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danah michele boyd

Cornell University Department of Communication
437 Mann Drive, Ithaca, NY 14853
https://www.danah.org / dmb478@cornell.edu

Academic and Research Appointments

Cornell University (2024-present)

  • 2025-present: Geri Gay Professor, Department of Communication
  • 2024-2025: Visiting Professor, Department of Communication

Georgetown University (2021-present)

  • 2021-present: Distinguished Visiting Professor 

Microsoft Research (2009-2025)

  • 2016-2025: Partner Researcher, Northeast Labs
  • 2013-2016: Principal Researcher, Northeast Labs
  • 2010-2013: Senior Researcher, Northeast Labs
  • 2009-2010: Researcher, New England Lab

Data & Society Research Institute (2013-2023)

  • 2013-2023: Founder and President 

New York University (2011-2021)

  • 2014-2021: Visiting Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program
  • 2011-2014: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
Education

2008 Ph.D. Information, New Media Emphasis, University of California-Berkeley

  • Dissertation: Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics
  • Committee: Peter Lyman (deceased), Mizuko Ito, AnnaLee Saxenian, Cori Hayden, Jenna Burrell

2002 M.S. Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Thesis: Faceted Id/entity: Managing Representation in a Digital World
  • Committee: Judith Donath, Genevieve Bell, Henry Jenkins

2000 A.B. Computer Science with Honors, Brown University

  • Honors Thesis: Depth Cues in Virtual Reality and the Real World: Understanding Individual Differences in Depth Perception by Studying Shape-from-shading and Motion Parallax
  • Committee: Andries van Dam, Leslie Welch
Publications
Books

boyd, danah. 2026. Data Are Made Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census University of Chicago Press [Under contract]

- Translations: French [Under contract]
- Awards: Awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Prize for Work-in-Progress

Jenkins, Henry, Mizuko Ito, and danah boyd. 2015. Participatory Culture in a Networked Era Polity Press

- Translations: French, Chinese

boyd, danah. 2014. It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens Yale University Press

- Translations: Chinese-traditional, Chinese-simple, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-European, Russian, Spanish, Thai
- Awards: Notable public reviews: New York Times (April 25, 2014), The Telegraph (March 17, 2014), Los Angeles Times (February 26, 2014), Publishers Weekly (February 1, 2014), and Financial Times (February 21, 2014). Notable journal reviews: New Media & Society, International Journal of Communication, and Journal of Children and Media. Awards: Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction (2015), Delta Kappa Gamma Educators Book Award (2015)

Palfrey, John G., danah boyd and Dena Sacco. 2009. Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies: Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force Carolina Academic Press

Ito, Mizuko, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Martinez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp. (with Judd Antin, Megan Finn, Arthur Law, Annie Manion, Sarai Mitnick and Dan Schlossberg and Sarita Yardi). 2009. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning With New Media MIT Press

Refereed Journal Articles / Conference Proceedings

Liu, Chuncheng and danah boyd. 2026. “The State’s Politics of ‘Fake Data’” Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'26). Barcelona, Spain: April 13-17. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772318.3790583

Angel, María P and danah boyd. 2024. “Techno-legal Solutionism: Regulating Children’s Online Safety in the United States” Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law (CSLAW '24). pp. 86-97. Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3614407.3643705

Vertesi, Janet and danah boyd. 2024. “The Resource Bind: System Failure and Legitimacy Threats in Sociotechnical Organizations” Sociologica 17(3). pp. 25–49. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/18894 [Honorable Mention: ASA-SKAT Star-Nelkin Award]

Metcalf, Jacob, Emanuel Moss, and danah boyd. 2019. “Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the institutionalization of ethics” Social Research: An International Quarterly 86(2). pp. 449-476. https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2019.0022

Fish, Benjamin, Ashkan Bashardoust, danah boyd, Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian. 2019. “Gaps in Information Access in Social Networks” The Web Conference 2019. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3308558.3313680

Selbst, Andrew D., danah boyd, Sorelle Friedler, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, and Janet Vertesi. 2019. “Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems” ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), 1(1). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3287560.3287598

Pitcan, Mikaela, Alice Marwick, and danah boyd. 2018. “Performing the Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 23(1). https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/23/3/163/4962541

Barocas, Solon and danah boyd. 2017. “Engaging the Ethics of Data Science in Practice” Communications of the ACM 60(11). pp. 23-25. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3144172

Zook, Matt, Solon Barocas, danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Emily Keller, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Alyssa Goodman, Rachelle Hollander, Barbara A. Koenig, Jacob Metcalf, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, and Frank Pasquale. 2017. “Ten Simple Rules for Responsible Big Data Research” PLoS Computational Biology 13(3): e1005399. https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005399

Ybarra, Michele L., Dorothy L. Espelage, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Josephine D. Korchmaros, and danah boyd. 2016. “Lifetime Prevalence Rates and Overlap of Physical, Psychological, and Sexual Dating Abuse Perpetration and Victimization in a National Sample of Adolescents” Archives of Sexual Behavior 45(5). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0748-9

Musto, Jennifer and danah boyd. 2014. “The Trafficking-Technology Nexus” Social Politics 21(3). pp. 461-483. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxu018

Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. 2014. “Networked Privacy: How Teenagers Negotiate Context in Social Media” New Media & Society 16. pp. 1051-1067. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814543995

Ybarra, Michele and danah boyd. 2015. “Can clans protect adolescent players of massively multiplayer online games from violent behaviors?” International Journal of Public Health 6(20). pp. 267-276. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-014-0637-8

boyd, danah and Eszter Hargittai. 2013. “Connected and Concerned: Variation in Parents’ Online Safety Concerns” Policy & Internet 5(3). pp. 245-269. https://doi.org/10.1002/1944-2866.POI332

Yom-Tov, Elad and danah boyd. 2014. “On the link between media coverage of anorexia and pro-anorexic practices on the web” International Journal of Eating Disorders 47(2). pp. 196-202. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22195

Korchmaros, Josephine, Michele Ybarra, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, danah boyd, and Amanda Lenhart. 2013. “Perpetration of Teen Dating Violence in a Networked Society” Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 16(8). pp. 561-567. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2012.0627

Lingel, Jessa and danah boyd. 2013. “‘Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe’: Information Poverty, Information Norms, and Stigma” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 64(5). pp. 981-991. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22800

Monroy-Hernández, Andrés, Munmum De Choudhury, Emre Kiciman, danah boyd, Scott Counts. 2013. “The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Warfare” CSCW’13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441938

Monroy-Hernández, Andrés, Emre Kiciman, danah boyd, Scott Counts. 2012. “Narcotweets: Social Media in Wartime” Proceedings of ICWSM’12. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v6i1.14338

Ybarra, Michele, danah boyd, Josephine Korchmaros, and Jay Koby Oppenheim. 2012. “Defining and Measuring Cyberbullying Within the Larger Context of Bullying Victimization” Journal of Adolescent Health 54. pp. 53-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.12.031

Lotan, Gilad, Erhardt Graeff, Mike Ananny, Devin Gaffney, Ian Pearce, and danah boyd. 2011. “The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions” International Journal of Communications 5. pp. 1375-1405. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1246

Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. 2011. “To See and Be Seen: Celebrity Practice on Twitter” Convergence 17(2). pp. 139-158. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856510394539

Monroy-Hernandez, Andres, Benjamin Mako Hill, Jazmin Gonzalez-Rivero, and danah boyd. 2011. “Computers Can’t Give Credit: How Automatic Attribution Falls Short in an Online Remixing Community” Proceedings of CHI 2011. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979452

boyd, danah, Jenny Ryan, and Alex Leavitt. 2011. “Pro-Self-Harm and the Visibility of Youth-Generated Problematic Content” I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 7(1).

Yardi, Sarita and danah boyd. 2010. “Dynamic Debates: An Analysis of Group Polarization over Time on Twitter” Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society 30(5). pp. 316-327. https://doi.org/10.1177/0270467610380011

boyd, danah and Eszter Hargittai. 2010. “Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares?” First Monday 15(8). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v15i8.3086

Yardi, Sarita, Daniel Romero, Grant Schoenebeck, and danah boyd. 2010. “Detecting Spam in a Twitter Network” First Monday 15(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v15i1.2793

boyd, danah. 2008. “Can Social Network Sites Enable Political Action?” International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 4(2). pp. 241-244. https://doi.org/10.1386/macp.4.2.241_3

boyd, danah, Scott Golder, and Gilad Lotan. 2010. “Tweet Tweet Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter” Proceedings of HICSS-42. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2010.412

boyd, danah and Nicole Ellison. 2007. “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x

boyd, danah, Jeffrey Heer. 2006. “Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster” Proceedings of Hawai’i International Conference on Social Systems (HICSS-39). https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.394

Marlow, Cameron, Mor Naaman, danah boyd, and Marc Davis. 2006. “HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, ToRead” Proceedings of Hypertext 2006. pp. 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1145/1149941.1149949

Marlow, Cameron, Mor Naaman, danah boyd, and Marc Davis. 2006. “Position Paper, Tagging, Taxonomy, Flickr, Article, WWW2006, ToRead” Proceedings of WWW-2006. Edinburgh, Scotland.

Heer, Jeffrey and danah boyd. 2005. “Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks” Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoViz 2005). Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFVIS.2005.1532126

McCarthy, Joseph and danah boyd. 2005. “Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces: Experiences at an Academic Conference” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004). pp. 1641-1644. Portland, Oregon. https://doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1056986

Donath, Judith and danah boyd. 2004. “Public Displays of Connection” BT Technology Journal 22(4). pp. 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BTTJ.0000047585.06264.cc

boyd, danah. 2004. “Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networks” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004). pp. 1279-1282. Vienna: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/985921.986043

boyd, danah and Jeff Potter. 2003. “Social Network Fragments: An Interactive Tool for Exploring Digital Social Connections” Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2003. San Diego, California: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/965400.965437

boyd, danah, 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. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2002.994062

Book chapter

boyd, danah. in press. “Interventions Not Solutions” AI and Power, edited by Nóra Ni Loideain. University of London Press.

