Posts Tagged: danah

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10
Mar 09

“Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What?”

danah boyd’s new talk, “Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What?“  Here’s the kicker:

Specific genres of social media may come and go, but these underlying properties are here to stay. We won’t turn the clock back on these. Social network sites may end up being a fad from the first decade of the 21st century, but new forms of technology will continue to leverage social network as we go forward. If we get away from thinking about the specific technologies and focus on the properties and dynamics, we can see how change is unfolding before our eyes. One of the key challenges is learning how to adapt to an environment in which these properties and dynamics play a key role. This is a systems problem. We are all implicated in it – as developers and policy makers, as parents and friends, as individuals and as citizens.

Read the full version (will there be video?) on danah’s site.

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22
Sep 08

Microsoft launches MSR New England

Microsoft Research has launched a new, interdisciplinary research center – MSR New England – in Cambridge, MA.  I’ve found out about this from danah boyd, who is joining the center.  danah writes:

Jennifer and Christian’s vision for the lab aligned with my view of research. They believe in interdisciplinary work, believe in the ways that new ideas can come from unexpected collaborations. While I know a lot of social scientists who curl their nose at the idea of a lab full of physicists, mathematicians, and economists, I find that quite appealing.

Microsoft describes the lab as “pursuing new, interdisciplinary areas of research that bring together core computer scientists and social scientists to understand, model, and enable the computing and online experiences of the future.”  This is great news for danah, a huge win for Microsoft, and another really exciting research center on the East Coast.  I’ll be keeping my eye on Microsoft and IBM.