Media information technology

1. Multimedia Applications

2. What is Multimedia?
Multimedia is characteristically a convergence
of various media platforms that include
different contents, such as words or text,
audio, music, images, infographics, videos,
and animations.

3. Journalism
 Media organizations everywhere are incorporating
convergent technology in their daily reporting and
practices of journalism. Global newspapers like the
New York Times, Guardian, etc, have already made
themselves pioneers in its usage and ushering global
media towards a new age.

4. E- comerce
 Online business has effectively replaced
traditional ways of buying and selling. Simply,
by scrolling through online shopping sites like
Amazon we see how text, pictures, and videos
have been blended into making an appealing
user interface.

5. Entertainment
One of the main and widespread
applications of multimedia can be seen
in the entertainment Industry. Movies,
ADs, and Short clips are now being
created using special effects and
animations,

6. Education
 The applications of multimedia in the education sector are no
less than a paradigm shift. Through its usage, it is now
feasible to create interactive educational materials, like books,
PDFs, videos, PowerPoint presentations, etc along with one-
touch access to websites like Wikipedia and Encyclopedia.
Through virtual classrooms, teachers and students can avail
the opportunity to learn, interact and exchange informative
ideas without stepping outside and sitting for hours inside a
classroom.

7. Computer
 With the emergence of the internet and its rapid spread
across the world, traditional types of communication
have become obsolete. Online video calling has become
the new face of communication. Video platforms like
Skype, and Google Meet allow video chats that can
happen between friends or can be used for conducting
meetings between different heads of countries.

8. Medicine
 Multimedia is increasingly used by doctors to get trained by
simply watching a surgery being done on a virtual platform.
Simulation technology is used to develop human anatomy
and study how it gets affected by different illnesses and then
accordingly develop medicines and other remedial measures.
Furthermore, the other applications of multimedia in
medicine allow patients to consult a doctor online to get
medical intervention and treatment for their sickness.

9. Interior Designing
 Nowadays, interior designing is not a process of
drawing sketches or designing structures on long
white paper. Today, interior designers use different
software like SketchUp, AutoCAD, and Revit to create
designs that allow a customer to have a virtual walk
through the house before it takes the shape of a real
house.