danah boyd
The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.Collection: Media
Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.Collection: Running
Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.Collection: Technology
Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.Collection: Media
Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.Collection: Space
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.Collection: Information Flow
We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.Collection: Data
What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.Collection: Marketing
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.Collection: Grease
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.Collection: Class
There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Levels
For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Couple
I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.Collection: World