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danah boyd
Personal blog · zephoria.orgculturepolitics
danah boyd writes zephoria, a personal blog at zephoria.org about culture and politics. Since 2007, 102 different Hacker News readers have linked it 146 times, most often “Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 12 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link danah boyd's blog posts on teens, privacy, social networks and name policies, valued as research-based analysis of how people use social media.
- Recommended for · 12 comments
- Called 'illuminating', 'a great post', 'quite insightful' and 'an actual, interesting, scholarly take'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-11-09
- “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-08-04
- Who clicks on ads? "Middle America"4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2007-12-03
- Open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals 4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-09-10
- “for the lolz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy 4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-06-12
- Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-05-15
- Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-27
- Virtual reality affects men and women differently3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-06
- Why Parents Help Children Violate Facebook’s 13+ Rule 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-03
- Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-24
What Hacker News says?
One of the more famous incidents was the twitter backchannel for dana boyd's Web2.0 talk http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/11/24/spectac... (admittedly, she did have a talk that bombed, but that's still no excuse for the angle that the twitter talk took.
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2009/11/24/spectacle_at_we.html
on “Speaking up”Submitted Where “nothing to hide” fails as logic as a story · 181 points
HN discussionGoogle is less flexible and less responsive on this and similar issues than they could or should be. But. This discussion should be about COPPA. See danah boyd's illuminating research and analysis on the subject here: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/11/01/parents...
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2011/11/01/parents-survey-coppa.html
on “Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.”Submitted Virtual reality affects men and women differently as a story · 137 points
HN discussionI think danah boyd has the best take on this. Can we say that prosecution caused Aaron's suicide, in the same sense as one billiard ball sets another in motion? Of course not. But what should disturb us is that the business and government elites of our society are very alarmed at what is going on with the internet. And they're used to crushing people in their path. The War on Drugs has completely normalized these ta…
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2013/01/13/aaron-swartz.html
on “US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide”Submitted Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd as a story · 133 points
HN discussionI know some people who deactivate their account every night, and apparently it's not that rare either: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/11/08/risk-re...
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2010/11/08/risk-reduction-strategies-on-facebook.html
on “Off the Grid”Submitted Xkcd meets reality as a story · 129 points
HN discussion"loving LOLcats or rickrolling as outputs is like loving a tasty hamburger; visiting 4chan is like visiting the meat factory. At some point, it’d probably help to visit the meat factory, but that might make you go vegetarian." -- Danah Boyd (retelling her friend's saying) http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/06/12/for-the...
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2010/06/12/for-the-lolz-4chan-is-hacking-the-attention-economy.html
on “4chan: Beyond one billion”Submitted Facebook and “radical transparency” as a story · 56 points
HN discussionThe whole "real names" fiasco[1] diminished my excitement for the platform. 1: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/08/04/real-na...
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2011/08/04/real-names.html
on “Google+ Opens to All”Submitted Processing the loss of Aaron Swartz as a story · 50 points
HN discussionThere’s a lot of criticism on WhatsApp and Instagram. The most interesting are: - WhatsApp is used by conservative political parties (notably Mohdi in India) to promote non-representative, outrageous stories. Those spread in group chats, away from fact-checking. Reducing group maximum size should help slow down and allow media to counter-message before the message spreads too far. - Instagram is promoting a superfic…
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2010/07/21/myspace-and-facebook-how-racist-language-frames-social-media-and-why-you-should-care.html
on “Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up”Submitted “for the lolz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy as a story · 47 points
HN discussiondanah boyd wrote in a 2010 essay (“Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated”, http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/05/15/faceboo... ): “In my post yesterday, I emphasized that what’s at stake with Facebook today is not about privacy or publicity but informed consent and choice. Facebook speaks of itself as a utility while also telling people they have a choice. But there’s a conflict here. We know th…
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2010/05/15/facebook-is-a-utility-utilities-get-regulated.html
on “Regulation could protect Facebook, not punish it”Submitted Why Parents Help Children Violate Facebook’s 13+ Rule as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI don't which is worse, to be delusional about intended consequences, or to be conspiratorial about unintended consequences. I learned the word 'apophenia' from danah boyd's blog, https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ . She is a founder of Data & Society, at https://datasociety.net/
Comment linking /thoughts/
on “Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One”Submitted Quitting Facebook is pointless; challenging them to do better is not as a story · 39 points
HN discussion> There is no real evidence of significant differences between the sexes other than men are often physically bigger That's straight up false. Just because evidence does not accord with your ideology, does not mean it is de facto incorrect. There are numerous biological differences between the genders, not least due to differing levels of sex hormones. There have been studies done on on pre and post-op transsexuals t…
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2014/04/03/is-the-oculus-rift-sexist.html
on “Women view professional advancement equally attainable, but less desirable [pdf]”Submitted Four Difficult Questions Regarding Bullying and Youth Suicide as a story · 38 points
HN discussionThey e-mailed her on Passover and gave her 72 hours to reply[1]. Assholes in my book. [1]: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/04/27/tumblr-...
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2011/04/27/tumblr-disappeared-me.html
on “Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd”Submitted Crisis Text Line, from my perspective as a story · 37 points
HN discussionupdate: Tumblr has now restored boyd's account name: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/04/27/tumblr-...
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2011/04/27/tumblr-disappeared-me.html
on “Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd”Submitted Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated as a story · 37 points
HN discussionIn 2007, danah boyd posited that teens don't get stuck to social networks. The theory was that they didn't need to maintain a giant extended network, because they saw their friends every day anyway. Besides they are shifting friend groups constantly, so rebuilding a profile is like spring cleaning. http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/01/01/ephemer... She later argues that Facebook became the network of ch…
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2007/01/01/ephemeral_profi.html
on “Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off”Submitted Open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals as a story · 33 points
HN discussion> I'm assuming that users going into the sponsored results (Ad) area has something to do with them not getting what they are looking for in the organic results area. I was thinking about this some more - There is a further assumption in the above... That the users who click ads can distinguish between organic and sponsored results (or even if they care to). Then, I remembered some time ago another study was done wer…
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2007/12/03/who_clicks_on_a.html
on “Google to Encrypt All Keyword Searches”Submitted Palestinian girls, dating, and the mobile phone as a story · 31 points
HN discussionThe technical name for this is "context collapse", and it's not just Facebook, but social media more generally. https://indieweb.org/context_collapse http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/12/08/coining... https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/01/10/context-c...
Comment linking /thoughts/archives/2013/12/08/coining-context-collapse.html
on “Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (2006)”Submitted Who clicks on ads? "Middle America" as a story · 30 points
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