Caplan, Robyn, and danah boyd. 2018. “Who’s Playing Who? Media Manipulation in an Era of Trump” Trump and the Media, edited by Pablo Boczkowski and Zizi Papacharissi. MIT Press, pp. 49–58

boyd, danah. 2016. “Do You See What I See? Visibility of Practices Through Social Media” Education and Social Media, edited by Christine Greenhow, Julia Sonnevend, and Colin Agur. MIT Press, pp. 49–60

boyd, danah. 2015. “Making Sense of Teen Life: Strategies for Capturing Ethnographic Data in a Networked Era” Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online, edited by Eszter Hargittai and Sandvig Sandvig. MIT Press, pp. 79–102

boyd, danah, Karen Levy, and Alice Marwick. 2014. “The Networked Nature of Algorithmic Discrimination” Data & Discrimination: Collected Essays, edited by Seeta Peña Gangadharan and Virginia Eubanks. New America, pp. 43–57

Ellison, Nicole, and danah boyd. 2013. “Sociality through Social Network Sites” The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, edited by William H. Dutton. Oxford University Press, pp. 151–72

boyd, danah, and Kelly McBride. 2013. “The Destabilizing Force of Fear” The New Ethics of Journalism, edited by Kelly McBride and Tom Rosentiel. Sage, pp. 177–88

boyd, danah. 2011. “White Flight in Networked Publics? How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook” Race After the Internet, edited by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White. Routledge, pp. 203–22

- Republished in Portuguese as: boyd, danah. 2017. “Êxodo branco em redes sociais? Como raça e classe moldaram o envolvimento de adolescentes estadunidenses com MySpace e Facebook.” Revista Parágrafo 5(1): 19-35.

Schrock, Andrew, and danah boyd. 2011. “Problematic Youth Interaction Online: Solicitation, Harassment, and Cyberbullying.” Computer-Mediated Communication in Personal Relationships, edited by Kevin B. Wright and Lynn M. Webb. Peter Lang, pp. 368–97

Quan-Haase, Anabel, and danah boyd. 2011. “Teen Communities” Encyclopedia of Social Networks, edited by George Barnette. Sage, pp. 843–47

boyd, danah. 2010. “Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications” Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Site, edited by Zizi Papacharissi. Routledge, pp. 39–58

boyd, danah, and Nicole B. Ellison. 2010. “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship” Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader, edited by Helen Donelan, Karen Kear, and Magnus Ramage. Routledge, pp. 261–81

danah boyd and Jessica K. Parker. 2010. “Hanging Out With Friends: MySpace, Facebook, and Other Networked Publics” Teaching Tech-Savvy Kids, edited by Jessica K. Parker. Sage, pp. 15-36

danah boyd. 2009. “Reflections on Lori Drew, Bullying, and Strategies for Helping Kids” The Best Technology Writing 2009, edited by Steven Johnson. Yale University Press.

boyd, danah. 2008. “Digital Handshakes in Networked Publics: Why Politicians Must Interact, Not Broadcast” Mobilizing Generation 2.0, edited by Ben Rigby. Jossey-Bass (San Francisco), pp. 91-94

boyd, danah, and Joe Karaganis. 2008. “None of This Is Real: Networked Participation in Friendster” Structures of Participation in Digital Culture, Social Science Research Council, pp. 132–57

boyd, danah. 2008. “Can Social Network Sites Enable Political Action?” Rebooting America, edited by Allison Fine, Micah Sifry, Andrew Rasiej, and Josh Levy. Personal Democracy Press, pp. 112–16

boyd, danah. 2007. “The Significance of Social Software” BlogTalks Reloaded: Social Software – Research & Cases, edited by Thomas Burg and Jan Schmidt. Norderstedt, pp. 15-30

boyd, danah. 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, edited by David Buckingham. MIT Press, pp. 119–42

- Excerpt republished in Nothing in the World But Youth (Ed. Karen Eslea). Turner Contemporary, pp. 216-222.

danah boyd. 2005. “Sociable Technology and Democracy” Extreme Democracy, edited by Jon Lebkowsky and Mitch Ratcliffe. Lulu, pp. 198-209

Other Academic writing

Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. 2018. “Understanding Privacy at the Margins” International Journal of Communication, 12, pp. 1157-1165. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/7053

boyd, danah. 2008. “How Can Qualitative Internet Researchers Define the Boundaries of Their Projects? (Response 3)” Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method (ed. Annette N Markham and Nancy K. Baym), Los Angeles: Sage, pp. 26-32. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483329086

boyd, danah. 2007. “Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?” Knowledge Tree 13, May.

boyd, danah. 2005. “Book Review of Material Virtualities” New Media & Society, 7(1), pp. 139-141. https://doi.org/10.1177/146144480500700110

Non-Archival Academic Conference Papers

boyd, danah. 2005. Performative Whack-a-Mole (Or What Happened When the Freaks, Geeks and Queers Colonized Friendster in Communications and Social Networks). Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). Pasadena, California: October 21.

boyd, danah. 2004. Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces. CSCW 2004. Panel: Joe McCarthy and danah boyd (co-organizers), Elizabeth Churchill, William Griswold, Elizabeth Lawley, Melora Zaner. Chicago, Illinois: November 10.

Viegas, Fernanda, danah boyd, and Jeff Potter. 2002. Fragmentation of Identity through Structural Holes in Email. Paper talk at International Sunbelt Social Network Conference XXII. New Orleans, Louisiana: February 13-17.

boyd, danah. 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.

Dobson, Kelly, danah boyd, Wendy Ju, Judith Donath, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2001. Creating Visceral Personal and Social Interactions in Mediated Spaces. Interactive Poster at ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2001). Seattle, Washington: March 31 – April 5, 2001.

Written Invited Talks

boyd, danah. 2007. “Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life.” Emerging Tech. San Diego, California: March 28.

boyd, danah. 2006. “G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide.” Emerging Tech. San Diego, California: March 6.

boyd, danah. 2005. “Blogging Outloud: Shifts in Public Voice.” Library and Information Technology Association. San Jose, California: October 1.

boyd, danah. 2004. “Revenge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles.” Emerging Tech. San Diego, California: February 11.

Commission and Committee Reports

Internet Safety Technical Task Force. 2009. “Enhancing Child Safety & Online Technologies” Multi-Site Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States. https://cyber.harvard.edu/pubrelease/isttf/

Schrock, Andrew and danah boyd. 2008. “Online Threats to Youth: Solicitation, Harassment, and Problematic Content” Research Advisory Board Report for the Internet Safety Technical Task Force. https://cyber.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.law.harvard.edu/files/RAB_Lit_Review_121808_0.pdf

Ito, Mizuko, Heather A. Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C.J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson (with Sonja Baumer, Rachel Cody, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Martínez, Dan Perkel, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp). 2008. “Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project” The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning. November. https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/1809/Living-and-Learning-with-New-MediaSummary-of

White Papers and Primers

Cooper, A. Feder, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Miranda Bogen, Matthew Jagielski, Katja Filippova, Ken Ziyu Liu, Alexandra Chouldechova, Jamie Hayes, Yangsibo Huang, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Ilia Shumailov, Eleni Triantafillou, Peter Kairouz, Nicole Mitchell, Percy Liang, Daniel E. Ho, Yejin Choi, Sanmi Koyejo, Fernando Delgado, James Grimmelmann, Vitaly Shmatikov, Christopher De Sa, Solon Barocas, Amy Cyphert, Mark Lemley, danah boyd, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Miles Brundage, David Bau, Seth Neel, Abigail Z. Jacobs, Andreas Terzis, Hanna Wallach, Nicolas Papernot, and Katherine Lee. 2024. “Machine Unlearning Doesn’t Do What You Think: Lessons for Generative AI Policy, Research, and Practice” NeurIPS. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06966%20

Bouk, Dan, Kevin Ackermann, and danah boyd. 2022. “A Primer on Powerful Numbers: Selected Readings in the Social Study of Public Data and Official Numbers” Data & Society Primer. March 23. https://datasociety.net/library/a-primer-on-powerful-numbers-selected-readings-in-the-social-study-of-public-data-and-official-numbers/%20

boyd, danah. 2020. “Balancing Data Utility and Confidentiality in the 2020 US Census” Data & Society. May 8. https://datasociety.net/library/balancing-data-utility-and-confidentiality-in-the-2020-us-census/

Golebiewski, Michael and danah boyd. 2019. “Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited” Data & Society Report. May. https://datasociety.net/output/data-voids/

boyd, danah, Emily Keller, Bonnie Tijerina. 2016. “Supporting Ethical Data Research: An Exploratory Study of Emerging Issues in Big Data and Technical Research” Data & Society Working Paper. August 4. https://www.datasociety.net/pubs/sedr/SupportingEthicsDataResearch_Sept2016.pdf

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. 2015. “Data & Civil Rights: Criminal Justice and Civil Rights Primer” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2015-1027/Open_Data_Police_Data_Initiative.pdf

Mateescu, Alexandra, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. 2015. “Data & Civil Rights: Police Body-Worn Cameras” Data & Society Working Paper. http://www.datasociety.net/pubs/dcr/PoliceBodyWornCameras.pdf

Mateescu, Alexandra, Douglas Brunton, Alex Rosenblat, Desmond Patton, Zachary Gold, and danah boyd. 2015. “Data & Civil Rights: Social Media Surveillance and Law Enforcement” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2015-1027/Social_Media_Surveillance_and_Law_Enforcement.pdf

Caplan, Robyn, Ifeoma Arjunwa, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. 2015. “Data & Civil Rights: Biometric Technologies in Policing” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2015-1027/Biometrics_Primer.pdf

Brayne, Sarah, danah boyd, and Alex Rosenblat. 2015. “Data & Civil Rights: Predictive Policing” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2015-1027/Predictive_Policing.pdf

Christin, Angèle, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. 2015. “Data & Civil Rights: Courts and Predictive Algorithms” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2015-1027/Courts_and_Predictive_Algorithms.pdf

Caplan, Robyn, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. 2015. “Data & Civil Rights: Open Data, the Criminal Justice System, and the Police Data Initiative” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2015-1027/Open_Data_Police_Data_Initiative.pdf

Mitchell, Kimberly J. and danah boyd. 2014. “Understanding the role of technology in the commercial sexual exploitation of children: the perspective of law enforcement” Crimes Against Children Research Center. https://www.unh.edu/ccrc/sites/default/files/media/2022-02/understanding-the-role-of-tech-in-commercial-sexual-exploitation-of-children.pdf 

Rosenblat, Alex, Kate Wikelius, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Corrine Yu. 2014. “Data & Civil Rights: Criminal Justice Primer” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2014-1030/CriminalJustice.pdf

Alarcon, Andrea, Elana Zeide, Alex Rosenblat, Kate Wikelius, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Corrine Yu. 2014. “Data & Civil Rights: Education Primer” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2014-1030/Education.pdf

Rosenblat, Alex, Kate Wikelius, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Corrine Yu. 2014. “Data & Civil Rights: Employment Primer” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2014-1030/Employment.pdf

Rosenblat, Alex, Rob Randhava, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Corrine Yu. 2014. “Data & Civil Rights: Consumer Finance Primer” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2014-1030/Finance.pdf

Rosenblat, Alex, Kate Wikelius, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Corrine Yu. 2014. “Data & Civil Rights: Health Primer” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2014-1030/Health.pdf

Rosenblat, Alex, Kate Wikelius, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Corrine Yu. 2014. “Data & Civil Rights: Housing Primer” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2014-1030/Housing.pdf

Barocas, Solon, Alex Rosenblat, danah boyd, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Corrine Yu. 2014. “Data & Civil Rights: Technology Primer” Data & Civil Rights Primer. http://www.datacivilrights.org/pubs/2014-1030/Technology.pdf

Rosenblat, Alex, Tamara Kneese, and danah boyd. 2014. “Networked Employment Discrimination” Data & Society Working Paper. https://www.datasociety.net/pubs/fow/EmploymentDiscrimination.pdf

Rosenblat, Alex, Tamara Kneese, and danah boyd. 2014. “Workplace Surveillance” Data & Society Working Paper. https://www.datasociety.net/pubs/fow/WorkplaceSurveillance.pdf

Kneese, Tamara, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. 2014. “Understanding Fair Labor Practices in a Networked Age” Data & Society Working Paper. https://www.datasociety.net/pubs/fow/FairLabor.pdf

Kneese, Tamara, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. 2014. “Technologically Mediated Artisanal Production” Data & Society Working Paper.

