Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of
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"Sociomedia" continues the assessment of hypertext and hypermedia systems begun in "Text, Context, and HyperText" and "The Society of Text". It examines the use of integrated multimedia to support social or collaborative research, learning and instruction in the university, one of the best environments for developing and analyzing the effects of computing technologies on our understanding of complex sets of information. The 25 contributions discuss critical design issues in the creation of advanced multimedia computing technologies, describe the sytems now in use, and assess the effectiveness of this technology. Barrett's opening essay further explores his applications of social construction theories of knowledge to the development and analysis of multimedia systems. Some of the chapters that follow look at the effectiveness of particular multimedia systems across the curriculum, from medicine, sociology, and management to language learning, writing, literature and intergenerational studies. Other chapters examine the implied pedagogy within these systems, or the effects of using multimedia and hypermedia in the classroom.
Readers should come away from this collection with a critical stance toward the use of integrated media for information retrieval and creation as well as an informed knowledge of the kinds of multimedia systems in development or use. Developers should be able to use this collection to gain insight into the kinds of design choices others have made and their effectiveness in practice.
Author: Edward Barrett (Senior Lecturer in Writing; Director, Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Media Studies, MIT)
Format: Paperback, 360 pages, 152mm x 229mm, 907 g
Published: 1994, MIT Press Ltd, United States
Genre: Software Packages
Description
"Sociomedia" continues the assessment of hypertext and hypermedia systems begun in "Text, Context, and HyperText" and "The Society of Text". It examines the use of integrated multimedia to support social or collaborative research, learning and instruction in the university, one of the best environments for developing and analyzing the effects of computing technologies on our understanding of complex sets of information. The 25 contributions discuss critical design issues in the creation of advanced multimedia computing technologies, describe the sytems now in use, and assess the effectiveness of this technology. Barrett's opening essay further explores his applications of social construction theories of knowledge to the development and analysis of multimedia systems. Some of the chapters that follow look at the effectiveness of particular multimedia systems across the curriculum, from medicine, sociology, and management to language learning, writing, literature and intergenerational studies. Other chapters examine the implied pedagogy within these systems, or the effects of using multimedia and hypermedia in the classroom.
Readers should come away from this collection with a critical stance toward the use of integrated media for information retrieval and creation as well as an informed knowledge of the kinds of multimedia systems in development or use. Developers should be able to use this collection to gain insight into the kinds of design choices others have made and their effectiveness in practice.
Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of