Danah Boyd

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

Larry Magid | Posted 01.01.2012

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.

A Conversation With Your Cellphone

Claire Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011

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.

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

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

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

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

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

Catherine Ventura | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

The New Media Epiphany

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

TwitNotes from #PDF09

Eric Kuhn | Posted 05.25.2011

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.