In fall semester 2016, I taught an advanced web design course in the undergraduate Professional Writing program in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University. The election coincided with the introduction to our final project—a team web development project to practice newly acquired skills in JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL. At this time, conversation trended in the media that directly related to students’ work in the course as newbie web developers; specifically, the ethical role of developers who may have built features of social networking sites that contributed to post-election tensions such as strained personal relationships…
Author: Dawn Opel
Dawn Opel
Dawn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University. She researches the design of communication in clinical settings, with emphasis on design and use of information technology. Find her on Twitter @dawnopel.