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hypermedia en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From hyper- + media, coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The use of text, data, graphics, audio and video as elements of an extended hypertext system in which all elements are linked so that the user can move among them at will.
    • From the `70s onwards, Muffler, de Sola Pool and other gurus attempted to prove that the advent of hypermedia would paradoxically involve a return to the economic liberalism of the past. 1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2021:

Relateds

multimedia

Translations (7)

cmn 超媒體 /超媒体 (use of text, data, graphics, audio and video) · tr hiper ortam (use of text, data, graphics, audio and video) · de Hypermedia (use of text, data, graphics, audio and video) · el υπερμέσα (use of text, data, graphics, audio and video) · fr hypermédia (use of text, data, graphics, audio and video) · fi hypermedia (use of text, data, graphics, audio and video) · tr hipermedya (use of text, data, graphics, audio and video)