This timely collection brings together critical, analytic, historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in the practice of design.
Designers face the same challenges as everyone else in the complex conditions of contemporary cultural life-choices about consumption, waste, exploitation, ecological damage, and political problems built into the supply chains on which the global systems of inequity currently balance precariously. But designers face the additional dilemma that their paid work is often entangled with promoting the same systems such critical approaches seek to redress: how to reconcile this contradiction, among others, in seeking to chart an ethical course of action while still functioning effectively in the world.
Ethics in Design and Communication acknowledges the complexity of this subject matter, while also demonstrating that in the ongoing struggle towards an equitable and sustainable world, the talents of design and critical thought are essential. Featured case studies include graphic design internships today, the dark web, and media coverage of the 2016 US presidential election. The fact that within this book such a wide array of practitioners, scholars, critics, and professionals commit to addressing current injustices is already a positive sign. Nonetheless, it is essential that we guard against confusing the coercive force of moral imperatives with ethical deliberation when conceiving a foundation for action.
Recenzijos
We are no longer operating in a world where we simply encounter objects and artifacts designed to act upon us. We are increasingly working on platforms and living in environments that are themselves designed to influence our thinking and behaviors. This is a wide-ranging survey of the deeper implications of design choices in the twenty-first century, and an urgent call to bring ethics back into the process, before they are rendered out of reach. * Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human and Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at Queens College, City University of New York, USA * This is an authoritative and inflected call for design to find the will to engage with our contemporary anxieties, if not to propose solutions to them. The book is a useful contribution to an important topic, and it will readily find its readership. * Tom Fisher, Professor of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University, UK * This is an important and vital contribution to design education and research. I commend the editors and authors on this achievement. * Laurene Vaughan, Professor of Design RMIT University, Australia *
Daugiau informacijos
A guide to understanding ethical issues in design, communications and digital media practice, comprising critical overviews and contemporary case studies.
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction to the Selection of Texts |
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| Foreword: Assumptions of Ethics and Agency in Design Johanna Drucker |
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| In Search of a Philosophy for Design Ethics Laura Scherling |
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PART ONE Design in Society |
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1 Designing Ethics in Large-scale Socio-technical Systems |
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2 All Models are Wrong: Information Design in a Post-truth World |
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3 Swiping Left on Empathy: Gamification and Commodification of the (Inter)face |
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4 Dark User Experience: From Manipulation to Deception |
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5 Designing Safe Spaces for Virtual Reality: Methods for Merging Body Sovereignty Theory into VR Design Practice |
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6 Who Owns the Smart City? Toward an Ethical Framework for Civic AI |
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7 Design Possibilities and Responsibilities in Framing Well-being |
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PART TWO Theory and Communication |
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8 Design and Emergent Ethical Crises |
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9 Designing Ourselves to Death: The Politics of Progress Versus an Ethics of Survival in a Diminishing World |
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10 Freedom and Communication Design: An Ethical Approach |
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11 About the Ethics of Design Activism |
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12 Ethics in Contemporary Civic Engagements: Toward an Ethics of a Minor Design Activism |
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13 Graphic Design and Activism: Reflecting on Interactions |
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PART THREE Work and Pedagogy: Work |
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14 Designing Tools for Low-income Community Organizing |
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15 Design and Sustainable Development: Beyond Aesthetic and Functional Qualities |
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16 Designing Ethics Tools for Self-reflection, Collaboration, and Facilitation |
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17 Noto Project: Between Harmony and Homogeneity |
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18 The Role of Ethics Online and Among Social Media Designers |
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PART FOUR Work and Pedagogy: Pedagogy |
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19 Caring for What We Leave Behind: Ethical Considerations in Social Innovation Pedagogy |
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20 Perpetuating Class Divide: The Reality of Graphic Design Internships |
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21 Highlighting Race Issues Through Mentoring and Design |
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22 The Design Process is a Research Process: Students and the Ethics of Inquiry |
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23 Home: The Ethics of Addressing In-equal Design |
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24 Threading Ethics in a Design Curriculum |
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| Bibliography |
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| Author Biographies |
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| Index |
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Laura Scherling Ed.D. is a designer, researcher, and author. She is a director and faculty at Columbia University, USA, and researches emerging technologies, design, media, and sustainability topics. She completed her doctorate at Columbia University Teachers College.
Andrew DeRosa is Assistant Professor of Design at Queens College, CUNY, USA, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Communications Design at the Pratt Institute, USA.
