D. Yvette Wohn

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Tag Archives: social network sites

Dear Facebook, Dear Google

April 14, 2013by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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 […]

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::Social Media::

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

Facebook is slow in developing microtransactions content

October 23, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Facebook announced that it is now selling music; a move that I believe took extremely long, given that music was a huge driving force for Myspace and Cyworld. I sometimes […]

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::Cyber Culture::

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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 role of algorithms and social interactions in 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 of safe spaces, 2) social exchange in digital economies, which include the transactions of emotional, informational, and financial support, and 3) news consumption via social media.

2020 Conferences/ Talks

6/18: IMX (Barcelona)
7/21: HCI International (Copenhagen)

Blog Posts

  • art & architecture
  • being digital
    • ::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

  • Happy holidays
  • Discussing psychology of giving money to streamers on podcast
  • Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award
  • Discussing gaming and social media on podcast

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