Rosenblat, Alex, Tamara Kneese, and danah boyd. 2014. “Understanding Intelligent Systems” Data & Society Working Paper. https://www.datasociety.net/pubs/fow/IntelligentSystems.pdf

Rosenblat, Alex, Tamara Kneese, and danah boyd. 2014. “Inferences and Connections” The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of "Big Data.". http://www.datasociety.net/pubs/2014-0317/InferencesConnectionsPrimer.pdf

Kneese, Tamara, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. 2014. “Inequalities and Asymmetries” The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of "Big Data.". http://www.datasociety.net/pubs/2014-0317/InequalitiesAsymmetriesPrimer.pdf

Kneese, Tamara, Alex Rosenblat, and danah boyd. 2014. “Data Supply Chains” The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of "Big Data.". http://www.datasociety.net/pubs/2014-0317/DataSupplyChainsPrimer.pdf

Rosenblat, Alex, Tamara Kneese, and danah boyd. 2014. “Algorithmic Accountability” The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of “Big Data". http://www.datasociety.net/pubs/2014-0317/AlgorithmicAccountabilityPrimer.pdf

Rosenblat, Alex, Tamara Kneese, and danah boyd. 2014. “Interpretation Gone Wrong” The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of "Big Data.". http://www.datasociety.net/pubs/2014-0317/InterpretationGoneWrongPrimer.pdf

Rosenblat, Alex, Tamara Kneese, and danah boyd. 2014. “Predicting Human Behavior” The Social, Cultural & Ethical Dimensions of "Big Data.". http://www.datasociety.net/pubs/2014-0317/PredictingHumanBehaviorPrimer.pdf

Notable Op-Eds, Essays, and Other Public Writing

boyd, danah and Elif Buse Doyuran. 2025. “A Sociology of Dragons: danah boyd on AI, Trump, and Critique.” Journal of Cultural Economy, June 25. https://www.journalofculturaleconomy.org/a-sociology-of-dragons/

boyd, danah. 2025. “We Need an Interventionist Mindset.” Tech Policy Press, March 27. https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-an-interventionist-mindset/

boyd, danah. 2025. “Parents Have a Worse Relationship to Tech Than Their Kids.” Bloomberg, January 24. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-24/parents-have-a-worse-relationship-to-tech-than-their-kids

boyd, danah. 2024. “Making Sense of Data Voids.” Data & Society's Points, August 7. https://datasociety.net/points/making-sense-of-data-voids/

boyd, danah. 2023. “How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Higher Ed? We’re Asking the Wrong Questions.” Chronicle of Higher Education, May 25. https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-will-artificial-intelligence-change-higher-ed

boyd, danah. 2020. “The Biden Administration Needs a VP of Engineering, Not a CTO.” Wired, December 23. https://www.wired.com/story/biden-administration-needs-vp-engineering-not-cto/

Haven, Janet and danah boyd. 2020. “Philanthropy’s Techno-Solutionism Problem.” Knight Foundation, November 9. https://knightfoundation.org/philanthropys-techno-solutionism-problem/

Donovan, Joan and danah boyd. 2018. “The case for quarantining extremist ideas.” The Guardian, June 1. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/01/extremist-ideas-media-coverage-kkk

boyd, danah. 2018. “Panicked About Kids’ Addiction to Tech?.” NewCo Shift, January 24. https://shift.newco.co/panicked-about-kids-addiction-to-tech-88b2c856bf1c

boyd, danah. March 27, 2017. “Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear.” Wired / Backchannel, March 27. https://www.wired.com/2017/03/google-and-facebook-cant-just-make-fake-news-disappear/

boyd, danah. 2017. “Failing to See, Fueling Hatred.” Backchannel, March 3. https://www.wired.com/2017/03/dont-hate-silicon-valley-techies-who-complain-about-money/

boyd, danah. 2017. “When Good Intentions Backfire.” Data & Society’s Points, February 15. https://points.datasociety.net/when-good-intentions-backfire-786fb0dead03

boyd, danah. 2017. “Self-segregation: how a personalized world is dividing Americans.” The Guardian, January 13. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/self-segregation-military-facebook-college-diversity

boyd, danah. 2017. “Hacking the Attention Economy.” Points, January 5. https://points.datasociety.net/hacking-the-attention-economy-9fa1daca7a37

boyd, danah. 2016. “Why Social Science Risks Irrelevance.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 24. https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-social-science-risks-irrelevance/

boyd, danah. 2016. “It’s Not Cyberspace Anymore.” Data & Society's Points, February 5. https://points.datasociety.net/it-s-not-cyberspace-anymore-55c659025e97

boyd, danah. 2015. “What if Social Media Becomes 16-Plus?.” Medium's Bright Magazine, December 18. https://medium.com/bright/what-if-social-media-becomes-16-plus-866557878f7

boyd, danah. 2015. “Which Students Get to Have Privacy?.” Medium's The Message, May 22. https://medium.com/message/which-students-get-to-have-privacy-e9773f9a064

boyd, danah and Alex Rosenberg. 2015. “It’s Not Too Late to get Body Cameras Right.” The Atlantic, May 15. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/05/its-not-too-late-to-get-body-cameras-right/393257/

boyd, danah. 2015. “Are We Training Our Students to be Robots?.” Medium's Bright Magazine, April 7. https://medium.com/bright/are-we-training-our-students-to-be-robots-1196e5c15d26

boyd, danah. 2015. “An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media.” Medium's The Message, January 12. https://medium.com/message/an-old-fogeys-analysis-of-a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-5be16981034d

boyd, danah. 2014. “What is Fairness?.” Medium's The Message, September 3. https://medium.com/message/what-is-fairness-73940071840

boyd, danah. 2014. “What is Privacy?.” Medium's The Message, August 1. https://medium.com/message/what-is-privacy-5ed72c66aa86

boyd, danah. 2014. “What does the Facebook experiment teach us?.” Medium's The Message, July 1. https://medium.com/message/what-does-the-facebook-experiment-teach-us-c858c08e287f

boyd, danah. 2014. “Sexual Predators: The Imagined and the Real.” Psychology Today, May 5. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/singletons/201405/sexual-predators-the-imagined-and-the-real

boyd, danah. 2014. “Whether it’s bikes or bytes, teens are teens.” Los Angeles Times, April 11. http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/11/opinion/la-oe-boyd-kids-and-technology-20140413

boyd, danah. 2014. “Is the Oculus Rift Sexist?.” Quartz, March 28. http://qz.com/192874/is-the-oculus-rift-designed-to-be-sexist/

boyd, danah. 2014. “Let Kids Run Wild Online.” Time Magazine, March 13. http://time.com/23031/danah-boyd-let-kids-run-wild-online/

boyd, danah. 2014. “Parents, forget the online bogeyman.” Boston Globe, March 9. http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/03/08/parents-forget-online-bogeyman/XljoGap1NnQUeue7ht7hoL/story.html

boyd, danah. 2014. “Kids online: Parents, don’t panic.” The Guardian, February 28. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/01/young-people-online-parents-dont-panic-instagram-snapchat

boyd, danah. 2013. “Whistleblowing is the New Civil Disobedience.” Medium, July 18. https://medium.com/surveillance-state/9a53415933a9

boyd, danah. 2013. “When It Comes to Sex Trafficking, Tech Is Far From Neutral.” Wired, June 7. http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/bias-as-disruption-how-tech-disrupts-sex-trafficking/

boyd, danah. 2013. “Keeping Teens ‘Private’ on Facebook Won’t Protect Them.” TIME Ideas, October 22. http://ideas.time.com/2013/10/22/keeping-teens-private-on-facebook-wont-protect-them/

boyd, danah. 2012. “Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story.” Wired, October 29. https://www.wired.com/2012/10/truth-lies-doxxing-internet-vigilanteism/

Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. 2012. “Teens Text More Than Adults, But They’re Still Teens.” The Daily Beast, May 20. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/20/teens-text-more-than-adults-but-they-re-still-just-teens.html

boyd, danah. 2012. “Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users – that’s us.” The Guardian, April 21. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/21/digital-era-society-social-media

boyd, danah. 2012. “Five Misunderstandings About Bullying.” Review, Wall Street Journal, April 10. http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2012/04/10/five-misunderstandings-about-bullying/

boyd, danah and John Palfrey. 2012. “What You Must Know to Help Combat Youth Bullying, Meanness, and Cruelty.” Kinder & Braver World: Research Series, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2012/kbw_what_you_must_know

boyd, danah and John Palfrey. 2012. “Stop The Cycle of Bullying.” Huffington Post, February 23. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danah-boyd/dharun-ravi-jury_b_1298354.html

boyd, danah and Alice Marwick. 2011. “Why Cyberbullying Rhetoric Misses the Point.” New York Times Op-Ed, A35, September 22. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/opinion/why-cyberbullying-rhetoric-misses-the-mark.html/

Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. 2011. “Tweeting Teens Can Handle Public Life.” The Guardian, February 15. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/15/tweeting-teens-twitter-public-privacy

boyd, danah. 2010. “Combating Sexual Exploitation Online: Focus on the Networks of People, not the Technology.” Statement to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, Hearing on Sexual Exploitation Online, October 19.

