My published work is written and visual (sometimes sonic), and can be found in peer-reviewed academic journals, conference proceedings, and magazines, across design, arts, and humanities disciplines.
Whenever possible, I’ve made these works accessible or downloadable through the links on this page. Or, send me an email to request jbarness [at] kent.edu.
Expanding the Discourse: Future Practices in Scholarly Publishing
2019, by Jessica Barness and Amy Papaelias with Tania Schlatter, in Decipher Vol. 1.
The Colliding Discourse of Cutting-Edge Design Practice and Serious Design Research
2019, by Jessica Barness and G. Mauricio Mejía, in Decipher Vol. 1.
In What Ways Does Critical Practice (Re)Invigorate Design Research?
2019, by Steven McCarthy, Jessica Barness, and Rebekah Modrak, in Decipher Vol. 1.
Forme et fonction éditoriales : étude sur le design des revues académiques
2019, by Jessica Barness and Amy Papaelias, in Sciences du Design no. 10. Original manuscript (English)
2018, interview on Scratching the Surface design criticism podcast.
Dancin’ to a New Tune: The Subversive, Entrepreneurial Flexi Disc
2018, on Design Observer.
2017, by Jessica Barness and Vince Giles, in MATLIT: Materialidades da Literatura. (PDF).
Critical Practices as Design Scholarship: Strategies and Opportunities
2017, by Jessica Barness and Steven McCarthy, for Design Incubation.
Network Effect et la cacophonie humaine
2017, in Spirale, no. 260. Original manuscript (English).
First Issues, First Words: Vision in the Making
2017, in Dialectic (AIGA scholarly journal), vol. 1, no. 1.
Designing the Emigre Magazine Index: Theory and Practice in an Alternative Research Tool
2016, in Design and Culture, vol. 8, no. 2.
Accepted Manuscript (AM) version (PDF) Barness_Designing-Emigre-Index_AM2016.pdf
2015, by Jessica Barness and Amy Papaelias, Visible Language special issue Critical Making: Design and the Digital Humanities, vol. 49, no. 3.
Letters are Media, Words are Collage: Writing Images through A (Dis)Connected Twenty-Six
2015, in Message, vol. 2. Message Research Group, Plymouth University, UK.
Social Disruptions: WYSi-WE, What You See is What Emerged
2015, in Visual Communication, vol. 14, no. 1.
Pushing Design’s Edges with Sound Interactions
2014, in SEGD Research Journal: Communication + Place. Web version: https://segd.org/pushing-design%E2%80%99s-edges-sound-interactions
Performing Human Pixels in Glitched: Portraits of Transformation
2014, by Jessica Barness and Steven McCarthy, in 9th ICDHS: Tradition, Transition, Trajectories: Major or Minor Influences? Proceedings, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
2011, in Currents in Electronic Literacy, vol. 12.