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danah boyd
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danah boyd's personal blog at danah.org covers culture and writing. Since 2007, 47 different Hacker News readers have linked it 57 times, most often “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2007-06-25
- Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-03-14
- Autistic Social Software (2004)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-08-16
- MySpace, Facebook And White Flight3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-07-01
- /papers/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-07-03
- How to Take an Email Sabbatical2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-08-13
- /papers/sexvision.pdf2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-29
- Grokking the anthropology of social networks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-03-03
- /name.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-27
What Hacker News says?
"cooler people" - classist much? Perhaps have a look at dynah boyd's research on the class divisions between Facebook and MySpace. http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html Additionally, MySpace killed itself by pursuing the wrong objectives. Facebook didn't kill MySpace, MySpace killed MySpace.
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on “Why I Left Google”Submitted Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace as a story · 16 points
HN discussionNot sure if she explicitly wrote about likes = teen suicide, but I'm sure danah boyd would have had something to say about it, given her research focus on the intersection of social tech and teens lives. She was already well respected at that time and known to my team when I worked in Yahoo's online communities division in 2006 and went to her talks. The relationship between suicide & social status has been well kno…
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on “The Social Dilemma”Submitted MySpace, Facebook And White Flight as a story · 9 points
HN discussion"Autistic Social Software" http://www.danah.org/papers/Supernova2004.html Doesn't talk about FB, as it wasn't yet a dominant force yet.
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on “Introducing Graph Search”Submitted HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, ToRead [pdf] as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis actually probably has more to do with the fidelity of rendering in the Vive apps. It's important to remember that due to hunter/gatherer specializations men and women (testosterone and estrogen dominant individuals actually, we tested this with hormone treatment patients that were swapping genders) tend to perceive visual reality differently [0], indeed the eye has the second most (besides genitalia obviously)…
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on “How big an issue is the nausea problem for VR products?”Submitted The Future of Privacy: How Privacy Norms Can Inform Regulation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis study went into some of the changes in depth perception experienced by people going through hormonal therapy for gender reassignment operations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10341369 This paper talks about some observations and some of the issues that still need to be covered: http://www.danah.org/papers/transtech.pdf And a further paper from Dr. Boyd going into more detail on virtual reality more specifi…
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on “HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Sales”Submitted Grokking the anthropology of social networks as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere is a suddenness to this episode that deserves some examination. For years, Facebook has been violating people's privacy. For years, people went along with it. Perhaps on some level, people were disturbed by it, but they weren't angry enough to do anything about it. If we were discussing economics, then we would call this a Minsky moment[1]. If you substitute "trust" for "money" then this almost fits: " A Minsk…
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on “Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire”Submitted The social lives of networked teens [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSee also http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html
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on “Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996”Submitted Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think it's a more cogent and more substantial point than it might seem at first glance. Anecdotally, I honestly do notice a class axis between iPhone and Android (though there are other axes, too). Just like there was a class axis between Facebook and MySpace for a while. http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html No one denies that consumer electronics can be status symbols. They can also be counter-s…
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on “Horseshit - Joshua Topolsky responds to MG & Gruber ”Submitted “Networked Privacy” (2011) as a story · 2 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…
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on “Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up”Submitted Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace (2007) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- ot · 2011-11-13
This reminds me of "Email sabbatical": http://www.danah.org/EmailSabbatical.html At its most crass level, an email sabbatical is when you make all of your email bounce. But you can't simply turn off your email without pissing off countless people in your life. Thus, an email sabbatical is actually a series of steps to let you step away from your inbox guilt-free and return to an empty inbox upon your return.
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on “PragDave: I'm on vacation, and I've deleted your message—really” Submitted What World Are We Building? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't understand what "[computers can't] simulate how that tiny, constant flickering of your eyes affects the shading you perceive" refers to. How can flicking your eyes affect the shading of objects? In the linked paper[1], the shape-from-shading cue was just a static greyscale gradient, with no eye-flicking. This seems like something that standard computer graphics techniques can emulate easily. Since the study…
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on “Virtual reality affects men and women differently”- ot · 2011-08-13
Submitted How to Take an Email Sabbatical as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Peter, could you fix the headline? Her name is lower case. http://www.danah.org/name.html
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on “Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd”Submitted Autistic Social Software (2004) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionShe's not precisely on point, but if you're curious start by reading danah boyd's work: http://www.danah.org/papers/ . The stuff at the top mostly deals with teenagers, but her older papers deal with online communities in general. Again: she's a good place to start , not finish.
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on “Computer Scientists and Google+: Something Interesting is Happening ”Submitted Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOr as danah boyd says, "I have a funny feeling that social technology is back to developing software based on disorders and instigating new ones in people." http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/05/03/social_... http://www.danah.org/papers/Supernova2004.html
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on “Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record”Submitted Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace (2007) as a story · 1 points
HN discussioncheck out this paper by danah boyd from 2000, for discussion of more or less this issue in virtual reality. https://www.danah.org/papers/sexvision.pdf
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on “Sex Differences in Visual Motion Processing”Submitted Networked Norms: How Tech Startups and Teen Practices Challenge... as a story · 1 points
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