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Tumblr Gave Danah Boyd’s Username to a Marketing Company
Tumblr just messed with the wrong 43,913 Twitter follower-ed blogger. Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd just posted an open letter to Tumblr, which abruptly moved her blog to a new address and gave her...
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Tumblr Apologizes to Danah Boyd, Restores Her Original Username
Tumblr President and customer service special agent John Maloney. (Source: john.io) Tumblr has restored Microsoft researcher and pundit Danah Boyd's blog to its original location after a public spat....
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Danah Boyd–’Zephoria’–Latest Luminary to Stand Up for Pseudonyms
Microsoft researcher and blogger Danah Boyd, who prefers to be referred to as danah boyd, or 'zephoria,' the name that got her into a tiff with Tumblr, has stepped, as we knew she would, into the...
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Be Who You Want to Be, On Google Plus
Google+ caught some flak for its strict real-names policy when it launched. Users who tried to sign up under their hip web handles had their profiles shut down; when that caused an uproar, Google+ said...
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A Meme is a Mirror, and When You Look Into It You See Yourself
(knowyourmeme.com) "Are LOLCats Making Us Smarter?" asks a link-baity Atlantic headline that actually has nothing to do with the article it accompanies. The short answer: No, but that didn't stop the...
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Theorizing The Web: Data Serfs vs. Data Lords and Free Speech vs. Banning Reddit
Danah Boyd, Adrian Chen, Zeynep Tufekci, Jesse Daniels (Photo: Aaron Thompson/Picasa) National Day of Unplugging lasted from sunset on Friday, March 1 to sunset on Saturday, March 2. But judging from...
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Calm Down, Grown-Ups: Teens Are Using Social Media to Take Back Control,...
If you go looking for any info about “teens” and “social media,” you’ll likely find a collection of alarmism and guesswork that will make your head spin. Luckily, there’s now a book that isn’t just...
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