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 Multimedia is any combination of different types of content. This content can include text, images (including [[photos]]), audio, video, animation, games or interactive content forms. In most cases the content is integrated via computers to enhance a user’s understanding of the information presented. The information has the potential to be a live broadcast or previously made.  Multimedia has become inherent to the websites and [[Blog_Writing_for_College_Students | blogs]] that makeup the internet.
 ==Evolution of the Word==
-Multimedia comes from the word medium, but has evolved to include “facilitating or linking communication” to assist in conveying a message. <ref>Dowling, Jennifer Coleman. (2011). Multimedia Demystified. New York: McGraw-Hill. Retrieved 17 July 2013.</ref> With the increase in media types and efficiency some have declared that the media chosen is as important as the content itself as Marshall McLuhan has said, “The medium is the message” and therefore affects the perception of the content.
+Multimedia comes from the word medium, but has evolved to include “facilitating or linking communication” to assist in conveying a message. <ref>Dowling, Jennifer Coleman. (2011). Multimedia Demystified. McGraw-Hill. Retrieved 17 July 2013.</ref> With the increase in media types and efficiency some have declared that the media chosen is as important as the content itself as Marshall McLuhan has said, “The medium is the message” and therefore affects the perception of the content.
 ==Use as Design Elements==
 Multimedia can be used to contribute to the [[design]] of the webpage. Carroll cites using images to to help with the “balance, contrast and unity” of web design. <ref>Carroll, Brian. (2010). Writing for Digital Media. New York: Routledge. Retrieved 11 July 2013.