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2026 11

  1. Dear Civil Servants and the Ventriloquists behind the proposed residence rules | danah boyd | apophenia
  2. No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong.
  3. Dear Civil Servants and the Ventriloquists behind the proposed residence rules
  4. What’s Up with 4-3-5?
  5. Today’s the Day!
  6. Today’s Census News is a Big Deal
  7. 1 month until new book!
  8. New Paper Alert (plus a fun talk involving youth + AI)
  9. Where Has Social Media Gone?
  10. Pre-Order “Data Are Made, Not Found”!
  11. Fake Data, Upcoming Book, and the Political Economy of AI

2025 4

  1. Five Attitudes Towards Climate Change (and the impact on our society)
  2. Become a Firefighter for Democracy
  3. What Game Are We Playing?
  4. The Ministry of Empowerment

2024 7

  1. Bye-bye 2024, I won’t miss you.
  2. I’m joining the Cornell faculty!
  3. Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media
  4. Struggling with a Moral Panic Once Again
  5. Degradation, Legitimacy Threats, and Isolation
  6. KOSA isn’t designed to help kids.
  7. Brain Candy, STS Opportunities, and Girl Scouts

2023 7

  1. The Screens are the Symptom.
  2. Still Trying to Ignore the Metaverse
  3. Dear Alt-Twitter Designers: It’s about the network!
  4. Too Big to Challenge?
  5. Deskilling on the Job
  6. Protect Elders! Ban Television!!
  7. Resisting Deterministic Thinking

2022 3

  1. aiming for failure
  2. Differential Perspectives
  3. Crisis Text Line, from my perspective

2021 2

  1. The Muddled Speech of Numbers: Blood clots, COVID-19 vaccines, and statistical risk
  2. Behind every algorithm, there be politics.

2020 3

  1. The US Federal Government Needs a VP of Engineering, not a CTO
  2. Teens Are Addicted to Socializing, Not Screens
  3. Joyfully Geeking Out

2019 3

  1. Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On
  2. Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation | danah boyd | apophenia
  3. Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation

2018 6

  1. The Messy Fourth Estate
  2. The case for quarantining extremist ideas
  3. You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You?
  4. The Reality of Twitter Puffery. Or Why Does Everyone Now Hate Bots?
  5. Panicked about Kids’ Addiction to Tech? Here are two things you could do
  6. Beyond the Rhetoric of Algorithmic Solutionism

2017 12

  1. The Radicalization of Utopian Dreams
  2. Your Data is Being Manipulated
  3. Data & Society’s Next Stage
  4. How “Demo-or-Die” Helped My Career
  5. Tech Culture Can Change
  6. Failing to See, Fueling Hatred.
  7. Heads Up: Upcoming Parental Leave
  8. When Good Intentions Backfire
  9. The Information War Has Begun
  10. Why America is Self-Segregating
  11. Did Media Literacy Backfire?
  12. Hacking the Attention Economy

2016 9

  1. Put an End to Reporting on Election Polls
  2. I blame the media. Reality check time.
  3. Columbus Day!?!? What the f* are we celebrating?
  4. There was a bomb on my block.
  5. Be Careful What You Code For
  6. Facebook Must Be Accountable to the Public
  7. Where Do We Find Ethics?
  8. What is the Value of a Bot?
  9. It’s not Cyberspace anymore

2015 16

  1. What If Social Media Becomes 16-Plus? New battles concerning age of consent emerge in Europe
  2. New book: Participatory Culture in a Networked Era by Henry Jenkins, Mimi Ito, and me!
  3. Which Students Get to Have Privacy?
  4. What World Are We Building?
  5. Join me at the Parker Lecture on Oct. 20 in Washington DC
  6. I miss not being scared.
  7. Which Students Get to Have Privacy? | danah boyd | apophenia
  8. The Cost of Fame
  9. Are We Training Our Students to be Robots?
  10. I miss not being scared. | danah boyd | apophenia
  11. The Cost of Fame | danah boyd | apophenia
  12. Are We Training Our Students to be Robots? | danah boyd | apophenia
  13. Why I Joined Dove & Twitter to #SpeakBeautiful
  14. An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media
  15. Baby Boaz
  16. An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media | danah boyd | apophenia

