Richard Miller Summary

Richard Miller's video reminded me a lot of the reading we had by Burkdall. Miller talks about the change in communication and how it has become more instantaneous. He believes "we're living at the moment of the greatest change in human communication in human history." He also focuses on the multimedia aspects of communication and publication. Miller uses a personal example of how he incorporated visual images, audio clips, and text into one of his published works to demonstrate this. With the technology of computers, people are able to write, read, research, publish, and communicate on the web anywhere at anytime without picking up a pencil or opening a book. He mentions how he was assigned an article on the one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech. killings. He explains how he wrote and researched this whole article without stepping a foot in the library. He simply was able to find the information online and type it in a word document. In the reading by Burkdall, he also observes the rise of multimedia and its affects on our learning and teaching methods. Both Miller and Burkdall approve of the integration of multimedia and writing, which is why these two texts reminded me of each other.