Danah Michele Boyd (born 1977), also known as danah boyd, is an American academic, researcher, and blogger best known for media appearances where she speaks about social networking sites such as Friendster and MySpace. Since 2003, she and her research have been quoted on the subject of social networking in dozens of different articles in media sources such as NPR, Wired, MSNBC, "USA Today", and "The O'Reilly Factor".. Wikipedia
In high school, after my mother and stepfather divorced, i started the process of changing my name to my maternal grandfather's - 'Boyd'. www.danah.org/name.html
My name is Danah Boyd and I'm a PhD student in the School of Information at Berkeley and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society . I currently live in Venice, CA. www.zephoria.org/thoughts/
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The kids are ditching MySpace for Facebook. According to the latest numbers from comScore Media Metrix, U.S. MySpace visitors under 18 dropped 30 percent over the past year, while Facebook's nearly tripled. Why the exodus? www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19735915/