Chapter 12: Designing Educational Web Pages: The Standards for Activist Online Communications

Educational web pages can be activist communication processes that online communications focus on authentic experiences in critical dialogues. Basic socio-cultural assumptions and prejudices can easily generate democratic-egalitarian inequalities in online collaborations via Web pages. Online communication designers, therefore, are inspired to develop culturally responsive, social justice-oriented, critical and creative communication plans that go beyond power elites’ mandates. As noted by Bates (2000) and Kendall (2003), there is a need for investigating clearly how to build powerful collaborations among online professionals, community and global resources via educational Web pages. Also, concentrating on how to negotiate the meaning and usability of flexible Web page contents is very important for online communication designers in assessing their understanding founded on culturally shared interactive online communications. These Web pages, therefore, provides online participants with a wide range of viewpoints by reverencing individual cultural differences and giving more attentions to diversity issues.