“Design Speech Acts: ‘How to do things with words’ in Virtual Communities” by Cicognani
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- Art / Design
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- Design Speech Acts: 'How to do things with words' in Virtual Communities
Session/Category Title: Saying: Words for Electronic Discourse
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Cyberspace is language-based (cf. Cicognani, 1996, 1997; Winograd,1987), and so are virtual communities. The author argues that virtual communities are ideal places to experience and enhance a language for design, and for designers.
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