Nostalgic Design presents a rhetorical analysis of twenty-first century nostalgia and a method for designers to create more inclusive technologies. Nostalgia is a form of resistant commemoration that can tell designers what users value about past designs, why they might feel excluded from the present, and what they wish to recover in the future. By examining the nostalgic hacks of several contemporary technical cultures, from female software programmers who knit on the job to anti-vaccination parents, Kurlinkus argues that innovation without tradition will always lead to technical alienation, whereas carefully examining and layering conflicting nostalgic traditions can lead to technological revolution.
| ISBN: | 9780822965527 |
| Publication date: | 18th December 2018 |
| Author: | William C Kurlinkus |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture |
| Genres: |
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics |
Nostalgic Design presents a rhetorical analysis of twenty-first century nostalgia and a method for designers to create more inclusive technologies. Nostalgia is a form of resistant commemoration that can tell designers what users value about past designs, why they might feel excluded from the present, and what they wish to recover in the future. By examining the nostalgic hacks of several contemporary technical cultures, from female software programmers who knit on the job to anti-vaccination parents, Kurlinkus argues that innovation without tradition will always lead to technical alienation, whereas carefully examining and layering conflicting nostalgic traditions can lead to technological revolution.
Nostalgic Design features in the following genres: Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Nostalgic Design is available in Paperback
Nostalgic Design was written by William C Kurlinkus and published by University of Pittsburgh Press
Nostalgic Design has 272 pages
Yes it is part of Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture series