Synopses & Reviews
Net Workprovides adetailed study of the work of web designers.It drawson 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.
Synopsis
This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power's impact at the grassroots level in cities in the North, South, MidWest and West, this anthology expands on the profusion of new scholarship that is taking a second look at Black Power, connecting grassroots activism to national struggles for black selfdetermination and international African independence movements, and actively rewriting postwar African American history.
About the Author
HELEN KENNEDY is Lecturer in New Media in the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. This is her first monograph, but she has contributed articles to journals such as Information Communication and Society and New Media and Society and is co-editor of an essay collection Cyborg Lives? Women's Technobiographies (York University: Raw Nerve Press, 2001). She has also worked as a web designer and taught web design.
Table of Contents
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
Going the Extra Mile? Web Accessibility for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Does User Activity Threaten the Cultural Industries? Web Designers Ethical Responses
Narrow Fame: Micro-Celebrities Making Good of Conditions Not of Their Own Making
The (Ethical) Future(s) of Web Design
Notes
Bibliography
Index