D. Yvette Wohn

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Category Archives: ::Gadgets/Services::

North Koreans Get Internet…sort of

May 24, 2009by arcticpenguin 3 Comments

South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world- a place where national high-speed Internet access has created all sorts of interesting Internet-derivative culture that usually starts […]

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::Gadgets/Services::, being digital

Why is Internet Slow When it Rains?

April 3, 2009by arcticpenguin 27 Comments

Why is the Internet so ***ing slow when it rains? When it’s raining, I like staying indoors and eating something hot and crispy while watching TV. I watch my TV […]

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::Gadgets/Services::

Getting angry over domain names

March 22, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The world is running out of IP addresses, but a greater concern for me as an average user is the lack of domain names that are available. The thing that […]

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

New Internet is Not Solution

February 16, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Other than to point out that the Internet is having security problems, John Markoff’s article in the NYT was extremely annoying. He says: The Internet is at risk ->We could […]

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Tethered Devices=Unfair

February 9, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

In his first post of the year, Jonathan Zittrain wrote today about Amazon taking on the role of being both hardware maker and ISP with its Kindle 2 and questioning […]

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India to make $10 Laptops

January 30, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The Indian government said that it will make $10 laptops, a tenth of what MIT offers for its One Laptop Per Child model. All I can say is, Wow!

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Evolution of TV and disagreeing with David Pogue

January 29, 2009by arcticpenguin 6 Comments

David Pogue’s blog post on streaming content turned out to be EXACTLY what I submitted for my final paper two week ago (for Harry Lewis‘ class on Life, Liberty and […]

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It was coming: US Congressman seeks camera phones that click

January 27, 2009by arcticpenguin 3 Comments

U.S. news reports and blogs (here, here and here) are all over the fact that policymakers are fiddling with their gadgets. The proposed bill, called the Camera Phone Predator Alert […]

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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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  • 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
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

Most Recent Posts

  • New research on how music fans feel about AI- generated fan content
  • Chi 2025
  • Judging for sigchi design jam
  • Op-eds in 2024

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