Danah boyd (stylized in all lowercase, born November 24, 1977, as Danah Michele Mattas)[4] is an American technology and social media scholar.[5][6][7][8][9] She is a partner researcher at Microsoft Research, the founder of Data & Society Research Institute, and a distinguished visiting professor at Georgetown University.
^boyd, danah. "a bitty autobiography / a smattering of facts". danah.org. Retrieved November 2, 2008. She noted her mother added lowercase 'h' in birth name "danah" for typographical balance, reflecting the lowercase first letter 'd' and later changed her last name to lowercase "boyd" in 2000.
^Marlow, C.; Naaman, M.; boyd, d.; Davis, M. (2006). "HT06, tagging paper, taxonomy, Flickr, academic article, to read". Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia – HYPERTEXT '06. p. 31. doi:10.1145/1149941.1149949. ISBN978-1595934178. S2CID12202818.