2014 45

  1. Data & Civil Rights: What do we know? What don’t we know?
  2. Baby #2
  3. me + National Museum of the American Indian
  4. What is Fairness?
  5. My name is danah and I’m a stats addict.
  6. Frameworks for Understanding the Future of Work
  7. My name is danah and I’m a stats addict. | danah boyd | apophenia
  8. Am I a Blogger?
  9. What is Fairness? | danah boyd | apophenia
  10. What is Privacy?
  11. What Is an Honorable Response to Israel/Gaza?
  12. Why Jane Doe doesn’t get to be a sex trafficking victim
  13. What Is an Honorable Response to Israel/Gaza? | danah boyd | apophenia
  14. What is Privacy? | danah boyd | apophenia
  15. Goodbye Avis, Hello Uber
  16. The Cost of Contemporary Policing: A Review of Alice Goffman’s ‘On the Run’
  17. What does the Facebook experiment teach us?
  18. ‘Selling Out’ Is Meaningless: Teens live in the commercial world we created
  19. Why Jane Doe doesn’t get to be a sex trafficking victim | danah boyd | apophenia
  20. San Francisco’s (In)Visible Class War
  21. The Cost of Contemporary Policing: A Review of Alice Goffman’s ‘On the Run’ | danah boyd | apophenia
  22. Will my grandchildren learn to drive? I expect not
  23. ‘Selling Out’ Is Meaningless: Teens live in the commercial world we created | danah boyd | apophenia
  24. Matt Wolf’s “Teenage”
  25. San Francisco’s (In)Visible Class War | danah boyd | apophenia
  26. Will my grandchildren learn to drive? I expect not | danah boyd | apophenia
  27. What if the sexual predator image you have in your mind is wrong?
  28. New White House Report on Big Data
  29. Rule #1: Do no harm.
  30. Matt Wolf’s “Teenage” | danah boyd | apophenia
  31. Rekindling my blogging practice: Why I’m part of “The Message” on Medium
  32. Whether it’s bikes or bytes, teens are teens
  33. Whether it’s bikes or bytes, teens are teens | danah boyd | apophenia
  34. Is the Oculus Rift sexist? (plus response to criticism)
  35. Parentology: The first parenting book I actually liked
  36. Why Snapchat is Valuable: It’s All About Attention
  37. Degradation, Legitimacy Threats, and Isolation | danah boyd | apophenia
  38. TIME Magazine Op-Ed: Let Kids Run Wild Online
  39. TIME Magazine Op-Ed: Let Kids Run Wild Online | danah boyd | apophenia
  40. What’s Behind the Free PDF of “It’s Complicated” (no, no, not malware…)
  41. want a signed copy of “It’s Complicated”?
  42. Can someone explain WhatsApp’s valuation to me?
  43. “It’s Complicated” is dedicated to Peter Lyman
  44. blatant groveling: please buy my book
  45. Data & Society: Call for Fellows | danah boyd | apophenia

2013 24

  1. Email Sabbatical: December 13-January 10
  2. Data & Society: Call for Fellows
  3. how “context collapse” was coined: my recollection
  4. Upcoming Email Sabbatical: December 13-January 10
  5. Keeping Teens ‘Private’ on Facebook Won’t Protect Them
  6. eyes on the street or creepy surveillance?
  7. Baby Ziv
  8. Choosing the “Right” Maternity Leave Plan
  9. Whistleblowing Is the New Civil Disobedience: Why Edward Snowden Matters
  10. where “nothing to hide” fails as logic
  11. meandering thoughts on the NSA scandal | danah boyd | apophenia
  12. meandering thoughts on the NSA scandal
  13. Taking a vacation? Take an email sabbatical!
  14. Challenges for Health in a Networked Society
  15. thoughts on Pew’s latest report: notable findings on race and privacy
  16. Heads Up: Parenting Leave Coming Up
  17. How would you define work in a networked world?
  18. why I’m quitting Mendeley (and why my employer has nothing to do with it)
  19. Addressing Human Trafficking: Guidelines for Technological Interventions
  20. thank you SXSW
  21. Is Facebook Destroying the American College Experience?
  22. Networked Norms: How Tech Startups and Teen Practices Challenge Organizational Boundaries
  23. mourning and public-ness
  24. processing the loss of Aaron Swartz

