Multimedia

But are new media technologies really designed to achieve these utopian aims? Addressing such issues, "Multimedia: A Critical Introduction" provides a historical, cultural and political context to the development of multimedia as both a technology and a concept. Individual chapters discuss the origins of multimedia in the unlikely interaction between the military and 1960s counter-culture; the wide-ranging effects of the deregulation of media industries by the "new right" governments in the 1980s; issues of privacy and censorship; and the use of digital technology to create special effects in films.



Contributors: Peter Dean, Luke Hockley, Jeanette Steemers.

The latest revolution in Media - the advent of multimedia and digital communication, heralds a new age. This book looks at what we can actually expect multimedia to deliver, in ter