Title: On a silver platter : CD-ROMs and the promises of a new technology /
Authors: Smith, Greg M., 1962-
Publisher: New York University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: CD-ROMs; Interactive multimedia.
Contents: Introduction: a few words about interactivity / Greg M. Smith -- Before the holodeck: translating Star Trek into digital media / Janet Murray and Henry Jenkins -- "To waste more time, please click here again": Monty Python and the quest for film/CD-ROM adaptation / Greg M. Smith -- "Evil will walk once more": Phantasmagoria - the stalker film as interactive movie? / Angela Ndalianis -- Busy box interface: the pleasures of winding / Brian Kelly with Scott Bukatman -- Civilization and its discontents: simulation, subjectivity, and space / Ted Friedman -- Museum (dis)play: imagining the museum on CD-ROM / Alison Trope -- Virtual kinship in a postmodern world: computer-mediated genealolgy communities / Pamela Wilson -- Fantasies of mastery or masteries of fantasy? Playing with CD-ROMs in the 5th dimension / Vanessa Gack -- Showing and telling: developing CD-ROMs for the classroom and research / Leslie Jarmon -- Doing theory in hypermedia practice: a case study of the HyperHistory video project / Lisa Cartwright.