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dc.contributor.authorLysbakken, Nina
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-15T08:27:02Z
dc.date.available2018-03-15T08:27:02Z
dc.date.created2018-03-08T13:20:54Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationNordic Design Research. 2017, .
dc.identifier.issn1604-9705
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2490602
dc.description.abstractGendered visual communication is a major part of contemporary, mediated discourse, yet these expressions are seldom reflected upon from a designers' perspective. Whose voices are empowered in tabloid newspapers and gendered magazines? In what ways can we express gender? In this visual essay, I provide an auto-ethnographic perspective, and use personal reflections and visualisations to show a process of deconstructing, shaping and encoding gendered expressions on mobile platforms from my point of view, as a designer and a woman. The essay contributes to research writing methodologies, by questioning conventional ways in which scholarly research is presented. I draw on concepts of feministic speculative designs and gender-flips to demonstrate how the designer can change the meaning of digital spaces. I show this with two examples; an online newspaper design and a student project of an online women’s magazine. I found that an awareness of such gendered expressions can challenge existing norms, enable creativity, innovative designs and shape new meanings in popular cultural expressions.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.urihttp://www.nordes.org/nordes2017/assets/full_papers/nordes17a-sub1014-cam-i26_LYSBAKKEN_v2.pdf
dc.titleBeauty or Brains, Cautious or Courageous? Gender and Power in Online Visual Designs.
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.typeJournal article
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dc.source.pagenumber20
dc.source.journalNordic Design Research
dc.identifier.cristin1571448
cristin.unitcode189,2,0,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for design
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
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