Manuel Castells
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199255771
- eISBN:
- 9780191698279
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199255771.003.0008
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Information Technology
This chapter begins by evaluating the failures encountered by the companies who tried to materialize ‘multimedia’. It then clarifies the meaning of the technological convergence between television ...
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This chapter begins by evaluating the failures encountered by the companies who tried to materialize ‘multimedia’. It then clarifies the meaning of the technological convergence between television and the Internet. Next, it discusses the development of wireless Internet access providing the possibility of accessing any video or text material available on-line, although the quality of transmission and reception of the image still raises great problems. Lastly, it explains the Internet and the multimedia brought about hypertexts. It notes that these hypertexts, however, are limited and they may remain so, unless this decentralized form of cultural expression can be either marketed or universally decomodified.Less
This chapter begins by evaluating the failures encountered by the companies who tried to materialize ‘multimedia’. It then clarifies the meaning of the technological convergence between television and the Internet. Next, it discusses the development of wireless Internet access providing the possibility of accessing any video or text material available on-line, although the quality of transmission and reception of the image still raises great problems. Lastly, it explains the Internet and the multimedia brought about hypertexts. It notes that these hypertexts, however, are limited and they may remain so, unless this decentralized form of cultural expression can be either marketed or universally decomodified.
