110 final Flashcards

Question

design justice netword 10 principles

Answer 1

1. design to sustain, heal, & empower communities, & to seek liberation from exploitative and oppressive systems. 2. center the voices of those directly impacted by the outcomes of the design process. 3. prioritize design’s impact on the community over the intentions of the designer. 4. See change as emergent from an accountable, accessible, and collaborative process, rather than as a point at the end of a process. 5. See the role of the designer as a facilitator rather than an expert. 6. Believe that everyone is an expert based on their own lived experience, & we all have unique & brilliant contributions to bring to a design process. 7. Share design knowledge & tools with our communities. 8. Work towards sustainable, community-led and controlled outcomes. 9. Work towards non-exploitative solutions that reconnect us to the earth and to each other. 10. Before seeking new design solutions, look for what is already working at the community level. We honor and uplift traditional, indigenous, and local knowledge and practices.

Answer 2

- Increasingly lower barriers to entry - Augmented or Virtual Reality - Esports “Tidal Wave” - Continued use of microtransactions in games - Expansion of “game study” programs in academia

Answer 3

- Almost 14,000 video games - Hundreds of consoles and systems - Over 5,000 issues of game magazines - hundreds of books and literature, peripherals, and related technology, materials, and documents. - One of the largest collections of its kind in the world - Largest known in Canada.

Answer 4

Textisms (<3), new words stemming from social media, emojis

Answer 5

A little puzzle - Rise of subordinate clause (can’t stand alone), the reader must complete this clause/puzzle A feeling of universal - “That moment when”, shared knowledge of a situation = public engagement It’s short - Leaving the rest up to the reader

Answer 6

“i can’t even”, “because...” - We do this to keep up with fast-paced society whilst being expressive

Answer 7

formal/informal, punctuation, slang

Answer 8

even though we have access to media, censorship plays a major role in what exactly we are seeing and who’s saying it and what they’re allowed to say

Answer 9

Portrayed media is controlled by the owners - companies that pay for ads, or by the government that gives the subsidies

Answer 10

who has the power/ownership

Answer 11

people in power yield complicity in ways that aren’t physical; keeps the violated person in their place to not expect more and people in power remain powerful

Answer 12

turns our attention towards or away certain media - SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE EXAMPLES - Ex. Super Bowl Pepsi commercial with Beyonce, Britney Spears, & Pink - Power: advertising a product to consumers, women on display (powerless) in impractical clothing and replacing the position of slaves who had to fight

Answer 13

- Media conglomerates, Power, & Symbolic violence - Corruption is being masked through more societal acceptable messages like the pepsi commercial & “female empowerment” when it is more demeaning - Reality effect: belief in what is shown, power to mobilize, generate ideas, and inflict negative feelings

Answer 14

how do we live up to this perfection?

Answer 15

it is easy to get caught up in misinformation and let it cloud our judgement/decisions, but knowing what to look for (rhetoric), we can make better choices

Answer 16

- If we look past the ad spin, marketing strategies, and popular media, we will find a less stressful way to move forward - Media amplifies risk; more risk stories = more negative & inaccurate they become - Ex. the telephone game

Answer 17

- Reduces quality of viewing experience

Answer 18

Hieroglyphics, cave sketches

Answer 19

- Phone symbol & dollar sign - Handicap symbols for accessibility & traffic signs

Answer 20

- Read invisible women by perez! - Language & Women being invisible in design and researchers - Robert moses: rebuilding cities, bridge design on the highways were too low for trucks, Robert was racist; buses used by lower class people could not go through these roads - Invisible effects (Don Norman): door design & human interaction - Standardization: iconography exists across mediums i.e symbols in a car and its dash - Housing design: ‘wicked-problem’, confusing, conflicting values, more greenery = less roads= less modes of transportation = less patrolling on the roads = decline of reputation - Healthcare: MRI scans, design requires empathy (kids do not feel comfortable in these machines), ask questions (hear from experiences to change design), define the problem (is it uncomfortable?), test ideas & learn from mistakes (does it need to be larger? softer?) = painting the machines

Answer 21

- Communication: focuses on visual narratives over text, icons - Read about gamergate! - Board games:

Answer 22

- ethos, pathos, logos - encoding/decoding - spin, propaganda and advertising - visual communication -social media, syntax, language - media anxiety - podcasting rhetoric - journalism - gaming and design - Now, let’s turn the lens on ourselves

Answer 23

metaphor of the theatre and a drama: - The metaphor considers life as a stage for activity - “activity of an individual which occurs during a period marked by his continuous presence before a particular set of observers and which has some influence on the observers” - continued presence allows individuals to tweak their behavior and selectively give and give off details, a process he termed “impression management.”

Answer 24

- the process where a person gathers online information to evaluate another person's suitability for a particular role - People cybervet to help make decisions about prospective or current relationships.”

Answer 25

- leveraging people's regular use of social media, search engines, search aggregators, and evolving Internet and communication technologies - people who cybervet can access more and different information about current and prospective employees, employers, romantic partners, jurors, students, roommates, criminals, or others.”

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