Dear Facebook, Dear Google
Dear Facebook, For your front page, you should make the top blue bar and the side bars fixed so that just the newsfeed is scrollable. This would make it so […]
Why social media matters for first-generation high school students’ college aspirations
My colleagues and I have just published a paper in Computers and Education [download paper here] about how social media helps first-generation high school students in terms of increasing their college application […]
Amazon uses funny product reviews as Facebook ads
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 […]
History of Social Television
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 […]
Opening Ceremony of Broad Museum
The new Eli and Edythe Broad Art museum opened in East Lansing along with the announcement that they had met their funding goal; which was great news considering that construction […]
Elephant speaks human language (Korean)
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 […]
Reflection on Meaningful Play 2012
Meaningful Play, a conference for “serious” games that takes place every two years, was hosted at Michigan State University last week. Unfortunately, I was not able to present anything this […]
Did the Mayans predict the end of print?
Perhaps the end of the Mayan calendar was not predicting the end of the world but the end of print media (as we know it). Newsweek is getting rid of […]
D. Yvette Wohn 