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Multimedia is a computer-based interactive communications process that incorporates text, graphics, sounds, animations and video. The key feature of multimedia is its interactive communication. The users determine what content is delivered, when it delivered and how. Why multimedia? People use multimedia as it is engrossing, multi-sensory, creates knowledge connections, individualized and multi-dimensional.
MAJOR CATEGORIES OF MULTIMEDIA TITLES
- Entertainment
- Games: action and graphic
- Action and storytelling
- Physical coordinating and mental outwitting
- Education
- Accommodates different learning styles: association versus experimentation, or auditory versus visual.
- Provides feedback, level of difficulty, evaluates skills, and nonlinear presentation.
- Corporate communication
- Attract attention to a message
- Product catalogs, published magazines, touch screens kiosks, online shopping
- Stockholders meeting, sales rep pitch, conference speaker, employee orientation and training
- References and documentation
- CD: encyclopedias, census data, directories and dictionaries.
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MULTIMEDIA DISADVANTAGES
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- "Lost in cyberspace"
- Lack of structure
- Non-interactive
- Text Intensive content
- Complex to create
- Time Consuming
- Cognitive overload
- Linear content
As now multimedia has helped us a lot in making our life easier, there is still some disadvantages of using the multimedia. We need to use them wisely get its usefulness and prevent the advantages.
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