Open systems and citizenship: Designing a departmental web site as an open system

Computers and Composition

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 168-193

  Spinuzzi, Clay ^a   Bowie, Jennifer L ^b   Rodgers, Ida ^b   Li, Xiangyi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversational design; Democratic empowerment; Functional empowerment; Open systems; Web applications; Web site design and development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038181377     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8755-4615(03)00017-3     Document Type: Article

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