User Profile for danah boyd (danah boyd)

Bio: danah boyd is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at
the University of California-Berkeley and a fellow at the USC
Annenberg Center for Communications. Her dissertation focuses on how
youth engage in networked publics like MySpace, YouTube, Facebook,
Xanga, etc. In particular, she is interested in how American teens
formulate a presentation of self and negotiate socialization in
mediated contexts amidst invisible audiences. This work is funded by
the MacArthur Foundation as part of a broader grant on digital youth
and informal learning.

Prior to Berkeley, danah received a bachelor's degree in computer
science from Brown University and a master's degree in sociable media
from MIT Media Lab. She has worked as an ethnographer and social
media 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.

danah maintains a blog on social media called Apophenia - http://
www.zephoria.org/thoughts/

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