Posts tagged: danah boyd

On privacy, choice and informed consent

The battle that is underway is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It’s a battle over choice and informed consent. It’s unfolding because people are being duped, tricked, coerced, and confused into doing things where they don’t understand the consequences. Facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices, but that is [...] [14 May 2010]

On the internet as surrogate meeting place

From Saudi women revel in online lives on GlobalPost: In a country where about one-third of the population regularly goes online, the internet gives women “a place to vent out our frustrations and our dreams,“ said Reem Asaad, 37, a professor of banking and finance in the Saudi port city of Jeddah who blogs at [...] [4 Feb 2010]

On Facebook, MySpace and being ghetto

On the one hand, the ghetto is a part of a city historically defined by race and class. On the other hand, being ghetto refers to a set of tastes that emerged as poor people of color developed fashion and cultural artifacts that proudly expressed their identity. Just as physical spaces and tastes are organized [...] [29 Dec 2009]

On visibility in public

By and large, those who are looking are those who hold power over the person being observed. Parents look. Teachers look. Employers look. Governments look. Corporations look. These people are often looking to judge or manipulate. Given the powerful position they are in, those doing the looking often think that they have the right to [...] [10 Dec 2009]

On the perils of a backchannel

danah boyd gives her perspective on last week’s Web 2.0 Twitter back channel debacle. So I have a favor to ask … I am going to be giving a bunch of public speaking performances at web conferences in the next couple of months: Supernova and Le Web in December, SXSW in March, WWW in April. [...] [24 Nov 2009]

danah boyd on limited attention and information streams

boyd posted notes from her Web2.0 talk, “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media” As networked technologies proliferate around the world, we can assume that there is a channel of distribution available to everyone and between everyone. In theory, anyone could get content to anyone else. With the barriers to [...] [18 Nov 2009]