Abstract
Abstract:
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 systems now in use, and assess the effectiveness of this emerging technology.
Barrett's opening essay further explores his original and thought-provoking application 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 will be able to use this collection to gain insight into the kinds of design choices others have made and their effectiveness in practice.
Notes:
"Most of the papers ... were originally presented at the first conference on 'The Social Creation of Knowledge' ... at MIT in spring, 1991"--Acknowledgements.<br><br>Includes bibliographical references and index.
Details
Format:
Book
Database:
Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset
Journal:
Sociomedia: multimedia, hypermedia, and the social construction of knowledge
Series:
Technical communication and information systems and Technical communication and information systems.
ISBN:
9780262023467 and 0262023466
Publisher:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1992.
Document Type:
Book
Physical Description:
580 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
