danah boyd's publications

Essays and popular blog posts can be found at Best Of Apophenia

Full and Short Papers

danah boyd (2008). "How Can Qualitative Internet Researchers Define the Boundaries of Their Projects: A Response to Christine Hine." Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method (eds. Annette Markham and Nancy Baym). Los Angeles: Sage, pp. 26-32. [pdf]
danah boyd (2008). "Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence." Convergence, 14 (1). [forbidden from posting]
danah boyd (2008). "None of this is Real." Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (ed. Joe Karaganis). New York: Social Science Research Council, pp. 132-157. [pdf]
danah boyd (2007). "Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life." MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning - Youth, Identity, and Digital Media Volume (ed. David Buckingham). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 119-142. [pdf]
danah boyd and Nicole Ellison (2007, October). "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13 (1), article 11. [html] [pdf]
danah boyd (2007). "The Significance of Social Software." BlogTalks Reloaded: Social Software Research & Cases (eds. Thomas N. Burg and Jan Schmidt). Norderstedt, pp. 15-30. [pdf]
danah boyd (2007, May). "Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?" Knowledge Tree, 13. [html] [pdf] [French]
danah boyd (2006, December). "Friends, Friendsters, and MySpace Top 8: Writing Community Into Being on Social Network Sites." First Monday, 11 (12). [html] [pdf]
danah boyd (2006, November). “A Blogger’s Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium.” Reconstruction, 6 (4). [html] [pdf]
Cameron Marlow, Mor Naaman, danah boyd, and Marc Davis (2006). "HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, ToRead." Proceedings of Hypertext 2006, New York: ACM Press. [pdf]
Cameron Marlow, Mor Naaman, danah boyd, and Marc Davis (2006). "Position Paper, Tagging, Taxonomy, Flickr, Article, ToRead." Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop (at WWW 2006). Edinburgh, Scotland, May 22. [pdf]
danah boyd and Jeffrey Heer (2006). "Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster." Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39), Persistent Conversation Track. Kauai, HI: IEEE Computer Society. January 4 - 7, 2006. [pdf]
danah boyd (2005). "Sociable Technology and Democracy." Extreme Democracy (eds. Jon Lebkowsky and Mitch Ratcliffe). Lulu. [pdf]
Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd (2005). "Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks." IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2005). Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23-25. [pdf]
danah boyd (2005). "Autistic Social Software." Best Software Writing I (ed. Joel Spolsky). Berkeley: Apress. [pdf]
danah boyd (2005). "Broken Metaphors: Blogging as Liminal Practice." Presented at Media Ecology Association Conference (MEA 2005). New York, New York, USA, June 22-26, 2005. [pdf]
Joseph McCarthy and danah boyd (2005). "Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces: Experiences at an Academic Conference." Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2005). Portland, Oregon, USA, April 2-7. [pdf]
Judith Donath and danah boyd (2004, October). "Public displays of connection." BT Technology Journal, 22 (4), pp 71-82. [pdf]
danah boyd (2004). "Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networks." Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Vienna: ACM, April 24-29, 2004. [pdf]
Fernanda Viegas, danah boyd, David Nguyen, Jeff Potter, and Judith Donath (2002). "Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling: PostHistory and Social Network Fragments." Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), Persistent Conversation Track. Big Island, HI: IEEE Computer Society. January 5-8, 2002. [pdf]
danah boyd and Jeff Potter (2003). "Social Network Fragments: An Interactive Tool for Exploring Digital Social Connections." Sketch at SIGGRAPH 2003. San Diego, California: ACM, July 27-31. [pdf]
danah boyd (2002). "Faceted Id/entity: Managing Representation in a Digital World." Cambridge, MA: MIT Master's Thesis. August 9, 2002. [pdf]
danah boyd, Hyun-Yeul Lee, Daniel Ramage, and Judith Donath (2002). "Developing Legible Visualizations for Online Social Spaces." Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35). Big Island, HI: IEEE Computer Society. January 7 - 10, 2002. [pdf]
danah boyd (2001). "Sexing the Internet: Reflections on the role of identification in online communities." Presented at Sexualities, medias and technologies: theorizing old and new practices. University of Surrey, June 21-22, 2001. [pdf]
Kelly Dobson, danah boyd, Wendy Ju, Judith Donath, and Hiroshi Ishii (2001). "Creating Visceral Personal and Social Interactions in Mediated Spaces." Interactive Poster at Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2001). Seattle, Washington: ACM, March 31 - April 5, 2001. [pdf]

Other Writings

danah boyd (2008). "Can Social Network Sites Enable Political Action?" In Rebooting America (eds. Allison Fine, Micah Sifry, Andrew Rasiej and Josh Levy). Creative Commons. 112-116. [pdf]
danah boyd (2008). "Digital Handshakes in Networked Publics: Why Politicians Must Interact, Not Broadcast." In Ben Rigby (ed.) Mobilizing Generation 2.0. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. [pdf]
danah boyd (2007, June) "Socializing digitally." Vodafone Receiver Magazine 18: The Home. [pdf]
danah boyd (2007, June) Case Commentary on "We Googled You: Should Fred hire Mimi despite her online history?" by Diane Coutu. Harvard Business Review. Cambridge. [html]
danah boyd (2007) Foreward to "Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing" by Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper. Amacom. [html]
danah boyd (2006, September 8) "Facebook's 'Privacy Trainwreck': Exposure, Invasion, and Drama." Apophenia Blog. [html]
danah boyd and Henry Jenkins (2006, May 26) "Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)." MIT Tech Talk. [html]
danah boyd (2006, March 21) "Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?" Apophenia Blog. [html]
danah boyd (2005, February) Review of Material Virtualities. New Media and Society 7 (1), pp. 139-141. [pdf]
danah boyd (2005, January 5) "Turmoil in blogland." Salon.com. [html]
danah boyd (2004, July 28) "The New Blogocracy." Salon.com. [html]
danah boyd (2001). "Depth Cues in Virtual Reality and Real World: Understanding Differences in Depth Perception by Studying Shape-from-shading and Motion Parallax." Undergraduate computer science honors thesis at Brown University. Advisors: Leslie Welch, Andries van Dam. 2000. [pdf]

