Just discovered a series of videos on YouTube from the Univeristy of North Carolina — interviews (rather long ones) with the Dean, Jose-Marie Griffiths, professor Joanne Marshall, and an impromtu lecture by Danah Boyd . Danah is currenly working on a PhD at the University of California’s Berkley School of Information and is also a social media researcher at Yahoo Research Berkeley. She has done work on digital publics, designing culturally adoptive software, and lots more. Danah has been intrigued by social networking since her teens. She has studied computer science, studied at MIT (visualizing social networking online), studied youth and teens, and has lots to say about social networking. She is a very animated and passionate speaker(one I’ve been trying to get for a few years!). She had lots of great comments in her interview, including, “Hanging out online is mainstream culture.” She has done lots of interesting research in the social space and in this interview had lots to say about MySpace, Facebook and Friendster. Danah’s blog.