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Mark Blythe
Researcher at Northumbria University
Publications - 8
Citations - 121
Mark Blythe is an academic researcher from Northumbria University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Design fiction & Social class. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 8 publications receiving 74 citations.
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Counter-Discourse Activism on Social Media: The Case of Challenging Poverty Porn Television
Tom Feltwell,John Vines,Karen Salt,Mark Blythe,Ben Kirman,Julie Barnett,Phillip Brooker,Shaun Lawson +7 more
TL;DR: This paper investigates how online counter-discourse is designed, deployed and orchestrated by activists to challenge dominant narratives around socio-political issues, focusing on activism related to the UK broadcast media’s negative portrayal of welfare benefit claimants.
Book
Critical Theory and Interaction Design
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that reading critical theory can help designers do what they want to do; can teach wisdom itself; can provoke; and can introduce new ways of seeing, and illustrate their argument by presenting classic texts by thinkers in critical theory from Althusser to Žižek alongside essays in which leaders in interaction design and HCI describe the influence of the text on their work.
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Making Problems in Design Research: The Case of Teen Shoplifters on Tumblr
TL;DR: Problem making is discussed as a historically and politically contingent process that allow researchers to connect data and design according to certain moral and ethical principles.
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Metaprobes, Metaphysical Workshops and Sketchy Philosophy
TL;DR: This paper presents metaphysical probes (Metaprobes) as a tool for design-led philosophical inquiry and aims to provide one way to make philosophies already present in design more explicit and make other philosophical concepts relevant to HCI more accessible and workable for designers.
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Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of Design Fictions
Michael Muller,Jeffrey Bardzell,EunJeong Cheon,Norman Makoto Su,Eric P. S. Baumer,Casey Fiesler,Ann Light,Mark Blythe +7 more
TL;DR: The goal of this workshop is both to create an overview of this diversity and to move towards a shared vision of design fiction within the CHI community to development of a summary of the current state-of-the-art.