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Category Archives: journalism

News and journalism

The New York Times sheds some serifs

January 18, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The past few days, there was something about the website of The New York TImes that was bothering me, and I finally figured out what it was: serifs. A serif […]

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being digital, journalism

Elephant speaks human language (Korean)

November 5, 2012by arcticpenguin 2 Comments

I was so surprised to see an article in article in the NYT (Nov. 2, 2012) about Koshik (Kosik), the talking elephant in Korea. I had actually written a long […]

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journalism, natural science

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

The Last Newspaper: Newspapers as art

October 5, 2010by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The New Museum has an exhibition titled “The Last Newspaper” featuring the work of artists who use (and abuse) the daily newspaper in their art practices.  It is certainly not […]

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art & architecture, journalism

Getting news from your social networks

March 1, 2010by arcticpenguin 2 Comments

About a week ago, I was telling my colleague about how we should do a study about how social network sites are increasingly becoming people’s initial (if not primary) news […]

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::Cyber Culture::, journalism

Newspapers won’t die, but some should

December 23, 2009by arcticpenguin 2 Comments

The OJR posted an article that is by far the stupidest argument I’ve ever seen on why journalism is bound to fail. The gist of the argument is that people […]

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being digital, journalism

Hyperlocal News Needs Social Networking

April 13, 2009by arcticpenguin 2 Comments

I’ve argued for some time that hyperlocal news is the future of newspapers and today’s article in the NYT points out several ventures that are trying out this model. These […]

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journalism

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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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