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Category Archives: fashion

Copying Designs from Instagram Without Attribution: Where do you draw the line?

July 28, 2017by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The accounts I follow on Instagram reflect two passions of mine: fantasy haute couture and cute baked goods. I follow less than a hundred of accounts related to these themes […]

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::Social Media::, fashion, food

Remixing Fairy Tales in Popular Media

November 19, 2013by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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 […]

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daily doilies, fashion

Maternity dress in Bones: Product placement or coincidence?

December 11, 2011by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

In a recent episode of Bones (The Male in the Mail), actress Emily Deschanel wears an green maternity dress in the final scene that is from the Liz Lange maternity […]

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fashion

Lady Gaga and Couture

September 30, 2009by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

I am appalled by how certain media and ignorant bloggers say Lady Gaga has a poor sense of fashion. Of course, fashion could be somewhat subjective, but it is an […]

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fashion

Hunting for brooches

April 17, 2009by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

During the past month, I lost two beloved Swarovski brooches– both at airports. One was a geometric cluster of three ovals, the other was kind of like a twig of […]

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fashion

YSL garments inspired by art

March 20, 2009by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

Many of Yves Saint Laurent’s designs were inspired by art. Some of them are on display at the de Young museum in San Francisco, as part of a special retrospective. […]

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fashion

Lamenting Couture 2009

February 10, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Has the economy soured the creative minds of fashion designers, or are we seeing a huge evolution of couture in which the purpose of couture is becoming something we can […]

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fashion

Wearing hanbok in Second Life

December 29, 2008by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Modeling my hanbok (traditional Korean dress) line in Second Life. I designed this line of Korean dresses because when I first joined Second Life in 2006, there were no shops […]

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::3D Virtual Worlds::, fashion

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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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  • being digital
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  • daily doilies
  • fashion
  • fiction:surrealism
  • food
  • journalism
  • natural science
  • politics & law
2023 Talks

1/8-11: GROUP (Hilton Head)
4/23-8: CHI (Hamburg)
5/25/-29: ICA (Toronto)

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    • ::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

  • UNICEF Report
  • Pew Metaverse Report
  • Discussing mental health on livestreams
  • College of Computing research award

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