By H. Kennedy
ISBN-10: 0230231403
ISBN-13: 9780230231405
ISBN-10: 0230356109
ISBN-13: 9780230356108
A exact examine of the paintings of internet designers, drawing on empirical learn performed from the delivery of website design as a space of labor within the Nineteen Nineties to its professionalisation within the twenty-first century.
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Material culture matters’ (2009, p. 8), he writes. This is reminiscent of Banks’s proposal, discussed in the Introduction of this book, that the dissolved work/ life boundary does not only have negative consequences, as is commonly assumed. Because Sennett sees craft practices as likely to produce caring and engaged ways of life, he is critical of what he sees as Western society’s failure to encourage craft and craft-based ways of life and to acknowledge the intimate connection that exists between hand and head: History has drawn fault lines dividing practice and theory, technique and expression, craftsman and artist, maker and user; modern society suffers from this historical inheritance.
This vision draws people interested in ethical production to work on the web, to engage in ethical web design practices, and to do so under conditions that some consider exploitative, but which might also be experienced as genuinely pleasurable. At the end of this chapter, I reflect more on ethical production practices and the pleasures they bring, but first I point to some of the inequalities and exclusions that have been highlighted in some of the literature on new media work. Inequalities in web design The literature discussed so far in this chapter tells us a lot about the working conditions of media workers, amongst whom web designers can be counted; indeed, some of it addresses web design directly.
Gill argues that the very characteristics of work in this sector that are celebrated by some writers result in gender inequalities. For example, securing the next project through existing, informal networks is likely to reproduce existing, unequal gender representation in the new media workforce. Likewise, Gregg problematizes the ‘compulsory sociality’ (Gregg, 2008) of Friday night drinks, informal networking events and the like, which are easier for single men to engage in than for women shouldering the usual unequal, gendered division of domestic labour.