John Boy
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. J.D. Boy
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3825
- j.d.boy@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2118-4702
John D. Boy is an assistant professor of sociology at Leiden University and works for the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.He teaches urban studies, digital society, research ethics, and qualitative and computational methods in the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) as well as the interdisciplinary Urban Studies programme in The Hague. He coordinates the d12n Research Cluster, chairs the CADS Programme Committee, and serves on the Ethics Review Committee in Social Sciences.
More information about John Boy
News
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KIEM grant for 'CARMA: Community Archive and Repository for Multimodal and Artistic Research' -
Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (D//F) for John Boy to explore the shifting terrain of free and open source software -
Social Science Matters: Freedom of choice or group pressure? -
Exploring creative approaches: sharing scientific results beyond academic writing -
John Boy in NRC on the paradoxes of Generation Z -
Success with NWO for social and behavioural scientists -
John Boy granted NWO XS for research Coming of Age on Instagram -
Social Science Matters: The surveillance society -
The coding sociologist John Boy developed Textnets: software to make large amounts of text visually comprehensible -
A whole new (computational) world -
Data in the city: new research projects
Publications
Blogs
Short CV
John Boy joined Leiden University after working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam for four years, where he also taught urban studies and sociology. He received his Ph.D. in sociology (with a certificate in women's studies) from the City University of New York in 2015. While a doctoral candidate, John taught at several CUNY colleges, and he also served as a policy analyst and an instructional technology fellow.
John's research is about social media platforms in the context of urban life, and on the practices of those who imagine, build and maintain alternative digital infrastructures. His areas of expertise include urban studies, digital sociology, social and cultural theory, and the sociology of religion.
Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Boy J.D. & Uitermark J. (2024), On display: Instagram, the Self, and the City. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. & Boy J.D. (12 May 2023), When all positives are false: the emergence of an academic whodunnit. Leiden Anthropology Blog. Leiden: Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University (Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology). [blog entry].
- Littlejohn A.L., Boy J.D., De Musso F., Grasseni C., Kanters C.L., Luning S.W.J., Meerendonk T. van de, Minter T., Ochigame R.K. & Spierenburg M.J. (2022), Remodeling environments: anthropological perspectives on the limits of computational models. 8th Workshop on Computing within Limits 21 June 2022 - 22 June 2022.
- Boy J.D. & Uitermark J. (2022), The dramaturgy of social media: platform ecology, uneven networks, and the myth of the self. In: Herbert D. & Fisher-Høyrem S. (Eds.), Social media and social order. Berlin: De Gruyter. 17-32.
- Boy J.D. (2021), Chasing after wind? : In conversation about vanity, Etnofoor 33(2): 139–144.
- Trottier D., Lee J.-S. & Boy J.D. (2021), Urban data analytics as research topic, method and ethical concern, Digital Culture and Society 7(2): 311-328.
- Savolainen L., Uitermark J. & Boy J.D. (2020), Filtering feminisms: emergent feminist visibilities on Instagram, New Media & Society : 1-23.
- Boy J.D. (2020), textnets: a Python package for text analysis with networks, Journal of Open Source Software 5(54): 2594.
- Boy J.D. & Uitermark J. (2020), Lifestyle enclaves in the Instagram city?, Social Media + Society 6(3): 1-10.
- Boy John D (2020), ‘The metropolis and the life of spirit’ by Georg Simmel: a new translation, Journal of Classical Sociology : 1-15.
- Boy J.D. & Torpey J.C. (2019), Out of the Deep Past: The Axial Age and Robert Bellah’s Project of Social Criticism. In: Bortolini Matteo (Ed.), The Anthem Companion to Robert Bellah. London: Anthem Press. 81–96.
- Boy J.D., Uitermark J. & Wiersma L. (2018), Trending #hijabfashion: Using Big Data to Study Religion at the Online–Urban Interface, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 31(1): 22-40.
- Boy J.D. & Uitermark J. (2017), Reassembling the city through Instagram, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 42(4): 612-624.
- Boy J.D. & Uitermark J. (2016), How to Study the City on Instagram, PLoS ONE 11(6): e0158161.
- Boy J. (2015), The axial age and the problems of the twentieth century: Du Bois, Jaspers, and Universal History, The American Sociologist 46(2): 234-247.
- Boy J.D. & Torpey J. (2013), Inventing the axial age, Theory and Society 42(3): 241-259.
- Boy J.D. (2012), Provincializing the European Religious Landscape, Perspectives on Europe 42(1): 80-83.