Every month, the members of the Social Media Collective read a current non-fiction book that's relevant to our research interests and discuss it (just like grad school!). This month, our selection was The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, by James Gleick. As you can see, it's quite a tome: 527 pages of intellectual …
Month: May 2011
How Teens Understand Privacy
In the fall, danah boyd and Alice Marwick went into the field to understand teens' privacy attitudes and practices. We've blogged some of our thinking since then but we're currently working on turning our thinking into a full-length article. We are lucky enough to be able to workshop our ideas at an upcoming scholarly meeting …
Welcome to our group blog
This is a group blog for the members, past present and future, of the social media collective at Microsoft Research New England, run by danah boyd. We are a group of academics from diverse disciplinary and methodological backgrounds who study a broad array of social technologies and practices. We're going to use this blog to …