A teenager’s perspective on how he uses different social networks is useful, but sociologist danah boyd warns that generalizing about what this means for all teenagers inevitably marginalizes some users who… Read more »
Facebook’s most recent episode of stepping well past the painted lines and wandering around in no-man’s land continues to reverberate, and probably won’t quiet down quickly. In case you’ve been living… Read more »
Why is privacy so hard? Sociologist Danah Boyd, who specializes in the way people use online social networks, says in the latest issue of MIT’s Technology Review it’s because “the way… Read more »
Is the rise of Facebook partly a result of “white flight” away from MySpace? That’s the argument made by sociologist Danah Boyd in a chapter from a recent book based on… Read more »
Android is the hot smartphone platform currently, and that means the competition has it squarely in its sites. HTC has been the target for Apple and Microsoft, but Android is the… Read more »
Researcher Danah Boyd brought fighting words to SXSW, where she delivered a well-received keynote on the subject of online privacy and publicity, calling out Google and Facebook for being cavalier with… Read more »
Though Twitter is used by celebrities like Oprah and Ashton Kutcher, a recent analysis by Nielsen concluded it hasn’t yet caught on with the under-25 set, which it found accounts for… Read more »