2012 31

  1. The Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series – Eight Papers on The Role of Youth Organizations and Youth Movements for Social Change
  2. Dear Media, Back The F*** Off Newtown
  3. I ranted
  4. ICWSM-13, run by Emre Kiciman
  5. Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story (from Wired)
  6. omg girls’ bodies are fascinating: embracing the gendered side of quantified self
  7. Free Speech, Context, and Visibility: Protesting Racist Ads
  8. Three conversations for parents: navigating networked publics
  9. “Socially Mediated Publicness”: an open-access issue of JOBEM
  10. What Anti-Trafficking Advocates Can Learn from Sex Workers: The Dynamics of Choice, Circumstance, and Coercion
  11. Participatory Culture: What questions do you have?
  12. CFP: public-facing papers on Youth Movements / Youth Organizations | danah boyd | apophenia
  13. CFP: public-facing papers on Youth Movements / Youth Organizations
  14. Bringing Research to Bear on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Minors (a.k.a. “child sex trafficking”)
  15. Why “We’re Oversold – Just Deal With It” Isn’t Acceptable
  16. Microsoft Research opens New York City lab
  17. Reflections on Fear in a Networked Society
  18. Dharun Ravi
  19. The Power of Youth: How Invisible Children Orchestrated Kony 2012
  20. Born This Way Foundation: guided by research
  21. Stop the Cycle of Bullying
  22. Are Librarians Encouraging Public Libraries to Abide by COPPA?
  23. NOTICE: Email sabbatical will start December 15
  24. Opportunities not to miss… | danah boyd | apophenia
  25. New Pew study on tone of social network sites
  26. World Economic Forum: More than Meets the Eye
  27. How Parents Normalized Teen Password Sharing
  28. We need to talk about piracy (but we must stop SOPA first)
  29. Nancy Baym, Kate Crawford, Mary L. Gray to Join Microsoft Research
  30. I am Generation Flux
  31. I’m back….

2011 25

  1. I’m on Vacation!! (Until January 10)
  2. Four Difficult Questions Regarding Bullying and Youth Suicide
  3. Opportunities not to miss…
  4. What is the Role of Technology in Human Trafficking?
  5. Social Science PhD Internships at Microsoft Research New England (Spring & Summer 2012)
  6. Debating Privacy in a Networked World for the WSJ
  7. Why Parents Help Children Violate Facebook’s 13+ Rule
  8. Continue reading →
  9. Six Provocations for Big Data
  10. Guilt Through Algorithmic Association
  11. Exciting News: Me @ Microsoft Research + New York University
  12. I do not speak for my employer.
  13. Designing for Social Norms (or How Not to Create Angry Mobs)
  14. “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power
  15. The Unintended Consequences of Obsessing Over Consequences (or why to support youth risk-taking)
  16. How to Take an Email Sabbatical
  17. “Teen Sexting and Its Impact on the Tech Industry” (my RWW talk)
  18. “Networked Privacy” (my PDF talk)
  19. Publicity and the Culture of Celebritization
  20. How Teens Understand Privacy
  21. I have written a longer post outlining how I believe that we should think about the tensions between personal reputation and trademark as well as the actions that customer service should take when they encounter these issues.
  22. How Can We Help Miguel?
  23. The Politics of Queering Anything
  24. Tweeting teens can handle public life
  25. why I’m mostly offline

2010 51

  1. I AM OFFLINE! On Email Sabbatical from December 9 – January 12
  2. Digital Self-Harm and Other Acts of Self-Harassment
  3. “Bullying” Has Little Resonance with Teenagers
  4. NOTICE: Email sabbatical will start December 9
  5. Social Science PhD Internships at Microsoft Research New England (Spring & Summer 2011)
  6. Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook
  7. Facebook & helicopter parenting
  8. Combating Sexual Exploitation Online
  9. “Pep Rally” – a truly exogenous trending topic on Twitter
  10. Thank you Nashville!
  11. Stop the Cycle of Bullying | danah boyd | apophenia
  12. Call for Papers: Digital Media & Learning Conference
  13. musing on child naming and the Internet
  14. Favorite myth-making news articles?
  15. How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps, Child Traffickers, and Other Abusive Scumbags
  16. Alice Marwick
  17. Regulating the Use of Social Media Data
  18. Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight
  19. social divisions between Orkut & Facebook in Brazil
  20. a few thoughts on name changes & reputation
  21. Facebook privacy settings: Who cares?
  22. MySpace and Facebook: How Racist Language Frames Social Media (and Why You Should Care)
  23. Skin Whitening, Tanning, and Vaseline’s Controversial Facebook Ad Campaign
  24. Facebook’s Panic Button: Who’s panicking? And who’s listening?
  25. strange jobs people have
  26. Risky Behaviors and Online Safety: A 2010 Literature Review
  27. Sexting: Youth Practices and Legal Implications
  28. Upcoming fieldwork: What do you want to know?
  29. Four Essays Addressing Risky Behaviors and Online Safety
  30. “for the lolz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy
  31. How COPPA Fails Parents, Educators, Youth
  32. i can haz housesitting tool pls?
  33. “Transparency is Not Enough”
  34. Deception + fear + humiliation != education
  35. Pew Research confirms that youth care about their reputation
  36. Quitting Facebook is pointless; challenging them to do better is not
  37. Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated
  38. I’ve even talked about this before
  39. “Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data”
  40. Harassment by Q&A: Initial Thoughts on Formspring.me
  41. Big Data: Opportunities for Computational and Social Sciences
  42. Speaking about Privacy and Publicity
  43. Empowering Parents & Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape
  44. ChatRoulette by Sarita Yardi
  45. my own thoughts in the next post
  46. Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on “Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America” | danah boyd | apophenia
  47. Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on “Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America”
  48. Public by Default, Private when Necessary
  49. whose voice do you hear? gender issues and success
  50. Facebook’s move ain’t about changes in privacy norms
  51. rant about Facebook’s decision.

