• DOI:10.1080/03637750701196383
Corpus ID: 143543646

Communication as Design

@article{Aakhus2007CommunicationAD,
  title={Communication as Design},
  author={Mark Aakhus},
  journal={Communication Monographs},
  year={2007},
  volume={74},
  pages={112 - 117}
}

• Mark Aakhus
• Published 2007
• Computer Science
• Communication Monographs

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… Expand