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Session Submission Type: Panel
Design, making and intervention have captured the attention of communication scholars in recent years. From explaining algorithmic bias on social media to the creation of online storytelling platforms, contemporary questions of communication require an understanding of the affordances, biases and constraints of communication devices, interfaces and systems—as well as an understanding of the work designers do to create these technologies. Furthermore, there is also growing interest in using design as an inventive method in order inquire about the world and build theory through the making of media, things and prototypes. Finally, communication scholars are also being drawn from different academic disciplines and professional practices, collaborating with a wider range of fields, and forming new identities themselves as they move into new areas that engage with the field of design.
This pre-conference explores the conceptual, methodological and pedagogical possibilities of design research in the field of communication. What are the material and social arrangements that produce the artifacts that exist in nearly every aspect of our everyday life? How might we understand these artifacts better if we engage with them using design research methods? How might design help communication researchers better address the materiality of information? This inaugural meeting will bring together scholars from a variety of communication subfields to begin outlining the core contributions of design research and identify conceptual bridges between the fields of design and communication. We aim to engage scholars working in a variety of formats who take design as an object of study, those who integrate design as a method of embodied knowledge making, and those who are forming new scholarly and professional identities through collaboration and participation in design research and practice. We expect to draw from communication scholarship about a range of topics including: visual communication (e.g. graphic design), technology studies (e.g. software coding), rhetoric of material culture (e.g. architecture), media studies, infrastructure studies, and social histories of technology. We pay special attention to the ways in which design and designers play an important role in the making of communication technologies, as well as considering their values, ethics, justice and equality. We anticipate the inclusion of projects that go beyond traditional academic texts and explore the use of multimedia, video, interfaces and prototypes. As a result of the pre-conference, we will collaboratively produce a list of “Design Keywords" for critical considerations of design within the field of communication.
Samantha Shorey, U of Washington
Laura Forlano, Illinois Institute of Technology
Gina Neff, U of Oxford
Michael Annany, U of Southern California
Molly Wright Steenson, Carnegie Mellon U
The Design of Networked Objects: From Cyber-Management to Ecology of Participation - Sandra Álvaro Sánchez, Autonomous U of Barcelona
Communication, Media and the Semiotics of Design - Megan Sapnar Ankerson, U of Michigan
Futurity and Designing Digital Technologies ‘The African Way’ - Seyram Avle, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Designing News for Judgment of Trustworthiness: Interactions of Visuals, Meaning and Media - Sookyung Cho, Northern Kentucky U; Steve Weiss, Northern Kentucky U; Zoe J. Waldridge, Northern Kentucky U
Enhancing Music Learning Experience With Communication technology: Case study of App User Experience Design for String Music Beginners - Sookyung Cho, Northern Kentucky U; Neha Srivasta, Northern Kentucky U; Aaron Wickerman, Northern Kentucky U
More Than Meets the Eye: The Visual Rhetoric of Social Movements - Shanna C. Crockett, Northern Kentucky U
Communication Sciences Meet New Media Design: Empirical Investigations of Designers Empathy - Alwin de Rooij, Tilburg U; Amalia Kallergi, Tilburg U; Katalin Balint, Tilburg U; Jan de Wit, Tilburg U; Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg U; Fons Maes, Tilburg U
Design Education for Non-Designers: Pedagogical Tools and Methods - Derya Irkdas Dogu, Izmir U of Economics
Lands' Princesses: The Women Who Developed Polaroid - Nora A Draper, U of New Hampshire
