I'm actually against the idea of using the word "multimedia" to describe vids, because when people talk colloquially about videos, they're talking about a video track that has been muxed with an audio track.
So I think both definitions of "multimedia" are kind of not helpful to people who aren't familiar with this very fandom-specific tradition (and it's not even a fandom-wide tradition; it's a minority tradition among people who possibly predate the current popular definition of the word "multimedia") of using this word in ways that indicate and promote misapprehension. I think both definitions are incompatible with the way in which people use the word "multimedia" in their day-to-day lives. Given this baggage, I would relegate the early minority fandom usage to a historical footnote, rather than reviving it.
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Date: 2008-11-14 01:03 am (UTC)So I think both definitions of "multimedia" are kind of not helpful to people who aren't familiar with this very fandom-specific tradition (and it's not even a fandom-wide tradition; it's a minority tradition among people who possibly predate the current popular definition of the word "multimedia") of using this word in ways that indicate and promote misapprehension. I think both definitions are incompatible with the way in which people use the word "multimedia" in their day-to-day lives. Given this baggage, I would relegate the early minority fandom usage to a historical footnote, rather than reviving it.