danah boyd

danah boyd, principal researcher at Microsoft Research and author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (Yale), talks about what you should worry about when worrying about teens online (and whether you should worry at all).

With all the stories we hear about cyber-bullying, teen sexting, and online predators, it’s easy for adults to feel concerned about the young people out there. But the fact is, kids a...

This week the Wall Street Journal reported Facebook's plans to open up the social network to children under 13. As of now, preteens are not permitted to use the site, mainly because Facebook would have difficulty complying with COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act -- the federal law regulating how companies can collect and use information about kids. Danah Boyd talks to Bob about COPPA's origins.

 

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Danah Boyd, senior researcher at Microsoft Research and a research assistant professor at New York University, talks about her research into how teens mask bullying with the label "drama" and resist identifying as victim or perpetrator.  Her recent op-ed in the New York Times: "Bullying as True Drama."