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Category Archives: ::Mobile Culture::

FCOL, Saul Hansell

April 5, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

By far, Saul Hansell is one of the coolest writers for the NYT bits blog– when he doesn’t act like a total JERK, that is. The jerk attitude comes out […]

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Digital Brats

November 6, 2008by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I feel that communications technologies- as they become more advanced- are not making human beings more sophisticated, but rather nurturing immaturity and insolence. I am only speaking from a communications […]

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Texting during a video conversation.

June 19, 2008by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Yesterday, I was waiting to meet someone at Pasgucci and was looking around, bored. I noted unsurprisingly, that half the people were on their cell phones. I was intrigued, however, by […]

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The newest trackers are electronic

May 14, 2007by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

When the Lee family’s 80-year-old senile grandfather would wander out of their house in Myeongil-dong, eastern Seoul, the family often had trouble finding him. So when a new location detection […]

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Readers on the move making switch to e-books

May 7, 2007by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Falling sales of printed books don’t necessarily mean people are reading less. In fact, with better technology in cell phones and portable media players, the market for electronic books and […]

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Getting carried away with new portables

April 25, 2007by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Companies are always trying to find new categories in which to lump consumers, so that they can get a sense of who they’re targeting when developing and selling new products. […]

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Some spamming can save lives

November 15, 2006by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Joo Ah-young, a 15-year-old with a mental handicap, was separated from her parents on an outing, and was missing for 15 days before the police decided to take another approach […]

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Mobile services sizzle in the summer months

August 16, 2006by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Mobile phone service providers are seeing a jump in business thanks to the summer season. During summertime, people have been using more global roaming service, as well as more data […]

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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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  • being digital
    • ::3D Virtual Worlds::
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  • 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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