Powerful Black Female Bosses Dominating TV
I would like to dedicate this post to the celebration of powerful Black women on TV. There have always been a lot of strong Black female characters, but these days, […]
Category Archives: daily doilies
Spring 2014- iConference, CSCW, CHI, ICA
The main conferences that I go to are all in the spring semester, which makes it a very busy semester. This year, I kicked off with CSCW in Baltimore, which was […]
Soft Sustainability
My research focus is understanding long-term use of technology through a lens I call “soft sustainability.” While sustainability research in HCI has mainly been on the hardware aspects of environmentally-friendly […]
Giggling for no apparent reason: definitely non-conscious, perhaps cultural?
I’ve been working with a new boss for about half a year now, and every time we have a group meeting or a private conversation, I apparently laugh (not laughing […]
The new production of The Phantom of the Opera
I went to the premiere of the new production of The Phantom of the Opera, which started its US tour in Chicago. I was really looking forward to this new […]
Remixing Fairy Tales in Popular Media
What is it about imaginary worlds, fairy tales, and fantasy that excite us? While escaping reality through fiction has been one of the driving forces of popular media content- whether […]
Northwestern Campus
I realized recently that I didn’t have any pictures of campus and have been trying for the past few days to “smell the roses” more- paying attention to my surroundings […]
Private tagging on Facebook
There are a lot of pictures of me on Facebook, most of which were uploaded by other people. For self-presentation purposes (especially because I don’t want unflattering pictures of me […]
D. Yvette Wohn 