My name is danah boyd and I'm the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. I am also the founder of Data & Society. My research examines the intersection between technology and society. For over a decade, my research focused on how young people use social media as part of their everyday practices. I wrote It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (2014) to document my findings. I also co-authored two books - Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media (2009) and Participatory Culture in a Networked Era (2015) to highlight different aspects of that work.
