Minitrack Summary: Creating the Experience of Media - From Media Design to Media

As is now obvious, our traditional notions of document are breaking apart as the very idea of "office memo" or "textbook chapter" are shapeshifting under the influence of new technologies. Media exists in many forms, and are now as likely to be email, pointers to web sites, references to IRC channels, images in the body of the document, even sound annotations and entire video segments. In this minitrack we reconsider what it means to have "documents" in the workplace and in our educational system as media types multiply and increasingly become realtime and connected in nature. And as importantly, how we come to create and use such diverse kinds of media.