Multimedia

What is Multimedia

From what I know about multimedia so far, I understand that it uses more than one type of media such as picture, sound, text, video, and sometime animation however that is disputed. This could range from text and photo, to text and video, to text video and sound, and so on.

Where is it Used

Multimedia is used a lot in commercials on television, for training employees, teaching children, or even raising awareness for situations like the storms in Texas and Florida. Business use it in advertising, teachers in their presentations, and people everywhere are using multimedia to communicate ideas to people in a way that will catch their eye and is a lot more interesting to watch. Today, technology is an extremely important part of life, especially in communicating with others, and multimedia lets us communicate better across technology. If we were only able to send text for example, you would not be able to communicate emotion or show the other person or people what you are talking about. If you could only send a photo, the recipient would have no explanation. While there is a time a place for texting and sending photos, it is not always an effective way of communicating, so multimedia makes it possible to get the entire message across.

Web Apps

I was not clear on what a web app was, or more so what wouldn't be a web app. The article "What is a Web App?" said that it was an app that used a web browser to complete a task over a network. However, if even just informing you on a certain subject is a task, then it seems like there wouldn't be much that wasn't a web app. So my understanding is that any app that you are using online for a purpose is a web app. These are useful for everyone, as we all use the in our everyday lives. All of Google's apps that a lot of people for school and work are web apps, but also businesses create websites where you can purchase goods, contact the business, and many other things which is a great way to expand a customer base.

Example: New York Times

The New York Times website is an example of a web app because it provides people with news and weather that they want to know about. The website has an example of multimedia with the video of hurricane Irma that includes video clips of the storm, a news anchor talking, and the words that the news anchor was saying in text to make it easier to understand.
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