{"id":861,"date":"2017-01-25T19:02:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/?p=861"},"modified":"2017-03-17T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T12:39:15","slug":"861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/2017\/01\/25\/861\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest bad design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I\u2019ve been inundated with social media posts showing political protests. Post-inauguration, it was hard to exist in our digital world without seeing an image of somebody holding a political sign or videos of marchers. The posts I saw\u00a0and the articles I read had me thinking about the language and representation of protest. What do the images groups use to protest say about their cause? Admittedly, I was at an event that leaned in a specific political direction, but I definitely questioned some of the imagery choices on both sides.<\/p><p>Afterwards, I read articles etc. about the use of specific symbols and how those symbols can be alienating. Maybe that\u2019s the problem with a symbol-it has the potential to alienate\u2026<\/p><p><span class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-863\" src=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ProtestImage3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"ProtestImage3\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ProtestImage3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ProtestImage3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ProtestImage3-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ProtestImage3-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ProtestImage3-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do the images and icons used by a protest group say about that group?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-incidentals","entry-card--landscape"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ProtestBadDesign-01.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s86O3z-861","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}