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Category Archives: ::Cyber Culture::

Remembering a fallen ape in the virtual world

September 13, 2016by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Harambe was a gorilla who was shot at the Cincinnati Zoo after a four year old boy fell into the moat of the Gorilla World exhibit. Many people  were upset […]

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::Cyber Culture::, ::Games::

Richard Prince Does it Again

May 29, 2015by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Richard Prince, the lord of repurposing other people’s artwork, has done it again. I’ve written about his work a couple times before (here, and here) but this time, Prince took […]

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::Cyber Culture::, art & architecture

Top 5 Robots in 2014 Pop Culture

December 22, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

1. Hyundai Exobaby commercial This “harder than steel” exoskeleton turns babies into Iron Man. “The baby in the suit is you in a new Hyundai.” the commercial states. Humanistic factor: […]

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::Cyber Culture::, ::Gadgets/Services::

Beautiful spam that boosts my self-esteem

October 11, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Not being a high-traffic site, I don’t get a lot of spam, but over the past few years, I’ve been noticing how spammer are getting creative in the comments they […]

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::Cyber Culture::

Awesome technologies from “Almost Human”

March 19, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Almost Human is a sci-fi cop drama that takes place in the year 2048. An Android cop that has been programmed to feel emotion is paired up with a human […]

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::Cyber Culture::, being digital

James Franco, Selfies, and Online Self-presentation

December 30, 2013by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

I really loved James Franco’s New York Times essay about the “meaning of selfies.” A lot of his personal reflections about why people engage in this particular online self-presentation was […]

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::Cyber Culture::

Gangnam Style (Media) effects

September 9, 2012by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Bandura tried to show how influential media could be by showing how children exposed to a video of a person punching a Bobo doll imitated and even creatively elaborated on aggressive […]

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::Cyber Culture::

American Censorship Day! Screenshots of websites protesting SOPA/PIPA

January 19, 2012by arcticpenguin 3 Comments

For those outside of the US who may not have seen these, here are some screenshots of websites that did a mock “censorship” of their content as a form of […]

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YvetteWohn

D.Y. 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, 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) news consumption via social media.

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    • ::3D Virtual Worlds::
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    • ::Games::
    • ::Mobile Culture::
    • ::Social Media::
  • daily doilies
  • fashion
  • fiction:surrealism
  • food
  • journalism
  • natural science
  • politics & law
2023 Talks

1/8-11: GROUP (Hilton Head)
4/23-8: CHI (Hamburg)
5/25/-29: ICA (Toronto)

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

Most Recent Posts

  • UNICEF Report
  • Pew Metaverse Report
  • Discussing mental health on livestreams
  • College of Computing research award

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