2009 59

  1. Race and Social Network Sites: Putting Facebook’s Data in Context
  2. Web2.0 Expo Talk: Streams of Content, Limited Attention
  3. Postdoctoral Researchers, Microsoft Research | danah boyd | apophenia
  4. “Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media”
  5. Sociality Is Learning
  6. being objectified by the audience
  7. Call for descriptions: online safety programs
  8. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
  9. Choosing the Right Grad School
  10. Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates
  11. teaching, nursing, and second wave feminism
  12. Postdoctoral Researchers, Microsoft Research
  13. Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age
  14. accessible speaking events for the fall
  15. Seeking: Research Assistant/Intern for Online Safety Literature Review
  16. Technical Research Assistant for Adhoc Tasks at MSR
  17. Research Assistant/Intern for Online Safety Literature Review
  18. sometimes I feel like a bitch
  19. Vacation, Vacation, Vaaaay-kaaaay-shun! (offline till Sep 8)
  20. am I an academic?
  21. some thoughts on technophilia
  22. Twitter: “pointless babble” or peripheral awareness + social grooming?
  23. Teens Don’t Tweet… Or Do They?
  24. help me find innovative practitioners who address online safety issues
  25. Would the real social network please stand up?
  26. obsessively recording and sharing our vacations
  27. I want my cyborg life
  28. PDF Talk: “The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online”
  29. xkcd meets reality
  30. Understanding retweeting on Twitter
  31. Tumblr disappeared me…
  32. Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody
  33. gender gap in perception of computer science
  34. when teachers and students connect outside school
  35. is Facebook for old people?
  36. answers to questions from Twitter on teen practices
  37. RIP Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences (PGSS)
  38. “Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data”
  39. What are your information needs? (Knight Commission seeks feedback)
  40. “Living and Learning with Social Media”
  41. Does money equal time? (Regarding proposed NSF funding of qualitative research)
  42. discussion of “impact” at the CHI conference
  43. upcoming conferences/talks
  44. Bernie Hogan: “Networking in Everyday Life”
  45. Seeking: Boston-based developer for prototyping work with moi
  46. a random act of kindness
  47. it’s time for SXSW!!
  48. “Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What?”
  49. I want to evolve to not hear the cell phone
  50. when research is de-contextualized
  51. feature requests for my blog
  52. “Elsewhere, U.S.A.” by Dalton Conley = FABULOUS
  53. licensing your dissertation under Creative Commons
  54. doing the math on MySpace and registered sex offenders
  55. my first week
  56. using Facebook while ill
  57. Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report
  58. Taken Out of Context — my PhD dissertation
  59. i’m baaaaaack!

