This Summer I became very interested in what I think I will be calling “legal portraits of digital subjects” or something similar. I came to this through doing a study on MOOCs with SMC this summer. The title of the project is “Students as End Users in the MOOC Ecology” (the talk is available online). …
Category: Talks
Challenges for Health in a Networked Society
In February, I had the great fortune to visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of their "What's Next Health" series. I gave a talk raising a series of critical questions for those working on health issues. The folks at RWJF have posted my talk, along with an infographic of some of the challenges …
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Networked Norms: How Tech Startups and Teen Practices Challenge Organizational Boundaries
At the ASTD TechKnowledge conference, I was asked to reflect on networked learning and how tomorrow's workers will challenge today's organizations. I did some reflecting on this topic and decided to draw on two strands of my research over the last decade - startup culture and youth culture - to talk about how those outside of traditional …
Bullying and Drama with Alice Marwick
PBS Off Book features Alice talking about her and danah's research on teenage bullying and drama. A quick but excellent watch!
Panel discussion on the #YoSoy132: Mexico’s Networked Social Movement – Sep 20, 5pm at the NERD Center
In collaboration with the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, Microsoft Research New England is hosting a discussion about the #YoSoy132 activist movement. Open to the public. What: #YoSoy132: Mexico's Networked Social Movement When: Thursday September 20 at 5:00 PM Where: Microsoft Conference Center (Barton Room) located at One Memorial Drive, First Floor, Cambridge, MA …
Video: TL Taylor on Pro Gaming, Live Streaming & Spectatorship
Current and future visitor TL Taylor spoke last week at the Berkman Luncheon series on "Live Streaming, Computer Games, and the Future of Spectatorship." Computer gaming has long been a social activity, complete with forms of spectatorship. With the growth of live-streaming the boundaries of audience are shifting. Professional e-sports players and amateurs alike …
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Audiences Affect Artists Too: Rethinking “Participation”
Over the last twenty years we've seen a boom in research about "participatory culture" that tries, in part, to make sense of the many ways audiences engage popular culture. This work tends to start from the points of view of audience members. Recently (sometimes during my visits at MSR), I've been coming at this from …
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You’re the Manager but I’m the Mayor: Understanding Foursquare Check-ins in Claimed Venues
This talk is by Germaine Halegoua, one of our fantastic interns this summer and a brand-new Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas. She outlines her findings from her summer research project, about the location-based mobile service Foursquare. The presentation includes preliminary findings and analysis from an ethnographic study of Foursquare users in the Boston …
Dissertation to book proposal: Four rules of thumb
We had an informative discussion with Margy from MIT Press today who was kind enough to talk with us about scholarly publishing from the perspective of an academic press. She was generous with her time (and with her back - she lugged some heavy books into the meeting for show and tell) and one list …
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“Teen Sexting and Its Impact on the Tech Industry” (danah’s talk for the RWW Conference)
In a cultural context where Congressman Anthony Weiner foolishly published salacious content on Twitter, it's hard to ignore sexting as a cultural phenomenon. Countless adults send sexually explicit content to one another, either as acts of flirtation or more explicit sex acts. And yet, when teenagers do so, new issues emerge. Teen sexting gets complicated, …
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