Danah Boyd
Danah Boyd
danah boyd is a social media scholar, youth researcher, and advocate working at Microsoft Research, New York University Media Culture & Communication and the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society...
class creative connections
Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.
networking
There's something new going on in this networking technology, and it's really fantastic.
engage hard kids
Don't go on and engage in surveillance. That makes things really hard for kids to engage with you as a parent.
world librarian feels
I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.
technology everyday roles
Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life
levels visibility needs
For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.
technology people engagement
There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology,
couple thinking space
And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about what you’re looking for, you’ll go to different spaces, and it parallels what we do as adults. You go to different bars when you’re in the mood for different things. You see different people when you want to go listen to music or when you just want to have a quiet drink with a couple of friends.
space giving natural
Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.
levels linkedin very-good
LinkedIn is very good for browsing relationships and hooking into your contacts' networks. It re-connected me with high-level execs I hadn't talked to for some time, who then helped me close various deals.
data forget obsessed
We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.
marketing invisible online
What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.
grease machines done
Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.
media teens social
Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.