33 Quotes by Danah Boyd

The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

Don't go on and engage in surveillance. That makes things really hard for kids to engage with you as a parent.

There's something new going on in this networking technology, and it's really fantastic.

You don't want to create controlling situations, because what these kids are trying to do is create a space outside of parental control.

If you do it in peer-level approach, rather than a condescending control approach, you'll have much more success.

If you have a 50-year-old man connecting to a bunch of 15-year-old girls, that's something you can look at.

I generally think students have these pages to express themselves and interests, but not necessarily what their actual reality is... they might talk about drinking a lot, but don't actually drink. Youth are trying on different faces to see how others react to them.