Contextual Media : Multimedia and Interpretation

Expands upon the theme of social construction of knowledge developed in Edward Barretto's three previous volumes.

The 13 contributions to this text focus on specific applications of multimedia technology to cultural institutions such as museums, universities, and corporate environments; they analyze narrative and other navigational structures in various interactive multimedia systems and make recommendations for the design of future systems based on these analyses; and they present innovative uses of multimedia that break out of the confines of a single terminal to develop interactive transformational environments.