Infodemic | designing fake news in the age of social media

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When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck…
Paul Virilio (philosopher & cultural theorist)

As designers, I believe we have a responsibility to our society and we should welcome challenges and mainly confront the inner voices telling us to “just mind yourself.” As per the legendary Persian poet Rumi: “I came to you without ‘me,’ so come to me without ‘you’.” In this journey, my greatest passion is to view and visualize the depth of a phenomenon beyond its existence. For my MFA project, I aim to re-examine concepts such as propaganda, misinformation and social media in relation to design and our contemporary digital culture. I am trying to answer these questions such as: How does social media manipulate our thoughts? How can visual design make people more aware of crisis? I would like to turn technology back on itself as a mirror to reveal some of its problems. We can go more in-depth with Augmented Reality, a novel technology that allows us to create new dimensions of art and design by linking traditional design methods with digital design methods. The digital layer opens the doors to a whole new world of possibilities. Designers can take visitors on a journey in time and (virtual) space and explain what lies behind, while enhancing the artwork to tell the story with more detail. To that end, I have designed a poster series using AR technology with the intention to provoke the viewer to learn more about the fake news manipulation during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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