Danah Boyd Quotes

Rather than focusing on coarse generational categories, it makes more sense to focus on the skills and knowledge that are necessary to make sense of a mediated world. Both youth and adults have a lot to learn.

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

Teens are desperate to have access to and make sense of public life; understanding the technologies that enable publics is just par for the course.

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

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

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

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

In a world where information is easily available, strong personal networks and access to helpful people often matter more than access to the information itself.30

Long before the internet, critical media literacy has never been considered essential in schools or communities. Instead,

More often than not, what people put up online using social media is widely accessible because most systems are designed such that sharing with broader or more public audiences is the default. Many popular systems require users to take active steps to limit the visibility of any particular piece of shared content. This is quite different from physical spaces, where people must make a concerted effort to make content visible to sizable audiences.8 In networked publics, interactions are often public by default, private through effort.

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

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

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.

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.

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology,

In 1995, psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg coined the term internet addiction disorder. He wrote a satirical essay about "people abandoning their family obligations to sit gazing into their computer monitor as they surfed the Internet." Intending to parody society's obsession with pathologizing everyday behaviors, he inadvertently advanced the idea. Goldberg responded critically when academics began discussing internet addiction as a legitimate disorder: "I don't think Internet addiction disorder exists any more than tennis addictive disorder, bingo addictive disorder, and TV addictive disorder exist. People can overdo anything. To call it a disorder is an error.

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

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.

Listening to teens talk about social media addiction reveals an interest not in features of their computers, smartphones, or even particular social media sites but in each other.

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

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