D. Yvette Wohn

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Category Archives: being digital

About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.

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

Dudes in Distress- Trend of women saving men in casual games

January 4, 2015by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

As a subscriber of Bigfishgames, I play a lot of casual games. Most games I play for only one hour or less (until the end of the demo mode) and […]

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::Games::

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::

5 things that Facebook should do but if they don’t, Ello should

September 29, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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. […]

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::Social Media::

Emotion Contagion or Conforming to Social Norms? Are we misinterpreting Facebook’s psych experiment?

June 29, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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 […]

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::Social Media::

The Cost of Liking: I’m sorry, but I’m not going to “like” your posts any more

June 9, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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 […]

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::Gadgets/Services::, ::Social Media::

Jumping into Escher: Monument Valley

April 9, 2014by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

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 […]

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::Games::, art & architecture

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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

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

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