Clodagh O’Mahony #ALD16 @findingada

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Clodagh O’Mahony is an Irish UX designer whose thesis project was a dress that was also a “a wearable connected platform that introduces what is sold as a ‘purer’ form of social media.”

Learn more about O’Mahony’s social dress at raspberrypi.org.

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From O’Mahoney’s thesis writeup:

In her book, “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology”, Jill Walker Rettberg states that there are three distinct modes of self- representation in digital media: written, visual and quantitative. For this I am eternally grateful to her, because this is the premise I built my entire thesis on.

 In the early internet, self-representation was purely text-based, the internet was less capable of handling images, so social media consisted of blogs and instant messaging. Lying about who you were was very easy to do. As technology advanced, we moved on to basing the transfer of information on visual communication; photos, videos, and emoticons in place of words. Lying on the internet became slightly trickier. Not so tricky as to discourage any of the people who appear on “Catfish”, but the likes of Facebook and Instagram require a little more effort than typing about how you’re totally a 16 year old girl from LA who is also Britney Spears’ best friend. As such, the natural progression would be quantified social media, that couldn’t be manufactured. No one would go to the extent of  actually living a false life for the purposes of social media. Right?

Combining this with wearable technology, because that is literally the only consistent thing in my entire dissertation, my mission is:

To design a wearable connected platform that introduces what is sold as a “purer” form of social media. The quantitative data means users would have to go to extraordinary lengths to misrepresent their lives, thereby making its information more reliable than that of its competitors. Thanks to revenue from wearable sales, it can afford to offer a platform with less advertising.

Clodagh O’Mahony

Read more here.



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