Trafficking Researchers. (2013). "How to Responsibly Create Technological Interventions to Address the Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors." April 8. [pdf]
boyd, danah. (2012). "Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story." Wired. October 29. [html]
Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. (2012). "Teens Text More Than Adults, But They’re Still Just Teens." The Daily Beast. May 20. [html]
boyd, danah. (2012). "Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users – that's us." The Guardian. April 21. [html]
boyd, danah and Alice Marwick. (2011). "Bullying as True Drama." The New York Times. September 21, A35. [html]
boyd, danah. (2011). "Participating in the Always-On Lifestyle." The Social Media Reader (ed. Michael Mandiberg), pp. 71-76. [book download]
Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. (2011). "Tweeting Teens Can Handle Public Life." The Guardian. February 15. [html]
boyd, danah. (2010). "Streams of Content, Limited Attention." UX Magazine. February 25. [html] [pdf]
boyd, danah. (2009). "Implications of User Choice: The Cultural Logic of 'MySpace or Facebook?'" Interactions Magazine XVI6-November/December. [html] [pdf]
boyd, danah. (2009). "Reflections on Lori Drew, Bullying, and Strategies for Helping Kids." In The Best Technology Writing 2009 (ed. Steven Johnson). Yale.
danah boyd (2008). "Can Social Network Sites Enable Political Action?" In Rebooting America (eds. Allison Fine, Micah Sifry, Andrew Rasiej and Josh Levy). Creative Commons. 112-116. [pdf]
danah boyd (2008). "Digital Handshakes in Networked Publics: Why Politicians Must Interact, Not Broadcast." In Ben Rigby (ed.) Mobilizing Generation 2.0. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. [pdf]
danah boyd (2007, June) "Socializing digitally." Vodafone Receiver Magazine 18: The Home. [pdf]
danah boyd (2007, June) Case Commentary on "We Googled You: Should Fred hire Mimi despite her online history?" by Diane Coutu. Harvard Business Review. Cambridge. [html]
danah boyd (2007) Foreward to "Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing" by Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper. Amacom. [html]
danah boyd (2006, September 8) "Facebook's 'Privacy Trainwreck': Exposure, Invasion, and Drama." Apophenia Blog. [html]
danah boyd and Henry Jenkins (2006, May 26) "Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)." MIT Tech Talk. [html] [in Serbo-Croatian]
Irina Shklovski and danah boyd (2006). "Music as Cultural Glue: Supporting Bands and Fans on MySpace." [pdf]
danah boyd (2006, March 21) "Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?" Apophenia Blog. [html] [in Ukrainian] [in Polish]
danah boyd (2005, February) Review of Material Virtualities. New Media and Society 7 (1), pp. 139-141. [pdf]
danah boyd (2005, January 5) "Turmoil in blogland." Salon.com. [html]
danah boyd (2004, July 28) "The New Blogocracy." Salon.com. [html]
danah boyd (2000). "Depth Cues in Virtual Reality and Real World: Understanding Differences in Depth Perception by Studying Shape-from-shading and Motion Parallax." Undergraduate computer science honors thesis at Brown University. Advisors: Leslie Welch, Andries van Dam. 2000. [pdf]

Reports

"Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the Common Good." (2022). Report of the Committee of National Statistics. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. [digital book]
"Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age." (2009). Report of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. [html] [pdf]
Palfrey, John, Dena Sacco, and danah boyd, co-directors. (2008). Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies. Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force. [html]
Schrock, Andrew and danah boyd. (2008). "Online Threats to Youth: Solicitation, Harassment, and Problematic Content." Research Advisory Board Report for the Internet Safety Technical Task Force. [pdf]
Ito, Mizuko, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Martinez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp. (with Judd Antin, Megan Finn, Arthur Law, Annie Manion, Sarai Mitnick and Dan Schlossberg and Sarita Yardi). (2008). Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media. Report for the MacArthur Foundation. [pdf]

Panel and Workshop Proposals

Joseph McCarthy, danah boyd, Elizabeth Churchill, William Griswold, Elizabeth Lawley, and Melora Zaner (2004). "Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces: Attention, Intention and Contention." Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004), Panel Proposal. Chicago, IL, November 6-10, 2004. [pdf]
danah boyd, Michele Chang, and Elizabeth Goodman (2004). "Representations of Digital Identity." Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004), Workshop Organizer's Proposal. Chicago, IL, November 6-10, 2004. [pdf]
danah boyd, Carlos Jensen, Scott Lederer, and David Nguyen (2002). "Privacy in Digital Environments: Empowering Users." Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002), Workshop Organizer's Proposal. New Orleans, LA, November 16 - 20, 2002. [pdf]

Workshop Position Papers

danah boyd (2004). "Dating on Friendster." Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Application for: ‘Scientists, designers seek same for good conversation’: A Workshop on Online Dating. Vienna: ACM, April 24-29, 2004. [pdf]
danah boyd (2003). "Reflections on Friendster, Trust and Intimacy." Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2003), Workshop application for the Intimate Ubiquitous Computing Workshop. Seattle, WA, October 12-15, 2003. [pdf]
danah boyd (2001). "Identity of space & people in cyberspace." Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2001), Integrating Diverse Research and Development Approaches to the Construction of Social Cyberspaces Workshop. Seattle, Washington: ACM, March 31 - April 5, 2001. [pdf]
Judith Donath, Hyun-Yeul Lee, danah boyd, and Jonathan Goler (2000). "Loom - Intuitively Visualizing Usenet." Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW-2000), Dealing with Community Data Workshop. Philadelphia, PA, December 2 - 6, 2000. [pdf]

Examplar Videos, Podcasts

danah boyd (October 5, 2017). "Learning All the Wrong Things.". Digital Media & Learning Keynote [YouTube Video]
danah boyd (June 27, 2017). "... On Fake News.". Ezra Klein Show [podcast]
danah boyd (April 9, 2015). "Online Reflections of Our Offline Lives.". On Being with Krista Tippett [podcast]

Installations

danah boyd, Jeff Potter (2002). "Social Network Fragments." Part of Express Mail shown at the Infotecture exibit at the Artists Space Gallery, New York, May 30 - July 13 2002. [html]
Judith Donath, Joseph Paradiso, Dana Spiegel, danah boyd, Jonathan Goler, Kai-yuh Hsiao, Chris Yang, Ari Adler, Jeff Hayashida, Josh Strickon, and Ari Benbasat (2000). "Laser Who." [html]
  • Emerging Technologies at SIGGRAPH 2000, New Orleans, LA, August 2000.
  • Opera Totale 5, Venice Italy, November 1999.

Project Pages

"Vizster" (with Jeff Heer). 2005. [html]
"Social Network Fragments" (with Jeff Potter). 2001-2002. [html]
"SecureId" 2001-2002. [html]
"Loom2" (with Hyun-Yeul Lee). 2000-2001. [html]
"Visual Who" (with Dana Spiegel). 1999-2000. [html]

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