2008 104

  1. Email Sabbatical Has Begun
  2. OMG. I have my PhD! OMG!!!!!
  3. Warning: Email Sabbatical is Imminent .. and other random thoughts
  4. CVS refused to fill my prescription; is this legal?
  5. reflections on Lori Drew, bullying, and solutions to helping kids
  6. Living and Learning with New Media: Findings from a 3-year Ethnographic Study of Digital Youth
  7. Draft Version of the ISTTF Literature Review concerning Children’s Online Safety
  8. post-Prop 8: seek an education-based reversal, not a legal challenge
  9. Please support No on Prop 8
  10. my views on California propositions (vote NO on 4 and NO on 8)
  11. LiveJournal Academic Research Bibliography
  12. Putting Privacy Settings in the Context of Use (in Facebook and elsewhere)
  13. the final throes
  14. Handheld Learning in London
  15. teens, dating, friendship, and school dances
  16. Teens, Video Games, and Civics
  17. Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena in a Web2.0 Era
  18. the Internet Lexicon
  19. my intention to join Microsoft Research in 2008
  20. Oprah, Senate Bill 1738, Child Porn, and Pedophiles
  21. Facebook and Techcrunch: the costs of technological determinism and configuring users
  22. how to throw a ballot party (for American voters)
  23. public meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, Sept 23-24 at Harvard
  24. United, my trip from hell, and karmic retribution
  25. Community Forum on “Meeting the Public’s Information Needs for Silicon Valley”
  26. As a woman, I’m offended.
  27. MacArthur’s Digital Media & Learning Competition
  28. with great privilege comes great responsibility
  29. “Born Digital” by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
  30. Dionysus and the Amethyst Initiative
  31. I want my Olympics 2.0-style
  32. health update
  33. answers to bizarre questions
  34. delectable brain floss?
  35. knol: content w/out context, collaboration, capital, or coruscation
  36. Rebooting America
  37. brain fodder
  38. medical update
  39. Can the iPhone hit crucial network density for noticable cluster effects?
  40. seeking a productive relationship with medicine and the Internet
  41. FISA, Obama, and the Internet People
  42. Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Videos
  43. Andy van Dam dancing the cha-cha
  44. marbellio trying to stay cool
  45. feeding quasi-“legitimate” trolls in an attention economy
  46. markers of status: different, and yet the same
  47. politics of terrorism studies
  48. from blog to comic
  49. this ain’t about sexism
  50. update: the sorta graduation
  51. Little Brother + the Uglies series = le awesome young adult scifi
  52. Mobilizing Generation 2.0
  53. User Elections for LiveJournal’s Advisory Board
  54. MacArthur Forum talk on “Teen Socialization Practices in Networked Publics”
  55. Quotables
  56. me in comic form
  57. I Want You To Want Me
  58. my creative environment
  59. Palestinian girls, dating, and the mobile phone
  60. After the storm…
  61. musing about social networks and g/local cultures
  62. does work/life balance exist?
  63. Berkman@10
  64. V-Day 10th Anniversary
  65. practicing the word ‘no’
  66. seeking research intern
  67. “From MySpace to Hip Hop: New Media In the Everyday Lives of Youth” public forum
  68. from faux to real – the rise of kiddie phones
  69. limited email March 16-25
  70. stupid Scion
  71. curing the ills of sociology
  72. how youth find privacy in interstitial spaces
  73. cultural sustainability
  74. enough already!
  75. The Internet Safety Technical Task Force
  76. LiveJournal Advisory Board
  77. Where HCI comes from (and where it might go)
  78. one company, ten brands: lessons from retail for tech companies
  79. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
  80. no conferences for me… no sxsw, no etech… wah.
  81. Trade: Brilliant film about sex trafficking
  82. traductions de moi
  83. Who clicks on ads? (Revisited with data)
  84. Discover Magazine video of moi
  85. a google horror story: what happens when you are disappeared
  86. did my vote count?
  87. Why I published with a locked-down journal
  88. just because we can, doesn’t mean we should
  89. DIY Video Summit in LA Feb 8-10
  90. my February 5 voting ballot: Barack Obama and CA Propositions
  91. the absurdities of Davos
  92. darn thee european internet
  93. let’s define our terms: what is a “social networking technology”?
  94. let’s define our terms: what is a “social networking technology”?
  95. mobile phone credits as currency in Kenya
  96. The Economist Debate on Social “Networking”
  97. The economist d
  98. Technology and the World of Consumption
  99. Suzanne Briet: madame documentation and librarian extraordinaire
  100. what are marketing and advertising’s social responsibilities wrt youth?
  101. remix culture and fair use: a new study
  102. the music industry would be proud: I bought music this year
  103. iz mah bucket now
  104. Santa meets the IRB

