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About the Author

Danah Boyd
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research

Danah boyd is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and a visiting researcher at Harvard University's Law School. Her work focuses on social media, youth practices, tensions between public and private, social network sites, and other intersections between technology and society

Author's entries

Why teens really do need social network sites

Why teens really do need social network sites

danah boyd, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research - 14 October 2011 | 1 comment

Teenagers use Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to form their social identities – in a world that may or may not include their parents.

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