Danah Boyd

Danah Boyd is a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She recently completed her PhD in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley.

In her dissertation project Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics, Danah Boyd examined the role that social network sites like MySpace and Facebook play in everyday teen interactions and social relations. This work was funded by the MacArthur Foundation as part of a broader grant on digital youth and informal learning.

Danah Boyd has worked as an ethnographer and social media researcher for various corporations, including Intel, Tribe.net, Google, and Yahoo!