2007 134

  1. Pew on teen social media practices (with interesting bits on class)
  2. All I need is a pair of pants.
  3. do NOT upgrade to Leopard (why I’m offline)
  4. adults’ views on privacy (new PEW report)
  5. earlier
  6. valuing inefficiencies and unreliability
  7. MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning (it’s live!)
  8. Facebook’s “opt-out” precedent
  9. giving back
  10. hiking in LA (and The Golden Compass)
  11. Overprotective parenting and bullying: Who is to blame for the suicide of Megan Meier?
  12. musing about online social norms
  13. my initial hypothesis
  14. “Information Access in a Networked World”
  15. Six Apart sells LiveJournal. Baroo??
  16. boyd’s law of social network sites
  17. vacation was glorious
  18. a burfday on da beach
  19. gluttonous texting
  20. you know
  21. algorithms for dumb security questions
  22. Shift6.net (an “open brand” lab project of Blyk)
  23. my long lost handwriting
  24. It’s Live! New JCMC on Social Network Sites
  25. Race/ethnicity and parent education differences in usage of Facebook and MySpace
  26. Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
  27. change of plans wrt Facebook… please forgive me
  28. innovative TV ads
  29. innovation’s social externalities
  30. shopping, shopping
  31. Choose Your Own Ethnography
  32. LOLCat Bible = infinite entertainment
  33. my role in a marketer’s dream
  34. Continuous City: Berkeley play involving SNSs
  35. read those contracts!
  36. why I am not going on the academic job market
  37. San Diego mayor backs same-sex marriage
  38. travel schedule from hell, bright white light at the end
  39. a different approach to medicine
  40. social scripts for rituals and ceremonies, of religion and culture
  41. posted about his death
  42. SNS visibility norms (a response to Scoble)
  43. blotchy burns on my legs from my Macbook
  44. doing “nothing” online
  45. controlling your public appearance
  46. confused by Facebook
  47. I lamented the tech crowd’s Facebook fetish.
  48. i’m off!
  49. pointer remix in a culture of copy/paste code (MySpace layouts as remix)
  50. my favorite books
  51. chemistry as architecture
  52. Australian Education.AU seminar talks
  53. airport extreme wifi failure: help?
  54. MacArthur Competition wrt New Digital Media and Learning
  55. For the record: I do not go to UCLA…. or to CalTech
  56. memorial for Peter Lyman
  57. loss of context
  58. personalized viral marketing
  59. National School Boards Association pushes for SNS adoption in schools
  60. javascript features make reading a nightmare
  61. history of social network sites (a work-in-progress)
  62. Research on Social Network Sites (Take 2)
  63. cat predicts deaths, web folk LOL
  64. Continue reading →
  65. re: MySpace and sex offenders
  66. responding to critiques of my essay on class
  67. Berkman Fellowship
  68. processing Harry Potter
  69. Education.AU = me + Australia
  70. Israeli teen culture
  71. on (pseudo) holiday July 1-14
  72. Continue reading →
  73. Dear esteemed members of the press,
  74. woah…. omg. reflections on mega-viewership
  75. viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
  76. “Sicko”, Barack, and Danny Pearl
  77. Vodafone Receiver #18
  78. let the stalking begin
  79. The Devil Came on Horseback
  80. list of non-english social network sites
  81. “Film and the Audience of Tomorrow”
  82. Harvard Business Review Case Commentary: “We Googled You” (newly interactive)
  83. “Significance of Social Software” in BlogTalks Reloaded
  84. “Digital Handshakes on Virtual Receiving Lines”
  85. Cannes Film Festival
  86. Just the Facts about Online Youth Victimization
  87. quality of Google searches?
  88. dysfunctional product design: Apple MagSafe Airline Adapter
  89. dystruktshun of inglesh as we no
  90. MySpace + SecondLife / Ponies!1 = BarbieGirls
  91. social network sites: public, private, or what?
  92. maps + tech companies
  93. Twitter questions (curiosity is killing me…)
  94. Globalization of norms: Facebook challenges Arab LGBT group
  95. “Generation Me”
  96. CFP: Public Practices, Social Software: Examining social practices in networked publics | danah boyd | apophenia
  97. Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks (PEW Report)
  98. NYC talk April 13 w/ Ethan Zuckerman and Trebor Scholz | danah boyd | apophenia
  99. cyberbullying
  100. NYC talk April 13 w/ Ethan Zuckerman and Trebor Scholz
  101. 5 secrets to success
  102. music to live by
  103. Incantations for Muggles
  104. relationship performance in networked publics
  105. safe havens for hate speech are irresponsible
  106. to remember or to forget? on babies and beer goggles
  107. Tweet Tweet (some thoughts on Twitter)
  108. fame, narcissism and MySpace
  109. web 1-2-3
  110. where are the people?
  111. conference circuit
  112. CFP: Public Practices, Social Software: Examining social practices in networked publics
  113. government demands UGC surveillance
  114. IRB issues covered by NYTimes
  115. calling Steve Jobs an opportunist
  116. musing on making things real
  117. relationship performance in networked publics | danah boyd | apophenia
  118. Facebook’s little digital gift
  119. DOPA is back under a new title
  120. a random shout-out
  121. disclosure statement
  122. Los Angeles is green!
  123. about those walled gardens
  124. i can see
  125. SXSW, ICWSM, and Etech
  126. an interview with me
  127. absence
  128. as i’ve noted before
  129. written about before
  130. the cost of lying
  131. PEW data on social network site use
  132. some thoughts on 2007 (advertising, bullying, and mobile)
  133. prisoner 24601: teenage sex offenders
  134. ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens)

2006 91

  1. end of the year top five
  2. the edublog awards
  3. conference t-shirts
  4. on being virtual
  5. paris and Le Web 3
  6. offline Dec 7-10
  7. Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites
  8. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
  9. how do hotels work?
  10. ::gulp:: oh shit.
  11. Six weeks ago
  12. announcing two new academic papers
  13. making net neutrality relevant
  14. restructuring my life
  15. UCLA Police Taser a Student
  16. Bush appoints guy to destroy the program he heads
  17. dear corporate marketer
  18. a massage in Venice
  19. social network sites: my definition
  20. Prop 83 blocked in court
  21. social network site history
  22. tis election day. vote dammit!
  23. what i mean when i say “email is dead” in reference to teens
  24. voting issues, take n
  25. my voting slate
  26. See my full slate.
  27. applying to graduate school
  28. at Diebold we’re changing democracy, one vote at a time
  29. December social software events
  30. me flipping out
  31. the fabric of elephant society
  32. i couldn’t vote in LA?
  33. del.icio.us vs. bookmarks
  34. the flawed sex offender one
  35. Announcing the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative
  36. I blogged about it
  37. pre-election cynicism
  38. comScore misinterprets data: MySpace is *NOT* gray
  39. brilliant idea
  40. What if failure is the plan? | danah boyd | apophenia
  41. a spazzy danah talk
  42. Facebook is open
  43. The Term “Social Network(ing) Sites”
  44. the consequences of ‘modern’ life
  45. welcome to LA
  46. Facebook’s “Privacy Trainwreck”: Exposure, Invasion, and Drama
  47. Continue reading →
  48. will facebook learn from its mistake?
  49. will Facebook learn from its mistake?
  50. oh dear cute chumby
  51. HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, ToRead
  52. updated Ani lyrics page
  53. geeks and werewolves (some notes on FOO)
  54. open hack day at Yahoo!
  55. change in feed and other blog bits
  56. heckle drive
  57. Save Your Space
  58. AIM and Plaxo
  59. youth and those crazy hormones
  60. passwords through favorites = bad idea
  61. Henry Jenkins and Convergence Culture
  62. pick me! sxsw voting is open
  63. crazy radio stations
  64. number games and social software
  65. drug dangerousness ranking
  66. moving update
  67. customized MP3s: alternatives to DRM
  68. this is your mouse brain on drugs
  69. Blogher has begun
  70. DOPA passed
  71. aggregating the “best of” blog entries
  72. an ode to a math teacher: benevolent dictators and urban tribes
  73. best of?
  74. furniture for sale
  75. feigning injuries for insurance companies
  76. from architecture to urban planning: technology development in a networked age
  77. education and Skywalker Ranch
  78. Study shows fear of MySpace predators is overblown
  79. visiting a movie set
  80. being American in Fiji
  81. finland is wonderful
  82. NSA spying on digital publics
  83. qualified
  84. a break in the woods
  85. academic humor
  86. spatial nature of MySpace
  87. blog production/consumption musings
  88. do you love your phone?
  89. i expressed my concern over DOPA
  90. cluster effects
  91. two alexes

2005 1

  1. a post comparing search companies to evil nation states of the 20th century.

2004 1

  1. Opting out of plaxo

2003 1

  1. Plaxo and spam