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Contextual media : multimedia and interpretation

Title: Contextual media : multimedia and interpretation / edited by Edward Barrett and Marie Redmond.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

xvi, 262 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Technical communications, multimedia, and information systems

Uniform Title

Technical communication, multimedia, and information systems.

Subject

Multimedia systems > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Hiding the Head of Medusa: Objects and Desire in a Virtual Environment / Edward Barrett -- 1. Interactive Transformational Environments: Wheel of Life / Glorianna Davenport and Larry Friedlander -- 2. Deconstructing the Humpty Dumpty Myth: Putting It Together to Create Cultural Meaning / Ricki Goldman-Segall -- 3. How to Do Things without Words: The Multicultural Promise of Multimedia / Michael Roy -- 4. The Virtual Curator: Multimedia Technologies and the Roles of Museums / Colin Beardon and Suzette Worden -- 5. Multimedia Production: Non-Linear Storytelling Using Digital Technologies / Marie Redmond and Niall Sweeney -- 6. The Shakespeare Interactive Archive: New Directions in Electronic Scholarship on Text and Performance / Peter S. Donaldson -- 7. The Pedagogy of Cyberfiction: Teaching a Course on Reading and Writing Interactive Narrative / Janet H. Murray -- 8. Space of Experience: On Designing Multimedia Applications / Larry Friedlander --
9. Issues in Accessing and Constructing Multimedia Documents / Geri Gay -- 10. End User as Developer: Free-Form Multimedia / Edward Brown and Mark H. Chignell -- 11. Salient Video Stills: Content and Context Preserved / Laura Teodosio and Walter Bender -- 12. The Multimedia Prospect: A Case for Redefinition / Patrick Purcell -- 13. Wheel of Culture / Ben Davis.

ISBN

0262023830

LCCN

94023791

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Columbia University Libraries