Net work
Subtitle: ethics and values in web design
By: Helen Kennedy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230231405
Subjects: Design; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; COMPUTERS / Networking / Intranets & Extranets; Web sites; Professional ethics; COMPUTERS / Digital Media / General; COMPUTERS / Internet / Application Development
Description: "Net Work provides a detailed study of the work of web designers. It draws on empirical research carried out from the birth of web design as an area of work in the 1990s to its professionalization in the twenty-first century and addresses the politics of building an inclusive WWW for people of diverse abilities. "--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Figures and Tables; title: Acknowledgements; title: PART I: FRAMING WEB DESIGN; title: A Book About Web Design; title: A Framework for Thinking About Web Design; title: A Brief History of Web Design; title: PART II: ETHICS AND VALUES IN WEB DESIGN; title: Web Standards and the Self-Regulation of Web Designers; title: The Fragile Ethics of Web Accessibility; title: Going the Extra Mile? Web Accessibility for People with Intellectual Disabilities; title: Does User Activity Threaten the Cultural Industries? Web Designers' Ethical Responses; title: Narrow Fame: Micro-Celebrities Making Good of Conditions Not of Their Own Making; title: The (Ethical) Future(s) of Web Design; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.