danah boyd

ethonographer



zephoria Video of me talking about teen privacy strategies at HyperPublic: http://bit.ly/jdU6mG (10 min version of this paper: http://bit.ly/ixbtHk)

just because kids want to work in a public doesn't mean they want to be public

our interactions are private by default and public by effort
you have to go out of your way to try to remember it - or record it and share it, etc
online, many ways - public by default and private by effort

ennamered by the startegies kids use for this

privacy - ability to control a social situation, the ability to have agency to assert control over that situation

shanika - deletes everything.. her thinking - anyone that wants to bring it back has to go through effort

hiding in plain sight


parents/adults don't know - and don't know if they're allowed to ask

lessig 1) market 2) law 3) code 4) social norms
young people are trying to remind us that social norms matter