Danah Boyd Quotes

United States, Researcher
November 24, 1977

Danah boyd is a technology and social media scholar. She is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, the founder and president of Data & Society Research Institute, and a Visiting Professor at New York University.

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

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- Media
- Anything
- Addicted
Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.

Danah Boyd

What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

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- Happens
- Audiences
- Online
Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

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- Life
- Running
- Along
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.

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- Done
- Social
- Network
Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

Danah Boyd
We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

Danah Boyd
The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

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- Things
- Ourselves
- Least

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

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- Way
- Space
- Understand
Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

Danah Boyd