Still seeking: signposts of things to come

Author

Davenport, G.

Author_Institution

Media Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA

Volume

2

Issue

3

fYear

1995

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

13

Abstract

This year (1995) the latest news is about who is making what for publication on the World Wide Web. The good news is that we now have a primitive infrastructure capable of delivering most of the multimedia objects and functions we once thought essential. The bad news is that this infrastructure is currently underpowered and extremely cumbersome to use. As a desktop publishing medium, the World Wide Web hearkens to the old model of pamphleteering, where anyone has the right to advertise opinion without censorship or editorial interference. How far can we go down this aesthetically and sociologically independent path before regulation and other forces converge to tame it, imposing a layer of moderation or editorial control between author and audience?

Keywords

Internet; desktop publishing; information retrieval; internetworking; multimedia computing; online front-ends; social aspects of automation; user interfaces; Internet; World Wide Web; desktop publishing medium; editorial control between; editorial interference; multimedia objects; primitive infrastructure; regulation; sociologically independent path; Application software; Desktop publishing; Electronic mail; Explosions; Hardware; Online services; Postal services; TV; Telephony; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

MultiMedia, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-986X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/93.410505

Filename

410505