Net Work

Ethics and Values in Web Design
2012. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-23137-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

A detailed study of the work of web designers, drawing on empirical research carried out from the birth of web design as an area of work in the 1990s to its professionalisation in the twenty-first century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kennedy, H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements PART I: FRAMING WEB DESIGN A Book About Web Design A Framework for Thinking About Web Design A Brief History of Web Design PART II: ETHICS AND VALUES IN WEB DESIGN Web Standards and the Self-Regulation of Web Designers The Fragile Ethics of Web Accessibility Free Labour: Web Designers' Ethical Responses to User Activity Narrow Fame: Micro-Celebrities Making Good of Conditions Not of Their Own Making Hope and the Ethical Future of Web Design Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in New Media in the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds in the UK. She has contributed numerous articles to journals such as Media, Culture and Society, The Information Society and Ephemera and is co-editor of (2001). She also teaches web design and occasionally designs websites.