Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by danah boyd

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology.

And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about what you’re looking for, you’ll go to different spaces, and it parallels what we do as adults. You go to different bars when you’re in the mood for different things. You see different people when you want to go listen to music or when you just want to have a quiet drink with a couple of friends.

What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life.

The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

LinkedIn is very good for browsing relationships and hooking into your contacts' networks. It re-connected me with high-level execs I hadn't talked to for some time, who then helped me close various deals.

Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.

Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.