What is Interactive Media?
After reading this article, I concluded that Interactive Media is a vast array of things that allow people to interact while being able edit content via web, video games, puzzles, etc. Because multimedia was designed to respond to the user, two way communication and participation has to take place. Interactive Media is everywhere; from the small town homes, to the big city businesses! It has almost completely taken over the minds of people my age. No one really watches TV, listen to the radio, read, or even sleep anymore. I don’t know if I will get in trouble for saying this, but it’s addicting. It is like our own “technical” drug if you will. Below are some statistics that show that new media has slowly began to engulf the new generation.
New Media Usage 18-24 25-34 35-54 55+
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Blogs 29.6% 21.7% 15.5% 11.4%
Instant Messaging 79.8% 68.3% 58.1% 43.1%
MP3/IPODS 45.3% 29.9% 17.5% 6.7%
Satellite Radio 12.2% 12.5% 9.5% 5.5%
Picture Phones 30.6% 22.7% 14.1% 5.2%
Text Messaging 58.3% 46.1% 27.6% 8.3%
TiVo/Replay TV 17.0% 21.5% 14.6% 8.3%
Web Radio 44.4% 42.6% 33.0% 13.5%
In 2007, Microsoft Introduced the Interactive Media Manager, which provided the following customizable Web parts that target specific processes within the content production life cycle:
- Media Library serves as a front end in which media content items in the digital asset management system are displayed as thumbnails.
- Media Viewer displays information such as annotations and time codes in Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers format and offers sophisticated, built-in playback controls.
- Media Annotator allows groups of people to collaborate on media assets through video annotations, digital inking and discussions.
- Media Import facilitates the upload of media files and automatically launches associated workflows, such as information-gathering processes.
- Media Cart provides an individualized area for storing media assets that people want to edit themselves or push out to appropriate editors.
From my research, I resolved that there are so many branches of Interactive Media and uses that it can’t be summed into a specific definition.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Advanced_Interactive_Media/A_Definition_For_Interactive_Media
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/apr07/04-15IMMPR.mspx
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200506/ai_n13647856/
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July 20, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I like the way you inserted a table into the article, it’s a good visual representative.
The article is neat and well organized, great job!
July 20, 2009 at 11:29 pm
This is a very well thought out and well put together article. I sadly agree that the “technological addiction” is spreading through our current society. With text messaging among many other ways to express interactive media. I highly doubt the users of this technology actually realize that they are using a type of “Interactive Media”. Yet they will probably never realize nor question the meaning of it.
July 21, 2009 at 12:46 am
Your blog is really interesting, I thought about how we have moved into this Interactive Media time zone and not even realize it. TV is now interactive, we can pause, rewind, fast-forward, and even record TV shows through out the day. We search and find movies,sitcoms and shows that we want to watch, basically operating and controlling what we want to watch. Technology is making humans more and more lazy each day. We order food on line and can customize the menu this can definatly be addicting.
July 20, 2009 at 8:54 pm
The thing that stands out the most about your post is that part where you mention that (Interactive Media) is addicting. That’s great you mentioned that, and you know, this is actually true. People nowadays stay up all night waiting for a message or a comment, and if there aren’t any, we read the old ones! And hey, everyone knows at least one geek who stays up for three days straight without sleeping at all, playing WoW (World of Worldcraft). I’ll tell you what my “personal (online) drug” is… it’s music. There was a time throughout high school when I would not do my homework because I was exploring and discovering new music. Not only that, but I would spend hours keeping up with the files on my iTunes. Well, life and responsibility have been my “re-hab.”