Management Information System (hypertext, hypermedia, multimedia)

In the first week of ICT class, we talk about management communication system. This lesson relates to hypertext, hypermedia, and multimedia. Know, I will explain about these things according to my understanding after read some references that given by my lecture.

1. Management Information System (MIS)

http://www.sjsu.edu/isystems/pics/MIS%20banner.jpg

In this era, almost some of things that people do are relate to the technology. Start with our daily activities such as watching television, sending massage, doing assignment, searching what we don’t know and what we want to know until to do commerce and business. We can organize them all by utilize the ICT. Moreover when we know about Management Information System (MIS) it will be more advantage for us. Management Information System (MIS) is a system that provides information to help us organize or manage the organization well.  As the managers of information and technology within the organization, MIS professionals bring technology and business together to deliver information solutions that help organizations meet their goals. 

Adapted from: http://www.sjsu.edu/isystems/ , http://vincentpage.blogspot.com/.

2. Hypertext

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According to my understanding, hypertext is a text that we can find from other text. For example in the Wikipedia, we usually find out a text that contain different color (red or blue) in its word and when we click it we will be transferred in the next text that relate to the previous text. In one source that I read, states that hypertext is basically the same as regular text - it can be stored, read, searched, or edited - with an important exception: hypertext is text with pointers to other text. The browsers let you deal with the pointers in a transparent way -- select the pointer, and you are presented with the text that is pointed to.

Taken from: http://www.rc.au.net/papers/www-0595/wwwhype2.html.

3. Hypermedia

Hypermedia is different with hypertext. Hypermedia in my opinion happens when we click one phrase, it will turn up to the presentation of video, animation, and audio which connected each other.

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Some examples of Hypermedia might be:

·You are reading a text on the Japanese language. You select a Japanese phrase, and then hear the phrase as spoken in the native tongue.

·You are viewing a company's floor plan; you select an office by clicking on a room. The employee's name and picture appears with a list of their current projects.

·You are a law student studying the California Revised Statutes. By selecting a passage, you find precedents from a 1920 Supreme Court ruling stored at Cornell. Cross-referenced hyperlinks allow you to view any one of 500 related cases with audio annotations. 

Taken from: http://www.rc.au.net/papers/www-0595/wwwhype2.html

4. Multimedia

I think that hypermedia is the best one among hypertext and hypermedia. 

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Why? It’s because multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (Video), animation, audio, and any other media where every type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally. So that it also can be said that multimedia has been in the form of software which has been owned.

Taken from: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/ISE_Multimedia/node10.html

I think that’s all of my understanding about Management Information system (MIS), hypertext, hypermedia, and multimedia. I am very interesting learning these materials because it’s useful for me as ICT student. In the last, I will be glad if this information can help other people. Thank you.