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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 Professor of Communication at Cornell University.

Most cited

210 papers in total

2007 · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

16,276 citationsRead

2012 · Information Communication & Society

Critical Questions for BIG DATA

5,468 citationsRead

2010 · New Media & Society

I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience

4,603 citationsRead

2010

Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter

2,053 citationsRead

2014 · Choice Reviews Online

It's complicated: the social lives of networked teens

1,615 citationsRead

2019

Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems

1,569 citationsRead