Contextual Media
Subtitle: Multimedia and Interpretation (Technical Communication, Multimedia, and Information Systems)
Contributors: Marie Redmond (Editor)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: June 21, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780262023832
Subjects: Communication Studies; Impact of computing & IT on society; Multimedia; Industrial Sociology; Multi-Media Hardware & Software; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Information Technology; Multimedia systems; Social aspects
Description: Contextual Media expands upon the theme of social construction of knowledge developed in Edward Barrett's three previous volumes.

The thirteen contributions focus on specific applications of multimedia technology to cultural institutions such as museums, universities, or corporate environments; they analyze narrative and other navigational structures in various interactive multimedia systems and make recommendations for the design of future systems based on these analyses; and they present innovative uses of multimedia that break out of the confines of a single terminal to develop interactive transformational environments.