Conference Presentations and Talks

danah boyd (2007, November 2). "Information Access in a Networked World." Talk given to Pearson Publishing. Palo Alto, CA. [html] [French]
danah boyd (2007, October 13). "Choose Your Own Ethnography: In Search of (Un)Mediated Life." Paper presented at 4S. Montreal, Canada. [html]
danah boyd (2007, May 18). "Digital Handshakes on Virtual Receiving Lines." Talk at Personal Democracy Forum. New York, New York. [html]
danah boyd (2007, May 16). "Film and the Audience of Tomorrow." Talk at Cannes Film Festival Opening Forum: "Cinema: The Audiences of Tomorrow." Cannes, France. [html]
danah boyd (2007, March 28). "Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life." Talk at Emerging Tech 2007. San Diego, California. [html]
danah boyd (2006, October 2). "The Significance of Social Software." Talk at BlogTalk Reloaded. Vienna, Austria. [html]
danah boyd (2006, March 6). "G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide." Talk at Emerging Tech 2006. San Diego, California. [html]
danah boyd (2006, February 19). "Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace." Talk at American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS-2006). St. Louis, Missouri. [html] [french pdf]
danah boyd (2005, October 1). "Blogging Outloud: Shifts in Public Voice." Talk at Library and Information Technology Association . San Jose, California. [html]
danah boyd (2005, February 4). "Revenge of the Social Network: Lessons from Friendster." Talk at Stanford's HCI Seminar. Palo Alto, California. [html]
danah boyd (2004, June 24). "Autistic Social Software." Talk at Supernova2004. Santa Clara, California. [html]
danah boyd (2004, February 11). "Revenge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles." Talk at Emerging Tech 2004. San Diego, California. [html]
danah boyd, Jeff Potter (2003, July 30). "Social Network Fragments: An Interactive Tool for Exploring Digital Social Connections." Sketch talk at SIGGRAPH 2003. San Diego, California: ACM. [ppt]
danah boyd, Jeff Potter, and Fernanda Viegas (2002, February 14). "Fragmentation of Identity through Structural Holes in Email." Paper talk at International Sunbelt Social Network Conference XXII. New Orleans, LA: February 13-17, 2002. [ppt]

Panel and Workshop Proposals

Joseph McCarthy, danah boyd, Elizabeth Churchill, William Griswold, Elizabeth Lawley, and Melora Zaner (2004). "Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces: Attention, Intention and Contention." Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004), Panel Proposal. Chicago, IL, November 6-10, 2004. [pdf]
danah boyd, Michele Chang, and Elizabeth Goodman (2004). "Representations of Digital Identity." Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004), Workshop Organizer's Proposal. Chicago, IL, November 6-10, 2004. [pdf]
danah boyd, Carlos Jensen, Scott Lederer, and David Nguyen (2002). "Privacy in Digital Environments: Empowering Users." Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002), Workshop Organizer's Proposal. New Orleans, LA, November 16 - 20, 2002. [pdf]

Workshop Position Papers

danah boyd (2004). "Dating on Friendster." Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Application for: ‘Scientists, designers seek same for good conversation’: A Workshop on Online Dating. Vienna: ACM, April 24-29, 2004. [pdf]
danah boyd (2003). "Reflections on Friendster, Trust and Intimacy." Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2003), Workshop application for the Intimate Ubiquitous Computing Workshop. Seattle, WA, October 12-15, 2003. [pdf]
danah boyd (2001). "Identity of space & people in cyberspace." Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2001), Integrating Diverse Research and Development Approaches to the Construction of Social Cyberspaces Workshop. Seattle, Washington: ACM, March 31 - April 5, 2001. [pdf]
Judith Donath, Hyun-Yeul Lee, danah boyd, and Jonathan Goler (2000). "Loom - Intuitively Visualizing Usenet." Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW-2000), Dealing with Community Data Workshop. Philadelphia, PA, December 2 - 6, 2000. [pdf]

Installations

danah boyd, Jeff Potter (2002). "Social Network Fragments." Part of Express Mail shown at the Infotecture exibit at the Artists Space Gallery, New York, May 30 - July 13 2002. [html]
Judith Donath, Joseph Paradiso, Dana Spiegel, danah boyd, Jonathan Goler, Kai-yuh Hsiao, Chris Yang, Ari Adler, Jeff Hayashida, Josh Strickon, and Ari Benbasat (2000). "Laser Who." [html]
  • Emerging Technologies at SIGGRAPH 2000, New Orleans, LA, August 2000.
  • Opera Totale 5, Venice Italy, November 1999.

Project Pages

"Vizster" (with Jeff Heer). 2005. [html]
"Social Network Fragments" (with Jeff Potter). 2001-2002. [html]
"SecureId" 2001-2002. [html]
"Loom2" (with Hyun-Yeul Lee). 2000-2001. [html]
"Visual Who" (with Dana Spiegel). 1999-2000. [html]

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