Increasingly, the means of engaging young people in constructive public debate and democratic soc... more Increasingly, the means of engaging young people in constructive public debate and democratic society has shifted to online digital media platforms. This assumes that participants have the necessary media literacy skills to engage in a meaningful way. We discuss how and to what extent responses in an online blog elicited by two different scenes from the popular youth television series Skam [Shame] demonstrate agonistic deliberation and media literacy in digital dialogue spaces. Our study includes an analysis of the rhetorical characteristics of the dialogues; the mapping of key themes that characterise reactions of blog commentators in the online discussions; and a discussion of the characteristics of – and degree of deliberation in – online comments. We propose that narratives which employ agonistic deliberation around pertinent social themes are most likely to encourage and elicit public engagement that moves beyond emotional outbursts, reflecting a deeper consideration of the the...
... the journey, researchers that con-tributed but did not stay throughout the process, in partic... more ... the journey, researchers that con-tributed but did not stay throughout the process, in particular Anders Mørch and Synne Skjulstad from InterMedia, and Anne Lise Wullum from Media ... Christina Mörtberg made the indexing and together with Annelise Harnesk the finishing editing ...
This paper aims to problematise how we step into situations that are often contested, contingent ... more This paper aims to problematise how we step into situations that are often contested, contingent and contradictory. In this context, how can we sharpen our sensitivity to the role design plays in generating understanding and future-making possibilities? Here, we employ the term disruption as a way to question our own knowledge construction and research practices in design anthropology and participatory design. We pursue disruption as a political and necessary consciousness when design anthropology meets participatory design and discuss the generative, reflexive and analytical dimensions of disruption through three vignettes. These vignettes raise questions of how we interrogate disruptions of power to consider different ways in which this manifests when entering into and participating in on-going changing process. They also highlight the need to displace existing knowledge, rather than pursuing 'mutual learning' that had been a defining commitment of participatory design. La...
This paper aims to problematise how we step into situations that are often contested, contingent ... more This paper aims to problematise how we step into situations that are often contested, contingent and contradictory. In this context, how can we sharpen our sensitivity to the role design plays in generating understanding and future-making possibilities? Here, we employ the term disruption as a way to question our own knowledge construction and research practices in design anthropology and participatory design. We pursue disruption as a political and necessary consciousness when design anthropology meets participatory design and discuss the generative, reflexive and analytical dimensions of disruption through three vignettes. These vignettes raise questions of how we interrogate disruptions of power to consider different ways in which this manifests when entering into and participating in on-going changing process. They also highlight the need to displace existing knowledge, rather than pursuing 'mutual learning' that had been a defining commitment of participatory design. Lastly, the vignettes reveal the need to disrupt the designer-researcher in order to surrender to contradiction and contingency as part of future-making.
Making things public challenges existing matters of concern and, in design, may also be about cha... more Making things public challenges existing matters of concern and, in design, may also be about changing them. This paper advances the concept of translation from early ANT literature and explores it in order to support co-designing for making things public. We elaborate on how translations may be understood as moves and transformations of practices and objects that require both time and learning. We discuss how translations may include the emerging, situated, fluid, enacted, experiential and the material, and suggest co-design to rethink translation as a temporal process of learning and ‘becoming’. Our aim is to demonstrate a mutual theoretical influence between ANT and co-design. Our conceptual reflection is based on a museum design case where museum staff and the authors explore new communicational modes of social media. The project established a longitudinal ‘experimental zone’ as space and time for design in the everyday practice of the museum. The paper reflects upon the value of ANT as a framework for rethinking the design–use divide using concepts of learning and translations to bring awareness of co-design as temporal, fluid and emerging processes of becoming.
Increasingly, the means of engaging young people in constructive public debate and democratic soc... more Increasingly, the means of engaging young people in constructive public debate and democratic society has shifted to online digital media platforms. This assumes that participants have the necessary media literacy skills to engage in a meaningful way. We discuss how and to what extent responses in an online blog elicited by two different scenes from the popular youth television series Skam [Shame] demonstrate agonistic deliberation and media literacy in digital dialogue spaces. Our study includes an analysis of the rhetorical characteristics of the dialogues; the mapping of key themes that characterise reactions of blog commentators in the online discussions; and a discussion of the characteristics of – and degree of deliberation in – online comments. We propose that narratives which employ agonistic deliberation around pertinent social themes are most likely to encourage and elicit public engagement that moves beyond emotional outbursts, reflecting a deeper consideration of the the...
... the journey, researchers that con-tributed but did not stay throughout the process, in partic... more ... the journey, researchers that con-tributed but did not stay throughout the process, in particular Anders Mørch and Synne Skjulstad from InterMedia, and Anne Lise Wullum from Media ... Christina Mörtberg made the indexing and together with Annelise Harnesk the finishing editing ...
This paper aims to problematise how we step into situations that are often contested, contingent ... more This paper aims to problematise how we step into situations that are often contested, contingent and contradictory. In this context, how can we sharpen our sensitivity to the role design plays in generating understanding and future-making possibilities? Here, we employ the term disruption as a way to question our own knowledge construction and research practices in design anthropology and participatory design. We pursue disruption as a political and necessary consciousness when design anthropology meets participatory design and discuss the generative, reflexive and analytical dimensions of disruption through three vignettes. These vignettes raise questions of how we interrogate disruptions of power to consider different ways in which this manifests when entering into and participating in on-going changing process. They also highlight the need to displace existing knowledge, rather than pursuing 'mutual learning' that had been a defining commitment of participatory design. La...
This paper aims to problematise how we step into situations that are often contested, contingent ... more This paper aims to problematise how we step into situations that are often contested, contingent and contradictory. In this context, how can we sharpen our sensitivity to the role design plays in generating understanding and future-making possibilities? Here, we employ the term disruption as a way to question our own knowledge construction and research practices in design anthropology and participatory design. We pursue disruption as a political and necessary consciousness when design anthropology meets participatory design and discuss the generative, reflexive and analytical dimensions of disruption through three vignettes. These vignettes raise questions of how we interrogate disruptions of power to consider different ways in which this manifests when entering into and participating in on-going changing process. They also highlight the need to displace existing knowledge, rather than pursuing 'mutual learning' that had been a defining commitment of participatory design. Lastly, the vignettes reveal the need to disrupt the designer-researcher in order to surrender to contradiction and contingency as part of future-making.
Making things public challenges existing matters of concern and, in design, may also be about cha... more Making things public challenges existing matters of concern and, in design, may also be about changing them. This paper advances the concept of translation from early ANT literature and explores it in order to support co-designing for making things public. We elaborate on how translations may be understood as moves and transformations of practices and objects that require both time and learning. We discuss how translations may include the emerging, situated, fluid, enacted, experiential and the material, and suggest co-design to rethink translation as a temporal process of learning and ‘becoming’. Our aim is to demonstrate a mutual theoretical influence between ANT and co-design. Our conceptual reflection is based on a museum design case where museum staff and the authors explore new communicational modes of social media. The project established a longitudinal ‘experimental zone’ as space and time for design in the everyday practice of the museum. The paper reflects upon the value of ANT as a framework for rethinking the design–use divide using concepts of learning and translations to bring awareness of co-design as temporal, fluid and emerging processes of becoming.
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