Information Superhighways - Multimedia Users and Futures (Hardcover)

A global information revolution has begun. Converging communications and computing technologies are forming information superhighways, linking people and information interactively, at any time, in any place, via a combination of multimedia, digital video, sound, graphics, and text.
The challenge now is to understand the needs of people as the users of information superhighways and develop products and services that use the technological advances to positive effect. This is the first book to examine these issues. It shows that by focusing on users, a range of multimedia applications emerge which make more imaginative use of computing and bandwidth than the products of the current focus on application development, such as"video on demand."The book emphasizes the point that the information revolution will be driven by users, not the multimedia industry.
Information Superhighways is essential reading for those working in the communications, computing, and media industries, and in multimedia. It will also be of interest to students and practitioners in psychology, computing, and human-computer interaction.
Key Features
* Foreword by best-selling author Nicholas Negroponte, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senior Columnist for Wired magazine
* Discusses the importance of the coming information age
* Outlines need for innovation in regulatory policy
* Presents the idea of using multimedia to design organizations
* Describes multimedia-supported group working
* Gives discussion of designing media space
* Provides coverage of issues in user-centered multimedia development

General

Imprint:	Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Computers and People
Release date:	May 1995
First published:	1995
Editors:	Stephen J. Emmott
Series editors:	Andrew F. Monk • Brian R. Gaines
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-12-238360-1
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Multimedia Books > Computing & IT > Computer communications & networking > General Promotions
LSN:	0-12-238360-5
Barcode:	9780122383601

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