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Net work : ethics and values in web design / Helen Kennedy.

Author/creator Kennedy, Helen, 1965-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoBasingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Descriptionx, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
Abstract "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. "-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011043425
ISBN9780230231405 (pbk.)
ISBN0230231403 (pbk.)
ISBN9780230231375
ISBN0230231373

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