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. HELEN KENNEDY is Senior Lecturer in New Media in the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. She has contributed numerous articles to journals such as 'Media, Culture and Society', 'The Information Society and Ephemera' and is co-editor of 'Cyborg Lives? Women's Technobiographies' (2001). She also teaches web design and occasionally designs websites. INDICE: 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 ofWeb 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23137-5
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 04/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés