Communication as Design
@article{Aakhus2007CommunicationAD, title={Communication as Design}, author={Mark Aakhus}, journal={Communication Monographs}, year={2007}, volume={74}, pages={112 - 117} }
Design is an activity of transforming something given into something preferred through intervention and invention. An interest in design reflects a concern for creating useful things and the process of creating useful things. Design is a way to understand communication and an approach for investigating the social world from the standpoint of communication. This claim has implications for theorizing communication ‘‘problems.’’ A central puzzle that people face, from a design perspective, is how…
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