danah boyd

danah boyd is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University. Dr. boyd’s research focuses on the intersection of technology and society. Her upcoming book “Data are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census” is an ethnography of the US Census Bureau, Jenga politics, and the struggle to make democracy’s data in 2020. Her first monograph “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” examines young people’s relationship to social media. Dr. boyd founded Data & Society, where she currently serves as an advisor. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University, a master’s degree from MIT Media Lab, and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California, Berkeley.