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danah boyd

Social media scholar and youth researcher

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Born 1977 · age 49United States

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Updated 2026-07-19

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.

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