Exploring Digital Design

by Wagner, Ina; Bratteteig, Tone; Stuedahl, Dagny

• ISBN13: 9781849962223
• ISBN10: 1849962227
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-30
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Exploring Digital Design takes a multi-disciplinary look at digital design research where digital design is embedded in a larger socio-cultural context. Working from socio-technical research areas such as Participatory Design (PD), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interac-tion (HCI), the book explores how humanities offer new insights into digital de-sign, and discusses a variety of digital design research practices, methods, and theoretical approaches spanning established disciplinary borders. The aim of the book is to explore the diversity of contemporary digital design practices in which commonly shared aspects are interpreted and integrated into different disciplinary and interdisciplinary conversations. It is the conversations and explorations with humanities that further distinguish this book within digital design research.Illustrated with real examples from digital design research practices from a variety of research projects and from a broad range of contexts Exploring Digital Design offers a basis for understanding the disciplinary roots as well as the interdisciplinary dialogues in digital design research, providing theoretical, empirical, and methodological sources for understanding digital design research.Exploring Digital Design is mainly written for researchers and graduate students, and secondly for digital design practitioners. This book serves as an introduction to, and a resource for, research into digital design. The multi-disciplinary authoring of the first half of the book represents novel perspectives and analyses in digital design research. The authoring team includes Gunnar Liestøl, Andrew Morrison and Christina Mörtberg in addition to the editors.Including contributions from Gunnar Liestøl, Andrew Morrison and Christina Mörtberg, the book provides novel perspectives and analyses in digital design re-search. Although primarily written for researchers and graduate students, digital design practioners will also find the bookvery useful. Overall, it provides an excel-lent introduction to, and resource for, research into digital design.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
A Common Ground
Researching Digital Design	p. 3
Research Practices in Digital Design	p. 17
Analytical Perspectives	p. 55
Methods That Matter in Digital Design Research	p. 105
Multiple Perspectives on Design Research
A Matter of Digital Materiality	p. 147
On Mobility, Localization and the Possibility of Digital Genre Design	p. 171
Unreal Estate: Digital Design and Mediation in Marketing Urban Residency	p. 189
Whisperings in the Undergrowth: Communication Design, Online Social Networking and Discursive Performativity	p. 221
Designing for Sustainable Ways of Living with Technologies	p. 261
Epilogue: A Multidisciplinary Take on Digital Design	p. 283
About the Authors	p. 287
Index	p. 291
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