Medium, Media, Multimedia, and Hypermedia

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Medium, Media, Multimedia, and Hypermedia

• A clarification of terms

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Medium

• A tool for communication

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Media

• The plural of medium
• (1 medium, 2 or more media)

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Media Quiz
Name a medium (a communication tool) in each of
these fields

• Art
• News/ journalism
• The world of the paranormal
• Technology

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What are we referring to when we sayThe Media?

• In the world of news, when you are referring to
  all the possible medium as a collective group
  newspapers, magazines, radio, television, etc.

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Mixed Media

• In the world of art, when you combine several
  media in one piece of art, it is called

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Multi-Media

• In the world of technology, when you combine
  several media in one document or technological
  creation, it is called

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HTML stands forHyper Text Markup Language

• The text is marked in a special way to create a
  link so that when you click on it, you jump from
  one place to another
• hyper is a prefix that means over or above, often
  signifying a passing or a moving

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Now that you know the meanings ofHYPER and MEDIA

• Figure out what hypermedia is
• a computer document containing more than one
  medium (i.e., it's not just textit also has
  graphics, video, sound, and/or animation) with an
  ability to move easily from one medium to another
  (as in, with a mere click)