 |
|
The challenge for us today is to balance old models with new modes of behavior that exploit the possibilities of the new environment effectively without distorting us so completed that we forget who we are. |
More Than Words examines how multimedia technology is informed by theories from various disciplines. The project explores multimedia communication as a viable medium for technical communicators to consider learning more about. Although many dimensions of multimedia are already familiar to technical communicators, producing documents with this technology requires looking at the communication process a little differently. It is quite obvious that multimedia technologies have permeated the technical communication workplace. Documents written for, and used in, these two contexts no longer include just verbal text messages and simple graphics printed on standard white paper as they often did in the 1970s and 1980s. Technical documents today appear not only in print but also in electronic format. Learning to combine these various media into a single computer environment to provide a training/learning experience for the user makes it possible for the technical communicator to convey information and maximize the message so it has a optimal effect on the audience. To begin exploring More Than Words, go to the topics page. |
Words are graphic symbols that can be transmitted in a thousand ways—carved in stone, written with pen on paper, or dancing on a screen in pixels. 
|
|
|
Writer/Designer Mary Ellen
Gomrad |
|||
