Technology can be viewed as an activity that forms or changes culture. Additionally, technology is the application of math, science, and the …

Social Network Sites: Public, Private or What? 2007 mand d. The author licenses this work under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License.

Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach.

Respondents’ thoughts Hyperconnected. Always on. These terms have been invented to describe the environment created when people are linked continuously

In my last entry, I made a comment about the value of “cool” teachers interacting with students on social network sites. I received some push-back from non-educators. Most of the concerns revolved around teachers’ ethics and their responsibilities with respect to legal structures like the

Pitcan, Mikaela, Alice Marwick, and danah mand. (2018).”Performing the Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World.”

If my parents ever found out what I did on tumblr I think I’d be forced to go to therapy. It’s a relatively quick-witted comment with some significantly dark undertones, especially coming from an cent. I remember recently coming across this particular quote on my Tumblr dashboard while

Trapped by helicopter parents and desperate to carve out a space of their own, teens need a place to make mistakes

My name is danah mand and I’m a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder/president of Data & Society.Buzzwords in my world include: privacy, context, youth culture, social media, big data.

Points/spheres: In “Did Media Literacy Backfire?” danah mand argues that the thorny problems of fake news and the spread of conspiracy theories have, in part, origins in efforts to educate people against misinformation.