Multimedia communication : an interdisciplinary approach

The computer today is increasingly a site for the intermingling of a range of media and cultural forms and consequently is becoming an object of study crossing disciplinary boundaries. This development represents a challenge for educators working with computers who find that they need to step outside of their disciplinary framework, and incorporate new interdisciplinary strategies into their practice. In this article we introduce an interdisciplinary approach called “multimedia communication”. Our aim is to chart an emergent area of interdisciplinary inquiry that can be situated between Computing (especially multimedia computing), and Communication and Media Studies.