D. Yvette Wohn

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Tag Archives: education

Why social media matters for first-generation high school students’ college aspirations

February 6, 2013by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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 […]

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::Social Media::

Digital Media Conference (DML 2012)

March 2, 2012by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

The first day at DML: it was such an engaging conference and a lot of the presentations so pertinent to my personal interests and feelings about education. For one, it […]

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art & architecture, daily doilies

Students using Facebook for positive (and negative collaboration)

April 15, 2011by arcticpenguin 2 Comments

A new study that is available online first in the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning looks at the social and psychological factors that lead to different types of Facebook […]

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::Social Media::

SL as an education tool

November 13, 2008by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

Charlie Nesson spoke to the alumni association today about Second Life and some of the problems we must address if we are to use it as an educational platform. He […]

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::3D Virtual Worlds::

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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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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::
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    • ::Games::
    • ::Mobile Culture::
    • ::Social Media::
  • daily doilies
  • fashion
  • fiction:surrealism
  • food
  • journalism
  • natural science
  • politics & law

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

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