Best 20 quotes of Danah Boyd on MyQuotes

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about what you’re looking for, you’ll go to different spaces, and it parallels what we do as adults. You go to different bars when you’re in the mood for different things. You see different people when you want to go listen to music or when you just want to have a quiet drink with a couple of friends.

Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.

For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life.

LinkedIn is very good for browsing relationships and hooking into your contacts' networks. It re-connected me with high-level execs I hadn't talked to for some time, who then helped me close various deals.

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.

Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology.

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

Teen "addiction" to social media is a new extension of typical human engagement. Their use of social media as their primary site of sociality is most often a byproduct of cultural dynamics that have nothing to do with technology, including parental restrictions and highly scheduled lives. Teens turn to, and are obsessed with whichever environment allows them to connect to friends. most teens aren't addicted to social media; if anything, they're addicted to each other.

Teens’ use of social media is significantly shaped by race and class, geography and cultural background [boyd, danah , "An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media," Medium, January 12, 2015].

There’s a reason why researchers and organizations like Pew Research are doing the work that they do — they do so to make sure that we don’t forget about the populations that aren’t already in our networks [danah boyd, "An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media," Medium, January 12, 2015].