240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Multimedia: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive guide to the new media form which has resulted from the application of computer technology to existing techniques of broadcasting and telecommunications transmission. The rapid growth of multimedia technologies such as the internet, e-mail and digital television holds the promise of a new 'information age' in which individual tastes are... Read more
1. Digitalisation 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 6. Capital and Multimedia 7. Privacy and Censorship - Practical issues in the ethics of information 8. Spectacle as Commodity - special effects in feature films 9. The Myth of Cyberspace Bibliography Index
Biography
Richard Wise is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Arts at the University of Luton.
' ... highly readable with a clear and approachable language, and expresses its key arguments without overly complicated rhetoric a good provider of background and context for students embarking on practical multimedia computing courses.' - OutLine, Winter 1999/2000
