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Author Kennedy, Helen, 1965- author

Title Net work : ethics and values in web design / Helen Kennedy
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
©2012

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Description x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Part I: Framing web design -- 1. A book about web design -- 2. A framework for thinking about web design -- 3. A brief history of web design -- Part II: Ethics and values in web design -- 4. Web standards and the self-regulation of web designers -- 5. The fragile ethics of web accessibility -- 6. Going the extra mile? Web accessibility for people with intellectual disabilities -- 7. Free labour: Web designers' ethical responses to user activity -- 8. Narrow fame: Micro-celebrities making good of conditions not of their own making -- 9. Hope and the ethical future of web design
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Professional ethics.
Web sites -- Design -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Web sites -- Design.
LC no. 2011043425
ISBN 0230231373
0230231403
9780230231375
9780230231405
Other Titles Network : ethics and values in web design