# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/danah-boyd
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:57:17.225Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/danah-boyd"
name: "danah boyd"
slug: "danah-boyd"
description: "Danah Boyd is an American technology and social media scholar. She is a partner researcher at Microsoft Research, the founder of Data & Society Research Institute, and a distinguished visiting professor at Georgetown University. As of March 2026 she is working as the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University."
tagline: "Social media scholar and youth researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Danah_boyd_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1977-11-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "zephoria"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Danah boyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump