Metascience: A Paradigm for Postgraduate Communication Design Research

In this article, Sheila Pontis proposes metascience, drawing on philosopher Mario Bunge's work, as a paradigm for strengthening postgraduate research education in communication design. She argues that adopting a metascientific approach, one that makes explicit the scientific dimensions of how research is conceived, conducted and validated, can help integrate key scientific aspects into design research training and improve the rigor of postgraduate communication design education. Credits: Pontis, S. (2012). Metascience: A Paradigm for Postgraduate Communication Design Research. Iridescent, 2(1), 30-51.