- Boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Researcher and the founder of Data & Society. She is also a Visiting Professor at New York’s University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program; she is an academic and scholar and her research pertains to the crossing of technology and society. She is also the founder of Data & Society Research Institute. Boyd’s background consists of her taking her grandfather’s last name as her own and deciding to use all lower case for her name “to reflect my mother’s original balancing and to satisfy my own political irritation at the importance of capitalization”. Her parents got divorce and she moved to York, PA with her mom and bother. She believed that computers were lame but was intrigued with connecting with others, which her brother helped her with. Boyd was a great student, she excelled in extracurricular activities and in the classroom. However, she had a hard time socially in high school. She had wanted to be an astronaut but due to an injury she then became more interested in the Internet. Boyd earned her bachelor’s’ degree in computer science at Brown University, then her masters in sociable media at MIT Media Lab’s, and received her Ph. D. at the UC Berkeley School of Information. In the past she has wrote about social media, teenage drama, privacy, digital backchannels, and social visualization design. It’s Complicated fits in with what she has written in the past because it pertains to social media and teenagers and involves digital backchannels.
- Boyd’s research focuses on technology, society, and policy. Over the years she has been focuses on these and has become a scholar. For example, on page 176 when she says, “In my fieldwork,” and then goes on to explaining how teens make sense of the technology in their lives.
- I was able to identify myself and others when I read about the different ways young people use digital media and the different skill levels they have. I recognized myself when she talked about young people knowing how to use social media and the internet to get around, but the didn’t know the background or how it works. I would consider myself a technological person with being able to navigate things, but I have no clue about the coding or the behind the scenes work.
- Boyd talks a lot about “rhetoric of digital natives” by this she means, that digital natives is used in the wrong way. She believes that students don’t understand the deeper meaning of things they just look and know the surface of technology. She spends a lot of time on this because she thinks its important. She believes its important because people falsely assume things about students today and she mainly focusing on how teens interact with technology and the way it is shaping our lives. This connects with her because it relates to her research.
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