Designing for conflict

This Kitchen Table Conversation with Elizabeth Losh looks at how hashtags function in warzones and considers how digital designers often participate in escalating geopolitical conflicts. Using examples of recent social media practice from contested borders in Ukraine, Palestine, and Kashmir, the presenter argues that enlarging a contact zone between contested parties can be facilitated by algorithmic logics and interface affordances, even if filter bubbles may also separate combatants. Drawing on her book Hashtag, Losh also examines how feminist peace movements use hashtags and construct their own norms around the inherent contradictions of maintaining consensus in organizational communication.

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