not sure quite how this slipped by danah boyd will be joining microsoft research in january i will be joining the newly minted microsoft research new england in boston ma. w00000t i couldnt be more ecstatic.......
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counter intuitive michael masnick at techdirt weve been pointing out for a while that the supposed thr eat of online sexual predators has been blown way out of proportion thanks to the press and politicians desire to create moral panics that allow politicians to make themselves look good while passing useless laws. the berkman center at harvard is about t......
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danah boyd and her colleagues have just completed a 3 year collaborative research project on youth and media. check it out . social network sites online games videosharing sites and gadgets such as ipods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. they have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. today......
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via danah boyd and mimi ito the macarthur digital youth project has released its findings .a ito writes its been over three years in the making but we are at long last releasing the results of our digital youth project . the goal of this work was to gain an understanding of youth new media practice in the u.s. by engaging in ethnographic research across a diverse range of yo......
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when i started at berkeley peter promised me that it would be the perfect place to cause trouble and grow into my own kind of scholar. he vowed to protect me as long as i vowed to kick ass and take names. apophenia......
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one of my last posts dont friend me discussed my thoughts on libraries friending other libraries. a couple of commenters didnt agree and said so in my comments which is cool in fact you might want to check out the discussion and chime in yourself if you havent yet. instead of answering individual comments with another comment i thought id lump a couple of ......
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pew internet have released a new report on 4 0american teens video games and civics american teens gaming experiences are diverse and include significant social interaction and civic engagement. the report looks at how young peoples gaming both individual corporate and online affects or encourages civic engagement the research defined ci......
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while the results of prop 8 in california are indeed distressing and discouraging as a community we have never let big or small setbacks stop us. the time for equality will come unfortunately we just have to deal with going backwards first before we can go forward. legality has never stopped gay and lesbian couples from getting married if only in ceremony. recently two resources were point......
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obamas victory has people celebrating across the world for so many reasons but given my preoccupations it should come as no surprise that part of my joy comes from his decidedly forwardthinking policies toward digital culture. as for example barry saunders has argued in his abc story the exemplar of a successful political campaigns use of social media is obama821......
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right now im trying like hell not to cry. i just learned that the pride flag that hangs in the castro neighborhood of san francisco is flying at half mast after prop 8 passed. a black flag has been added above it. i havent been able to really revel in the victory of barack obama because the night was marred by the passing of prop 8. maybe it is because i was there the first day o......
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a few links to pass along regarding connections between new technology and academic research. the chronicles wired campus blog last week reported on academic uses for google earth such as a map of countybycounty election results dating back to 1840. alice marwick has posted an annotated bibliography of academic research on livejournal . ht danah boyd who has also compil......
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thirteen people have paid a serious price for what they have done on facebook . most of us have been tagged in photos when wed rather not have been or had the odd inappropriate comment from a friend on our wall. but these 13 people have lost their jobs. they all worked for virgin atlantic and had discussed safety standards and said some less than polite things about passengers on facebo......
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mad young thing the changing face of celebrity gen y often dont get the business environment apophenia livejournal academic research bibliography the web divides pr vs. advertising media guerrilla interesting piece sure to spur more reactions online wow now has 11 million players the inquirer why is yahoo gaining search share three reasons also the differences......
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il marrive souvent de rencontrer des adolescents ou des adultes qui pensent avoir effectua correctement ces raglages et qui sont choquas voire horrifias de dacouvrir que ceuxci produisent autre chose que ce quils ont pravu. comme dans le cas du phototagging les usagers peuvent atre surpris de laccessibilita quils confarent a des contenus auxquels ils nont pas ......
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while the freshman 15 laptop giveaway is running i thought id deliver a load of edulinks for everyone.a its a real mixed bag.a hopefully something for everyone. and if you havent entered the competition for the laptop yet what are you waiting fora its worth a go.a for those of you have have entered its been great to read your answers to the questions.a......
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links of interest for october 28th 2008 putting privacy settings in the context of use in facebook and elsewhere apophenia danah boyds sensible and timely reminder about facebooks ridiculously complicated and confusing privacy settings fac ebook821 7s privacy settings are the most flexible and the most confusing privacy settings in the industry. over and ......
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il y a quelques jours gilad les yeux acarquillas mappelle pour regarder son acran dordinateur. il atait sur facebook et venait de dacouvrir un trou dans la protection de la confidentialita. ayant paramatra son fil de nouvelles pour afficher autant dinfos photo que possible il atait raguliarement informa des commentaires de ses amis sur les photos de leurs conta......
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danah boyd illuminates an interesting privacy loophole in how facebook allows users to view others photos. as she describes it a few days ago gilads eyes opened wide and he called me over to look at his computer. he was on facebook and he had just discovered a privacy loophole. he had maximized his newsfeed to get as many photorelated bits as possible. as a result he was regul......
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noted in my rapid morning reading of rss feeds danah boyd writes about facebooks complex privacy settings confusing people tech developers i implore you put privacy information into the context of the content itself. when i post a photo in my album let me see a list of everyone who can view that photo. when i look at a photo on someones profile let me see e......
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two interesting posts this morning that made me think we are doing things the wrong way around. zephoria wrote an excellent piece on privacy and used an example where a user within facebook was able to get access to other peoples photos even though they could not access their profile. a quote facebooks privacy settings are the most flexible and the most confusing privacy settings in th......
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tech developers i implore you put privacy information into the context of the content itself. when i post a photo in my album let me see a list of everyone who can view that photo. when i look at a photo on someones profile let me see everyone else who can view that photo before i go to write a comment. you dont get people to understand the scale of visibility by tweetling a few p......
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i was inspired today to write about social media advertising today after reading two other posts. one tweeted by peter kim commenting that a 7 click through rate for an online ad is really 93 waste for the company that buys it.a the other from the content and blogger perspective by andy beal of marketing pilgrim. andy touches on the fact that pricing for display ads sold th......
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photo by michael sarver they were a kind of solution. from a recent post by the inimitable cogdog spurred by current cck08 discussions on complexity and chaos in addition i am growing more snarky with tacit generalizations all but using the dead tired natives immigrant s that younger desires more complex older desires linear. i am not......
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hello everyone today im flying to seattle to participate in microsoft researchs social computing symposium . every year since 2004 microsoft research has been inviting 90 people from both academia and industry to pow wow about social computing. participants over the years have included danah boyd who is joining the new new england microsoft research after finishing......
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