Danah Boyd Quotes

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

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#2. The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

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#3. Listening to teens talk about social media addiction reveals an interest not in features of their computers, smartphones, or even particular social media sites but in each other.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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

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

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#8. Rather than focusing on coarse generational categories, it makes more sense to focus on the skills and knowledge that are necessary to make sense of a mediated world. Both youth and adults have a lot to learn.

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

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#10. 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.

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

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

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#13. Teens are desperate to have access to and make sense of public life; understanding the technologies that enable publics is just par for the course.

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#14. Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

H.L. Mencken

#15. 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.

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#16. In a world where information is easily available, strong personal networks and access to helpful people often matter more than access to the information itself.30

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#17. Your life is a product of your thoughts, what you think about all day becomes the basis of your life.

Leon Brown

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

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#19. 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].

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#20. Are you already assuming there's an us?"
"I'm getting ready for when there is.

Rebecca Donovan

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

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

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

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#24. Long before the internet, critical media literacy has never been considered essential in schools or communities. Instead,

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

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#26. At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me.
I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then

Alison Bechdel

#27. 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.

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#28. If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

Russell Crowe