Multimedia and the Web from A to Z / Edition 2

by Patrick M. Dillon, David C. Leonard

Overview

As technology changes rapidly, new words and phrases are being introduced into our vocabulary, many with Net or Web affixed to them. The convergence of the media industries often brings with it a clash of professional vocabularies. Over time, some terms remain stable while others seem to disappear or transform their meaning. Multimedia and the Web from A-Z is a comprehensive dictionary aimed at stabilizing and clearly defining the language of multimedia. This second edition has been completely revised and expanded and contains 1,500 entries, including 500 new terms or phrases, all clearly and concisely defined.Extensive cross-referencing, an annotated bibliography, and an acronym table are other useful additions to this dictionary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573561327
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/02/1998
Edition description:	ENLARGED
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

PATRICK M. DILLON, Ph.D., is a vice president of iXL Inc., an Internet services firm based in Atlanta. There, Dr. Dillon is responsible for setting strategic directions for iXL's Training Practice Group for the purpose of building knowledge management capabilities into corporate web sites. In particular, he is involved in establishing solution architectures that enable corporate Web universities to provide just-in-time access to strategic and tactical knowledge assets. Before joining iXL in 1999, Dr. Dillon was a senior consultant for IBM's Enterprise Knowledge Solutions consulting practice, where he was among the first three consultants to earn IBM certification in the profession of instructional design. He has over 15 years experience in the design and development of interactive multimedia training solutions and performance support systems covering a broad range of industries and professional domains.

DAVID C. LEONARD, Ph.D., is assistant dean at Mercer University, School of Engineering, Atlanta, where he developed and teaches in the Internet-based distance learning master's degree program in technical communication management. Dr. Leonard has also developed graduate and undergraduate technical communication programs/courses at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. In 1983, Dr. Leonard cofounded IDC (Information Design Corporation) and has since worked with over 150 Fortune 500 companies focusing on various issues related to online information and interactive multimedia.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
A-Z Terms
Annotated Bibliography
Acronyms

Editorial Reviews

Closer to a pocket encyclopedia than to a dictionary, defines and often explains at some length more than 1,500 terms that either belong to one of the major contributory disciplines that provide the bases for the multimedia industry, or belong to a set of competencies that owe their origins to the birth of multimedia. Very thoroughly cross- referenced. Revised from the 1995 . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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