Best quotes by danah boyd

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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