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Living and learning with new media

by danah boyd, November 21, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Findings from a 3-year ethnographic study of digital youth

For the last three years, I've been a part of a team of researchers at Berkeley and USC focused on digital youth practices. This project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, brought together 28 different researchers (led by Mimi Ito and my now deceased advisor Peter Lyman) to examine different aspects of American youth life. As many of you know, I ...

I want my Olympics 2.0-style

by danah boyd, August 22, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Come to think of it, everything about how NBC has covered the Olympics has been abysmal

Last night, I went to bed watching girls' gymnastics. I found myself very irritated. There were 24 girls in the finals, but NBC focused only on those that they thought would medal. The result is that there was tremendous downtime that the announcers filled with speculation, gossip, and historical reminiscing. I was quite irritated because what I wanted was to ...

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