How has capitalist theory influenced design in NZ and uni? It has a ‘products and services’ approach.
Can solve problems, but also just challenge them.
A tweet, a throwaway comment, carved into a marble block. Permanence online
What IS a book/app/website in the context of your work? Why does that medium help your idea?
Insight into the reasons for your chosen topic or issue. It also provides insight into your perspective or stance. It may start with an opening gambit, such as a quotation, a memory, lived experience, recent observation, interaction or musing. Include reason why you've chosen fake news, and the sub-topic within it that you're focussing on.
Central proposition/research question:
The central proposition or research question proposes how design can be deployed to address, raise awareness, enhance, challenge, provoke, stimulate, interrogate the topic or issue or practice. It can be speculative or hypothetical.
Aim:
Here you briefly state what you intend to create for your projected target audience. (and who are they?)
Theory:
Here you identify the theory or theories specific to your design project. Depending on your project, theories help underpin your project and give it critical weight, or a point of contention, or something that you wish to revisit. (critical theories, here perhaps Raymond Williams: Theory of cultural formation, or Altermodernism/third space – critical realism?)
Literature review:
So that your argument is not generalised opinion or a rant, refer to current literature to support your ideas and views. (books, articles, research, resources most related to your field)
Precedents:
Research precedent works and approaches that inspire, influence and inform your design approach. Analyse them, unpack them, and then compare them. Explain how these works and approaches drive your attention and focus.
(aka artist models)
Comprises the literature review; analysis of precedent works and approaches. Here you explain how you have responded to this analysis and have applied appropriate methods to testing/validating/justifying that information and your approach. This then supports your intention – the proposed design.
Outputs:
How are some ways you can achieve this? Brainstorm.
3x examples mocked up (sketches). Refine the best one.
"Having an origin supported by unquestionable evidence; authenticated; verified. Entitled to acceptance or belief because of agreement with known facts or experience; reliable; trustworthy." (Dictionary.com)
"Alternative facts" is a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance at Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States. When pressed during the interview with Chuck Todd to explain why Spicer "utter[ed] a provable falsehood", Conway stated that Spicer was giving "alternative facts". Todd responded, "Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods."
Conway's use of the phrase "alternative facts" to describe demonstrable falsehoods was widely mocked on social media and sharply criticized by journalists and media organizations. Conway later defended her choice of words, defining "alternative facts" as "additional facts and alternative information."" (Wikipedia.org)
Misinformation, a provable falsehood. Lies being told as if they were the truth, even if people know that they are lies. Unashamed, blatant misdirection. Alternative information to direct attention away from the truth.
Fake News:
"Fake news is a type of... journalism that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via the traditional print or broadcasting news media or via Internet-based social media. A report is fake news if it was written and published with the intent to mislead in order to gain financially or politically. As such, intentionally misleading and deceptive fake news is different from obviously satirical or parody articles or papers such as The Onion. Fake news often employs eye-catching headlines or entirely fabricated news stories in order to increase readership and, in the case of internet-based stories, online sharing and Internet click revenue."
It all stems around the idea of disinformation and misinformation, mainly at the profit of one and downfall of another. Alternative facts and fake news are basically the same thing, fiction presented as fact in order for one side to take advantage of another.
