Researcher danah boyd has a message for government: You’re doing it wrong
Cross posted from O’Reilly Radar • Original post by Alex Howard | @digiphile
Young people don’t want to be the government’s friend on Facebook. They aren’t likely to welcome an official dropping into an online conversation uninvited. And if you want to communicate with them where they live, you need to be on mobile. These are just a few of the insights danah boyd shared with me this week.
For years, boyd has been at the forefront of the conversation about privacy and publicity in the digital age. Her groundbreaking digital ethnography research on class in social networking made its way into public discourse. Her subsequent dissertation, in which she investigated how American teenagers socialize in networked publics like MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Xanga and YouTube, has informed academics, industry and parents alike about what it means to be young on today’s Internet.
Read the full interview on O’Reilly Radar
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May 6th, 2010 |
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