By linking these star chunks together into constellations, users can begin to interpret the data in multiple ways. Each reader accesses the data differently. In this system, users become authors, building their own theories about the principal author's interpretations of the selected video and text data. Consequently, the research environment becomes a growing documentation with possibilities for expansion by adding text and video annotations to the material or by including future studies at a later data. The notion of fixed interpretations is part of our pre-electronic past.
Interpretations change in multimedia documents.
Clayoquot Sound is one of the most majestic and untouched temperate rain forests in Canada. As our community of inquirers puts these portraits on the internet, a virtual community of young people and adults from dispersed locations is being formed. In time, people will add their views on Clayoquot Sound and other places undergoing similar environmental concerns, hopefully to build a global understanding about the issues affecting rain forests. To begin this global communication on the internet, we are connecting our young people with young people in a school in Lafayette, Louisiana who will be studying the wetlands. Agreeing with the postmodern ethnographers, I believe that it is critical to make the role of the author more transparent.