boyd, danah. 2010. “Why Privacy is Not Dead.” Tech Review, September/October. http://www.technologyreview.com/notebook/420365/why-privacy-is-not-dead/

danah boyd. June 28, 2010. “Facebook’s paternalistic attitudes aren’t empowering.” , CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/06/28/facebook.attitude/index.html

boyd, danah. 2010. “Facebook’s paternalistic attitudes aren’t empowering.” CNN, June 28. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/06/28/facebook.attitude/index.html

boyd, danah. 2010. “MySpace and Facebook: How Racist Language Frames Social Media (and Why You Should Care).” BlogHer, July 21. http://www.blogher.com/how-racist-language-frames-social-media-and-why-you-should-care

danah boyd. May 17, 2010. “Facebook, Radical Transparency, and Privacy: It’s Not Just the Techies Who are Mad.” , BlogHer, http://www.blogher.com/facebook-and-radical-transparency-rant%20

boyd, danah. 2010. “Facebook, Radical Transparency, and Privacy: It’s Not Just the Techies Who are Mad.” BlogHer, May 17. http://www.blogher.com/facebook-and-radical-transparency-rant

boyd, danah. 2010. “Vie en Réseau.” TiC2025: Les Grandes Mutations (ed. Yannick Lejeune). FYP (Paris), pp. 26-34 [French translation]. [French translation]

boyd, danah. 2010. “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media.” UX Magazine, February. http://uxmag.com/articles/streams-of-content-limited-attention

boyd, danah and Jessica K. Parker. 2010. “Hanging Out With Friends: MySpace, Facebook, and Other Networked Publics.” Teaching Tech-Savvy Kids (ed. Jessica K. Parker). Sage (London), pp. 15-36.

danah boyd and Jessica K. Parker. 2010. “Hanging Out With Friends: MySpace, Facebook, and Other Networked Publics.” Teaching Tech-Savvy Kids (ed. Jessica K. Parker). Sage, pp. 15-36.

boyd, danah. 2009. “Reflections on Lori Drew, Bullying, and Strategies for Helping Kids.” The Best Technology Writing 2009 (ed. Steven Johnson). Yale Press (New Haven),

danah boyd. 2009. “Reflections on Lori Drew, Bullying, and Strategies for Helping Kids.” The Best Technology Writing 2009 (ed. Steven Johnson). Yale University Press,

boyd, danah. 2008. “Digital Handshakes in Networked Publics: Why Politicians Must Interact, Not Broadcast.” Mobilizing Generation 2.0 (ed. Ben Rigby). Jossey-Bass (San Francisco), pp. 91-94.

danah boyd and Henry Jenkins. May 26, 2006. “MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA).” , MIT Tech Talk,

boyd, danah and Henry Jenkins. 2006. “MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA).” MIT Tech Talk, May 26.

boyd, danah. 2005. “Turmoil in Blogland.” Salon.com, http://www.salon.com/2005/01/08/livejournal/

boyd, danah. 2005. “Sociable Technology and Democracy.” (ed. Jon Lebkowsky and Mitch Ratcliffe). Extreme Democracy,

boyd, danah. 2005. “Autistic Social Software.” Best Software Writing I (ed. Joel Spolsky). Berkeley: Apress. ,

danah boyd. January 5, 2005. “Turmoil in Blogland.” , Salon.com, http://www.salon.com/2005/01/08/livejournal/

boyd, danah. 2008. “The New Blogocracy.” Salon.com, http://www.salon.com/2004/07/28/demoblog/

Fellowships, Awards and Honors

Research Fellowship, Sloan Foundation, 2026

Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Democracy & Technology, 2026

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2025

MIT Morison Prize in Science, Technology, and Society, 2023

EFF Pioneer/Barlow Award, 2019

Forbes America’s Top 50 Women in Tech, 2018

Everett C. Parker Lecture, United Church of Christ, 2015

The Verge 50, The Verge, 2014

Techweek-100, Techweek, 2014

Most Creative People in Business 1000, Fast Company, 2014

Tech 40: Most Influential Minds in Tech, Time Magazine, 2013

Hall of Fame Inductee, SXSW-Interactive, 2013

Top 100 Global Thinkers, Foreign Policy, 2012

Top 10 Most Powerful Women in Boston Tech, Boston Globe, 2012

Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum, 2011 

Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, 2011-2013

Delphi Fellow, Big Think, 2011

Fellow, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, 2010-2011

Associate Fellow, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, 2009-2010

Young Innovator Under 35, Tech Review’s TR35, 2010

Public Sociology Award, Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association, 2010

Smartest Academic in Tech, Fortune Magazine, 2010

Most Influential Women in Technology, Fast Company, 2009

Delegate, World Economic Forum, 2008

Regents Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 2007-2008

Digital Media & Learning Author Fellow, MacArthur Foundation, 2006-2007

Annenberg Center Fellow, Annenberg Center, University of Southern California, 2006-2007

Social Software in the Academy Fellow, Annenberg Center, University of Southern California, 2004-2005

School of Information and Management Systems (SIMS) Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 2003-2005

Student Fellow, Intel, 2000-2001

Presidential Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-2001

Recent Invited Talks / Panels / Podcasts

Is Responsible AI a Distraction? Hebrew University. Jerusalem, Israel. January 6, 2026. 

Avoiding Traps, Tracking Decoys: Political Economy of AI. Shamgar Center at the University of Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv, Israel. December 28, 2025. 

What To Do When the Kids Are Not OK. Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell. Ithaca, New York. December 4, 2025.

Political Economy of AI. Cornell CALS Alumni Event. December 3, 2025.

On Enshittification with Cory Doctorow and Lee Vinsel. People & Things. Podcast: November 3, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/live/WjFvGPLpskk 

Avoiding Traps, Tracking Decoys: The Political Economy of AI. Cornell University Information School. Ithaca, New York. November 5, 2025.

Finding the Beauty in Responsible AI. eBay. San Jose, California. June 11, 2025.

Why We Need a Healthy Social Fabric. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 30, 2025.

Data are Made, Not Found. Berkeley Center for New Media. Berkeley, California. April 23, 2025.

Uncharted Waters: The Federal Data Landscape in Transition. Population Association of America. Washington, DC. April 11, 2025. [Invited Panel]

Why Democracy Depends on a Healthy Social Fabric. Ole Miss. Oxford, Mississippi. April 2, 2025.

Vulnerabilities in a Sociotechnical Society. Columbia University. Remote. March 9, 2025.

In Pursuit of Responsible AI. University of Vienna. Vienna, Austria. January 30, 2025.

Repairing the Social Fabric. University of Vienna. Vienna, Austria. January 29, 2025.

Repairing the Social Fabric. Wendy Michener Memorial Lecture. York, Canada. December 13, 2024.

Interventions, Not Solutions in an Era of AI Policymaking. Information Law and Policy Annual Lecture. London, England. November 20, 2024. [Keynote]

Here Be Dragons: The Challenges of Pursuing Responsible AI. University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland. November 18, 2024.

Here Be Dragons: The Challenges of Pursuing Responsible AI. Boston College. Boston, Massachusetts. November 13, 2024. 

The Challenges of Pursuing Responsible AI. Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. San Jose, California. October 23, 2024. [Keynote]

Epistemic Reflections. Thought Summit on Survey Methodology. Ithaca, New York. September 23, 2024. 

How Can We Protect Civic Discourse in an Age of Fracture? Harvard Berkman Klein Center’s “Beyond Discourse Dumpster Fires: Tools and Strategies for Better Online Civil Space.” Cambridge, Massachusetts: September 12, 2024. [Panel]

Public Trust and Objectivity in Federal Statistics. GAO’s Federal Statistical System Forum. Remote: August 22, 2024. [Panel]

Made, Not Found: Epistemic Shifts and the US Census. Synthetic Data for State Statistics. Norrköping, Sweden: June 10, 2024. 

Can Age Verification Help Kids Stay Safe Online? New America’s Open Technology Institute. Remote: May 1, 2024. [Panel]

Dialed In: A Pre-History of Social Media. Computer History Museum. Mountain View, California: April 25, 2024. [Panel]

Is Social Media Destroying Kids Mental Health? Power User with Taylor Lorenz. Podcast: April 11, 2024. 

Bracing for Impact: AI in the Wild. Georgetown Center for Digital Ethics Distinguished Lecture. Washington, DC: April 10, 2024.

Can Tech Regulation Solve Mental Health Issues? Detroit Public Radio Created Equal. Podcast: April 9, 2024. 

Data Infrastructure and the Politics of Ignorance. Villanova. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: February 28, 2024.

Techno-Legal Solutionism. Future of Privacy Forum Youth Privacy Working Group. Remote: February 8, 2024. [with María Angel]

Social Theories to Think With. Knight Foundation Informed Conference. Miami, Florida: January 23, 2024. [Panel with Tressie McMillan Cottom and Janet Vertesi]

Kids Online Health and Safety Roundtable. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Remote: September 13, 2023. [Panel]

Sociotechnical Dimensions of Agnotology. Cornell University. Ithaca, New York: September 11, 2023. 

Freaks, Geeks, and Queers. Reimagining the Internet. Podcast: August 30, 2023.

Made, Not Found: Grappling with the Vulnerabilities of Data. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Morison Prize Lecture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: May 8, 2023.

Freedom of Information in Tech History. Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). New Orleans, Louisiana: November 11, 2022. [co-organized with Meg Leta Jones]

Epistemic Disconnects Around Differential Privacy and the 2020 U.S. Census. Yale ISP. Remote: October 20, 2022. [with Jayshree Sarathy]

Data Aren’t Always What They Seem: Examining Problems in Data Infrastructure. University of Colorado. Boulder, Colorado: October 19, 2022. 

Data Aren’t Always What They Seem: Examining Problems in Data Infrastructure. Pennsylvania State University Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Conference. State College, Pennsylvania: October 13, 2022. [Keynote]

AI Governance Frameworks. Pennsylvania State University Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Conference. State College, Pennsylvania: October 13, 2022. [Panelist]

Repairwork and Statistics. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Panel on Roadmap for Disclosure Avoidance in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Remote: October 3, 2022.

Data Are Made, Not Found: Understanding Uncertainty in the 2020 U.S. Census. Partnership on AI. Remote: September 29, 2022. 

Differential Privacy for the 2020 U.S. Census: Can We Make Data Both Private and Useful? Harvard Data Science Review. Podcast. August 10, 2022.

Communicating Statistical Disclosure Avoidance Measures to Data Users. American Statistical Association Joint Statistical Meeting. Washington, DC. August 9, 2022. [Panel]

Platforms, Visibility, and Power. American Sociological Association. Los Angeles, California: August 7, 2022. [Panel Discussant]

Balancing Trust and Risk. ACM’s 75th Anniversary. San Francisco, California: July 21, 2022. [Panel]

Data & Truth. Gnovis. Podcast: May 22, 2022.

Differential Privacy: The 2020 Census and Beyond. Electronic Privacy Information Center. Remote: May 4, 2022. [Panelist]

The Politics of Privacy and the U.S. Census. University of Illinois Urbana Champagne. Remote: May 4, 2022.

Data Voids and Specialized Knowledge. National Institutes of Health. Remote: January 19, 2022. [Keynote]

Statistical Imaginaries: An Ode to Responsible Data Science. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island: December 1, 2021. 

High Tech Modernism. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Remote: November 8, 2021. [Panel]

Differential Privacy and Epistemology. Data Co-Op. Remote: October 27, 2021.

