danah boyd Quotes

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

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  Media, Space, Marketing

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

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  Running, Water, Modern Life

  danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.26, Yale University Press

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• Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

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  Technology, Publicity, Social Media

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

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  Media, Teens, Social

  danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.80, Yale University Press

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

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  Space, Giving, Natural

  "The era of Facebook is an anomaly". Interview with Ellis Hamburger, www.theverge.com. March 13, 2014.

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• The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

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

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  Information Flow, People, Privacy

  danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.76, Yale University Press

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

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  Data, Forget, Obsessed

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

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  Marketing, Invisible, Online

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• Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

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  Grease, Networking, Machines

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

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  Class, Creative, Connections

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• There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology.

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  Technology, People, Engagement

  "Danah Boyd: 'People looked at me like I was an alien'" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2009.

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• Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.

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  Thinking, Cities, Design

  "Online Social networks go to work". Interview With Xeni Jardin, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• LinkedIn is very good for browsing relationships and hooking into your contacts' networks. It re-connected me with high-level execs I hadn't talked to for some time, who then helped me close various deals.

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  Levels, Linkedin, Very Good

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about what you’re looking for, you’ll go to different spaces, and it parallels what we do as adults. You go to different bars when you’re in the mood for different things. You see different people when you want to go listen to music or when you just want to have a quiet drink with a couple of friends.

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  Couple, Thinking, Space

  "The era of Facebook is an anomaly". Interview with Ellis Hamburger, www.theverge.com. March 13, 2014.

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• For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

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  Needs, Levels, Visibility

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

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  World, Librarian, Feels

  Twitter post from Nov 5, 2009

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• Incantations for Muggles:
  The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life.

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  Technology, Everyday, Roles

  "Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life". danah boyd's Keynote address at O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California, www.danah.org. March 28, 2007.

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