Danah Boyd

Parents Helping Young Kids Lie to Get Past Facebook's Age Restrictions

Larry Magid | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Facebook, Danah Boyd, Children-Facebook, Online Safety, Kids Facebook, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Children Facebook, Children Online Safety, Online Parenting, Technology News
Larry Magid

In May, Consumer Reports revealed that there were 7.5 million kids younger than 13 using Facebook, including more than five million 10 and under. In every case these kids had to lie to get around Facebook's rule that you must be 13 or older to join.

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A Conversation With Your Cellphone

Claire Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mushon Zer-Aviv, Content, Virtual, Digital, Liveness, Conversation, Real, Danah Boyd, Unplug and Recharge, Phillip Auslander, Healthy Living News
Claire Gordon

Digital media use can sometimes graze the edge of social acceptability, but as digital and analogue life become evermore integrated, the protocols get blurry.

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Allure of the Hive: Experts on Connectivity, Social Networking and Social Change

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lake Tahoe, Upper East Side, Linkedin, Sunlight Foundation, Nicole Ellison, Thought Leaders, MOUSE.Org, Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, Global Citizens, Sean Parker, Individual Empowerment, Howard Dean, Simon & Schuster, Modern Life, Social Network, Maine, Bowdoin College, Twitter Age, Americans, Plaxo, Ritz-Carlton Highlands, Brainstorm Brand, Techonomy Conference, Telecommunication, Entrepreneur, Personal Democracy Forum, Politics, Twitter, Information Studies and Media, Social Life, Skype, Connectivity, Mint, Facebook, Fortune, Dr. Dhiraj Murthy, New York City, Aspen, The Benefits of Facebook Friends, Facebook Causes, Andrew Rasiej, Michigan State University, Napster, Internet, The Facebook Effect, Spacex, Relationships, Quantcast, David Kirkpatrick, Connecting Goodness, Danah Boyd, Techonomy, New York News
Jim Luce

A distinguished panel of experts gathered Saturday at the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination for a standing room-only r...

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SXSW 2010: User Privacy -- The "Social Contract" With Users

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Real-Time-Web, Facebook Privacy, Technology, Privacy, Danah Boyd, Technology News
Christina Gagnier

While new technologies continue to emerge, allowing people to share more information on what seems like a daily basis, the privacy protections built into these tools has nowhere near caught up.

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Tweeting Behind Your Back: What You Can't See Might Hurt You

Catherine Ventura | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Jack Dorsey, Twitter, Baratunde Thurston, Danah Boyd, Web 2.0 Expo Nyc, Web 2.0 O'reilly, Technology News
Catherine Ventura

While public "conversation" and the creation of online community around a presentation can add value, many people feel that projecting a Twitterstream behind a speaker is distracting and just downright rude.

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The New Media Epiphany

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Internet, Dave Troy, Free Press, Myspace, Personal Democracy Forum, AT&T, Josh Silver, Dave Weinberger, Alec Ross, Twitter, James Assey, Danah Boyd, Cultural Divide, Facebook, Amanda Michel, Transparency, Mayhill Fowler, Gina Bianchini, Broadband, Propublica, Net Equality, Andrew Rasiej, Micah L. Sifry, Internet, Jeff Jarvis, Ning, Randy Zuckerberg, Hank Hultquist, New Media, Google, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

Two years ago, I had a personal epiphany at the Personal Democracy Forum: New media could change everything... From communications to politics to culture. At PDF '09: more revelations.

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TwitNotes from #PDF09

Eric Kuhn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Morley Winograd, Gen X, Mccain, Bloggers, Rnc, President Obama, Joe Rospars, pdf09, Obama, Washington Post, Frank Rich, Facebook, Mike Gravel, Iava, Mark McKinnon, Ana Marie Cox, Pdf, Obama 2008, David All, Jeff Jarvis, Skype, McCain 2008, Myspace, Craig Newmark, Twitter, Mayor Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, Macon Phillips, Alec Ross, Barack Obama, Personal Democracy Forum, New York City, Paul Rieckhoff, Gina Bianchini, Randi Zuckerberg, Andrew Rasiej, Simon Rosenberg, Ning, Youtube, Mellennials, Rachel Sklar, 311, Danah Boyd, Media News
Eric Kuhn

Over 1,000 people descended upon the annual Personal Democracy Forum earlier this week. Here are some of my notes -- taken on Twitter, of course -- from the two day conference.

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