In the Pursuit of Knowledge, There Be Dragons. IEEE Vis 2021. Remote: October 26, 2021. [Keynote]

Statistical Imaginaries: An Ode to Responsible Data Science. Microsoft Research Summit. Remote: October 19, 2021. [Keynote]

Time and Money in Public Sector Projects. 4S. Remote: October 6, 2021. [Co-presented with Janet Vertesi]

Ethics and Socially Responsible Computing. Computer History Museum. Remote: September 23, 2021. [Panel]

How Differential Privacy Triggered an Epistemic Fracture. Microsoft Research New England. Remote: August 4, 2021. 

The Risky Side of Data in Decision-Making. Microsoft E&D. Remote: May 26, 2021.

Knitting a Healthy Social Fabric. Educause. Remote: May 18, 2021. [Keynote]

Promise of Access Panel. University of Maryland. Remote: April 30, 2021. [Panel]

Unpacking Disinformation, Trust, and Networks. Aspen Commission on Information Disorder. Remote: April 29, 2021.

Contact and Distance in the Post-Pandemic Social World. New York University IPK. Remote: April 22, 2021. [Panel]

2020 Census was “Different.” APDU Town Hall. Remote: April 14, 2021. 

Building a Better World Through Tech for Collaboration. Computer History Museum. Remote: March 18, 2021. [Panel]

The Categories We Work With. FAccT CRAFT. Remote: March 5, 2021. 

CDA230 and Privacy in Big Data. World 50: Engage. Remote: February 24, 2021. [Panel] 

A Numbers Sordid Story: 99%’s Journey from the Census Bureau to SCOTUS. Social Science FOO Camp. Remote: February 19, 2021.

Differential Privacy in the 2020 Census. Computation + Journalism. Remote: February 19, 2021. 

Peeling Back Layers Hypertext-Style. Brown University. Remote: December 2, 2020.  

Digital Infrastructure and Its Discontents. Aspen Institute. Remote: October 19, 2020.

When the Legitimacy of Data Comes Undone. Federal Interagency Conference on Social Science and Big Data. Remote: October 1, 2020.

Democracy’s Data Infrastructure. 4S. Remote: August 20, 2020.

Data are Made, Not Found. Association of Public Data Users. Remote: July 29, 2020. [Keynote]

Questioning the Legitimacy of Data. National Institute of Standards (NISO Plus). Baltimore, Maryland: February 25, 2020.  [Keynote]

The Struggle Over Data’s Vulnerabilities and Legitimacy. University of Utah. Salt Lake City: UT. February 13, 2020.

Differential Privacy and Census. National League of Cities. Remote: January 30, 2020. 

ESC PLAN: Ethics, Society, and Computing. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan: January 24, 2020. [Panel]

Data: Its Vulnerabilities and Legitimacy. University of Virginia. Arlington, Virginia: January 21, 2020.

Data Voids and Sociotechnical Vulnerabilities. Google. New York, New York: January 16, 2020.

Data Voids and Sociotechnical Vulnerabilities. Twitter. Remote: January 10, 2020.

What Makes Data Legitimate? Committee on National Statistics. Washington, DC: December 12, 2019.

Agnotology. Data & Society. New York, New York: December 4, 2019.

The Social Vulnerabilities of Artificial Intelligence. Internetdagarna. Stockholm, Sweden: November 25, 2019.

What Makes Data Legitimate? American Association for Public Opinion Research. New York, New York: November 14, 2019. 

What Makes Data Legitimate? Microsoft Research Retreat. New York, New York: October 24, 2019. 

Failure and Data. New York University. New York, New York: October 11, 2019.

Vulnerabilities: How Social Media and Data Infrastructure are Exploited for Fun, Profit, and Politics. Haverford University. Haverford, Pennsylvania: September 25, 2019. [Invited Campus-wide talk]

Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On. Electronic Frontier Foundation. San Francisco, California: September 12. [Acceptance Speech]

Vulnerabilities in Data Infrastructure. LinkedIn. Menlo Park, California: September 11, 2019.

The Spread of Conspiracies and Hate Online. Amanpour & Company. Video/Podcast: August 5, 2019.

The Social Vulnerabilities of Artificial Intelligence. Morals and Machines. Dresden, Germany: June 19, 2019. [Keynote]

Informing the Public Amidst Manufactured Ignorance. American Press Institute. Washington DC: June 6, 2019. [Keynote] 

A Sociotechnical Approach to Data Ethics. NYU Data & Ethics. New York, New York: May 29, 2019. [Keynote]

Communication in a World of Media Manipulation and Data Voids. Communication Network. Remote: May 16, 2019.

Privacy Under Duress. International Association of Privacy Professionals. Washington, DC: May 2, 2019. [Keynote]

Data Ethics and Sociotechnical Security. Duke Kenan Institute for Ethics. Durham, North Carolina: April 18, 2019. 

Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation. Digital Public Library of America. Chicago, Illinois: April 27, 2019.

Fakes and Pains. Theorizing the Web. New York, New York: April 12, 2019. [Panel]

The Dark Side of Tech. Tech & Innovation Family Office Meeting. New York, New York: April 10, 2019. [Panel]

Media Manipulation. Southern Poverty Law Center. Montgomery, Alabama: March 12, 2019.

Media Manipulation and the Right to be Amplified. Microsoft Bing. Bellevue, Washington: March 7, 2019.

The Fragmentation of Truth. Knight Media Forum. Miami, Florida: February 23, 2019.

Security in a Sociotechnical World. Albright Institute. Wellesley, Massachusetts: January 18, 2019.

Earlier Invited Talk Venues (ask for details)

Academic: American Anthropological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Annenberg Research Network on International Communication, Association of Internet Researchers, Baruch College, BayCHI, BlogTalk, Boston University, Brown University, Coe College, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dickinson College, Digital Media & Learning, Digital Og Social, Duke University Podcasting Symposium, Harvard University, Human Computer Interaction Consortium, Identity and Identification in a Networked World, International Communication Association, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Juniata College, Microsoft Research, Middle Tennessee State University, MIT Media Lab, MIT University, National Science Foundation, NeurIPS, New School, New York University, NYU Institute for Public Knowledge, Ohio State Youth & Media Symposium, Olin College, Penn State University, Pew Research Center, Princeton University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Smith College, Social Science Research Council, Society for the Social Studies of Science, Sosial web og læring, Stanford University, Teachers College at Columbia, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Irvine, University of Haifa, University of Leiden, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, University of Texas-Austin, University of Tilburg, University of Virginia, University of Washington, USC Annenberg School for Communications, UK National Centre for Research Methods, Workshop on Social Network Site, Yale University, 050505

Private/Closed Events: Accenture Digital World, ACLU, AOL, Autodesk, Baptie & Company, BBC Executive Meeting, BBN, Betaworks, Blue Cross / Blue Shield, Blyk, British Telecom CPC Event, Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Caucus, Devices and Desires, Disney Pooh Camp, DoSomething, Dwight-Englewood School, Education.AU, Enigma, Facebook, Ford Foundation, Garrison Institute, Generation Investment, Google, GE’s Leading and Learning, Guinness, Handheld Learning, Healthgrades, Hewlett-Packard Executive Meeting, Inter-American Development Bank, Jewish Teen Summit,  Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Microsoft, Microsoft CIO Forum, MoCollywood, MySpace, National Association of Independent Schools, National Cable and Telecommunications Association Annual Meeting, National Museum of the American Indian, New England Independent Schools, New York Independent Schools, New York Federal Reserve, Nike, OCLC, OSI Board Meeting, New York Public Library, New York Times, Nokia, Open Society Foundations Global Board Meeting, PBS/CPB Board Retreat, Pearson Executive Meeting, Phillips Andover Academy, REI Executive Retreat, Reputation.com, Retail Industry Leaders Association, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, SAGE Publishing, Salesforce, Samsung Accelerator, Seventeen Magazine, Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Snapchat, Social Computing Symposium, St. Paul’s School, Teen Angels, Time Inc., Time Warner Executive Meeting, Twitter, United Church of Christ, Visa, Walter Johnson High School PTA, World 50, World Economic Forum, Yahoo! Partners Summit, Yahoo! Teacher Camp, YouTube

Public Events: Algorithms and Accountability, American Association of Museums, American Association of School Librarians, American Constitution Society, American Library Association, Anita Borg Institute, Aspen Institute Ideas Festival, Aula, BBC Youth Summit, Blogher, Calhoun School, Cannes Film Festival, Center for Humanitarian Data, Churchill Club, Coding Societies, Commonwealth Club, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Congressional Internet Caucus Hearing, Connecticut Forum, Computers Freedom and Privacy, Congressional Caucus Luncheon, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, David Abel Colloquium, Digital Age 2.0, Digital Media & Learning, Educause, Electronic Resources and Libraries, ELUNA Conference, Family Awareness Network, Family Online Safety Institute, Fast Company @Play, Federal Trade Commission, Futures of Entertainment, Future of Music Coalition’s Policy Summit, Generation C, Get Net Wise, Global 50, Gov 2.0 Expo, Guardian Activate, Harvard Book Store, Higher Ed Experts, Human Services, Improving Government Performance in the Era of Data, Independent Schools Technology Educators, International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Conference, Internet Librarian, It Takes a Village Conference, Karajoz Great Blend, Le Web, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, LITA, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs’ Art Matters Conference, The Market Research Event, Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, Marketing 50, Marketing Professionals, Martha Coakley’s Hearing on Sexual Exploitation Online, METRO, Mt. Sinai Adolescent Health Center, National Network to End Domestic Violence, NERCOMP, New York Conference on Bullying Prevention, News Integrity Initiative, Newseum, NITLE Summit, Online News Association, O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Parker Lecture, PEN American Center, Personal Democracy Forum, PICNIC, Politics and Prose, Quartz’s The Next Billion, Re:Publica, Read Write Web, ROFLCon, Schwarzenegger’s Cyber Safety For Children Summit, Shakespeare’s Courtyard Theater, Social Media Week, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Supernova, SXSW-EDU, SXSW-Interactive, Strata, Tactical Tech, Team Human, Technology & Learning, Techonomy, Theorizing the Web, ThoughtWorks ParadigmShift, Town Hall, Upgrade, U.S. Commerce Department, U.S. Embassy in Kenya, Wall Street Journal Tech Café, Webstock, Web2.0 Expo, Web Science, Wharton Web Conference, WWW-2010, Youth Marketing Mega Event, Ypulse, 35th Anniversary of the Internet

Conference & Workshop Organizing

Designing Everyday Policies to Empower Youth. Connected Learning Summit. Remote: October 9, 2025. [Organizer]

The Implications of Institutional Breakdown for Science and Technology. 4S/EASST. Amsterdam, Netherlands: July 17, 2024. [Co-Organizer]

Degradation Workshop. Microsoft Research. Redmond, Washington: May 7, 2024. [Co-Organizer]

Project Green: Sociotechnical Resilience. Microsoft Research. Redmond, Washington: March 6, 2024. [Co-Organizer]

