Multimedia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7078090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Chesher (0000-0001-9377-4512, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm130 |
| OpenAlex | W4238564407 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Multimedia is the integrated use of more than one medium of communication, usually mediated through digital computing technologies. “Multimedia” is a term with a complex and ambivalent history that risks being either too narrow or too broad in its meaning. In its narrower sense, it was closely associated with the dead‐end that was CD‐ROM interactive multimedia in the mid‐1990s. In its broad sense, multimedia can refer to any text, technology, or event that combines more than one medium of communication: a meaning so broad that it fails to denote any distinctive cultural form. Any definition of multimedia therefore needs to operate between these limits. Multimedia has specific meanings in different contexts, including performance, libraries, social semiotics, and computer science. In spite of these complications, recent attention on multimedia has raised some significant wider questions about media and communication
Digital media · Event (particle physics · Interactive media · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Multimedia · Semiotics · Term (time · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |