D. Yvette Wohn

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Category Archives: ::3D Virtual Worlds::

Hanbok in the press

April 7, 2008by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

An article about my hanbok shop in Second Life was featured in the Asia Economic Newspaper. Yay! I really should update the collection…I’ve gotten lazy. (My user name in Second […]

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Playing CSI in SL

November 4, 2007by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I went into Second Life to find the killer from the Oct. 24 episode of CSI:NY. The episode was quite interesting, although it made Second Life seemed way cooler than […]

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Early gatherings for Koreans in SL

August 11, 2007by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Hyun, an active builder/member of the Korean SL community, held a casual meeting in Second Life, which was interestingly done simultaneously with Naver chat/voice. This was because SL voice was […]

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A woman is a flower

July 22, 2007by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

You would think that in Second Life- where you’re allowed to look like and be whatever you want- there will be actual freedom in terms of appearance. Not so. Especially […]

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Adoption in Second Life

July 18, 2007by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I found this dear adoption agency by chance while flying around, and a very lovely girl name Myra who was looking over pictures of young children. There was also a […]

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A date

June 15, 2007by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

To my delight, my friend E took me to a formal jazz club. We first dined on a terrace with a view of the sea, the salty air seeming to […]

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Cyber world draws Korean groups

May 22, 2007by arcticpenguin 2 Comments

Korean organizations have discovered a three-dimensional cyber-frontier ― the online game Second Life. Won-Buddhism, a splinter Buddhist group formed in Korea, set up a huge temple in the Second Life […]

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::3D Virtual Worlds::, ::Cyber Culture::

Hillary Clinton in Second Life

March 26, 2007by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Writing an article about the differences between the political usage of Internet in Korea and America, I used Hillary Clinton’s island on Second Life as an example of how candidates […]

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D.Yvette Wohn, Ph.D.

Dr. Wohn (she/her) is an associate professor at NJIT and director of the Social Interaction Lab (socialinteractionlab.com). Her research is in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) where she studies the characteristics and consequences of social interactions in online environments such as livestreaming, esports, virtual worlds/metaverse, and social media.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, and Yahoo, her main projects examine 1) content moderation, online harassment and the creation/maintenance of online safe spaces, 2) social exchange in digital economies & digital patronage (creator-supporter dynamics), and 3) identity and online self-presentation

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2025 Schedule

3/2-5: Future of Games (Dagstuhl, Germany)
4/27-5/1: CHI (Yokohama, Japan)
6/3-6: IMX (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Blog Posts

  • art & architecture
  • being digital
    • ::3D Virtual Worlds::
    • ::Cyber Culture::
    • ::Gadgets/Services::
    • ::Games::
    • ::Mobile Culture::
    • ::Social Media::
  • daily doilies
  • fashion
  • fiction:surrealism
  • food
  • journalism
  • natural science
  • politics & law

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  • New research on how music fans feel about AI- generated fan content
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