Visualization as an Inventive Design Method in Communication Processes - Anna-Sara Fagerholm, Mid Sweden U; Mattias Andersson, Mid Sweden U; Karina Goransson, Mid Sweden U
Making Better Media: A Change of Purpose for Media Studies - Anders Fagerjord, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo; Lars Nyre, U of Bergen
History in the Making: Interface Design as Active Archiving in the Case of Google and the Stockholm Truck Attack - Andrew Arthur Fitzgerald, Stanford U
Design and Communication: More in Common(s) - R.Stuart Geiger, U of California - Berkeley
Creativity in Design as a Social Construction Phenomenon - Martyna Gliniecka, U of Wroclaw
Demystifying Product Design and Development With Instruction in 3D Modeling and Printing - Julia Griffey, Webster U
Authority, Accessibility, and Affect in Design and Data Culture - Leah Horgan, UC Irvine
Design and Cognitive Capitalism - Renyi Hong, National University of Singapore
Design as Mediation: Notes Towards a Critical History - Lilly Irani, BINACOM - Binational Assoc. of Schools of Communication of the Californias
Mediating Design on Social Network Media - Hans Christian Jensen, U of Southern Denmark; Toke Riis Ebbesen, U of Southern Denmark
Communication Design for Agile Software Development in Cyberinfrastructure Projects - Kerk F. Kee, Chapman U
Constructing Versus Theorizing Social Reality - Klaus Krippendorff, U of Pennsylvania
Making Older Art Interactive: AR/VR Effects on Aesthetic Experience and Visual Perception in the Narrative Interactive Museum - Hannah (Hye Jin) Kum-Biocca, California State U, Long Beach
Design Choices in the Independent Creative Production of Webcomics - James Lee, U of Southern California - Annenberg School for Communication
Pasta as Material and Medium for Exploring Communication in Interdisciplinary Groups Researching Sustainability - Ann Light, U of Sussex; Sabine Hielscher, U of Sussex
Design as the Closing of the Political Universe - Silvia Lindtner, U of Michigan
Towards a Critical Platform Studies - Adrienne L. Massanari, U of Illinois at Chicago
Designing Information Literacy: Wikipedia and Post-Truth Student - Zachary J McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Think Like a Computer:" An Ethnographic Study of Designers-in-Training at a “New Collar” Coding School - Kate Miltner, USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Using Hands-On Science Activities to Address the Social and Ethical Issues Around Scientific Exploration - Peter Nagy, Arizona State U; Ruth Wylie, Arizona State U; Ed Finn, Arizona State U
Racist Discourse in Disguise: Exploring How White Facebook Users Expressed Ambivalence Following the Police Shooting of Philando Castile - Donte Newman, American U
Reverse Engineering Big Data Intelligence and Privacy: Re-Structuration of Digital Data Ecosystem - Yong Jin Park, Howard U; Jae Eun Chung, Howard U
Virtual Reality Book: Exploring Absorbed Reading Experiences in Wonderland - Federico Pianzola, U of Milan-Bicocca/Sogang U; Wayne De Fremery, Sogang U; Katalin Balint, Tilburg U
Using Service Design to Spark Debate About Automation and Accountability: Work in Progress From the Understanding Automated Decisions Project - Alison Powell, London School of Economics; Sarah Gold, Projects by IF
“Stand Up if You Want to Work for the Government!”: Aspirational Governance and Organizational Brokering in Code for America - Andrew R. Schrock, Independent Scholar
Extending the Methods of Media and Communication Studies by Design Research: Co-Creation as an Approach for Journalism Research - Lies van Roessel, Hans-Bredow-Institute/Leuphana U; Wiebke Loosen, Hans-Bredow Institute; Katharina Heitmann, U of Bremen; Julius Reimer, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI); Andreas Hepp, U of Bremen - ZeMKI
Critical Theories of Race, Design and Media Production - Krishnan Vasudevan, U of Maryland, College Park
Utilizing Communication Asset Mapping to Design a Chinatown Anti-Displacement Map and Walking Tour - George Allen Onas Villanueva, Loyola U - Chicago
How to Design Organizational Values? In the Quest for Integration Model of Public Relations and Design Practice - Alicja Waszkiewicz-Raviv, University of Warsaw
Security by Design: The Anti-Epistemic Materiality of Dark Patterns - Elizabeth Anne Watkins, Columbia U
Making Sense of Data Together: Self-Tracking and Biohacking in the Age of Mediatization - Elizabeth Wissinger, City U of New York/Graduate Center & BMCC; Gina Neff, U of Oxford