Ethics in design and communication : critical perspectives / edited by Laura Scherling, Andrew DeRosa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scherling, Laura, editor.

DeRosa, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Moral and ethical aspects.

Design.

Communication in design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 250 pages) : illustrations

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction to the Selection of Texts

Foreword: Assumptions of Ethics and Agency in Design

Johanna Drucker

In Search of a Philosophy for Design Ethics Laura Scherling DESIGN IN SOCIETY

Designing Ethics in Large Scale Sociotechnical Systems

Jeffrey Chan

All Models Are Wrong: Information Design in a Post-truth World

Rachel Berger

Swiping Left on Empathy: Gamification and Commodification of the (Inter)face

Sarah Edmands Martin

Dark User Experience: From Manipulation to Deception

Marc Miquel-Ribé

Designing Safe Spaces for Virtual Reality: Methods for Merging Body Sovereignty Theory into VR Design Practice

Michelle Cortese, Andrea Zeller

Who Owns the Smart City? Towards an Ethical Framework for Civic AI

Michael A. Madaio, Sarah Edmands Martin

Design Possibilities and Responsibilities in Framing Well-being

Heekyoung Jung

THEORY AND COMMUNICATION

Design and Emergent Ethical Crises

Peter Buwert

Designing Ourselves to Death: The Politics of Progress Versus an Ethics of Survival in a Diminishing World

David Stairs

Freedom and Communication Design: An Ethical Approach

Sara Velez Estêvão

About an Ethics of Design Activism

Maziar Rezai

Ethics in Contemporary Civic Engagements: Towards an Ethics of a Minor Design Activism

Tau Ulv Lenskjold, Sissel Olander Graphic Design and Activism: Reflecting on Interactions

Andréa Poshar

WORK AND PEDAGOGY

WORK Designing Tools for Low-Income Community Organizing

Luke Jordan

Design and Sustainable Development: Beyond Aesthetic and Functional Qualities

IvAŁn Asin

Designing Ethics Tools for Self-Reflection, Collaboration, and Facilitation

Ciara Taylor, Samantha Dempsey

Noto Project: Between Harmony and Homogeneity

Suna Jeong

The Role of Ethics Online and Among Social Media Designers

Meredith James PEDAGOGY Caring for What We Leave Behind: Ethical Considerations in Social Innovation Pedagogy Mariana Amatullo.

Perpetuating Class Divide: The Reality of Graphic Design Internships

Kathryn Weinstein

Highlighting Race Issues Through Mentoring and Design

Sabrina Hall, Anjali Menon

The Design Process is a Research Process: Students and the Ethics of Inquiry

David Gelb, Angela Norwood

Home: The Ethics of Addressing In-Equal Design

Peter Claver Fine Threading Ethics in a Design Curriculum

Paul J. Nini

Index

Author Biographies.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781350077027

135007702X

9781350077034

1350077038

9781350077010

1350077011

OCLC:

1127929466