Expectations of Reciprocity? An Analysis of Critique in Facebook Posts by Student Designers. Gray, C. M & Howard, C. D In Critique 2013: An International Conference Reflecting On Creative Practice in Art, Architecture, and Design, pages 381–395, January, 2013.
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Teaching design relies on critique as a component of its pedagogy. As mediated communication becomes progressively more pervasive in the learning experience of developing designers, we see a need to explore how critique manifests in these mediated spaces. This study explores how learners of design use Facebook groups to collaboratively bring about design learning via critique. Facebook group communications of graduate Human-Computer Interaction design (HCI/d) participants at a large Midwestern American university were analyzed. Data included 4558 status updates and 15273 comments from 160 students. A preliminary analysis of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in this Facebook group revealed that communication centered on quasi-professional social talk, and under this framing, informal peer critique emerged as a form of phatic, professional communication.
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  title     = "Expectations of Reciprocity? An Analysis of Critique in Facebook
               Posts by Student Designers",
  author    = "Gray, Colin M and Howard, Craig D",
  booktitle = "Critique 2013: An International Conference Reflecting On Creative
               Practice in Art, Architecture, and Design",
  pages     = "381--395",
  abstract  = "Teaching design relies on critique as a component of its
               pedagogy. As mediated communication becomes progressively more
               pervasive in the learning experience of developing designers, we
               see a need to explore how critique manifests in these mediated
               spaces. This study explores how learners of design use Facebook
               groups to collaboratively bring about design learning via
               critique. Facebook group communications of graduate
               Human-Computer Interaction design (HCI/d) participants at a large
               Midwestern American university were analyzed. Data included 4558
               status updates and 15273 comments from 160 students. A
               preliminary analysis of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in
               this Facebook group revealed that communication centered on
               quasi-professional social talk, and under this framing, informal
               peer critique emerged as a form of phatic, professional
               communication.",
  month     =  jan,
  year      =  2013
}

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