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Overview

danah boyd is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, particularly focusing on areas where technology intersects with society. Their research includes significant work on privacy, ethics, and the societal impacts of artificial intelligence.

The main fields of study where danah boyd has published include social sciences, with subfields such as artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, safety research, communication, and education.

Their research addresses various topics including:

  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Social Media and Politics

danah boyd has published multiple papers encompassing these areas, including:

  • Differential Perspectives: Epistemic Disconnects Surrounding the U.S. Census Bureau's Use of Differential Privacy, 2022, Harvard Data Science Review
  • Questioning the legitimacy of data, 2020, Information Services & Use
  • Narcotweets: Social Media in Wartime, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Machine Unlearning Doesn't Do What You Think: Lessons for Generative AI Policy, Research, and Practice, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Structuring Work of Algorithms, 2023, Daedalus

They have frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Jayshree Sarathy, A. Feder Cooper, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Miranda Bogen, and Matthew Jagielski.

danah boyd's scholarly output is published in various venues, with multiple papers appearing in Harvard Data Science Review and SSRN Electronic Journal, along with contributions to Information Services & Use, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, and Daedalus.

In addition to journal articles, danah boyd has a book publication through Yale University Press titled It's Complicated, published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Social network sites: definition, history, and scholarship

    Danah M. Boyd;Nicole B. Ellison

  • CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA

    danah boyd;Kate Crawford

  • I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, and the Imagined Audience

    Alice E. Marwick;danah boyd

  • It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

    Danah Boyd

  • Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter

    Danah Boyd;Scott Golder;Gilad Lotan

  • Public Displays of Connection

    J. Donath;D. Boyd

  • Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life

    Danah Boyd

  • Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications

    Danah Boyd

  • Sociality Through Social Network Sites

    Nicole B. Ellison;Danah M. Boyd

  • The Arab Spring| The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

    Gilad Lotan;Erhardt Graeff;Mike Ananny;Devin Gaffney

  • HT06, tagging paper, taxonomy, Flickr, academic article, to read

    Cameron Marlow;Mor Naaman;Danah Boyd;Marc Davis

  • Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project

    Mizuko Ito;Heather A. Horst;Matteo Bittanti;danah boyd

  • The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

    Gilad Lotan;Erhardt Graeff;Mike Ananny;Devin Gaffney

  • To See and Be Seen: Celebrity Practice on Twitter

    Alice Marwick;danah boyd

  • Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media

    Alice E Marwick;danah boyd

  • Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems

    Andrew D. Selbst;Danah Boyd;Sorelle A. Friedler;Suresh Venkatasubramanian

  • Vizster: visualizing online social networks

    J. Heer;D. Boyd

  • Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics

    Henry Jenkins;Mizuko Ito;Danah Boyd

  • Dynamic Debates: An Analysis of Group Polarization Over Time on Twitter

    Sarita Yardi;Danah Boyd

  • Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics

    Danah Michele Boyd

Frequent Co-Authors

Alice E. Marwick
Alice E. Marwick University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford Microsoft (United States)
Nicole B. Ellison
Nicole B. Ellison University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michele L. Ybarra
Michele L. Ybarra Johns Hopkins University
Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins University of Southern California
Eszter Hargittai
Eszter Hargittai University of Zurich
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Munmun De Choudhury
Munmun De Choudhury Georgia Institute of Technology
Jeff Potter
Jeff Potter Brown University
Dorothy L. Espelage
Dorothy L. Espelage University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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