Multimedia: Making It Work, Ninth Edition, 9th Edition

Introduction

Since the first edition of this book in 1992, it has been necessary to update its content every few years. In writing this ninth edition, it is more than ever clear that changes in multimedia tools, technologies, and delivery platforms are occurring at an increasingly rapid pace. Indeed, the rate of change itself seems exponential as new ideas and new applications of multimedia are born, gain traction, and then bear yet newer ideas in often unpredictable and immediate follow-ons. Overnight, words like “tweet” and “selfie” enter the lexicon and explode through the Internet into common usage. With cloud computing and ever-more powerful browsers, cross-platform difficulties among Windows, Mac, and Linux systems are diminished, while ...