Richard Wise

Multimedia

A Critical Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The rapid growth of multimedia technologies such as the Internet, e-mail and digital television holds the promise of a new "information age" that caters to individual tastes and creates new wealth. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 163mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415121507
• ISBN-10: 0415121507
• Artikelnr.: 21480552

Autorenporträt

Richard Wise is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Arts at the University of Luton.

Inhaltsangabe

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