Category: Web & Mobile
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Equitable Inequity in Design Justice: A Review of Sasha Costanza-Chock’s “Design Values: Hard-Coding Liberation?”
In Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Building the Worlds We Need, Sasha Costanza-Chock explores how current universalist design processes and principles are based on principles of exclusion, connects design to issues of collective liberation of marginalized communities and ecological conservation, and discusses how design may be used to advance those issues and dismantle structural inequality. […]
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50 Years of Text Games: [2015]
Anthony Notaran – Hivemind #1: Lifeline Listicle Lifeline is a choice-based text adventure mobile game about an astronaut named Taylor. Centers around a fictional astronaut stranded somewhere in space. Players would help make choices for the astronaut. Players could accidently (or purposefully) lead Taylor to his death The game was designed to take place over […]
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Tips on Tracking Student Performance Through Online Methods
Online learning is becoming more and more popular and, in many ways, has become a new standard in education. The flipped classroom is one successful methodology that has been implemented in several institutions all over the world. The biggest concern for educators, though, is the challenge of measuring and monitoring performance through online methods. In […]
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Introduction: Andy Fischer Wright (UT Austin)
Hey folks! My name is Andy Fischer Wright, and I am a new HASTAC scholar. I’m in my first year of a doctoral program in Radio-Television-Film at UT Austin, and I use he/him/his pronouns. My background is in critical media studies/ cultural studies scholarship and consulting work with writing centers, though I’ve recently written on everything from Lime […]
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Informed Experiences, Designing Consent
Designs, whether implicitly or explicitly, cite core values that influence their development, marketing, and use. All too often, technology and interactive media are designed around profit, efficiency, objectivity, and other similar values that contribute to normalizing certain bodies, cultures, identities, and communities over others. Informed Experiences, Designing Consent was an event conceptualized and organized to bring […]
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Online Giving: How Social Media has changed the Game, and the Name
In the past, nonprofits and fundraisers had to establish connections with donors through mail, or on the phone, or even in person! Yes, I said in person! I know, crazy right? Slowly, people, businesses, and nonprofits started creating social media accounts. This changed EVERYTHING! This connected everyone and connected people to all sorts of causes. […]