Category: Design

Could feminist scholarship?

Feminist scholarship could make a crucial contribution to the (until now) predominantly male computer culture by promoting recognition of the diverse ways that people think about and appropriate…

Dark pattern & manipulation

Jesper Balslev, lektor ved Københavns Erhvervsakademi, introducerer et eksperiment med en radikaliserende Facebookalgoritme og præsenterer teorier om, hvordan såkaldte dark patterns eller designet manipulation kan skabe negative sociale…

The stuff of bits

A spreadsheet organizes and displays data items. there is no inherent reason that these should be aligned on a grid. A database doesn’t employ a grid, nor does…

Ways in which it has not

From desktop computers to laptops to digital assistants, not to mention bank teller machines, microwave ovens, cellular telephones, and ticket machines, we encounter computers in all aspects of…

Computational thinking

Computational thinking has triumphed because it has first seduced us with its power, then befuddled us with its complexity, and finally settled into our cortexes as self-evident. Its…

Curious rituals

Two-headed hammer