Social Media Design Power!

Why is the Design of Social Media relevant?

Our current experience as a society coming to terms with a new form of mass communication can be anecdotally likened to the dawn of letterpress printing and its significant role in the European witch craze: A society not yet literate in critically consuming and engaging a new medium of mass communication are subjected to effects […]

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January 18, 2022

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dark patterns, design, phd, research blog, social media

Research Questions & Objective

Social Media Design Power (as I have working-titled my project) has 3 research questions tied to 3 objectives. The objectives are: To engage critically with design (not only as a tool meant to enact the designers’ intentions, but also an actor itself in the mediation between social media content and users) and the ethics of […]

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January 7, 2022

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Proposal Accepted!

This summer, I finally finished and submitted my doctoral research proposal — it has now been accepted, I have matriculated, and I’m starting this blog to keep track of my progress and to keep up writing as a thinking tool. I’ll start by describing my research question and some background in the first couple of […]

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December 21, 2021

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