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Danah Michele Boyd (or danah boyd, born Danah Michele Mattas) is an American academic, researcher, and blogger best known for her research on youth and social networking sites.

After studying computer science at Brown University with Andy van Dam, she obtained a Master's degree in sociable media with Judith Donath at the MIT Media Lab. She later moved to San Francisco, California, where she became associated with individuals involved in creating the new Friendster service.

She advanced to Ph.D. candidacy with a designated emphasis in new media in the UC Berkeley School of Information in 2006, with Ph.D. advisors including Peter Lyman and Mizuko Ito. Her dissertation was entitled "Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics", and focused on the use of large social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace by U.S. teenagers. 
She has been a fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, and at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

In September 2008, Boyd joined the faculty of Microsoft Research New England, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Boyd is also co-director of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, organized at Harvard University. She is also involved with a large three-year collaborative ethnographic project funded by the MacArthur Foundation and led by Mimi Ito, examining youths' use of technologies.

==External Links==
*Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danah_boyd
*Personal homepage: http://www.danah.org
*Personal blog: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts
*Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/zephoria

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