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Uses and Importance:
Business
It provides an effective and efficient way to grab the attention of the visitors and share information about various products easily. s.
Education
It helps the brain to absorb and retain information more easily. It increases learning effectiveness and is more productive than traditional learning methods.
Mass media communication
It helps the newspaper to convey information to people in an easy way.
Advertising
The advertising industry uses multimedia to advertise businesses, products, and services.
Entertainment
It is especially used to develop special effects in movies and video games. The use of multimedia in the gaming industry made it possible to make interactive games.
Science and technology
It is capable of transferring audios, videos and sending other formatted multimedia documents.
Disadvantages:
Accessibility
Multimedia requires electricity to be operated, which may not be available in some rural areas or may not be consistently available due to shortages and blackouts.
Distracting
Mulitimedia may take away the focus from the lesson due to its attention-grabbing formats.
Costly
Production of multimedia is more expensive than others because it is made up of more than one medium.
Production of multimedia requires an electronic device, which may be relatively expensive.
Multimedia requires electricity to run, which adds to the cost of its use.
Time Consuming
Creating multimedia requires more time.
Requires Mastery
Multimedia requires consistent and long practice to master, which may take a lot of time and energy from the user.
Limited Support/Compatibility
There is a wide variety of gadget models which arouses incompatibilities of media formats.
Fragile
The device used for multimedia must be used with care; exposure to moisture or other elements could cause expensive, irreparable damage which would require another purchase of a device.
