On the other hand, several aspects of IndieWeb’s material design and community practices demonstrate coexistence, such as its use of centralized Web platform APIs as a distribution mechanism. On the other hand, if technology is the vehicle for a culture of domination, then we are condemned either to pursue its advance toward dystopia or to regress to a more primitive way of life. Chapter 4 focuses on how values are employed in individuals’ design activities. IndieWeb’s community has defined a number of new standards to allow these websites to engage in these kinds of social activities directly from one personal website to another, with no intermediate platform. According to Winner’s account, the low clearance of these bridges was a deliberate choice "to achieve a particular social effect" (1980, p. In asking this question, I pay particular attention to the role of values throughout processes of design and maintenance. Chapter 1 has described the motivation and purpose for this study, as well as background about the role of values in the Web’s development and the IndieWeb as a site for this dissertation’s inquiry. This is not to say that IndieWeb developers have access to interpretive flexibility over every part of its system.
