Why should we provide funding to social science research?
The Coburn report blamed one of my papers (co-authored with other people in our lab and part of a larger project funded by the NSF) as being a waste of […]
Category Archives: daily doilies
Korea to ban adolescents under 16 from playing online games after midnight
On April 29, the South Korea’s National Assembly voted to ban people under the age of 16 from playing online games after midnight in an attempt to control problems related […]
Socrates had it right: Why feedback is key for productivity
The NYT just published an article that describes Google’s findings on what makes a good boss: rather than technical expertise — bosses who made time for one-on-one meetings, who helped […]
Disney acquired Togetherville: Security concerns and how children use social network sites
Disney just acquired Togetherville, a social network site for kids that is linked with Facebook. If the parents have a Facebook account, they can create a Togetherville account for their […]
Press release for social games paper
The social games paper I presented at HICSS was bumped up from the department PR office to university relations, which posted this press release today. The group took a couple […]
Lessons to be learned from Bem’s ESP article
Daryl Bem, a psychologist at Cornell University, has a fascinating article in press (which means it is yet to be published) at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (I […]
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Updates
* Prof. Axel Bruns apparently attended the talk I gave at ICA about using Twitter to analyze television viewers’ sentiments and posted a lovely summary. So many people were taking notes during […]
D. Yvette Wohn 