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-combination of text, animated graphics, video and sound delivered to you via electronic means. It is what appeals to users for entertainment, learning and research.
- Primary characteristics of a multimedia system is the use of more than one kind of medium to deliver content and functionality..
Multimedia
5 types of Multimedia
Text, images, Video, audio and animation
Content that express specific information
Text
make the content more visually appealing. Common image file formats used are JPEG, PNG, GIF, and TIFF. Image can also be interactive like buttons, navigation menus, and backgrounds
Images
Adds more attraction to users. Common digital video formats are Flash, MPEG, AVI, WMV, and QuickTime. Video can be embedded within the content or linked stored outside the content
Video
Aids interactions with the users, it can also be added as background. Common audio formats are MP3, WMA, Wave, MIDI, and RealAudio. Audio can be embedded or streamed.
Audio
Can include interactive effects which allow users interact with the use of mouse or keyboard. Common animation formats are FLV, SWF, and ActionScript codes for animated and interactive effects.
Animation
Hybrid Multimedia,Offline Multimedia,Non-Linear Multimedia,Online Multimedia, and Linear Multimedia is a types of?
Types of multimedia
Presents information and active content without any navigation control for viewer.
Examples: Reading a book, navigating a traditional map, a movie, PowerPoint Presentation
Linear Multimedia
It presents information requiring users interactivity to control progress. The users control delivery of elements.
Examples: Website, Video Streaming Sites/Apps such as Netflix, Online Games
Non-Linear Multimedia
Used in applications available with internet.
Online Multimedia
Application presented and used even without internet.
Offline Multimedia
Combines features of online and offline applications.
Hybrid Multimedia
Multimedia Content you can find on some website
VIDEOS, Sound, Music, or Audio, Online games, Online test, Vodcast, Podcast, Courseware
Through video hosting sites
Video
You can now share your sound bites to the entire world
Sound, Music, or Audio
Game developers now create “browser -based games”.
Online games
Online survey forms and tests that automatically display
Online test
Episodic series of audio or text files streamed online
Podcast
Online courses that stimulate the classroom online.
Courseware
Episodic series of videos streamed online.
Vodcast
USES OF MULTIMEDIA
PUBLIC ACCESS OF INFORMATION, ENTERTAINMENT, BUSINESS COMMUNICATION, EDUTAINMENT - (Education + Entertainment, and Virtual Reality
The goal of using the multimedia approach is to entertain the user while being unaware that he or she is actually learning in the process.
EDUTAINMENT - (Education + Entertainment
Product promotion, customer information, communication to employee. - Multimedia multiplies the degree of effectiveness in promoting a product.
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
Entertainment industries produce computer games and develop animations or special effects for cartoons and movies.
ENTERTAINMENT
The ability of multimedia applications that allowed public access to information either online or offline - Tourist information system, electronic publishing are some examples of uses of multimedia for information dissemination.
PUBLIC ACCESS OF INFORMATION
The advanced use of multimedia is what we call virtual reality. VR is a combination of video, stereo and computer graphics that attempts to create an interactive 3-dimensional environment.
VIRTUAL REALITY
is dubbed as the “world’s platform for change” where anyone from the online community can create a petition and ask others to sign it. During the past times, petitions were only done through signing a paper, usually done by a group asking for signatures via travelling door-to-door. Change.org gives access to more people by allowing the online community to affix their digital signatures on a petition.
Change.org
Recent storms in the Philippine history gave birth to the people finder database powered by Google.
Yolanda People Finder
The People Power Revolution lasted from 1983 to 1986. During a radio broadcast of Radyo Veritas, Cardinal Sin encouraged the Filipinos to help end the regime of then President Ferdinand Marcos. A major protest took place along EDSA from February 22 to 25, 1986 involving two million Filipinos from different regions and sectors.
EDSA (People Power Revolution)
This was also known as the 2001 EDSA Revolution which happened
during January 17 to 21, 2001. It was fueled after 11 prosecutors of then President Joseph Estrada walked out in the impeachment trial. As a result, the crowd in EDSA grew over the course of few days through text brigades. Like the first People Power Revolution, Edsa Dos would not have been successful without the text brigades.
EDSA II
This was a series of protest that mainly took place in Luneta Park from August 22 to 26, 2013. There were also several demonstrations that happened in key cities in the Philippines and some locations overseas. It condemned the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF). Though dubbed as the Million People March, the number of total attendees was only around 400,000. Despite that, it was still considered a success as it clearly demonstrated how powerful social media campaigns are. The organizers and promoters of the Million People March used Facebook and Change.org as their media.
Million People March
Is a way of expressing views, opinions, concerns information access and on establishing to all one’s rights and responsibilities through any possible means or ways.
Advocacy
(According to TechTarget network, as posted by Margaret Rouse) is a collective term for website applications which focus on community-based input, communication, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration.
Social Media
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Multimedia
