NDLI: All of the Things: Engaging Complex Assemblages in Communication Design

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Rivers, Nathaniel A. McNely, Brian J.
Abstract	In this paper, we compare sociocultural theories of communication and user experience design to scholarship from associative and new materialist approaches. We argue for a more expansive and symmetrical perspective on communication design---one that broadens the scope of potential actors that affect user experiences, and that more strongly considers their effects on communicative activities. We posit three ways in which this perspective may be operationalized: (a) accounting for the missing masses, (b) designing for flat ontologies and radical symmetry, and (c) designing for interagentivity. Finally, we offer an initial heuristic for deploying such approaches and discuss scenarios in which they may prove fruitful.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	10
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450331838
DOI	10.1145/2666216.2666222
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-09-27
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Interagentivity Flat ontology User experience New materialism Usability Symmetry
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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All of the Things: Engaging Complex Assemblages in Communication Design