Top 5 Robots in 2014 Pop Culture
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: […]
Category Archives: being digital
About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.
Beautiful spam that boosts my self-esteem
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 […]
5 things that Facebook should do but if they don’t, Ello should
Here are 5 suggestions for Facebook because they already have the resources to implement them, but if they don’t, other social media are welcome to run with the ideas. 1. […]
Emotion Contagion or Conforming to Social Norms? Are we misinterpreting Facebook’s psych experiment?
Last week, some researchers from Facebook, Cornell, and UCSF published a paper in PNAS about how more or less exposure to positive/negative status updates on Facebook made those who saw those […]
The Cost of Liking: I’m sorry, but I’m not going to “like” your posts any more
I’m sorry, but I’m not going to “like” your posts any more. Here’s why: I am not FB friends with mom, yet I found that she was getting updates of […]
Jumping into Escher: Monument Valley
This is what it must feel like to be inside the mind of M. C. Escher. Monument Valley is a game with 2-dimensional graphics that can never be 3-dimensional. One has […]
Loneliness, Facebook use, and college adjustment
The first year in college can be hard- moving to a new place, meeting new people, being away from family can really affect one’s social adjustment. Social adjustment, in turn, […]
Awesome technologies from “Almost Human”
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 […]
D. Yvette Wohn 