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Danah Boyd is a well credited individual who majored in Computer science and earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University, a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab, and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California, Berkeley. Boyd is now a researcher at Microsoft where she focuses on the cultural and social unfairness society. She is also the founder and president of Data & Society, a research institution that focuses on understanding data-driven technologies in society. Boyd is also known for her books, one of her most recent books called It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, Where she expresses the superstition that society dons on the younger generation when it comes to social media. She then describes how
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