Screen 21 -- False Hope?

"Early advocates of multimedia in teaching and learning clearly framed its advantages in terms that emphasized the process of absorbing information, however innovatively that information might be structured, and however freely the user might navigate through multiple hierarchically arranged connections (see, fro example, Landow.) Multimedia was something presented and perhaps explored, but it was not "answerable" (Chris Anson, Distant Voices 802).

See also Prosumer Approaches to New Media Composition: Consumption and Production in Continuum.