Multimedia as Rhizome: Design Issues in a Network Environment.

Burnett, Kathleen

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ERIC Number: EJ450405

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Publication Date: 1992

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Multimedia as Rhizome: Design Issues in a Network Environment.

Burnett, Kathleen

Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, p24-36 1992

Defines the concepts of hypertext, hypermedia, multimedia, and multimedia networks. Using the rhizome as a metaphor for electronically mediated exchange, a theory of hypermedia design that incorporates principles of connection and heterogeneity, multiplicity, asignifying rupture, and cartography and decalomania is explored. (four references) (MES)

Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Definitions, Hypermedia, Information Networks, Metaphors, Theories

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