danah boyd: Journalism connects people in a healthy social fabric
By Hannah Hoang
danah boyd’s curiosity for technology and the internet began in the early stages of social media and networking through sites such as MySpace and Friendster.
After she entered college and the first phases of her career, that curiosity grew into research studying the ways in which people were interacting with others online. Part of this research looked at how activity online could shape nations and polarize societies...
Boyd emphasized that a healthy social fabric within societies is the key to peace and trust among citizens, and she explained how journalism fits into this fabric.
“We’ve had dreams that journalism would help connect people, and that’s proving to be true. But without a healthy fabric, no amount of news in journalism can repair it,” boyd warned...
danah boyd received her Ph.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Information and is the founder of the Data & Society Research Institute. She is also a researcher at Microsoft and an incoming professor at Cornell University.