The Politics of Data Beyond Representation. 4S. Honolulu, Hawaii: November 9, 2023. [Co-Organizer]

Politics of Data and Quantification in the Public Sector. American Sociology Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: August 18, 2023. [Co-Organizer]

Project Green: AI & Society. Microsoft Research. Redmond, Washington: May 23, 2023. [Co-Organizer]

2020 Census Data Products: Workshop on the Demographics and Housing Characteristics File. Committee on National Statistics. Washington, DC: June 21-22, 2022. [Co-Organizer]

(Dis)Trust in Public-Sector Data, Technology, and Science. 4S. Remote: October 7-8, 2021. [Co-Organizer]

(Dis)Trust in Public-Sector Data Infrastructures. Data & Society. Remote: March 25, 2021. [Co-Organizer]

Contested Data Workshop. Data & Society. New York, New York: March 6, 2020. [Co-organizer]

Climate Migration and Disinformation. Data & Society. New York, New York: December 5, 2019. [Co-organizer]

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Machine Learning (FAT*2019). ACM. Atlanta, Georgia: January 29-31, 2019. [Co-General Chair]

Organizational Sociology. Data & Society. New York, New York: January 7-11, 2019. [Co-Organizer]

Environmental Impacts of Data-Driven Technologies. Data & Society. New York, New York: November 2, 2018. [Organizer]

Foundations of Responsible Data Science. NSF-sponsored. New York, New York: October 26, 2018. [Co-Organizer]

When Humans Attack. Data & Society. New York, New York: May 21, 2018. [Co-Organizer]

Data Voids. Data & Society. New York, New York: May 11, 2018. [Co-Organizer]

Census & Tech Pop-Up. Data & Society, AnnLab, et al. Palo Alto, California: December 12, 2017. [Co-Organizer]

Lessons from the Field Workshop. Data & Society. New York, New York: October 30, 2017. [Organizer]

Propaganda and Media Manipulation Workshop. Data & Society. New York, New York: March 19, 2017. [Organizer]

From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes: Equity By Design in Learning Technologies. Data & Society. New York, New York: February 10, 2017. [Co-Organizer]

Work, Labor, and Automation Workshop. Data & Society. New York, New York: January 23, 2017. [Organizer]

Eclectic Workshop. Data & Society. New York, New York: December 9, 2016. [Organizer]

Data & Society Conference. Data & Society. New York, New York: May 16-17, 2016. [Organizer]

Council on Big Data, Ethics, and Society. Data & Society. New York, New York: March 4, 2016. [Co-organizer]

Who Controls the Public Sphere in an Era of Algorithms? Data & Society. New York, New York: February 26, 2016. [Organizer]

Data & Civil Rights: A New Era of Policing. Data & Society + The Leadership Conference + Upturn. Washington, DC: October 27, 2015. [Co-organizer]

Platformation. Data & Society. New York, New York: September 9, 2015. [Host/Advisor]

Police-Worn Body Cameras. Data & Society + The Leadership Conference + New America’s Open Technology Institute. Washington, DC: May 19, 2015. [Co-organizer]

Council on Big Data, Ethics, and Society. Data & Society. New York, New York: April 27, 2015. [Co-organizer]

Council on Big Data, Ethics, and Society. Data & Society. New York, New York: November 14, 2014. [Co-organizer]

Data & Civil Rights. Data & Society + The Leadership Conference + New America’s Open Technology Institute. Washington, DC: October 30, 2014. [Co-organizer]

The Launching of a Research Institute. Data & Society. New York, New York: October 17, 2014. [Organizer]

The Social, Cultural, & Ethical Dimensions of “Big Data.” Data & Society + White House Office of Science & Technology Policy + New York University Information Law Institute. New York, New York: March 17, 2014. [Organizer]

Social Computing Symposium. Microsoft Research. New York, New York: January 13-16, 2013. [Co-organizer with Lili Cheng, Liz Lawley] 

Summer Institute. Digital Media & Learning. Cambridge, Massachusetts: June 11-15 2012. [Organizer]

Kinder and Braver World Academic Summit. Born This Way Foundation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: February 29, 2012. [Co-organizer with John Palfrey]

Social Computing Symposium. Microsoft Research. New York, New York: January 11-13, 2012.  [Co-organizer with Lili Cheng, Liz Lawley]

Sexting: A Researcher’s Workshop. Microsoft Research. Redmond Washington: July 28, 2011. [Co-Organizer with Andy Harris]

Microblogging: What and How Can We Learn From It?  Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI). April 11, 2010. [Co-Organizer with Julia Grace and Dejin Zhao]

Digigirlz. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Summer 2009. [Workshop Leader]

Public Practices, Social Software. Communities and Technologies 2007. East Lansing, Michigan: June 28, 2007. [Co-Organizer with Nicole Ellison, Scott Golder]

Representations of Digital Identity. CSCW 2004. Chicago, Illinois: November 6, 2004. [Refereed proposal, Co-organizer with Michele Chang, Elizabeth Goodman]

Social Software in the Academy. University of Southern California – Annenberg Center. Los Angeles, California: October 22-23, 2004. [Co-organizer with Mizuko Ito]

Kizuna: Forum on Social Software and Mobile Devices. Connected with Nokia’s Insight and Foresight Unit. Tokyo, Japan: April 5-6, 2004. [Co-organizer with Mizuko Ito, Joichi Ito]

Webgrrls Object-Oriented Programming. Providence, Rhode Island: Summer 1998. [Workshop Creator/Lecturer]

Recent Invited Workshop Participation

AI for Medicine and Meteorology (AIM2) Workshop. AI2ES Risk Communication. Denver, Colorado: February 25, 2025.

Data & Society 10 Year Celebration. Data & Society. New York, New York: September 26, 2024.

Thought Summit on Survey Methodology. Cornell University. Ithaca, New York: September 23-24, 2024.  

Fellows Paper Workshop. European New School of Digital Studies. Slubice, Poland: June 4, 2024. [author]

Data & Society Trustworthy Infrastructures. Data & Society. Remote: March 21, 28, 2024.

Procurement and Development of Technology for Government Functions. Georgetown University. Washington, DC: October 26, 2023. 

Privacy Law Scholars Conference. University of Colorado-Boulder. Boulder, Colorado: June 1-2, 2023. [discussant] 

Political Ideologies of Silicon Valley. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Palo Alto, California: May 27-29, 2023. 

Privacy Law Scholars Conference. Northeastern University. Boston, Massachusetts: June 2-3, 2022. [author and discussant]

OpenDP Community Meeting. OpenDP. Remote: September 22-24, 2021. [session moderator]

Privacy Law Scholars Conference. Virtual. Remote: June 3-4, 2022. 

The Hustle Economy. Data & Society. Remote: May 20, 2021. [discussant]

Contesting and Rethinking Demographic Data Infrastructures for Algorithmic Fairness. FAccT Conference. Remote: March 5, 2021. 

Social Science FOO Camp. O’Reilly. Remote: February 19-21, 2021. [session moderator]

Against Platform Determinism. Data & Society. Remote: January 14, 2021. 

FOO Camp. O’Reilly. Remote: August 24-September 14, 2020. 

Census 2030 Initiative. NALEO + UVA. Los Angeles, California: February 11, 2020.

ESC PLAN Opening and Workshop. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan: January 24, 2020.

Evaluating Census Quality. The Leadership Conference. Washington, DC: October 30, 2019.

Disinformation Assembly. Harvard Berkman-Klein Center. Cambridge, Massachusetts: October 23, 2019. 

Census Young Child Undercount. Bauman Foundation. Washington, DC: September 24, 2019. 

Tech Policy with Craig Newmark and Michael Posner. New York, New York: September 20, 2019.

Census States Count Action Network Regional Meeting. Chicago, Illinois: July 31-August 1, 2019. 

Voices for Action. Christchurch Call. Paris, France: May 13, 2019.

International Committee of the Red Cross Impact Expedition. World Economic Forum and ICRC. Lebanon: December 9-14, 2018.

Information Disorder, New Media Ecosystems and Democracy. Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts: May 6-8. 

Privacy Law Scholars Conference. George Washington University. Washington, DC: May 30-31, 2018. 

Learning Journey on Climate Change. World Economic Forum. Copenhagen, Denmark and Greenland: May 24-29 2018.

What Works to Reduce Discrimination. Harvard, Radcliff. Cambridge, Massachusetts: April 19-20, 2018.

FOO Camp-Social Sciences. O’Reilly + Facebook. Menlo Park, California: February 2-4, 2018.

Intersectionality and Algorithmic Discrimination. Lorentz Workshop. Leiden, Netherlands: December 18-22, 2017.

FOO Camp. O’Reilly. San Francisco, California: November 3-5, 2017

Contesting Power Workshop, Part 3: Strategy. Roosevelt Institute. New York, New York: February 28, 2017.

Contesting Power Workshop, Part 2: Technology. Roosevelt Institute. New York, New York: February 7, 2017.

Contesting Power Workshop, Part 1: Finance. Roosevelt Institute. New York, New York: January 17, 2017.

Fairness for Digital Infrastructure (respondent). University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: January 19-20, 2017.

Data and Algorithmic Transparency (moderator). New York University. New York, New York: November 19, 2016.

Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (moderator). New York University. New York, New York: November 18, 2016. 

USACM Meeting on Algorithmic Transparency. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: October 27, 2016.   

AI Now. New York University. New York, New York: July 27, 2016. 

Dream By Design. Ford Foundation. New York, New York: June 29, 2016.

Privacy Law Scholars Conference. George Washington University. Washington, DC: June 2-3, 2016. 

National Science Foundation’s BIGDATA PI Meeting. Arlington, Virginia: April 20-21, 2016.

Annual Meeting. World Economic Forum. Davos, Switzerland: January 20-23, 2016. 

Bots, Bots, Bots. Data & Society. New York, New York: December 1-4, 2015.

NetGain Public Interest Technology Talent Pipeline. Ford Foundation. Point Lookout, Maine: August 19-21, 2015.

Surveillance and the Future of Open Internet. Ford Foundation. Point Lookout, Maine: August 17-19, 2015.

Young Global Leaders Summit. World Economic Forum. Geneva, Switzerland: August 11-14, 2015.

Listening Machines. Microsoft Research. New York, New York: June 12, 2015.

Privacy Law Scholars Conference. University of California-Berkeley. Berkeley, California: June 4-5, 2015. 

Intelligence and Autonomy. Data & Society. New York, New York: March 24-25, 2015. 

 

Earlier Workshops At: Aspen Institute, CSCW, Cornell Tech, Federal Trade Commission, George Washington University, Global Voices, Harvard University, Intel, International Communication Association, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Microsoft, MIT Media Lab, National Science Foundation, Nokia, O’Reilly Media, Oxford Internet Institute, SIGCHI, State of Play, Ubicomp, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Santa Barbara, University of Southern California, White House, World Economic Forum.

