interactive media

interactive media, any computer-delivered electronic system that allows the user to control, combine, and manipulate different types of media, such as text, sound, video, computer graphics, and animation. Interactive media integrate computer, memory storage, digital (binary) data, telephone, television, and other information technologies. Their most common applications include training programs, video games, electronic encyclopaedias, and travel guides. Interactive media shift the user’s role from observer to participant and are considered the next generation of electronic information systems. A personal computer (PC) system with conventional magnetic-disk memory storage technically qualifies as a type of interactive media. More advanced interactive systems have ...(100 of 199 words)