danah boyd

danah boyd
danah boyd
	boyd in 2008
Born	Danah Michele Mattas; November 24, 1977; Altoona, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	Brown University (BA); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS); University of California, Berkeley (PhD);
Known for	Commentary on sociality, identity, and culture among youth on social networks
Spouse	Gilad Lotan
Awards	Technology Review TR35 Young Innovators 2010
	Scientific career
Fields	Social media
Institutions	Microsoft Research; Harvard University; New York University; Georgetown University;
Thesis	Taken out of context: American teen sociality in networked publics (2008)
Doctoral advisor	Peter Lyman; Mizuko Ito;
Website	www.danah.org;

Danah Boyd (stylized in all lowercase as danah boyd, born November 24, 1977 as Danah Michele Mattas) 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 the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University.