Teaching and Advising
Lecturing
Undergraduate Courses:

Trust & Safety in Online Platforms [COMM 4010], Cornell University, 2026 [Instructor]

Data & Society [COMM 3190], Cornell University, 2025 [Instructor]

Foundations of New Media, University of California-Berkeley, 2005 [Primary Lecturer]

Analysis of Information Organization and Systems, University of California-Berkeley, 2004 [Teaching Assistant, Occasional Lecturer]

Introduction to Computer Science & Object-Oriented Programming, Brown University, 1998 [Teaching Assistant, Section Lecturer]

A Bridge to Computer Science, Brown University, 1997 [Primary Lecturer]

Introduction to Scientific Computing, Brown University, 1997 [Teaching Assistant, Section Lecturer]

Computer Science Education, Brown University, 1997 [Teaching Assistant, Lecturer]

Mixed Undergraduate + Graduate Courses:

Data and the Politics of Evidence, Georgetown University, 2022 [Instructor]

Graduate Courses:

Theories to Think With [COMM 7190], Cornell University, 2026 [Instructor]

Surveillance Society, New York University, 2016 [Co-Instructor]

Making Sense of Social Data, New York University, 2015 [Co-Instructor]

Qualitative Methods in a Digital Era, New York University, 2012 [Instructor]

Techno-Identity Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002 [Teaching Assistant]

Guest Lecturer:

Technology, Behavior and Society, Cornell University (Claire Wardle), 2026

Population and Public Policy, Cornell University (Sharon Sassler), 2026

AI and Humanity, Villanova University (Georg Theiner), 2024

Data, Ethics, and Society, Brown University (Andy van Dam, Norm Meyrowitz), 2023

Numbers in Policy and Society, Harvard University (Sheila Jasanoff), 2022

Data, Ethics, and Society, Brown University (Andy van Dam, Norm Meyrowitz), 2021

Data, Ethics, and Society, Brown University (Andy van Dam, Norm Meyrowitz), 2020

Computer Science 101, Duke University (Kristin Stephens-Martinez), 2019

Social Media + Society, University of Virginia (Lana Swartz), 2018

Algorithmic Culture, University of Michigan (Christian Sandvig), 2016

A Networked Self, University of Illinois at Chicago (Zizi Papacharissi), 2016

Civil Liberties in Cyberspace, Washington University (Neil Richards), 2015

Interactive Telecommunication Program Intro, New York University (Nancy Hechinger), 2014

Introduction to Sociology, New York University (Dalton Conley), 2014

Digital Media, New York University (Melanie Kohnen), 2014

Introduction to Science & Technology Studies, Stanford (Jeff Heer), 2013

Digital Media, New York University (Melanie Kohnen), 2013

Digital Research Methods, New School (Nitin Sawhney), 2012

Culture and Media Technologies, New York University (Laura Portwood-Stacer), 2012

Methods in Mass Communication Research, Northwestern University (Eszter Hargittai), 2012

The Ethics of Relationships, Harvard University (Ralph Potter), 2009

Citizen Media and Virtual Communities, UNC-Chapel Hill (Paul Jones), 2009

Networks, MIT (Daron Acemoglu and Asu Ozdaglar), 2009

Quantitative Reasoning, Harvard College (Harry Lewis), 2009

Child Exploitation, Pornography, & the Internet, Harvard Law School (Dena Sacco and Diane Rosenfeld), 2009

Research Theory and Methods in Social Cultural Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley (Cori Hayden), 2007

Online Communities, University of Southern California (Elizabeth Osder), 2007

Interactive Media Seminar, University of Southern California (Scott Fisher), 2006

People, Computers, and Design, Stanford University (Terry Winograd), 2005

Teaching and Advising
Postdocs:

Ira Globus-Harris, 2025-present

Chuncheng Liu, 2023-2025 (Assistant Professor, Northeastern University)

Andrew Selbst, 2017-2019 (Assistant Professor, University of California at Los Angeles)

Francesca Tripodi, 2017-2018 (Associate Professor, University of North Carolina)

Kadija Ferryman, 2016-2018 (Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University)

Caroline Jack, 2016-2018 (Assistant Professor, University of California at San Diego)

Julia Ticona, 2016-2018 (Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Sarah Brayne, 2015-2016 (Associate Professor, Stanford University) 

Angèle Christin, 2015-2016 (Associate Professor, Stanford University)

Karen Levy, 2014-2016 (Associate Professor, Cornell University)

Jessa Lingel, 2013-2015 (Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania)

Megan Finn, 2012-2014 (Associate Professor, American University)

Andrés Monroy-Hernández, 2011-2012 (Assistant Professor, Princeton University)

Mike Ananny, 2010-2012 (Associate Professor, University of Southern California)

Alice Marwick, 2010-2012 (Associate Professor, University of North Carolina)

PhD Dissertation Chair:

Everlynn Khamjoi, Communication, Cornell University (current) 

Zuri Wilson, Communication, Cornell University (current)

PhD Dissertation Committees:

Jae June Lee, Information School, Cornell University (current)

Dan Bateyko, Information School, Cornell University (current)

Stephanie Belina, Communication, Cornell University (current)

Kevin Ackermann, Media/Technology/Society, Northwest University (current)

Allegra Fonda-Bonardi, School of Information, University of Michigan (current)

Madelyn Zander, College of Media, Communication, and Information, University of Colorado (defended 2024; now: Researcher, Workday)

Muira McCammon, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania (defended 2023; now: Assistant Professor, Tulane University)

Emanuel Moss, Department of Anthropology, CUNY (defended 2021; now: research scientist, Intel Labs)

Robyn Caplan, School of Communications and Information, Rutgers University (defended 2021; now: Assistant Professor, Duke University)

Solon Barocas, Media Culture and Communication, New York University (defended 2014; now: Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research)

Jessica Lingel, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University (defended 2013; now: Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania)

Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck, College of Computing, Georgia Tech (defended 2012; now: Associate Professor, University of Michigan)

Alice Marwick, Media Culture and Communications, New York University (defended 2010; now: Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of Research, Data & Society)

Fred Stutzman, School of Information, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (defended 2010; now: Founder/CEO, Freedom)

PhD Interns/PhD RAs:

Jae June Lee, Information School, Cornell University (current)

Dan Bateyko, Information School, Cornell University (current)

Stephanie Belina, Communication, Cornell University (current)

Kevin Ackermann, Media/Technology/Society, Northwest University (current)

Allegra Fonda-Bonardi, School of Information,

Rachel Warren, University of California at Irvine, Information Science, 2024

María Angel, University of Washington, Law, 2023

Jayshree Sarathy, Harvard, Computer Science, 2022

Chuncheng Liu, University of California at San Diego, Sociology, 2022

Kevin Ackermann, Georgetown/Northwestern University, Communication, 2021-2022

Muira McCammon, University of Pennsylvania, Communication 2021

Emanuel Moss, City University of New York, Anthropology, 2016-2021

Robyn Caplan, Rutgers, Information Science, 2015-2019

Mikaela Pitcan, Fordham University, Psychology, 2014-2018

Madeleine Clare Elish, Columbia University, Anthropology, 2014-2017

Germaine Halegoua, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Communication, 2011

Jessica Lingel, Rutgers University, Information Science, 2011

Laura Noren, New York University, Sociology, 2011

Amelia Abreu, University of Washington, Information Science, 2010

Andrés Monroy-Hernández, MIT Media Lab, Media Arts and Sciences,2010

Omar Wasow, Harvard University, African-American Studies, 2010

Scott Golder, Cornell University, Sociology, 2009

Sarita Yardi, Georgia Tech, Human-Centered Computing, 2009

Alice Marwick, New York University, Media and Communication, 2009

Master’s Mentoring / Thesis Advising:

Tamara Spitzer-Hobeika, Media Culture and Communication, New York University, 2022

Courtney Walsh, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, 2012-2013

Undergraduate Mentoring / Thesis Advising:

Kelly Schryver, Brown University, 2010-2011

Dylan Field, 2009-2010

Tim Smith, Olin College, 2009

First Year Mentor, Women in Science and Engineering, 1997-2000

Installations

Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd. 2005. “Vizster.” False Profit – Liquidate. San Francisco, California: March 26.

boyd, danah and Jeff Potter. 2002. “Social Network Fragments.” In Express Mail sub-exhibit at the Infotecture exhibit at the Artists Space Gallery, New York: May 30 – July 13.

Donath, Judith, Joseph Paradiso, Dana Spiegel, danah boyd, Jonathan Goler, Kai-yuh Hsiao, Chris Yang, Ari Adler, Jeff Hayashida, Josh Strickon, Ari Benbasat. 2000. “Laser Who.” Emerging Technologies at SIGGRAPH 2000. New Orleans, LA: August. 

Donath, Judith, Joseph Paradiso, Dana Spiegel, danah boyd, Jonathan Goler, Kai-yuh Hsiao, Chris Yang, Ari Adler, Jeff Hayashida, Josh Strickon, Ari Benbasat. 1999. “Laser Who.” Opera Totale 5, Venice Italy: November.

Patents

danah boyd, Gilad Lotan, Paul Oka, Emre Kiciman, and Chun-Kai Wang. 2010. “Presenting Supplemental Content in Context.”  Microsoft, June 7.

Kamal Jain and danah boyd. 2009. “Interactive Television Architecture.” Microsoft, June 11.

Jennifer Chayes, Christian Borgs, Moshe Tennenhouse, Adam Kalai, and danah boyd. 2009. “Generating Recommendations Through Use of a Trusted Network.” Microsoft, June 4.

Genevieve Bell, Timothy L. Brooke, danah boyd, Bradford H. Needham. 2004. “Secure Digital Photography System.” Intel, October 14.

