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This timely collection brings together critical, analytic,
historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in
the practice of design. Designers face the same challenges as
everyone else in the complex conditions of contemporary cultural
life-choices about consumption, waste, exploitation, ecological
damage, and political problems built into the supply chains on
which the global systems of inequity currently balance
precariously. But designers face the additional dilemma that their
paid work is often entangled with promoting the same systems such
critical approaches seek to redress: how to reconcile this
contradiction, among others, in seeking to chart an ethical course
of action while still functioning effectively in the world. Ethics
in Design and Communication acknowledges the complexity of this
subject matter, while also demonstrating that in the ongoing
struggle towards an equitable and sustainable world, the talents of
design and critical thought are essential. Featured case studies
include graphic design internships today, the dark web, and media
coverage of the 2016 US presidential election. The fact that within
this book such a wide array of practitioners, scholars, critics,
and professionals commit to addressing current injustices is
already a positive sign. Nonetheless, it is essential that we guard
against confusing the coercive force of moral imperatives with
ethical deliberation when conceiving a foundation for action.
This timely collection brings together critical, analytic,
historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in
the practice of design. Designers face the same challenges as
everyone else in the complex conditions of contemporary cultural
life-choices about consumption, waste, exploitation, ecological
damage, and political problems built into the supply chains on
which the global systems of inequity currently balance
precariously. But designers face the additional dilemma that their
paid work is often entangled with promoting the same systems such
critical approaches seek to redress: how to reconcile this
contradiction, among others, in seeking to chart an ethical course
of action while still functioning effectively in the world. Ethics
in Design and Communication acknowledges the complexity of this
subject matter, while also demonstrating that in the ongoing
struggle towards an equitable and sustainable world, the talents of
design and critical thought are essential. Featured case studies
include graphic design internships today, the dark web, and media
coverage of the 2016 US presidential election. The fact that within
this book such a wide array of practitioners, scholars, critics,
and professionals commit to addressing current injustices is
already a positive sign. Nonetheless, it is essential that we guard
against confusing the coercive force of moral imperatives with
ethical deliberation when conceiving a foundation for action.
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