About meMy name is danah boyd and I'm a PhD student in the School of Information at Berkeley and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. I currently live in Venice, CA. Buzzwords in my world include: identity, context, social network sites, youth culture, social media, performance, Friendster, MySpace, Facebook. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever i'm thinking about. Relevant links:
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May 07, 2008Mobilizing Generation 2.0
If you're only looking to read what I've written, you can check my essay out here. If you're an organizer or activist, you might enjoy it better in the context of the whole book. Category: politics Tags: activism Posted by zephoria at 12:40 PM
| Comments (7) May 05, 2008User Elections for LiveJournal's Advisory BoardLiveJournal's Advisory Board helps advise LJ about policies, business, user practices, and product development. Currently, the Board consists of: me, Esther Dyson, Brad Fitzpatrick, and Lawrence Lessig. LJ has decided that users should also sit on the Advisory Board (recognizing that Brad and I are both also active users). So, LJ is having an election! It is with great pleasure that I announce that LiveJournal has opened the nominations for user elections. LJ has decided that, in order to make certain that different communities are represented, there will be two user representatives in the Advisory Board. One will be elected to represent the Cyrillic language community and the other will represent the non-Cyrillic users. This may seem a bit odd, but it's probably important to note that a large percentage of LJ's users are Russian and they engage in very different practices on LJ than non-Russian users. To make sure both sides are represented, we decided to divide things this way. LJ will accept nominations for representatives from now until May 15, 2008. Users must nominate themselves and obtain 100 comments of support from different users. The election poll will be posted on May 22 and users can vote until May 29. For complete details, click here.
I'm super excited that we're doing this and I can't wait to meet the user representatives! Category: LiveJournal Posted by zephoria at 4:28 PM
| Comments (2) May 01, 2008Little Brother + the Uglies series = le awesome young adult scifiAlthough I've always been eh about most scifi, I've grown increasingly fond of young adult science fiction and scifi focused on teens. There's something fun in reading about teens running around trying to save the world. I can thank/blame Cory Doctorow for most of this because he's the one who got me hooked on reading it. So I'm super super super stoked to announce that his first young adult scifi book is on the shelves.
While the first three focus on pushing against society's valuation of the beautiful, the fourth introduces a new and "improved" world... where everyone in society is ranked based on how often people talk about them and "kickers" (aka bloggers) are obsessed with getting to the top. Needless to say, attention/reputation-based economies don't come out the way that we might imagine them to be. (Translation: this series deconstructs both of our most "valuable" economies today - the economy of the beautiful AND the purportedly merit-based attention/reputation-economy. Sooooo good! And such fun world-saving kickass girl characters!) For those of you who aren't familiar with young adult sci fi, think of it as energizing brain candy. You can finish most YA books on a cross-country flight and they are far far far better than the movies that they show. And besides, they leave you with a youthful grin on your face. Category: youth culture Tags: books scifi recommendations Posted by zephoria at 1:37 PM
| Comments (5) April 27, 2008MacArthur Forum talk on "Teen Socialization Practices in Networked Publics"Last Wednesday, I gave a talk in Palo Alto as part of the MacArthur Forum "From MySpace to Hip Hop" alongside the rest of the Digital Youth Research Team. I'm still waiting on the videos and as soon as I have them, I will post them. In the meantime, I thought that I'd share my crib from the talk. For those of you who know my work, much of this will be familiar. Still, it's a pretty good overview of my project. Enjoy! Category: events Posted by zephoria at 2:36 PM
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