After going through the week four material, I learned a lot about the differences between hypermedia and multimedia and how they contrast mixed media in fine art. Where mixed media used multiple forms of art to create a single piece, multimedia is even broader. Multimedia is inclusive of audio and video as well. Hypermedia uses links to move a user around in a non-linear fashion. One of the power point documents describes a benefit of multimedia as being the ability to accommodate many different learning style's at once. Hypermedia promotes proactive learning, meaning a user will have to organized their thoughts in a unique ways that should provide some insight within the user.
This material is very important to people in my major and going into my profession. Film production and telecommunications are based on visual and audible stimuli. Being aware of how these elements are formed and crafted to create meaning can be very important. Also, as more and more content becomes web-based, its is of increased importance to be able to match the quality of competition on the web. People on the internet don't settle for a what a newspaper can do, provide a single article, they want links to sources, or videos, or even audio clips. Being able to organize multimedia is very important to telecommunication majors.
http://www.hypermedianews.com/CNN/tabid/69/Default.aspx
The link I've attached above shows the importance of hypermedia in news. Through the portal, hypermedianews.com, a user is able to move through all major news networks and scan over their major stories. By clicking on a linked story the user to brought to the web page where for instance, a large weather Doppler ticks away at the top of the page under the words, "Karl now a hurricane." The site also provides video web casts from meteorologists. They make it very simple to go back to the portal site and explore other news outlets if a different side might be needed on a particular news story.
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