About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.
After two years of rejections from very traditional psychology journals, I’m very pleased to report that my paper on spatial customization and personality has been finally accepted for publication at […]
Kashmir Hill of Forbes has a great article summarizing the “nightmare” that the Shell Oil company is experiencing due to an anti-Shell social media campaign that was funded by Greenpeace. […]
My colleague Yu-Hao and I have a new article out in Computers in Human Behavior about how cultural orientation affects people’s motivations to play social network games and how they […]
Check out my interview with designers/researchers of Pig Chase at Play As Life: Designing games for pigs (and humans!): Interview with team behind the “Playing with Pigs” project.
For those outside of the US who may not have seen these, here are some screenshots of websites that did a mock “censorship” of their content as a form of […]
The media is constantly blaming violent video games, claiming that they make children violent. Although there is not much scientific evidence proving this is true– some people would argue that […]
This NYT article talks about how the aggressive culture at Zynga may pressure employees to leave. In short, the article suggests that employees of Zynga are unhappy because of: Long […]
I’ve been noticing lately that a lot of people are posting a picture of words in their Facebook status instead of just writing it in their status. This is a […]
D. Yvette Wohn 