D. Yvette Wohn

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Discussing psychology of giving money to streamers on podcast

July 13, 2020by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

In this episode of The Psychology of Video Games podcast by Jamie Madigan, I discuss why people subscribe and donate to live streamers on Twitch.

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Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award

July 1, 2020by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

This year has been hard in many ways but I was very honored and grateful to receive the 2020 NCWIT Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research. Numbers are not everything, but […]

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Discussing gaming and social media on podcast

May 22, 2020by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I was a guest on the podchaser podcast- was a lot of fun! “Some questions she answered were “what she thinks about the virtual concerts in Fortnite, and why Epic […]

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$1.5 million collaborative project on content moderation

September 26, 2019by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Very pleased and honored to work with colleagues at NJIT, UCLA and University of Michigan to study content moderation with a new grant from the National Science Foundation. Our university […]

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Silicon Valley talks

September 7, 2019by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I was very fortunate to be able to visit the Bay area to catch up with friends and give a couple talks. Since most of my friends are either in […]

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Content moderation talks in Korea

August 21, 2019by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

This summer, I gave several talks related to content moderation on live streaming platforms in Korea, discussing the opportunities and limitations of AI. In particular, AI + X was a […]

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ICA

June 3, 2019by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Jira Uttarapong and Dr. Wohn attended the International Communication Association annual conference in Washington D.C. At the Games Anteconference, Jira presented ongoing research on eSports commentators- she was the youngest […]

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Volunteer Twitch Mods: How they get involved, their roles, and the emotional labor they experience

March 25, 2019by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Remember when you were a kid, you would come home from school and your room would be “magically” clean? Now that I am an adult I know that it is […]

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YvetteWohn

D.Y. Wohn, Ph.D.

Dr. Wohn 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, gaming, 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.

2022 Talks

4/30-5/6: CHI (New Orleans)
5/26-30: ICA (Paris)
11/12-16: CSCW (Taipei)

Blog Posts

  • art & architecture
  • being digital
    • ::3D Virtual Worlds::
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    • ::Mobile Culture::
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  • daily doilies
  • fashion
  • fiction:surrealism
  • food
  • journalism
  • natural science
  • politics & law

Most Recent Posts

  • Advising LG on a Metaverse Project
  • Discussing mental health on livestreams
  • College of Computing research award
  • Designing RM Gallery

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