D. Yvette Wohn

Technology, Media, and Digital Life

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • About
  • Academic Research
  • CV
  • Papers & Presentations
    • Publications: Games & Virtual Worlds
    • Publications: Live streaming and Content Moderation
    • Publications: News and Online Content
    • Publications: Social Media and Social Support
  • Production
    • Art by kiru
    • Media
    • News Articles
      • Science
      • Technology
      • Arts & Style
      • Games
  • Speaking

Category Archives: ::Gadgets/Services::

Be a sheep!

January 22, 2009by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

Herdict‘s website is officially up and running! I wrote about Herdict last month and the website existed then, but I guess that was a beta version. Anyways, Herdict gets this […]

Read Article →
::Gadgets/Services::

Interactive TV is not new

January 20, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Saul Hansell, one of my favorite NYT Bits blog writers, writes today that CNN inaugurated social TV by mashing Facebook with its online streaming service. This interactive TV service is […]

Read Article →
::Gadgets/Services::

Classical music publishers need to move on to digital

January 17, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

While the Internet has been successful (perhaps too successful) in making audio files more available on the Web, it is still not used so much to share scores. Sheet music […]

Read Article →
::Gadgets/Services::

Touchy touch-sensitive gadgets

January 14, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I have an LG Chocolate phone, an iPod,a laptop with a touchpad, and a Nintendo DS, all of which are touch-sensitive. But then the term “touch-sensitive” is misleading. The devices […]

Read Article →
::Gadgets/Services::

Social networking in enterprises

January 13, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Andrew McAfee of HBS was the speaker at today’s Berkman luncheon series, talking about Enterprise 2.0, which he explains as being the phenomenon in which companies incorporate “community” features into […]

Read Article →
::Gadgets/Services::

The Death of TV (as we know it)

January 8, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

What is TV? Or rather, what is watching TV? One thing for certain is that TV– while it is still a media, is no longer a medium. I watch all […]

Read Article →
::Gadgets/Services::

Simpsons take jab at Apple

December 17, 2008by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Amid the flurry of speculations and distress regarding Steve Jobs and Apple’s withdrawal from the Macworld conference next month and the distress of hardcore fans, I’d like to point out […]

Read Article →
::Gadgets/Services::

Do good by not doing anything

December 5, 2008by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

You want to make the world a better place, but you’re sort of lazy. What if I told you you could make a difference without doing anything? I know that […]

Read Article →
::Gadgets/Services::

Post navigation

← Previous 1 2 3 4 … 10 Next →

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

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
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

Search Yvette’s Blog Posts

Blog Archives

Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • D. Yvette Wohn
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • D. Yvette Wohn
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...