Professional Service
Editor:

Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series, 2012-2014

Guest Editor:

International Journal of Communication, “Privacy at the Margins,” 2018

Big Data, “Social and Technical Trade-offs,” 2017

Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, “Socially Mediated Publicness,” 2012

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, “Social Network Sites,” 2007

Editorial Board Member:

Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 2024-present

Technology Science, 2015-present

International Journal of Communication, 2012-present

Information, Communication and Society, 2010-present

Big Data, 2012-2018

ACM Computers in Entertainment Journal, 2004-2008

Program Committee:

ACM Computer Science & Law, 2024, 2025, 2026

ACM Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2018

Social Computing Symposium, 2010-2014

International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2013

IEEE Conference on Big Data, 2013

Digital Media and Learning, 2011

International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2011

SXSW-Interactive, 2007, 2010-11

YPulse, 2007-2010

O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, 2007

BlogTalk Reloaded, 2006

BlogHer, 2005-2006

Altered States and the Spiritual Awakening, 2004-2005

Visiting Committees:

MIT Visiting Committee for Libraries, 2025-present

Other Committee Work:

American Sociological Association, Hacker-Mullins Prize Committee, 2024

American Sociological Association, SKAT Merton Book Award Committee, 2023

American Sociological Association, Communication and Information Technology Student Paper Award, 2011

Reviewer (often multiple years):

Conferences: Aarhus, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), ACM Conference on CS+Law, ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI), ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law, American Sociological Association (ASA), Association of Internet Researchers Conference (AOIR), Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) Workshop, IEEE Hawaii International Conference on Social Systems (HICSS), International Communication Association (ICA), International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), SXSW-Interactive

Journals: American Sociological Review, Big Data, Business Ethics, Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, Communication Monographs, Communication Theory, Communications of the ACM (CACM), CyberPsychology & Behavior, DuBois Review, First Monday, IBM Systems Journal, Information Visualization, The Information Society, International Journal of Communication (IJOC), International Journal of Internet Research Ethics, International Journal of Internet Science, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (JOBEM), Journal of Computer-Meditated Communication (JCMC), Language@Internet, Linguistic Anthropology, New Media and Society, Pediatrics, Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Qualitative Sociology, Social Media and Society, Social Networks, Sociological Inquiry, Symbolic Interaction, Syntheses, Young

Book Publishers: MIT Press, NYU Press, Oxford University Press, Yale University Press

Funders: Knight Foundation, National Science Foundation, XPrize

Professional Affiliations:

Integrity Institute, 2024-present

Council on Foreign Relations, 2016-present

Chief: Women Executive Leaders, 2020-2023

World Economic Forum, Young Global Leaders, 2011-2021

Academic Affiliations:

American Sociological Association

Association of Computing Machinery

Association of Internet Researchers

International Communication Association

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)

Judge:

XPrize AI, 2017-2018

Annual Webby Awards, Communities, 2004-2006, 2009-2010

Prix Ars Electronica, 2005

Corporate Blogging Elevator Pitch, 2004

Grant PI:

Cornell Global Hubs Research Seed Grant, “The Political Economy of AI,” 2026 (with Alex Taylor), $5,000

National Science Foundation, “Enabling Participatory Privacy Protections for AI Training Data,” 2024-2027 (with Elissa Redmiles, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Sean Kross, Rachel Cummings), $826,361

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, “To Better Understand Ways that the Legitimacy of Data Can be Called Into Question Through Historical Case Studies of the U.S. Census,” 2019-2021, $225,000

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, “Media Manipulation,” 2019-2020, $600,000

National Science Foundation, “Algorithmic Fairness: A Systemic and Foundational Treatment of Nondiscriminatory Data Mining,” 2016-2019 (with Sorelle Friedler and Suresh Venkatasubramanian), $296,616

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “Potential Sites of Bias in Precision Medicine,” 2016-2018 (with Kadija Ferryman), $149,934

Digital Trust Foundation, “Is ‘Privacy’ the Right Frame?”, 2015-2018 (with Alice Marwick), $57,431 

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “Policy and Connected Learning,” 2014-2018, $875,000

Ford Foundation, “Data & Civil Rights,” 2015-2016, $180,000

Open Society Foundations and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, “Manipulation of the Public Sphere,” 2015-2016, $110,000

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, “Computer Science and Ethics,” 2015-2016 (with Bonnie Tijerina), $49,975 

Ford Foundation, “Data & Civil Rights,” 2014-2015, $100,000

Ford Foundation, “Data and Discrimination,” 2014-2015, $50,000

Open Society Foundations, “Future of Work,” 2014, $25,000

National Science Foundation, “Council for Big Data, Ethics & Society,” 2014-present (with Geoffrey Bowker, Kate Crawford, and Helen Nissenbaum), $299,840

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, “Born This Way Foundation,” 2011-2012 (with John Palfrey), $500,000

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, “Youth Policy Working Group Initiative,” 2009-2010 (with John Palfrey, Urs Gasser)

Task Forces, Coalitions, and Commissions:

Committee on National Statistics 2020 Census Workshop Planning Committee, 2022

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Panel: Toward a Vision for a New Data Infrastructure for Federal Statistics and Economic Research in the 21st Century, 2021-2022

Association for Computing Machinery US Technology Policy Committee, 2021-present

Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder, 2021 [Technical Advisor]

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on Practice of Democratic Citizenship, 2018-2021 

Partnership on AI Safety-Critical Working Group, 2018-2019

NYC Pretrial Risk Assessment Research Advisory Council, 2018-2019

Trust Project Advisory Council, 2017-2019

Born This Way Foundation Working Groups, 2011-2012 [Co-Director]

Ad Council Internet Safety Coalition, 2008-2012

Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, 2008-2009

Internet Safety Technical Task Force, 2008-2009 [Co-Director]

Non-Degree Advanced Training:

Yale University Jackson Institute for Global Affairs: Foundations for Leadership in the 21st Century, October 2012

Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education: Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century, March 2012

Professional Work
Non-Academic Employment

Microsoft Research, Partner Researcher, 2009-2025

Leigh Bureau, Speaker, 2006-present; example clients: American Association of Museums, American Library Association, AOL Time Warner, BBC, British Telecom, Disney, Guinness, Nokia, REI, Retail Industry Leaders of America, Visa

Medium, Columnist, 2014-2015

Consultant, 2006-2008; example clients: Keas, Gypsii, Greenberg-Traurig, Kizuno, The Go Game

Yahoo!, Social Media Researcher, July 2005-November 2006 

Google, Ethnographic Engineer, June 2004-July 2005

Tribe.net, Researcher, June 2003-November 2003

V-Day, Digital Director, October 1998-November 2003

Intel, Research Intern, June 2001-August 2001

Macromedia, Software Engineer Intern, June 1998-August 1998

Research Affiliations and University Appointments

Cornell University, Professor, 2025-present

Cornell University, Visiting Professor, 2024-2025

Georgetown University, Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2021-2026

European New School of Digital Studies, Fellow, 2024

New York University, Interactive Telecommunication Program, Visiting Professor, 2014-2021

Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Research Affiliate, 2010-2011, 2014-2015

New York University, Media, Culture and Communication, Research Assistant Professor, 2011-2014

Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Fellow, 2006-2010, 2011-2014

Harvard University, Law School, Visiting Researcher, 2011-2013

University of New South Wales, Journalism and Media Research Centre, Adjunct Associate Professor, 2011-2013

Born This Way Foundation, Research Fellow, 2011-2013

Tilburg University, Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Associate Fellow, 2009-2010

University of Southern California, Annenberg Center, Fellow, 2006-2007

Non-Profit Boards of Directors / Trustees

Computer History Museum, 2024-present

Data & Society Research Institute, 2013-2023 [founder; president, 2013-2022]

Crisis Text Line, 2012-2023 [chair, 2020-2022]

Social Science Research Council, 2016-2022 [exec committee, 2019-2021]

National Museum of the American Indian, 2014-2021

Friends of CIS, 2016-2018

New Media Consortium, 2009-2011

Government Advisory Boards

U.S. Commerce Department, Commerce Data Advisory Council, 2015-2017

Corporate Advisory Boards

Degreed, 2012-2013

LiveJournal, 2008-2010

Technorati, 2007-2009

StandardAnswers, 2008-2009

Gypsii, 2007-2009

Blyk, 2007-2008

Academic Advisory Boards

ICPSR’s Research Data Ecosystem, 2024-present

Brown University, Computer Science, 2015-2025

Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines Research Coordination Network, 2018-2021

ACM Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) Steering Committee, 2018-2022

University of Michigan, School of Information, 2012-2018

University of California at Berkeley, School of Information, 2012-2016

USC Online Communities Program, 2006-2009

Non-Profit Advisory Boards

Data & Society Research Institute, 2023-present

Crisis Text Line, 2023-present

Association for Computing Machinery US Technology Policy Committee, 2021-present

OpenDP, 2020-present

Electronic Privacy Information Center, 2011-present

Partnership for Public Service, 2021-2025

Authors Alliance, 2013-2023

Platform for Good, 2012-2015

WGBH Dot Diva / New Image for Computing, 2009-2012

Youth Media Exchange, 2008-2011

V-Day, 2007-2009

Explore Spirit, 2004

Law Students for Choice, 2003

Press Coverage
Significant Older Press Profiles:

The Ezra Klein Show: “On Why Fake News Is So Easy to Believe” by Ezra Klein. June 27, 2017.

NPR On Being: “Online Reflections of Our Offline Lives” by Krista Tippett. April 9, 2015.

NPR Morning Edition: “Online, Researcher Says, Teens Do What They’ve Always Done” by Elizabeth Blair. February 25, 2014. 

Times of London: “OMG! Why social networking is good for teens” by Barbara McMahon. November 17, 2012

Brown Alumni Magazine: “Friending Your Child” by Lawrence Goodman. March/April, 2012.

New York Times: “Cracking Teenagers’ Online Codes” by Pamela Paul. January 10, 2012.

Fast Company: “This is Generation Flux” by Robert Safian. January 9, 2012.

Forbes Magazine: “Digital Anthropologist” by Kashmir Hill. February 28, 2011.

Boston Globe: “Taking a pulse in roiling online world” by Joseph P. Kahn. October 1, 2010.

Technology Review: “Shaping the rules for social networks” by Erica Naone, September 2010.

Fortune Magazine: “The Smartest People in Tech: Smartest Academic” by Beth Kowitt, July 9, 2010.

Financial Times: “The High Priestess of Internet Friendship” by Graham Bowley, October 27, 2006.

Fast Company: “The Network Unbound” by Anya Kamenetz, June 2006. 

San Francisco Magazine: “They Need Their Space” by Jane Meredith Adams, May 2006. 

San Francisco Chronicle: “The Profiler” by Sam Whiting, April 25, 2004. 

New York Times: “Decoding the New Cues In Online Society” by Michael Erard, November 27, 2003.

Major Documentary Appearances:

“Truth or Consequences” episode for Netflix’s “What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates,” 2024 

“Data Impact with DJ Patil” for LinkedIn, 2024

“Le monde en face Mark Zuckerberg, l’empereur de Facebook” for France.TV (documentarian Julien Le Bot), 2023

“Generation Like” by PBS Frontline, 2014

“Terms and Conditions May Apply” by documentarian Cullen Hoback, 2013

“InRealLife” by documentarian Beeban Kidron, 2013

“The Virtual Revolution” by BBC, 2009

“Growing Up Online” by PBS Frontline, 2008

Expert Cited in Numerous Print Media, including:

New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Financial Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian, USA Today, San Jose Mercury News, Technology Review, Business Week, Time Magazine, Discover Magazine, Wired, The Economist, New Scientist, Fast Company, Slate

Live Appearances include:

ABC (Australia), Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, CBC Radio, CNBC, CNN, Detroit Public Radio, Fox & Friends, Fox News, KCRW, MSNBC, O’Reilly Factor, Minnesota Public Radio, NPR, PBS, Science Friday, WGBH, WBUR, WNYC

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