John D. Boy

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Assistant professor of sociology at Leiden University in the Netherlands studying cities, digital networks, and religion. Alumnus of CUNY's PhD program in sociology.

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Recent Blog PostS
  • Using the Nix Package Manager on an HPC Cluster
    HPC clusters are great. They provide lots of CPUs and vast pools of memory that make computationally intensive analyses […]
    John D. Boy21 February 2023, 10:00 am
  • Pandemic Side Projects Through the Lens of Show HN

    A few years ago, Biella Coleman, an anthropologist studying hacker culture, observed that the events surrounding […]

    John D. Boy20 October 2022, 10:00 pm
  • Surveillance Contra Education
    Screening Surveillance is a series of short films produced by sava saheli singh. During an event featuring singh hosted by […]
    John D. Boy3 February 2022, 1:00 pm
  • Look Before You Leap
    So you’re a qualitative researcher who finally wants to take the plunge into digital methods. Maybe your current pro […]
    John D. Boy2 February 2022, 11:02 am
  • Hacking Ethnography
    Doing ethnographic fieldwork in data-saturated environments is fraught with
    ethical concerns in all kinds of new and […]
    John D. Boy7 June 2021, 3:11 pm