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Category Archives: ::Social Media::

Amazon uses funny product reviews as Facebook ads

January 31, 2013by arcticpenguin 2 Comments

Which comes first, a viral link or a sponsored ad? If you’re a Facebook user, you may have come across links to the 1-Gallon Tuscan Whole Milk and the Hutzler Banana […]

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::Social Media::

History of Social Television

January 11, 2013by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

When I first published my article on Tweeting while watching TV, social television wasn’t exactly a hot trend. Given the delay of academic publishing, I am so thankful I published my […]

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

Analyzing political speeches with Twitter

September 6, 2012by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The Atlantic published a graph showing the volume of tweets related to the Democratic convention (w/ speech by Michelle Obama on second night) and how that volume compares with tweets […]

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::Social Media::, daily doilies, politics & law

Vicious and Ingenious Social Media Campaign Against Shell: Who is the Joke on?

July 18, 2012by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

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. […]

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::Social Media::, journalism

Is a picture of words worth more than words?

October 26, 2011by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

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 […]

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::Social Media::, journalism

College Social Network Sites; not just retaining students, but getting them engaged

August 14, 2011by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Ewhaian.com, a social network site I co-founded with my friends for students of Ewha Women’s University in South Korea. I’m writing this post […]

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::Social Media::

Students using Facebook for positive (and negative collaboration)

April 15, 2011by arcticpenguin 2 Comments

A new study that is available online first in the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning looks at the social and psychological factors that lead to different types of Facebook […]

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::Social Media::

Learning on the edge with social media

February 28, 2011by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

(Liveblogging from symposium on learning with social media at HICSS Case study of Social media use in classrooms * Building Amazon webstore in 10 weeks with Amazon inventory and promoting […]

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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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