In the News

One of the goals of our lab is to disseminate our research beyond the academy. Here are links to stories about recent work and our researchers.

2012

The Story of a Suicide: Two college roommates, a webcam, and a tragedy. A detailed, nuanced piece on the suicide of Tyler Clementi in The New Yorker mentions Alice & danah’s drama paper.

Cracking Teenager’s Online Codes. Awesome NYT profile of danah and her work.

Teens migrating to Twitter– Sometimes for Privacy. AP piece on teens & twitter quoting Alice Marwick.

2011

Bullying 2.0 is more like a drama class. A nice piece in Macleans on the Marwick/boyd drama paper.

Salon magazine reprinted Tarleton Gillespie’s piece on Twitter trends originally posted here.

Bullying as True Drama: Why Cyberbullying Rhetoric Misses the Mark. danah and Alice write a New York Times editorial about their work on bullying versus drama.

Andre’s piece “Shouting Fire in a Crowded Hashtag – Narco Censorship & “Twitteroristas” is reprinted in the NYT.

Mexico murders show how Internet empowers, threatens. Andres Monroy-Hernandez writes a CNN editorial on his work on Twitter and the Mexican drug wars.

Mexico’s Twitter ‘terrorism’ case sparks controversy. Andres Monroy-Hernandez talks to CNN about the role of Twitter in Mexico’s drug war (which he first discussed on this blog!). This piece got a ton of attention. Andres’s work was also covered by The New York Times, the NYT’s Lede blog, CNN and the Toronto Star (in addition to the features above). Go Andres!

Top Researchers Inspire Interns. Our own Germaine Halegoua talks about her experience interning at SMC.

Gawker covers Andres’ award-winning ICWSM paper on 4Chan.

Technology Refusal: Nora Young from CBC’s The Spark interviews Alice Marwick about her post on technology refusal and opting out. CBC followed up with a great summary of the blog post and the interview.

Andres appears on NPR’s Marketplace Tech Report to discuss whether Google+’s “real names only” policy makes sense.

NPR’s MindShift covers Andres’ dissertation project Scratch: Teaching the Difference Between Creating and Remixing.

Alice appears on NPR’s Marketplace Tech Report to weigh in on “Myspace: What went wrong?” Clearly, NPR loves the SMC.

Silicon Valley status symbols emphasize mind over material. The LA Times talks to Alice about her dissertation on status in the tech community.

The Curious Connection Between Apps for Gay Men and Sex Offenders. Mike Ananny’s editorial for The Atlantic caused a flurry of interest in the blogosphere, as he traced lines between the supposed neutrality of algorithms and the assumptions built into technical infrastructures.

Do teens of the Facebook generation value privacy? The Seattle Post-Intelligencer discusses a new research report by danah boyd and Alice Marwick about young people’s online privacy practices.

Relationship Status: Complicated, In The Digital Age. Alice Marwick appears on WBUR, an NPR Boston affiliate, to talk about how social media is changing teenage relationships.

Adweek: Teens Hide Themselves in Plain Sight. Interview with Alice Marwick about young people’s privacy practices.