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danah boyd
PhD Student, UC Berkeley
Blog: apophenia
boyd is a PhD student in Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She develops social visualizations, collects ethnographic data and builds on social science and humanities theories in order to understand how people negotiate their presentation of self in mediated social contexts to an unknown audience. Recently, danah has been studying Friendster, blogs and journals.
Previously, danah studied computer science at Brown University and sociable media at the MIT Media Lab. She also spent five years creating and managing an online support community for V-Day, a non-profit working to end violence against women and girls worldwide.