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Speakers:	danah boyd
Date:	Friday, May 18, 2007 11:40 AM - 11:50 AM
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Location:	Schimmel Hall

By: Arjun Singh on May 22 2007 at 03:17 AM EDT	Very useful in thinking about getting away broadcasting to likely voters... I think Danah had some very useful insight into how to use internet technology to actually improve the state of our democracy - how to better engage people, how to reach younger people. Simply great.
By: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on May 20 2007 at 05:53 AM EDT	lacklustre Apparently I was the only person at PDF who had not heard of Danah Boyd (actually upon seeing her profile I remembered I've read her blog once). The idea of her presentation was that candidates should post on people's myspaces and facebook walls and whatnot. Great. But outside of the obvious credibility question (is it the candidate himself or staff?), is the bogus argument that, hey, candidates spend tons of time shaking hands and kissing babies, why not spend hours posting comments online? The simple answer is that those two things are not comparable. Countless studies have shown that people who meet a candidate face to face are MUCH more likely to vote for him after than before. So the question is not about spending time, it's about maximizing time PER VOTE GAINED. And in that regard, shaking hands and facebooking are just not comparable.
By: Mike Slattery on May 18 2007 at 08:17 PM EDT	forceful Connecting the loss of mallspace to big box stores to the higher priority of online space rings true for me.
By: Jill Walker on May 18 2007 at 04:03 PM EDT	Excellent Yes, danah was good as always. The perfect ten minute speech, really: no slides but with such a clear focus.
By: Chris Tuttle on May 18 2007 at 03:56 PM EDT	Terrific speaker! Would love to hear more from Danah!

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