Stories by danah boyd

danah boyd is a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

To follow her work and findings, see:

subscribe to danah boyd's rss feed

How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps, Child Traffickers and Other Abusive Scumbags

Posted on Sep 7, 2010, Source: AlterNet

I believe that the current efforts to censor Craigslist's "adult services" achieves the absolute opposite of their intention.

Facebook and MySpace Users Are Clearly Divided Along Class Lines

Posted on Sep 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The inequalities and divisions in society have emerged online in social networks despite the belief that everyone is connected by the Internet.
[ page served from web 2 ]