Contextual Media - Multimedia and Interpretation

Contextual Media expands upon the theme of social construction ofknowledge developed in Edward Barrett's three previous volumes. The thirteencontributions focus on specific applications of multimedia technology to culturalinstitutions such as museums, universities, and corporate environments; they analyzenarrative and other navigational structures in various interactive multimediasystems and make recommendations for the design of future systems based on theseanalyses; and they present innovative uses of multimedia that break out of theconfines of a single terminal to develop interactive transformationalenvironments.Contributors: Colin Beardon, Walter Bender, Edward Brown, Mark H.Chignell, Glorianna Davenport, Ben Davis, Peter S. Donaldson, Larry Friedlander, Geri Gay, Ricki Goldman-Segall, Janet H. Murray, Patrick Purcell, Michael Roy, NiallSweeney, Laura Teodosio, Suzette Worden.

About the author

Edward Barrett is Senior Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Summary

The 13 contributions to this text focus on specific applications of multimedia technology to cultural institutions such as museums and universities; they analyze narrative and other navigational structures in various interactive multimedia systems.

Product details

• Authors: Edward (Senior Lecturer in Writing Barrett, Edward Redmond Barrett, Direc
• Assisted by: Edward Barrett (Editor), Edward (Senior Lecturer in Writing; Director Barrett (Editor), Michael Lesk (Editor), Marie Redmond (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.1997
• EAN: 9780262522397
• ISBN: 978-0-262-52239-7
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Digital Communication; Contextual Media; Digital Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries