danah boyd is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Research Assistant Professor at New York University, and Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She lives in New York City.
“danah boyd . . . is one of my favorite people to talk with about
teenagers and technology. That’s not because I agree with her all
the time. . . . But danah is the best kind of sparring partner
because she always tells me something I didn’t know along the way.
That holds true with her new book, which offers interviews with
teenagers in communities across the country. By filtering them
through her distinct danah lens, she gleans valuable
insights.”—Emily Bazelon, Slate
“boyd’s new book is layered and smart. . . . It’s Complicated will
update your mind.”—Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review
“There is something marvellously sensible about Boyd’s resolutely
academic style. . . . boyd’s anatomy of teenage life is
penetrating.”—Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
“The key point is that social behaviour is adaptive, and people in
power (i.e., parents) rarely understand the coping strategies being
used by others. When adults start worrying about our children’s use
of the internet, we should also ask what we can learn from our
children—and then look in the mirror at our own behaviour too. And
have the courage to give kids more freedom physically to roam in
the ‘real’ world—alongside their travels in cyberspace.”—Gillian
Tett, Financial Times
“The book took a decade to complete, and cites sociologists
including Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman, but it’s the voices
of the 166 teenagers boyd interviewed across America that make it a
truly enlightening read.”—Jane Mulkerrins, Sunday Telegraph
“Based on a decade of research and interviews with adolescents from
the suburbs to the inner city, It’s Complicated is a persuasive
anti-alarmist polemic that should help ease parents’ concerns about
all sorts of Internet bogeymen.”—Randye Hoder, TIME Health &
Family
“It’s Complicated is both a report from the front lines and a
larger social analysis. . . . It probes much deeper than just the
latest fads in Twitter gossip or Snapchat goofiness. . . . On one
level it is designed to counter the paranoia and anxiety that many
parents still feel about their children’s engagement in social
media. . . . But on another level it is a poignant critique of
contemporary civilization. . . . The briefest possible summary? The
kids are all right, but society isn’t.”—Andrew Leonard, Salon
“It’s Complicated, a new book about teenagers and digital
technology by the media scholar danah boyd, places today’s
smartphones, iPads and laptops in the context of this perennial
power struggle between adolescents and parents. In doing so, it
adds much to our understanding of a young generation of
hyper-connected, hybrid consumer-producers—a cohort whose behaviour
often unites parents, educators and investors in collective
bewilderment.”—Gautam Malkani, Financial Times
“Students, parents, and educators will find this a comprehensive
study of how technology impacts teens’ lives and how adults can
help balance rather than vilify its inevitable use.”—Publishers
Weekly
“There are . . . a lot of interesting observations here: that most
teenagers aren’t ‘digital natives’ as we like to believe.”—Carole
Cadwalladr, The Observer
“It’s Complicated champion[s] a rich, complex idea of what youth is
about, and view[s] with horror the way adult discussions so often
reduce the young to mute metrics.”—Simon Ings, New Scientist
“boyd’s slim academic study makes a compelling case that today’s
teenagers are more adept at navigating [the] dilemmas of the social
media age than we old crusties aged 20 and over.”—Helen Lewis, New
Statesman
“In It’s Complicated, [boyd’s] detailed new anthropological inquiry
into the internet habits of American teenagers, she does much to
dispel many of the alarmist myths that surround young people and
social media. Boyd has spent over a decade interviewing teens about
their use of social media, and in the process has developed a
nuanced feel for how they live their online lives.”—Jacob
Mikanowski, Prospect Magazine
Winner of the 2015 Educators Book Award given by the Delta Kappa
Gamma Society International
“In explaining the networked realm of teens, boyd has the insights
of a sociologist, the eye of a reporter, and the savvy of a
technologist. For parents puzzled about what their kids are doing
online, this is an indispensable book.”—Walter Isaacson, CEO of the
Aspen Institute, author of Steve Jobs
“If you want to understand the digital worlds inhabited by today’s
young people, this is the book to read.”—Howard Gardner, coauthor
of The App Generation
‘Boyd has done her homework and listened well. She is a high-tech
medium translating the language and meaning of teenagers and social
networking.”—Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and In the
Body of the World
“I want to get this publication into the hands of every teacher,
parent, policy maker, and journalist. Thoughtful in her analysis
and adept at skewering the most common misunderstandings and
anxieties about teens’ online lives, boyd is the best possible
person to write a book like this, and this book does not disappoint
in any way.”—Henry Jenkins, coauthor of Spreadable Media: Creating
Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture
“Astute, nuanced, provocative and hopeful, boyd does it all in this
must-read treatise on teens and their digital lives.”—Stephen
Balkam, founder and CEO, Family Online Safety Institute
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