Multimedia : a critical introduction / Richard Wise with Jeanette Steemers.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2000.Description: [viii], 228p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415121514 (pbk.) :
- 9780415121507 (hbk.) :
- 0415121515 (pbk.)
- 006.6 WIS
- QA76.575 .W57 2000
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 006.6 WIS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00212758 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index.
1. Digitisation and war. 2. The computer counter-culture. 3. The birth of multimedia. 4. The evolution of network multimedia. 5. Old media, new media and the state (Jeanette Steemers and Richard Wise). 6. Capital and multimedia. 7. Privacy and censorship: practical issues in the ethics of information (Peter Dean). 8. Spectacle as commodity: special effects in feature films (Luke Hockley). 9. The myth of cyberspace.
This is a guide to the media form which has resulted from the application of computer technology to existing techniques of broadcasting and telecommunications transmission.